From Dungannon in the North of Ireland to radio play, appearing on festival stages, movie soundtracks, great reviews so far, and - to great response - premiering some of the new MOSES album in USA last year, a unique musical journey continues.
Read More2023. What A Time To Wish To Be Allowed To Be Alive!
But positivity IS happening in music. Despite The Overwhelming/Underwhelming Everything of Now. The (necessarily) DIY Sector of the Entertainments world is adapting with a star shaped twinkle cracking the cruelty-gloom. See our situationist, cut n paste tapestry weave, whimsically, for further details. Below are three degrees of celebration rather than six degrees of separation. Universe (“one song”) makes it so. Noisily enjoying, A-Z:
“I’m What The Future Becomes”.
Are people of all ages listening to what the artists are facing? Singing about? Caring about? (kudos, Just Stop Oil, for sharing support for ‘And Now The Weather’) by articulate synth punx, KILL, THE ICON! Do you listen and really HEAR?
In lockdown, Alex Spencer came to attention with videos of busking around Manchester and became part of this tale. In Summer 2023, post GCSEs, the wait was over, got to see Alex perform live (with Will Harvey from his band) at #SoccerSixFest - worth the wait and highly engaging. That #FootballMusic social day out was special day for all the Spencer family. Aces. More on that is still to follow.
For now the new single, ‘Do What I Wanna’, is a sing-along-think-along tune of the year and you just know it will be a stormer at the headline show in November. Best wishes always, Alex.
Hi. We’re a DIY multi media - more Rocking Pebble than Rolling Stone but welcome to our documentary of extraordinary artists! From the following, Vanity Fairy joined our magick folk faves. Thanks MASH! https://www.mashzine.com/
#ArtfulFest 2021 Day 19
If you haven’t yet, do please listen to the EP, ‘Romance Was Born’, it’s an aural spectacle. Currently working on exciting new music with producer, Rex Roulette, Anna Wolf and her band performed a treat of a main stage live show for the launch of key interdependent promoter, KICK OUT THE JAMS, in a brand new grand new location at the world famous Hackney Empire! Two Palms was too good! It launches properly soon. #KOTJmusic already invited back for October, November AND December events!
On Thursday night, I was just gonna leave this there for Friday’s proof read, but … I woke up this morning (da da dada!) and there’s a new single on the horizon for October 19th!
This date holds deep significance to me, and I couldn't wait any longer to share this song with you.
"MOTHER" touches on the painful experience of losing someone dear and the journey to rediscover hope amidst the darkness. It's a raw, honest portrayal of the vulnerability we all face when dealing with loss. Unlike songs that merely say, "everything will be fine, just hold on," I wanted to create something that acknowledges the difficulty of death and the acceptance that it's okay not to be okay.
I hope "MOTHER" provides solace to those who listen, letting you know that you're not alone in your grief. Be sure to pre-save the track using the link below, and mark your calendars for October 19th
#ArtfulFest 2023 Day 19 recommendation
‘The Gods Hate Colossus’ has literally just appeared on Earth. It’s a debut rock music EP that is as sparked in variety as their line ups and as passionately energised as what I’ve seen of their live shows (on line). An audio-textured mix of whipcracking rhythms, Classically hard rocking threads that call to mind Scrap Iron Scientists with a twist of Fat White Family - and art punk psyche harmonies. It just sounds like it’s own genres though. As debut EPs go, this is an inventive incentive to turn up the volume!
What a tapestry! Rob Homewood is the artbeat visual of the EP based on a band photograph by Andras Paul.
John Clay is part of the three way conversation with Nishant Joshi of previously mentioned KILL, THE ICON! and Chardine Taylor-Stone of BIG JOANIE (both bands woven into this doc).
If you haven’t read this, please do. Bring love. You won’t be uncomfortable unless yer a toryhearted bot, but I doubt you’d be reading the wibblings of TheZineUK (which is headed by working class women from Cruella-oppressed backgrounds) if you were! Maybe you’re on side, if so, bonus!
Well done #20YearsOfJoy. Now bring on 26th October. The Artful Party. Fonda 500 playing their finale London show and three new-release bands - Bugeye, Feral Five, Colossus - soundtracking the future with new releases. GOD IS IN THE TV and JOYZINE celebrate twenty years of existence while raising £ for Hope Not Hate anti racism charity!
The latest Moon Faeries to visit #SELondon are Nova Twins fans, Luna Tick Tock and Moona Lisa. They’ll be at the show. You can be too, for a fiver (in total!) from https://www.wegottickets.com/event/589723
God Is In The TV and Joyzine are both blessed with teams of quality writing and photography. New and alternative music reporting, reviewing, interviewing, thought piece articles, releasing hugely acclaimed compilation albums, musical downloads and staging live events! Happy Birthday, both. Again, it’s an interdependent thing.
Incidentally, Joyzine’s Rupert Hitchcox designed and photographed the entire Chapter 1 of TheZineUK. Late 2013, we went to meet a trendy publication in Shoreditch for tips. Showed them the mock up and they sneered that it was nothing special. Originally, the words off and fuck sprang to my mind, in no particular order, but I got over myself and we enjoyed a beer together with them. There’s no competition, they’re huge and doing it right.
We’re definitely different to the on-brand design concept that we may achieve one day. For now, TheZineUK is perfectly imperfect while creating in the wild.
That time TheZineUK were based at The Ministry Of Fluff n Dreama… Gordon Raphael is on the bus chatting all sorts with Ragged Cult Magazine. He also reviewed The Strokes at Hyde Park from side of stage. It was viralled across The Guardian, NME etc Heck I think somebody even remembered to credit TheZineUK - nah, y’aint seen it all before. Listen to all these artists. You may like a song and wahey!
Our first front page (uploaded mid March 2014 - some of our faves still in school) was taken with 15 minutes to capture Rhiannon The Nightmare stunning the main hall of the National Portrait Gallery (fast forward to now, she’s an award winning film maker) and the last page is of teen band, Floodliners, on the bar of Amersham Arms in a scene out of the TryLife TV drama. The bass player is now one half of Elton John faves, Nova Twins (currently on tour with Muse) and the drama is an international, top tier interactive youth powered tech sensation of international acclaim with (goes to check) 6.9 million followers on fakebook. We’re not all bad.
#Zeenagers are Generation Tremorists - All Ages And Backgrounds who are not falling for the whole Earth x Earthlings hating bullshit of the 1% - they don’t even know we exist so as the tides rise seize their yachts for your luxury squats
Maybe it’s because we live and love music world life, that in mid-March 2024, it’s TheZineUK’s tenth anniversary. Zeenagers Expo will let anybody (who is interested) decide if our new whimsical express is on point or not. Now do please go and re-read this page another day, if you likebbecause it will shape October (Artful month) which aims to create a physical event within a year.
Q: Will we succeed? A: We will try to. It’s a situationist kismet cosmic magical mystery tour, just come with… Are friends Electric? Now is the age of
A pulsing blast of a hip-swinging rhythm that arrives into this tale via new single, ‘Fear’. BombPop Beats (bombastic, poptastic electro rock with alien invasion choir harmonies)! “I wrote, performed, recorded, produced and mixed this song about a panic attack i had” says Electric Jim. Dive in, hear him out as there’s a collection of massive tunes! Get IN! https://linktr.ee/electricenemy
‘All The Time’ an Autumn single from a band who are a shade of 1970s Americana alternative rock outfit from Chesterfield with a driving rhythm paced, “sing it with me”, guitar-wigged-out shiner. Click here for the freshly unveiled video.
Mimosa are another name among a myriad of music industry who are part of Soccer Six Fest 2023 (which is part of our story) and graced the stage with a confident rock show swagger for which fans and friends had travelled miles to cut crazy, indie-disco shapes on the dance floor. The UK tour rolls on with this cumulative energy, via BBC Radio Sessions, festivals and tour dates to even greater heights as the year unfolds. A gig at Blackpool Tower?!!!
“I’m very close to quit”… (2020) A Rock Opera In Real Time. Musicians from Eastern Europe, Ireland, South Korea form rock band. Build the seeds of a massive reputation. Brexit then Pandemica then ailments and finances hit hard. So glad that they don’t quit. Special kudos to The Wizard of Wolverhampton, producer Gavin Monaghan. A spiritual guide to many in the magical Magic Garden Studio. Fast forward to 2023 where new songs for 2024 were premiered on USA dates and the latest of their releases to hit a landmark, ‘Who Needs The Money' has passed half a million Spotify streams with no playlists in support. #ThatBandMOSES - mostly unknown but blessed with anthems for grand occasions and amazing followers who are a cross between a street team of recommendation and a gig-choir.
After hearing a world exclusive play of the energised Northern Soul tingled single ‘Home’, on John Kennedy’s X-posure Daily radio shows, I was lucky enough to experience the close range live performance at This Feeling’s Test Transmission 003 event that same evening.
With a soulful vocal distinction that I feel Ami Winehouse would enjoy, Ruby is an artist I’d like to hear sing ‘Goldfinger’ or ‘Hey Big Spender’ by Shirley Bassey. Another special artist on the runway of This Feeling’s “Zone Airport”. Yeah, the No.1 Live Music Club in the land staged something special. (cont./…)
Billie tinted Blues: https://linktr.ee/rubyjofficial
Pay attention to Music Venue Trust - if you don’t already - or you’ll no longer see a bill of live sets that you will later pay at least ten to twenty pounds EACH to witness at a later date. For instance…
On 26th September you could have enjoyed Spangled, Beverly Kills, Billy Otto, Harri Larkin (introduced to our story by the above mentioned Gavin Monaghan!) AND Ruby J all on one bill for a tenner. Intimately in an inclusive welcome from This Feeling, their team and expanding community - while rubbing shoulders with banger-spinning, star heat-seeker, DJ and Host, John Kennedy, alongside more music industry influencers.
Four of the photographers in attendance - Jon Mo, Rhona Murphy, Keira Anee and Alan Wells - are also appreciated contributors to TheZineUK’s tale/heritage - look out for their highly rated work! Talking of involved interdependent media, Mike from Travellers Tunes is a prolific writer and scout.
Yet again, an unforgettable, fun and enthralling evening. First time catching Harri Larkin, Beverly Kills and Billy Otto in the flesh. Superb. Quick taster clips of random adventures https://www.tiktok.com/@thezine.uk and https://www.instagram.com/thezine.uk/
Billy Otto and Harri Larkin, 2023 - This Feeling/TheZineUK
People travelled from all over the country and continent for This Feeling. Music Tourism.
A research of how it works was furthered by the back room that TheZineUK was born in (Amersham Arms) staging an event by 122MM in July. It was filmed by the above mentioned John Clay of Colossus. One of the bands performing was…
This morning, this band released a giant bird that flies. Up. There’s something beautifully “SHACK in the Strawberry Fields Forever’ shadowing the single, ‘Seagulls’, which introduces this North/South Uniting band to a wider public. A sultans of swinged urgency within beseeching vocals, chord play rhythms and guitar chimes.
Turns out that the above mentioned 122MM (122 Music Management) are based in SELondon and we are on a wavelength, tune wise, so when up’n’comers, The Outers, were invited back to Amersham Arms, we all went together, had a brill night out and a proper social with the band (ha ha, I left them all in the beer garden until the early hours!). The Outers next show was launching a single in Hackney, supporting headliners, Still Traffico. A totally quality evening under a big big moon. Both bands. Both barrels.
My impression of Still Traffico was that their psychedelic structured layers sounded like a fresh feeling familiar for a few bars before a tango of textured tangents. No drugs required, a bit like a scene from 1980s cult TV, Twin Peaks, where the guitar band call in to the strange place, having got lost on tour and we freaks dance odd moves. Still Traffico describe themselves as ‘railway pop’ and they are, indeed, a little off the rails. Credibly.
I enjoyed myself too much, stayed late after instead of shooting for the last train and found myself on my own magical mystery night bus tour, occasionally loudly stating “I Am Moon”. Proudly weird, this is how September 2023 began. How it ends. All day long…
I want my Mummy! There’s a monster in my ear! It’s ‘Suspend’ the new single from The Kairos!
As all these random paragraphs are actually connected (uniqulture WEAVES), this is a band that were thriller killer at Test Transmission 001 on March 1st 2022. My first sighting. Dived straight in. That was a night not to forget: A new European war just declared, a rail strike thronged the doomy hearted streets with sponsored walks to get anywhere - and still a beautiful evening of noisy joys at close range - TheZine.UK insta: A “few secs of 'Money Mind' “A punky blues tint of Hamburg era Beatles”. (cont/…)
Now it’s Autumn 2023. Our mate, Louise Schofield’s increasingly busy schedule includes an (entertaining, of course!) session and interview on Spill The Sound - the bath balls reveal music TV show made in Manchester. The opening track played is ‘Suspend’!
Music journalists who go to gigs, DJ, present radio/TV shows, live events/Festivals, interview musicians they’ve put at ease - and just LOVE it. Yeah, they make our world go round. Go Lou, a perfect #NoKairoNoParty match! The UK tour is about to rock off for this band on a roll, get in The Thick Of It!
https://www.thekairosband.com/
At the end of last year, The Outers danced into TheZineUK’s ears with an insistently hooky pop TUNE ‘Danger Signs’. They were playing the launch of Bad Apple Club (no, not a policeforce disco) in Shoreditch’s Old Blue Last, supporting previously mentioned MOSES - and the song just stuck.
Their set was an instant winner, thrillingly festive and the perfect special guests for such lively headliners. The Outers are an uplifting band who are determined that you enjoy their gigs as much as they love playing them. Works for me. It’s early doors but their potential is seeding.
Yup, grabbed them to play Pop Of The Tops 2023 in Spring. They made a video for ‘Danger Signs’ in Summer and along the way, each show won fantastic feedback. Not just me, then. For Autumn, there’s a lyric video to the new single, ‘First Sight’, mentioned in the shout about Still Traffico, above… and to a noticeably bigger crowd.
Entwined, I tell ya!
Untwining, here is a bucket list band to tick off with a live show some day soon, hopefully.
All hail VENUS GRRRLS - Their new single, ‘Liar Liar’, is a skyward facing gongbanger of a pop strut. Huge if true. Guess what? It’s true! Leeds leads! Watch/Hear (YouTube)
https://orcd.co/liarliar-venusgrrrls by Misha Warren
Wish us luck putting events together during the creative copromotions of the situationist virtual festival, Artful (Oct 1st-31st). What are your visual artists, film makers, illustrators, VJs of choice to soundtrack? Who or what is your #ArtfulFest 2023?
September 2023, Anna Wolf at the Bob Vylan social
newer wave of art punx having cheap fun on the outside looking outwards. Over and out.
Multi-tasking music journalist, Louise Schofield, makes her directorial debut with the ‘Mad (About My Dreams)’ video by MOSES.
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SHADE, EBGS, Liverpool Sound City Festival, 2 October 2021
Many musicians have 2022 plans pencilled since “post-lockdown” days. TheZineUK doc’s most recent pix-diary - July 2021 (thank you for the many reads, already) - felt like a new dawn.
Whether it was the necessity for heroic England FC to lose THAT historic match and open truth gates, or how Generation Tremorists are super-glued into this tapestry.
All ages, backgrounds and ability fused with all arts (i.e. “Nature”) = uniqulture in genre-fluid ACTion.
Here’s a live version of their newly released single, ‘Silence Of The Night’. The one-band dramarock scene are a gateway into the grassroots music (r)Evolution. Also, this summer, they were to be found supportively in the audience of their peers. Musicians, creators, connectors - organically they rise. Get Tiger Mimic on your #2022SoundsLike radar.
In the July issue, Tech (Flare Audio) and Industry (Music Venue Trust) threads are woven with Tim Burgess’s Twitter Listening Parties into must have audio-joy headphones (OK, we just photographed Tim through a window at The Great Escape 2017, but hey - it’s all meant to be).
Situationist magick also gifted us an early Freedom Day at SNCFest. Music world’s Jean Genie, is “The Bringer Of Sunshine”. She really did inspire warmth THAT hot, hot weekend! JG is so key to the new music scenes that this is key to our documenting. July’s saw Manchester’s SHADE start to bloom and lovely Denise Johnson never forgotten (while she also helped raise over £18,000 for Music Venue Trust).
TheZineUK story has declared an Interdependent Music Industrious. The elements consistently prove themselves. Sussex/Kent’s End Of The Trail and Kick Out The Jams are increasingly industry/media hook up hang outs - and more of us getting away from our home towns again. Check out the multi-tasking energy pulsing from Weekend Recovery as a great example.
Bruvs out supporting the sisters-fronted-pop star turns (Cruel Hearts Club, Cat SFX, Kin and Mango In Euphoria) who were playing Kick Out The Jams that evening. Ace to see The Gulps, Alan McGee and Carl Barat back at ArtBeat HQ (Amersham Arms) - amidst a flock of flock of industry and media. (Carl is also the venue’s Halloween DJ).
Louise Schofield and Megan Wyn, mid September 2021, This Feeling at Isle Of Wight Festival.
In September, July’s cover star, Louise Schofield, conducted a series of chats for TheZineUK at Isle Of Wight Festival’s buzzing (and then some!) This Feeling Stage - where she also DJd.
A theme of 2021 interviews from TF’s Zone is the artists talking about the art pumped newer wave of industry mixing DIY with ethics and opportunities.
Isle Of Wight Fest head, John Giddings, acknowledges This Feeling being a rung on the ladder for artists towards bigger stages.
To The Chase, Spyres, Lock-In and The Skinner Brothers interviews the Zine And Heard playlist has been updated with Tom Lumley & The Brave Liaison and Megan Wyn conversations. What is all this if not giving hope to the near future?
This month, the (very hard working and very modern) Louise - also presented for our friends, Modern Age, at SOMA Festival and for Modern Sky at Sound City Festival - then, at Manchester’s The Yard, now hosts her own music show, Spill The Sound (first guest is Julia Bardo). Joe Cross (The Courteeners) composed the defining theme music. Interdependent.
“Lullaby Lou” is a gateway into what’s really going on - as is another of our crew, Monefa Walker, who graced September with such an awesome observation: “Let Me Tell You About Artists” - click this link for the full post, it’s a 2021 classic)
Our writer and punky Music People Party host - Monefa Walker - became a released, classical music recording artist this year (on Anita Maj’s Lil Minx Records). Keira Annee photography
Continuing to cut n paste n report, especially over the last two years has created a new, super hero cross breed of emerging artists in TheZineUK.
The cast and crew keeps growing through ups and downs, life and death, changes, failures and achievements for all of us.
Aaaahh… All those cutie pie baby faces, new to this world, courtesy of our friends, urge us to keep making as much wonder in the world as possible for decades of generation tremorists and love for children of all ages.
On the artist side, everybody is brand new again from mid July 2021 and TheZineUK, as a community of creatives, is so here for it.
Big up the high profile media getting involved over the last couple of years (NME with Music Venue Trust and the FAC, while featuring rising stars Nova Twins and Bob Vylan) who are also connected to both of these essential industry shakers - (both bands have also played Amersham Arms - the latter at this weekend’s punk rocked, New Cross wide #TillTheFest).
As Diary/Events Department, I’ve lived through decades when these talents/TheZineUK team weren’t yet born - I assure you NOBODY has “seen/heard it all before”, only tedious fuckwits imagine that. Note how generation tremorists like Pint Sized Punk and MASHZINE (who stage a show in New Cross on 19th October) ain’t hung up on stale journalism values.
This year, via End Of The Trail, Roobi TV, Amersham Arms and Sound City, I’ve found myself (again!) grinning in the audience of a Polarized Eyes gig. (It’s not an accident, it’s LOVE!)
Me me me. Continued. From August to October I’ve adventured outta Deptford Fun City! It’s so emotional to return to cities that I’ve been free to visit all my life pre-pandemic. So many memories flood the senses. There are myriad artists at all levels, to soundtrack our times (including a 2022 Billie Eilish Glastonbury headline set).
TheZineUK day out, Friday 1st October!
Not a pic of the Manics but a reminder of the thrilled anticipation I was feeling, just going to the bar before their set.
(Dizzy Spell - TheZineUK Editor (NHS professional who also became a released recording artist this year) and myself Caffy - Events Department).
We were time out gal pals in Stoke On Trent for the Manics (thank you our Gill for the tickets and a right royal view).
We sang our hearts out to a rock band with decades of chart hits on top of their entertaining, and ever politically relevant, poignant, national treasure game).
Melancholic new album, ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament’, is affecting - yet uplifting.
Look out for actual Manics images in the next issues from our fab Dead End Doll, Lorna Cort (whose photography graces the Manic Street Preachers special edition of Record Collector). Gwan Zeenagers!
Oliver Clare of SHADE assisting MOSES with the kit at Sound City Festival. End Of The Trail - another industry shaker with opportunies.
I was at the buzzy AF End Of The Trail Sound City Festival stage - friendly faces and fun in EBGBs - WITH guitars.
Some of us were documenting the near future of Ones To Watch off stage in the rain, between the live sets, also.
Results coming in for ALL the line up of that day (and I’m only writing this ten days later!)
I came back from Liverpool seeing light at the end of this murderous tunnel called NOW.
That hope continued on 6th October ArtBeat staged it’s first proper gig since 2019.
Yay, TheZineUK Events Department is back, gonna be looking at 2022 wishfully staging events.
Brand new exciters, Helve, headlined an electric evening - again, movershakers like the above mentioned Jeanie, Monefa alongside Lisa of Knight PR, Paul Joyzine, the band’s (key) producer Harri Chambers (Yard Act etc) and the door host we love most, Sonja Amoretti in the house. This story would not be the same without them all.
Helve then picked up a last-minute, bigger stage show supporting The Howl & The Hum at the 500+ capacity Gorilla in Manchester a few days later and release the second part of their debut single, ‘Snakes And Ladders’ on 15th October before gracing Live At Leeds Festival . (Events Department works with various artists connected by interdependence and story telling. DIY promoting is part of the picture when music media is a different concept - especially in the last decade. Adapting daily).
A minute and a half of something very much happening - as we say - under the radar and over the rainbow. We can only point you in the direction of these artists and let you have your own opinion.
Friday 8th October, SHADE released a trippy-tempo-tangent new single ‘Fallen Skies’. It was produced by Gavin Monaghan at Magic Garden Studios in Wolverhampton (“the urban Rockfield” and released on Fear Records - another of the industrious independents)
Photography by Blue Shift Studios
Heard on telly (Champions League/BT Sport) it also received ‘Track Of The Day’ accolades, XS Manchester Radio playlist and is a bona fide iTunes chart Top 5.
Saturday 9th October, they triumphantly headlined Manchester’s Night & Day with This Feeling (who are celebrating fifteen years of shaping the music world, this month).
TF have supported the band from early doors (and via this, they play the inaugural Sound Sounds Festival next April). #2022soundslike it rocks, already! I’m not the only person I know who is cautiously looking forward again.
The Newer Wave is a post-lockdown reality of artists who would not be out of place on BBC’s Later With Jools Holland (but some of them have been captured Earlier: GET ON! with Roobi TV).
WHAT a harvest above and that’s just a (pre Ghost Road Fest in November and CroCroLand hitting Manchester on 5th December!) fraction.
Now imagine involving these interwoven, blossoming stories into movies and campaigns for people power and the planet. Now is the time. Have faith in their songs . Support their good souls. Find the media who review and interview them. As they interact, harvest the potential of Britain Ireland’s Roaring 20s soundtrack of NOW. The interdependent music industrious is ON.
I repeat…
EBGBs, Liverpool
