Spill The Sound - Living The Stream
“I have loved reawakening the concept of dedicated music TV with StreamGM” (Spill The Sound presenter, Louise Schofield)
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7th March, Amersham Arms, New Cross (i.e. London’s Sarf x Sarf East!) rock n roll music, poetry, visuals, photography, technology (including audio recordings), Stage Style, creativity and DIY skillz all rolled into a live music social. We are blown away by the all-positive feedback for the evening!
Find/support each other! Flesh Tetris, Thebigbadsad., Patrick Jones, Petra Palkovacsova of the Femmesocial Press community, Dizzy Spell, Ruby Blue, Ame Kali, Kat Five x Feral Five, SetMixer and TheZineUK, Kick Out The Jams (+ more!) Warm Welcome Blur Fairy, Sonja Amoretti! + #MusicTourism Team - Backstage Bar of Amersham Arms where TheZineUK was conceived! (Venue manager, Andy Palmer, is a star turn musician in his own right - as per The Britpop Show 12th March podcast) all mixing with The Outers, Lisa Knight of Knight PR (great film clips!), 122 Music Management and myself, Caffy St Luce of TheZineUK’s Events Department; Rocklands (Magic Hat by Toast The Goblin Laird). Photographers included Olly Bromidge (thank you to Jean Genie Hayes & Jonny Haze at ASBO magazine for connecting us) and James Lewis: “Excellent poetry performance from Petra Palkovacsova” (images of Flesh Tetris and Thebigbadsad. on FB) + The evening was soundtracked by a Newer Wave Rock n Roll spotify playlist EXPO NO.1 by Dizzy Spell. TikTok blip of TheBigBadSad and more from Zeenagers Expo to come…
“In amongst the joys of catching up with @artbeat.bsky.social amongst others, 2 quality acts played down The Amersham Arms last night TheBigBadSad, ‘gloom rock goth cowboys’ brought the noise, & then some, pushing their sonic mantra to the end Different, ear-catching, eye-catching.” (122MM - link)
Thank you to everyone who performed, bought a ticket and came out to play in person or spirit. We’re all ingredients of an exposition of the interdependent music sector - and whatever happens next.
Whoever is WITH/for TheZineUK - YOU are all what the #ZeenagersExpo is about!
14th March 2014 - Upload Chapter 1 of TheZineUK multi media tapestry. Situationist whimsy weaves waves that we could not make up.
14th March 2023 - Begin a year’s research into Music Tourism For The People at the British Music Embassy in Austin, Texas (the final real SXSW). End of year, TheZineUK returned to USA, this time L.A. Stage Style stories off the hook.
14th March 2024 - Despite the hostile environment dystopian decayed decade TheZineUK can prove that the alternative arts have created a newer wave of music industrious through uniqulture. Their actions and good souls have resulted in a Fertile Environment worthy of an exposition.
Click OUR STORY page for more but, basically, an Alternative Arts documentary living the skint life of the grassroots venue circuit community. It’s not been dull.
An ideas factory-cum-DIY studio/rave warehouse etc., pop-up HQ ("The Ministry of Fluff and Dreams" run by Menace & McNaughty) rounded off with #No3Expo (42 stalls including a live music stage - The Homosexuals, Nova Twins, seeds of Birthmarks, Cat Bear, Lufe Tempo - and a bar!). It set the tone. #Zeenagers prologue 'Expo Beats' 2014/2015 (YouTube)
Alongside the magick powered situationism and woodland folk heroes in this emerging tapestry, the likes of Cro Cro Land, CUP Soccer Six, Decolonise Fest, This Feeling, Music Venue Trust and LOUD WOMEN are only half a dozen of many prevailing threads.
TheZineUK. Officially repping (and therefore reporting) at festivals with either a stage, a logo or a co-promotion every single year from 2014 onwards (lockdown was Balcony On Line Festival) and promoting live music socials fuels the story, courtesy of kind artists/promoters access. In 2024 we are chuffed to be a media partner with #ItsAVanFest - the Austin Texas music festival (Teenage Sequence, The Hollows, more) where the super-sponser is Rock n Roll (We met behind the painted word, “magic”, in 2023)
there was a visible and voluble newer wave of music industrious. Audience powered arts, industry and media learning/exchanging biz, tech, journalism whatever skills as their interdependent collective rise in staggered unison, rather than all “pulling up the ladder" behind them. This is how we do it. YouTube Slideshow of our 2021 cast and crew - 2014 to 2017 snapshots: The #MusicPeopleParty begins
The question that no human could have answered. Then between the cast, cats and crew of TheZineUK and an unbelieving world if we are here today then we are all changed. WHAT a soundtrack we got in the Music People Party years.
Key blogged conversations and events on PoC in guitar music and AI, rounded off with an Artful Party that included star turn multi-media artivist mavericks Bugeye (who were on tour as special guest of The Bluetones, and will play their biggest show to date, headlining Oslo Hackney on 4th May (tickets) after presenting 2024 with the incredible Cro Cro Land Festival mid April), Colossus (Fckn suPERB debut EP and get a load of the live presence in this #ArtfulFest video blip!), Joyzine, God Is In The TV and and and… these artivists are ALL connected and those conversations are ongoing.
We’ve created. During the most historic era in human history (i..e. largely a binfire of bigoted bollocks)! We promote a punky rock n roll music world angle with diy glam chic, recorded from the reality of post brexit Britain Ireland.
Escapism not extremism. Love is NOT hate! We wanna have a good time, all the time!
Today, Friday 15th March - the music festival conversations are TV’s Glastonbury and Austin’s SXSW. With the latter, ironically, the mainstream media have covered the bands that have dropped out more than the usual attention they give to the line up.
2024, a few days after International Women’s Day shows how the establishment treat Britain’s first Black Woman Politician. Imagine how far down the “food chain” we, The Outsiders Family, are. We’ll keep fighting the nutsies by sharing audiovisual hope. It’s the least we can do.
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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/
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
‘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!
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.
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.
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./…)
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/
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)
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?
newer wave of art punx having cheap fun on the outside looking outwards. Over and out.