Summer 2023: Megan Wyn

Summer 2023: Megan Wyn, new single ‘You Don’t Get It’, sets up her story and headline shows in Manchester and Liverpool will underline her potential. Live photography from Truck Festival by Sarah Gibson.

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Summer 2023: The Assist

Summer 2023

West Midlands Council Pop Kings, THE ASSIST, have taken their party on a tour of festivals this year.

Image: Sarah Gibson https://www.instagram.com/opia_photos/ Truck Festival

Our photographer, Sarah Gibson, caught up with them at Truck Festival’s happening This Feeling Stage.

'Council Pop' is the debut album from The Assist. Released in 2022, it lives up to it’s name and from the dance shapes that we saw fans cutting to the tunes, there’s a lot of people who love to sing along.

This is one of the bands who have organically woven into TheZineUK documentary, itself an ever changing landscape of the ups and downs of alternative music world lives.

We’ve witnessed The Assist on stages - initially via This Feeling live music club nights - and even on football pitches where they have been champions and runners up of the Music Industry Soccer Six Fest.

It’s been a while for this tale, since the riotous album launch shows last year, though, and so it was great to catch up. The Assist are a gang who live in the moment.

It’s fair to say that this band are having the time of their lives and living the rock n roll dream every time that they get on a stage!

Truck Festival turned out to be another big occasion where their reality-lyrical, indie-psych rhythms hit the happy spot for yet another crowd.

Shout out to the festival, as a live music presentation, was tweeted by key vlogger, Tim Senna: “full crowds across the tents especially for smaller/unsigned bands is a rare & beautiful thing to see but they did it.”

True. Truck Festival DID do it. A bonus being that there is always a genuine community - The Zone - out to play for and with This Feeling. If you go to enough grassroots music venue events and enjoy meeting people, even shyly, it’s as good a route into the alternative rocking music industry/media as any.

Now watch out because The Assist have got more lnews to come - when they get their minds (and breath) back from all this festivity!

https://linktr.ee/theassistband

Sarah Gibson https://www.instagram.com/opia_photos/

Summer 2023: Pentire

Images from Truck, Oxfordshire
“the festival we’ve all been attending since we were very young” (Pentire)

#TheZineUK doc photographer: Sarah Gibson
https://www.instagram.com/opia_photos/

This Feeling Stage is where to catch the up and coming artists AND audiences. Nah, really, you’re probably rubbing shoulders with musicians and media/industry in the crowd. So many high profile names are spreading the TF Zone’s word, too.

A stage with a travelling circus of music LOVERS, dancers, moshers and smilers! Electric empathy makes for lively scenes. Pentire can attest.

Their set on the Friday of Truck Festival was our first taste of this “post-jangle” indie gang, live.

Pentire: Fun Facts

  • This Feeling Stage’s legendary host, John Kennedy found their name via toilet wall graffitti in a South London venue - if I remember it right.

  • Being named after a Cornish headland they dedicated profits from their single, ‘Water’ to the Marine Conversation Society. Ahoy maties, NICE one.

They’re from Herefordshire though. Hey, the South West of England is really HAVING it right now on the musical talents front!

Fun Acts:

With obvious Pentire fans crammed in, singing along (and at some point half the tent were on shoulders, it seemed) it was a memorable appearance.

Having played some great shows/supports - all while gaining national radio support - this was a key show of the band’s year.

The TF Zone strikes again with a winner!

“TRUCK FESTIVAL has been the festival we’ve all been attending since we were very young, and so to have rocked up and called ourselves artists for the weekend was so unbelievably cool.” (Pentire)

…and here’s half a minute of Pentire’s trademark bounce-punk joy captured at TheZine.UK Instagram.

They go again with more tour dates announced for this Autumn.

Pentire’s debut EP - ‘Out In A Minute’ - is out NOW!

Keep a keen eye and ear on what a difference This Feeling makes to the now and next of the entertainment world community from grassroots up.

TF Zone rangers are part of the newer wave of music industrious. The DIY sector that’s driving alternative rock scenes, passionately, seed the fertile environment. As a documentary of alternative art rocking movements, it’s crystal clear to TheZineUK. If this increasingly influential network recommend or stage an artist, add a song to the Best New Bands Spotify playlist, recommend, tip or collaborate with somebody, if you want to be part of something take a listen or at least another look.

https://thisfeeling.co.uk/

additional words: TheZineUK Events/Diary