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Uniqulture’s Arts Hearts: Rising

Inspired by grassroots music venues (GMV) champion, Jean Genie’s Panda Power Parties. Live music socials - introducing LA Salami, Gabi Garbutt, Granfalloon, annual Glastonbury fave, Lekiddo Lord Of The Lobsters and more - to new friends.

10th May 2024, The Ferret, Preston, saved. Love ya, Music Venue Trust! BBC TV North clip with CEO Mark Davyd (and a clip of Jean Genie’s Massive Hugs soundchecking)

Fusing performers, creators, dreamers, supporters. A kindly house party, with cake. Events Dept. memory from a music tourism tip, The Social in Fitzrovia.

TheZineUK arrived, founded in Uniqulture, March 2014 with punk and poetry.

Documenting seeds of stardust fuel a fertile environment. A decayed of punky situationist whimsy alongside other interdependent allies.

Totally Unofficial Free Festival Fun (TUFFF - gong!) sponsored by love, appreciation, friends, fans (LAFF)

Magick plays a huge part…

We’ve the Genie and a (Dizzy) Spell alongside every woodland folk of yore in this golden DIY Bayeaux tapestry of top history.

Music Women: Yes. Of course there’s our tech savvy musician as Space Vixen, Kat Five (interview - 2024 essential) - and our green friend, Moonpuss of Music Tourist Board.

Time Travel with DR WTF

Dr WTF’s pink LIVE LOVE TARDIS, parked in SE London by the River Thames

2024 proceeds at the rate of a week every day?

Parallel dimensions of psycho-trolls -v- poetic souls is measured (by TheZineUK anyway) in gigs, events and festival dates. These need finance to happen. Some sponsors are problematic for the moral conscience.

Nobody is perfect but it’s a Braver New World and the Resistance ®Evolution is developing. Children of all ages are an educated and empathetic new unity in a genocidal, eco criminal eruption of corruption.

United, We’ll Keep Improving.

Meet Generation A

One flag on the world stage is the most flown and displayed. Every chapter TheZineUK’s reported (perfectly imperfectly), feels like the deliciously diverse newer wave of under the radar rock n roll music industrious are SuperNature’s intent.

Hence the Fertile Environment HAPPENING despite the hisstablishment’s hostile one.

Not The Great Escape, Not The Alt Escape but an alt-alt-escapism of Total Interdependence Festivity - getting by with a little help from our friends.

Expo/Music Tourism

March is annually SXSW, Austin, Texas

2023 TheZineUK repping (down the front for Brooke Combe) at the British Music Embassy to begin the People’s Music Tourist Board then, at Vancerts, where the first word spotted is “Magic

2024. Supersponsors? RIP SXSW especially the tone deaf response from local government to the music world. “Es Ex Es Double U” (as a recent profiled music industry event called it) is planning to plonk SXSWLondon into the June 2025 ecosystem of the UK festival calender and grassroots music venue circuit. Sigh…

It feels like that was the last real SouthBySouthWest. Because…

2024’s main talking point was artist boycotts where, ironically, they probably got their names mentioned more than usual in UK/Ireland press. We’re proud to have been a media partner of Vancerts. Teenage Sequence thanked them.

Totally unofficial independent stages for the WIN. This was Vancerts ATX 2024 being loved during the SXSW boycotts…

March was also Expo 01 though.

LOVE power.

Not a bad representation of how the evening of live rock n roll music, poetry, audiovisuals and socialising went, in the end!

April 2024

CroCroLand (our doc blog) was the sold out weekend of uniqulture, artists/allies everywhere. Friends hugging under the moon. Such escapism, that leaving to discover WW3 was being attempted was surreal. Oi, war wankers, when Ms Mohammed sings ‘Never Again’, we’re with her!

Believe it - CroCroLand "An uprising of (40!) bands and music fans" - Expo 02 was, indeed, pretty much like this!

May 2024

The Great Escape is over shadowed by peaceful protest. Events take a couple of years advance programming so festivals and sponsors have time to consider/fix 2025 onwards.

Eurovision/Euronazivision, whatever, it’s an absolute catastrophuck in a week of BOOs (and bees!). (Mass Murder: still bad)

Ironically for this “once a song contest” bollox, It’s the week of Hind’s Hall by Macklemore (click link for the video - all proceeds to https://www.unrwa.org/ - the majority of us actually ARE united by music. Just not this genocidal apologist art-washing. 10% of the Malmo population protested this event. Generation A baby.

Mindless thugs beat students for being educated/moral.

We’re in some Dr Who reality warpfusion of 42 dystopian movies.

Simultaneously.

With a Shitting Image remix by The Muppets retold as a fairy tale. Wicked greedy “royals” included.

Retarted (as in having an extra jam tart) eh? Ha ha… BLOCKED!

Example - UK (Unprincipled Kleptocracy)

In Westminster/Pestmonster, a tory prime sinister was beaten by a lettuce, but they themselves beat the current (unelected) “leader” whose candidate for London Mayor was some mad bigot. The local fascists, Britain First, wereas beaten by Count Binface . BritainLast, then. Sadiq Khan, Mayor Of London acknowledged Count Binface who did the journalists job for them and asked zionaziradioLBC where their disappeared journalist, Sangita Myska, was. Dafuq?

This is what happens when the oh-so-superior-to-us-daft “wokeratti” adults are in charge. The professionals, experts, institutionalised, establishment are in charge…They and their toadies are so IN “the box”.

Leading the charge (of change)

The DIY Sector are some of the most professional in the rising global Arts and Entertainment movements.

Interdependent Culture Gift: Music Venue Trust. THANK YOU. MusicVenueTrust | Linktree

A sixth sense moral compass is changing the world with audiovisual representations for and against this Planet Nutzy age. With global genocide raging, the ingreeding slaughter-glee masks are off for Team Apartheid. Weaponised botbrains have lost their minds.

Earthlings peacefully marching towards a better future. It won’t be easy but it will always be worth it.

Team ®Evolution are using their he(ARTS) / heads.

KRIME shares his art for free - you can buy him a coffee at @Krime_1 | Linktree

Alternative ways of life are gifting some of the best of times during some of these worst of times.

The kids really ARE alright (not alt-right).

#Zeenagers EXPO is GO!

Mango In Euphoria, The Outers, Jean Genie's Massive Hugs

…and TheZineUK cast and new friends

April 2023 really was a #PopOfTheTops MOMENT. Zeenagers Expo is GO!

#TheZineUK infamous travelling circus, Music People Party, returned to this documentary’s place of creation celebrating an art punk social, in the iconic Amersham Arms. “Big stages are the ones for me…” (Mango In Euphoria).

Good evening New Cross, let’s PARTY! Pic by Dizzy Spell.

Looking forward with a newer wave of alternative sounds, EVERY set brought their entertainment game for an awesome audience who mirrored the on stage engagement with their own cheers and moves. The feedback, still coming, is amazing; “life affirming” (industry scene-shaker, Meli Foris)

Sadly, indie jazzpunx, Brie, were unable to play but gladly the remaining line up proved (oi, non diversifying fest bookers!) that female musicians ROCK.

Jean Genie’s Massive Hugs

Poptastic songs emitted with a stripped down set, Jean Genie & Jonny Hayes showcased magical, melodic stories of reality in surreal times. JG, “Bringer Of Sunshine”, set the tone for an uplifted evening with expansive tunes.

All tonight’s performances were loaded with potential, so emitted an infectious confident joy.

Jean Genie - a living song. Photo by Dizzy Spell.

Music lovers came from as far as Wales and The Midlands to New Cross. It warms the heart that they already want to return to this welcoming space as part of the show. Bless the interdependent grassroots music venue circuit.

Tonight, Amersham Arms is twinned with The Ferret in Preston by the Massive Hugs latest (artivist, radio air played) single, ‘Ray Of Hope (Ferret Forever)’. It’s also linked to The Old Blue Last in Shoreditch, by the next band, discovered through a song before they played a launch there at the end of last year. Yes please, you can never have too much soaring drama.

The Outers

The Outers are a lively live thrill. Photo by Dizzy Spell.

The Outers are groovy and magnetic with occasional tints of Blur and Blondie but an operatic punky energy of their own. After catching them in December, they were another must for tonight’s show. An interactive indie rock party who made some new friends this evening, they’re also setting up for new releases. Watch their (s)pace!

Coming across new faves like that, TheZineUK doc works via kismet, karma, magick and just wanting to stage a recommendable event. The next set being another case in point - a last minute addition to a Kick Out The Jams show in Autumn 2021.

Mango In Euphoria

Now a released recording artist, London’s glam-punked disco diva is back at Amersham Arms by request and packing punchy tunes in the process.

Mango In Euphoria, disco queen. Photo by Dizzy Spell

If I was a festival booker, Mango In Euphoria, The Outers and Jean Genie’s Massive Hugs would be on the line up of our stage. They suit indie-rock, alt-pop events with an inclusive party atmosphere.

This ain’t just excitement speaking. There were an array musical peers and future-movers at the show. There’s a reason that ‘Hollywood’, the latest Mango In Euphoria single, is hitting all the right notes with independent media and radio feedback.

Could have heard a pin drop for the song ‘Radio Waves’. Jean Genie’s Massive Hugs by Dizzy Spell.

Next month, sussed festival bookers, Kick Out The Jams and End Of The Trail have snapped up Mango’s and Jean Genie’s powerful live sets for two 3 Day Free Festivals in Brighton. Both multi-tasking promoters have impeccable show scouting/artist connecting reputation.

#StageStyle 4REAL!

I had kinkyboot envy of Ade, lead singer of The Outers, TheZineUK editor, Dizzy Spell always sports a head turning outfit, Kat Five is a consistent metallic shimmer of glamour and I couldn’t help but notice how sparkled ALL the live sets were this evening. Musicians making rock n roll dreams of the newer wave kind, live on stage. Like a TV show. That’s uniqulture’s fertile environment of “couldn’t make it up, so just live it”, for ya.

So much MOVE-ment in this movement! Photo by Dizzy Spell.

Great to see Lisa Knight (busy PR and photographer currently on tour with The Kut), Meli Foris of Play It Loud UK (photography, promotions), the above mentioned Kat Five (artist - Feral Five - and techtastic space vixen), John McKiernan Platform 7 Events (virtual dimension technology and arts collaborations), musicians Anita Maj of Lil Minx Records, Ceri James and Alex Wonderland in the house. There was more photography by Neil Anderson (98 Wounds) and as ever, the supportive care of the venue and staff. (cheers Andy and Richard).

The legacy of future making was invigorated by this convention of invention.

Exhibit all this.

The #MusicPeopleParty (December 2017) began #TheZineUK cast and crew's step up into the surreal serendipity of situationism that kicked off in 2018 and forms #Zeenagers - a multi media expo being created between Spring 2023 and Spring 2024 - of the last five (WTF) years,especially. There was an audiovisual slideshow from #TheZineUK documentary on the big screen, then images and clips from tonight will be part of future projections. Appreciation for all there in spirit and support.

The original Pop Of The Tops club (artists, faeries, punks etc) was killed off after a year to "Stay Beautiful" but still inspires fresh ideas. Twisting tuned tales with uplifting energy and chic!

Mango In Euphoria https://linktr.ee/mangoineuphoria by Dizzy Spell

The best thing is that Paul Joyzine has been part of it all. Now one of independent music culture’s most influential standards, Joyzine celebrates twenty years of influence. Down the front for Bloc Party, Art Brut etc at the original Pop Of The Tops and again for these emerging names!

Generation Tremorists of all backgrounds come together, weave a DIY art show, laugh with escapism. In short, Zeenagers Expo is Go! We’re OI (organic intelligence) so it’ll remain chaotically tangented. Phew.

Everybody mentioned above? Find them over the next few days via our social media https://linktr.ee/thezineuk