Interdependent Circuit Of Recommending Promoters, too
This Feeling, Decolonise Fest, Kick Out The Jams even TheZineUK’s own music socials, where would our next shows be staged without the Music Venue Trust. Genuinely the closest that our dimension of civilisation has to a government that cares about it’s people and their necessary spaces.
Own Our Venues is a people powered initiative. The Independent Venue Community look after and unite the spectrum of local people. The Tonic Charity is one of the mental health charities looking after the music world.
I found Tonic via the Music Industry CUP Soccer Six (whose crew includes an environmental Professor, Mark Maslen) and has included Women’s Football for over two decades (ambassadors Rowetta, Abbie McCarthy, Louise Schofield, Megan Wyn, Katie Owen are Ents world sparklers, on and off the pitch!)
The name Love Music Hate Racism speaks for itself. Forget Westminster on the North West bank of the River Thames. South EAst London has a Ministry Of Sound where Music Venue Trust were originally based and the ace n awesome Featured Artists Coalition still reside.
That’s a short walk from the Temple Of Art And Magic where I ended February 2023, on the night of a "Hmmm, War?” kinda day catching Kosmic Troubadour and friends pulsing PEACE through music with songs like ‘I Believe In Love’. I arrived home humming “We can do it, we can save the world”. But actually, we CAN.
Follow all the above and below - a supernatural magick will manifest.
With a couple of actual wizards (Gavin Monaghan of Magic Garden Recording Studio - The Wizard of Wolvo - and wordsmith, punk legend Bruno Wizard) in our collaborative cast, cats and crew of creative charismas. Lisa Knight PR is one of the bewitching black cat owners of the music world (hi Molotov!) who, like ourselves, offer assistance affordably to help spread the word of emerging acts into ACTion.
Hi £-rich people, there’s enough official data from these and more organisations for worthy investment proposals. Who can help? Help sufficiently and break more than even. (see organic DIY growth reports). Also, Stop eroding and gate-keeping the potential pipeline! Please and thank you. Credit where credit’s due: Appreciation to the access angels.