History isn’t just something you read. It’s something you feel. Auld Reekie Nocturne is a bold, immersive concept album that reimagines Edinburgh’s most harrowing historical events—spanning 1440 to 1832—through cinematic electronic music, narrative storytelling, and visual interpretation, we talk about why you should support our #Zeenage disco queen Natasha Kitty Katt.
Read MoreWhile establishment forces have condemned these acts as crossing lines, supporters, including us at TheZineUk view them as necessary if perhaps imperfect cries against injustice when conventional channels have failed to halt the suffering of Palestinians and none of us have been without trying them….. Editor Dizzy Spell on the politics of resistance for Palestine in music.
Read More2025, Editorial: It is - as ever - impossible to define what TheZineUK is. It has always been easier to define what we are not. We’re not a music magazine. We’re not a fan zine, we’re not a blog, nor a PR vehicle… Yet we have picked shards from the broken mirrors of all of those things. I can’t remember if it was myself or Caffy now, who came up with the fact that we are much more accurately a tapestry.
Read MoreThere was no playlist this past September, everything was busy, busy, busy - but these tunes for October should be more than enough to make up for it feat. MOSES, MACKLEMORE, The X Collectibve feat. Jamel Franklin, Celaviedmai, Shanny, Girl Tones, Sleeping Together, Girl Tones, Jacy Zay, Maggie's Band, TASH, Daphzie, Fightmilk, The Klittens, Paper Ashtray, Temples.
Read MoreI went to see the Kneecap preview a couple of weeks ago, and whilst there was a temptation to leave the cinema (or in my case, the Arts Centre) shouting “Erin go Bragh!”.. There’s something much, much deeper in why Kneecap are important, than the not-not-a-huge-deal in an Irish language film being hailed to critical acclaim UK wide - a Irish language film featuring Gerry Adams no less. Ar Ruby Blue described it as “Trainspotting, for our generation.”
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