TheZineUK x 2025 - A new Golden Thread?

2025, 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.

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Why we need KNEECAP.

I 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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