Fast pulse rates for a SLOW DANCE...

January 22, 2024 by Caffy St Luce

something in the lake are most definitely something in the world with a trio of releases and an inimitable live presence. ones to watch and hear and feel.

ANNA WOLF ‘Mother’ single/video

November 23, 2023 by Caffy St Luce

“It’s OK To Not Be OK”

Anna Wolf images (c) Paul Harries https://www.paulharries.com/

Available now on all streaming platforms **https://linktr.ee/RealAnnaWolf**

‘Mother’ is a powerful new song from the star shaped, multi-talent-tasking, Anna Wolf,

Tunefully heartfelt, the aim is to be an enigmatic salve where grief from loss, in it’s many forms, comes from so many angles.

The result is a stark and beautiful comfort which reaches out with winter cool chords and solace warm vocals that are simultaneously fragile, strong and lyrically relatable;

“I don’t wanna breathe when you’re not here”

‘Mother’ is for the many.

“As some of you may know, this is a very personal song for me, I wanted to capture the raw essence of grief and acknowledging that it's okay to not be okay... I have lost a few very close people to me over the past three years and it has not been easy”.
The song serves as a source of solace and hope if you are struggling to move forward after losing a loved one, reminding you that you are not alone and that healing is possible, even with a broken heart."
Anna Wolf

Click here for the video for ‘Mother’

The video is a short film at one with itself, the song and performance. A personal artist and audience one-to-one feeling is created by the cinematic simplicity of being filmed with music photography legend, Paul Harries; one on one:

One camera, one tripod and one torch creating one sonic drama. The trust from their friendship and working relationship makes for personal viewing.

Multi-talent tasking?

There are many layers to Anna Wolf, an artist who has achieved much but still has more to be revealed.

The eternal invention of presenting soundscapes being one facet. Then there’s the experience of Anna Wolf’s live show: A main stage drama. Hooked and down the front again for the launch of Kick Out The Jams new venue (Two Palms at Hackney Empire) recently. Anna Wolf and her band are a world class rock show! - Room. Stunned. Again.

Forever Young

As 2024 looms, Anna Wolf‘s big-screen debut is the (already award winning) new movie ‘Forever Young’. (FB movie trailer)

An imaginative sci-fi drama, directed by Hank Pretorius. It’s currently showing in USA and Canada - with South African screenings in December. Anna Wolf’s music is on the soundtrack, a perfect setting for such cinematic sound.

An Artist to investigate but also look forward to

‘Mother’, is it’s own short film and could, in many ways, be a song for the loss of the world that we thought we knew. For many, this decade, especially…

The lasting impression of the song, which prompted this feedback article, is a balance between outpouring and resilience. Empathetic art like this, transports us to future hopes. All is not lost.

Take #ArtfulFest and party

November 09, 2023 by Caffy St Luce

Results. Artfully.

All of October 2023: Audiovisual performance/installations, parties, performance, cross breeding collaborates and good intentions.

All of November 2023: Connecting Artfulfest creativity laying foundations of the new next: Zeenagers Expo Spring 2024.

***“Punk Is Dead. Let’s Start Something New”*** (**Bruno Wizard**) The Homosexuals at TheZineUK music social by **Dizzy Spell,** a Bowie/Charity Benefit at Amersham Arms, Spring 2016. Then in 2020, while taking a house arrest (lockdown) walk, these bright pink words spoke out.

Promoting Exposure of Who?

Artists and allies of the rising star circuit are happiness heralding angels of mental health medicine during Dystopian, Orwellian, Dickensian fused upside down days of the White Mirror darker ages where it’s All Fools AND Halloween, daily.

Thank you, Artists, for sharing your talent to make the world better.

Appreciation to small venues where it’s a personal thing that often leads to a music involvement.

Autumn 2023: Not far from where “New Punk” had been written, a reference to the original “CBGBs of SE14” (NME on 2003+2004’s Pop Of The Tops club) as part of **Deptford X** Art Festival. Journalist, **Dan Frost**, was a great supporter of Artful etc., so it’s good to see him honoured.

It’s not just academics who are smart, now that we evolve at the same rate as the tech we use.

My CV is mainly “Been To Gigs” since the skiving adventures that served as a finishing school for a life in alternative rock.

Live music as an ongoing education.

Uniqulture is not so much a course, as an of course!

I was finished with being taught the dates of wars and kings. I remain punk music smart. Living the Darklife is job satisfaction self employment.

What! No financial riches?

Where would I park my limo, anyway? Im a possibly scanned face in the public transport crowd. A music tourist. When I go out of an evening, it’s mostly to see bands.

4th October 2023 - After meeting with long time good friends in Soho, Central London. An image from the restaurant. We originally met through music at the end of the 20th century. Songs have a life changing power.

For Positivity

Calling for Peace is now as revolutionary as is marching for Love. Make it make sense? No. Just make it make cents.

An anti fascist fight for freedoms across two world wars has been hijacked by traitors to this heritage. Imagine knuckledragging a colonial mind set into the 21st century!

Against this background, in a Cost Of Greed crisis while music’s tour potential is ruined by Brexit and streaming platforms take from the poor to give to the rich. Everywhere is corrupted.

Every artist under the radar counts for so much more, just to exist. They are the soundtrack of The Many calling for an Armistice to truly respect the Armistice this weekend.

**Saturday 7th October 2023.** Went for an art walk that journeyed from Creekside in Deptford along the A2 (sounds like a trek but it’s about ten to 15 minutes) to **New Cross Inn** where **Meryl Streek** was gracing **Till The Fest** - annual DIY punk festival weekender in multiple venues. A couple of years ago, **Bob Vylan** played **Amersham Arms** along the road. At time of writing (8th November) Meryl Streek is about to support him on tour and a month that could never have been imagined has transpired while the scales fall from many eyes.

Musicians are more vital than ever against the backdrop that’s not quite reality.

Misgovernment has taken the culture from morals and respect against black shirts and brown shirts in the 1930s to fash in positions of nationally fronted power, some with black and brown skin, before we’ve even reached the blatantly converging 2030s centenary.

Artist: Fion Gunn. Exhibition: ‘Fleet’ - Interactive Migration Installation.

Many so called “Celebrities” have swung from ‘Feed The World’ and Band Aid to ‘Fuck The Oppressed’ and banned aid.

Not celebrating them any more. As scales from eyes they can get in the Cruel Sadfux bin or if in Britain, even worse, The Sea.

The real celebrities are all who are calling for peace and ceasefire.

The artists of all kinds at all levels, the friends of love staging sit downs. The brave Jews standing up to Israel. Those using their fame, privilege or position to speak up for the oppressed. The school children boycotting an assembly with a “Labour” party warmonger. The politicians resigning or being sacked for pointing out that mass murder is wrong. Anti racists refusing to hate. Oh and the millions upon millions of Earthlings who naturally oppose genocide.

November 2023:

“This month we’re giving away all the money the band makes to MSF. It’s not much, but given the situation in Palestine, the Congo and Sudan, it’s something we felt we could do. That means we’ll donate all our streaming fees, digital sales, merch proceeds and show fees.”
The Red Stains

Additionally, enjoyed The Red Stains energy at the Alt Alt Escape this year (TikTok clip) playing Kick Out The Jams stage #TGE23 Brighton, May.

We the many LOVE MUSIC HATE RACISM

“in our thousands, in our millions…” Up yours, Evil. There’s more of us than you, baddies, and we’ve got better songs and dance moves.

This documentary is firmly founded in grass roots. It feels so good to step through the doors of a small music venue to the timeless arts hearts flavoured civilisation, possibly even to experience euphoria or escapism. That is living a blessed life.

Nice one Just Stop Oil who repped at KILL, The ICON! set, recently in Hackney where one of alt rock life’s soundtrack makers was also out to play.

Kindness is a Natural self care and beauty product.

Love Quota is another. I believe in them both.

With a face like a baked potato I would say something like that but seriously, TheZineUK documentary co-promotes as we report. It began with shy kindness at a Patrick Jones performance, and endures with friendship. Fast forward to a wealth of words, images, clips and moments. We are certainly not short of cultural content with alternative musician back stories.

**BIG SPECIAL** are another running theme of The Coincidences Year. Hackney Oslo, 19th October 2023. Well and truly golden threads of TheZineUK tapestry.

How To Expo?

Well, we’ve staged two or three so far within our own story.

#No3Expo : Spring 2015 (42 stands, including a live stage with The Homosexuals, Nova Twins, seeds of Birthmarks (ex Little Death Machine) and Cat Bear (ex Cat Bear Tree) and a bar amidst the paintings, tech, film, interactive art, massage sofa, cakes and more in our pop-up HQ, The Ministry Of Fluff n Dreams.

Autumn 2015 added Pirate Treasures jewellery to the performances (Nova Twins, Lucie Barat, Mourning Birds and White Room live on stage with DJ Mark Beaumont of NME) at Amersham Arms.

2015 events in turn inspired ArtBeatFest, Spring 2016.

A memory being the legendary Debbie Smith (Echobelly, Blindness) playing guitar with Deux Furieuses at their debut album launch, using a framed picture of Ros and Vas taken by photographer Daniela Fleckenstein on Tin Pan Alley at one of our music socials.

Fun fact, journalist, musician, film maker and all round rock n roll superman, John Clay came in support of this Amersham Arms weekend and documented songs and interviews. His band Colossus were already a golden thread before their performance at The Artful Party on Thursday 26th October 2023.

#ArtfulFest recommends debut EP, ***‘The Gods Hate Colossus’*** and this darn smart video for *‘Strike Up The Band’* directed by a cover star of TheZineUK doc picture books, **Camille Alexander** of A **Void**. And yes, New Cross absolutely took this ROICK SHOW to it’s heart. At time of writing, a plethora of talents are assembling for ***the film ‘Voodoonaut’*** film premiere that John directed, in St Giles Church, Camberwell.

Another example of movie world weaving is that Jane Pirate Treasures became Trampolene crew. Doc n Roll’s 10th anniversary includes of films includes the film ‘Storm Heaven’ by Lee Thomas. On 16th October at the Kerrang! x Royal Society of Arts ‘Black Voices In Alternative Music’ I met Colm of Doc n Roll. Three degrees of celebration. Timely serendipity.

10th Anniversary of **Doc n Roll Film Festival runs until Sunday 12th November 2023** l (docnrollfestival.com)

Of the original 2015 expo, seedling bands, Birthmarks and Nova Twins graced 2020 with game changing debut albums. Claudia of Cat Bear Tree attended the pre-Decolonise planning meeting in Summer 2016. Decolonise Fest is increasingly influential since it’s 2017 first event (including various artists playing Reading, Leeds, Glastonbury and more major music festivals.

Claudia Mansaray (who has also graced one of our picture book covers) now plays bass with a newer order, Lufe Tempo who sold out their first headline show in October 2023.

**Lufe Tempo** amidst the Week 1 of ArtfulFest recommendations. This wekly round up idea never got followed up due to mass murder breaking out but, everybody here brings counter balance value to this world through music.

It’s a Fertile Environment. Friends are invited.

Get as involved as you like. Talented people give us the time of day, access, etc - and we totally appreciate that. They create the story. We are just paying homage to the multitude of interdependent media, photographers and film makers who bring their passion fuelled professionalism towards wider recognition for credible potential to cross breed with the interdependent music industrious.

Was a great evening at the RSA on 16th October for ***‘Black Voices in Alternative Music’.;*** Here’s Phil and Ade of **The Outers** with (centre) **Yasmin Benoiit** (Brit modal and award winning asexual activist) @theyasminbenoit). We all buzzed from attending this evening which, hosted by **Sophie K**, was a definiing mid Artful month moment with so many people thanking the panel and new conversations started.

DIY Sector: The 21st Century Arts & Entertainment key.

Kudos to Joyzine AND God Is In The TV, respected alternative culture multi-taskers in their 20th anniversary celebrations that weave with the Music Tourist Board’s whimsy.

October 2023: This Feeling celebrated seventeen years, Loud Women, eight and Get In Her Ears six while Pint Sized Punk is literally a quarter of editor, Arlo’s young life, having started during lockdown 2020, at one point appearing on R E P E A T’s life stream.

More youth fuelled hopes include Noah And The Loners, The Molotovs, Hotwax (who, like Nova Twins, have all also played at Amersham Arms, cross breeding and seeding “DIY Plants” HQ) Alex Spencer, Megan Wyn, Ruby J and Nandi Bushell.

A wealth of generation trmorists fuelled the Artful month recommendations.

Fair play to **The Bluetones**. Hit after hit, live at KOK), 24th October 2023. Extra points for selecting the 21st century Disco Rockers, feminists and fellow purveyors of big songs, BUGEYE, as special guests.

Generation Tremorists? anti ageism.

Many of our fave zeenagers were unborn or at school twenty years ago - adding to the positivity gifted to this planet in that time and the next. The potential is loaded. Let’s make more hope, especially from the last two decades where so many brand new “lifelong” songs have been released into the atmosphere to soundtrack our lives and new reality.

Stay strong, stay safe to step up to the next level.

Iconic future saving from Music Venue Trust (it was a joy seeing Mark Davyd having a pogo to Noah And The Loners on the MVT/National Lottery’s #UnitedByMusic tour.

Bring On The Gateways.

Bollocks to gate keepers.

We are a small but passionate media/promoter burning from individual, working class women of RW-unapproved heritages. United. Our cast and crew are the BEST, thank you. Our faves are inspirational and supportive of what we do. This has inspired the Zeenagers Expo from mid March 2024. Artful 2023 just underlined the foundations.

Double drumming up support for the impact that KILL, THE ICON! are having. 19th Octdober 2023, Oslo, Hackney.

The Newer Wave of Rock n Roll celebrates all backgrounds, foregrounds and generations. This document proves that uniqulture fuels the Fertile Environment. Small things like the uplift that accompanies feeling part of a gig or a peaceful protest, balancing social media horrorism with the hope that every day people bring by standing up for others.

Musical notes outplay the Grave New World

19th Oct - KILL, THE ICON!

7pm live set and phew, I make it to Oslo in time for the synth punk sensation! I’m not the only one here for them, some people are dancing down the front from the first note and more arrive with each song to join the party.

This evening is The gift keeps giving as they are followed by Big Special who I have seen five times this year! A best-punked-bands double bubble.

They were special guests on the Benefits headline, tour with Minas. Many familiar faces were in the crowd of what felt like the mostly timely and required rage rally.

21st Oct - Feeling Hopeful

Deep in conversations with musicians about 2024. Excitement is a body battery booster.

Away from all welcome distractions though, the daily dread that ongoing genocide inflicts on the evolved world as the holocaust against Palestinians, hostages in their own country, continues mercilessly. A mental battery boost are the historic images of hope that globally shared empathy inspires. We have become our own leaders even as kindness becomes illegal.

With frankly astonishing new music to look forward to (cheers to various artists for sharing with TheZineUK in advance, friends) we’re gonna need all the rousing we can get.

23rd Oct - SASHA ASSAD

Wondrous. Mesmerising above the murmer of voices in the magnificent setting of The Ned. So, did you check out the newly released Fierce Panda single, 'Still', yet?

Fan girling began with getting to This Feeling at The Lexington early in February (the sixth person to arrive at the sold out Velvet Hands headline) for that claustrophobia-friendly corner. If you know, you know.

I fell for Sasha Assad and her band, instantly and hard. Even did the gushing fan thing after. Documented at TheZineUK (@thezine.uk) • Instagram

July: Argh, only just missed Sasha Assad’s set at Truck Festival as we did the trailing up and down pre-entry thing but ha ha, still took a papped pic at load-out. Suddenly it’s Autumn, early doors at Rock n Roll Book Club where Fierce Panda’s head panda, Simon Williams will again entrance us with the kind of anecdotes that prove his book, ‘Pandamonium - How Not To Run A Record Label’, is vital reading. There’s Sasha Assad entrancing me again with an acoustic set!

So for sure I would go to The Ned (I put vaseline on my boots to make them look posher) and soak up the joy. Half a minute of ‘Don’t Ask Me To Dance’. Monday 23rd October 2023: TheZineUK (@thezine.uk) • Instagram

24th Oct - BUGEYE

Newer waves rising guitar pop icons sounding and looking very much at home at the grand and legendary venue, Koko, supporting classic guitar pop legends. The Bluetones.

25th Oct - THE OUTERS

Art Pop Rockers who are as pro active in their enthusiasm as their promotion. "We will be at the bar, watching the other amazing bands and having fun on the dance floor, as we go first" said their social media.

**Neil March** of Trust The Doc’s ‘Hot’n’Fresh events introduces The Outers.

So I arrive at Lewisham Fox and Firkin early, planning to catch . It was great to step inside this venue again. A lot goes on here and in this borough. Much appreciation to promoters, Neil and Sherry, for the hospitality.

Artfulfest Day 25, Lewisham, SELondon - nice one Georgie, used the pic in colour on her facebook page.

All the line up come tipped.

I’d been meaning to check out The Year In Pictures. They didn’t disappoint. Wouldn’t be out of place on a line up with Something In The Lake, I thought.

First time catching Georgie Hanson who was down from Lincolnshire (!) with her band for this evening with electro beats and indie pop.

The Outers played last, with panache. It’s fair to say that they headlined.

New friends, came to converse after their set. Autumn single, 'First Sight', has picked up independent radio play internationally (with credit where it’s due to Lisa Knght PR).

Day 26 : The Artful Party: Fonda 500, Bugeye, Hurtling, Colossus on stage, Feral Five in spirit and an interdependent music social celebrating twenty years of Joyzine, God Is In The TV, Rocklands and the world's only Music Tourist Board.

And… the Dark Star album - 'out flew reason' - released twenty years after recording. It’s flavouring the dark shoegaze and gothic tasting 2023 which musically mirrors the Dalek hearted destroyers of the world and humanity. On this page, people are three degrees of celebration, rather than six degrees of seperation.

We needed the collective joy of this gathering in bundles. Walk into a grass roots music venue for a blueprint of civilisation. Amersham Arms, a cross breeding ground of the fertile environment, is Uniqulture HQ and it felt like that.

**Hurtling** being photographed by **Keira Anee** (@keiraaneephotography2) at Amersham Arms Artful Party

Just one facet of the Grave New World:

Our musical Arts are being culled in time for the fash centenary that has KICKED in, quite literally. Well fcknzs - we’re still aiming, nay fighting, for a future facing hope.

The Many, we believe in humane (r)Evolution. We call for peace,. The Few bay for blood. Logically proving that they are leaders. Vote? Billions of people could also storm buildings or down tools until they are gone and every day people help Earthling reclaim our world from soul-free alien insanity. Reset to 2012 when The Real World supposedly ended.

Remember, remember, take heart in November.

Week 1: TheZineUK editor, Dizzy Spell, curates the first #ZeenageDaydreams Spotify playlist and invites you to submit best new tunes for the December episode.

Week 2: Good morning. All the above? Well, that’s the foundation of an Expo started with a photography confirmation. Game ON. We are writing a tiny facet in an age of history being slyly rewritten in lies by cruelty. As ever we rebel with empathy.

“What we need now is to organize beyond our astonishment”
(Saul Williams, November 2023)

This Velvet Feeling

October 12, 2023 by Caffy St Luce

The Velvet Hands: #BigInThisFeeling

Hands Up if you’re going to The Velvet Hands on tour! Image: **Opia Photos** for TheZineUK

November 2023 Headline Tour - with second album, ‘Sucker Punch’ and SO many gig favourites live on stage + an array of special guests.

Summer 2023 photography at Truck Festival’s This Feeling Stage by Opia Photos https://www.instagram.com/opia_photos/

The calm before the (Truck Festival headline set) storm… image: **Opia Photos**

This month, October 2023, is the seventeenth anniversary of the UK’s No.1 live rock n roll music club, This Feeling. Next month, Zone Rangers, The Velvet Hands head off on tour - punking it live with This Feeling. Perfect!

THIS (VELVET SUCKER PUNCH) FEELING

01 LONDON COLOURS 14+
02 CARDIFF THE MOON 18+
03 BRISTOL THE GOLDEN LION 18+
04 LIVERPOOL JACARANDA 18+
16 MANCHESTER 33 OLDHAM STREET 18|+
17 LEEDS OPORTO 16+
18 BIRMINGHAM DEAD WAX
23 FALMOUTH CORNISH BANK 16+
25 PLYMOUTH UNDERGROUND 16+

Tickets https://thisfeeling.co.uk/thevelvethands/

Did someone say The Velvet Hands? Rock show fans, Dizzy Spell (TheZineUK) and John Kennedy (Radio X, The Remedy, This Feeling) by **Opia Photos**

There are so many artists who have experienced being #BigInThisFeeling - the time warp of 2020, 2021 and 2022 means humans are all three years younger and 2023 begins a brand new next world of potential. That’s the thing about following the cast and crew of a documentary… You should buy a ticket (check availability) and dive in. Hard working rockers, VH are fun as fuck.

A nice cold Signature Brew can of Roadie (and a Zeenagers badge!) while relaxing before the show by Opia Photos

We saw it. We heard it. We booked it.

The Velvet Hands played TheZineUK social, early doors, looking like tall school children. We spent their soundcheck time arguing with the band that Prince could not possibly have died, it’s Prince(!), then popped over to Sainsbury’s for some booze.

They - and various Cornwall crazy crew massive - rocked the roof off - and Velvet Hands have not left our collective affection. In December 2017, They returned to grace our first #MusicPeopleParty(with host DJ, Katie Owen) at The infamous Hawley Arms in Camden (that they continue to keep groovy).

Stage Style. always. Image, The Able Bruvz, by Opia Photos

2018

The Velvet Hands are one of the bands that inspire our 2024 Expo, Zeenagers and are no strangers to This Feeling’s artist development runway “Zone Airport”. The Expo byline is “2018, Where Do You See Yourself In Five Years Time?”

This particular year began when the above mentioned Katie did her first filmed interview for TheZineUK, with The Velvet Hands double lead singing guitarists, Toby Mitchell and Dan Able at This Feeling’s Water Rats Theatre. Before that year’s debut album, ‘Party’s Over’ was released, all the signs were that the party was only just beginning. For band, presenter and promoter, alike.
51 seconds YouTube: “We Love This Feeling”

In Spring 2018, The Velvet Hands played John Kennedy’s live music club, The Remedy, just before it’s finale (lucky it’s returned after lockdown!). There’s a relationship between this respected music guru and so many artists. Before their set, we were chatting the imminent LP and not only did John mention that the songs all sound like hits, but yes, he could be quoted on that.

Alongside widespread national music press, our DIY site said something at the time along the lines of “Hamburg era Beatlesey and Rolling Stonesey and Strokesy with overtones of The Undertones”.

Looks like John’s singing to The Velvet Hands, but it’s good to check the latest news when you’re hosting a best buzz bands stage like This Feeling! Image by Opia Photos

2019, Supporting Liam Gallagher and Fontaines D.C. is just a fraction of the story. 2020 The band will have no idea how much the song and video ‘When This Is Over’ meant to more than just my own mental health during lockdown, I’m sure… They’ve got so many sing-along-songs. Punchy…

2021, we’re allowed outdoors a bit more! When False Heads couldn’t make their GET ON music TV taping slot ‘cos of Covid, The Velvet Hands stepped in. What a treat!

We Kelly Munro (End Of The Trail) presenter Louise Schofield, PR, Lisa Knight and TheZineUK) got a taster of brand new song, ‘Holiday In My Head’, from the forthcoming next album. Film makers, Roobi TV heard me commenting that it “sounded like The Smiths covering The Sex Pistols”. What a freaking TUNE though. That’s gotta be in the Expo, right?

The Velvet Hands headline Truck Festival’s This Feeling Stage, 2023, image by Opia Photos

2022, 42 Seconds of Boardmasters Festival. (YouTube) The Velvet Hands are Cornwall’s biggest punk band and they carry a torch for the locality, big up their peers and gig there whenever possible. Fair play to this band.

2023

Sucker Punch - The second album and gearing right back up! We all reboot as we claw our way around the increasingly culled star breaker circuit. As fans dig deep to escape to the best gigs (small venues, that is) during a cost of greed crisis and that ever impending doom vibe of reality. Rock and roll as a way of life has never been so essential.

The LP fuses riot-beat rhythm section, duelling guitars, duetting vocals - With hints of The Libertines, Gang Of Four, The Clash, The Stooges and The Velvet Hands, it's the latter band that mostly influence themselves.

Songs with a roar-along vitality from a band who come into their own with each release but take that to a moshpit level live on stage. Then Jim Morrisson grabs them by the Devil's Tail and boof, they're gone

We zoned into The Velvet Hands at This Feeling again this year.

Spring 2023 - Start the year at their Lexington headline in Oxfordshire. Great to see Lion Machine 23 again and absolute kudos for inviting the jaw dropping Sasha Assad onto the bill. An instant new favourite.

“There was loads of emotion for @thevelvethands and friends at their sold out and music industry busy n buzzy #suckerpunchalbum launch” (Insta clip at TheZine.UK) and fans of the bands know that there’s regularly a Party’s Over Party on stage for the crowd (clip at TheZine.UK TikTok)

Summer time and here we are in Oxfordshire where The Velvet Hands are headlining This Feeling Stage at Truck Festival on the Friday night and taking no prisoners. Ace to bump into many of the Zone Rangers community down the front, too! One of the key new music sites, Travellers Tunes, correctly reported “The Velvet Hands were and are the real deal.”

TheZineUK does, indeed, have about a minute or so of souvenir film clips from Truck Festival at our Insta. Documentary, innit! Much appreciation to This Feeling, as ever for the hospitality and good times!

Scenes are next coming to a show near you in November, if you’re lucky.

Zeenagers assemble! The Velvet Hands headline Truck Festival’s This Feeling Stage, 2023, image by Opia Photos

The Velvet Hands are a vanguard blast of newer wave rebellion to party to, joyfully, as civilisation falls.

**Tickets** **https://thisfeeling.co.uk/thevelvethands/**

AWEtumn 2023

September 26, 2023 by Caffy St Luce

Totally Biased (sue me) tiny percentage of what’s rocking the now and next for The Events Department, as Leaves Fall From Trees like music news gifts

2023. What A Time To Wish To Be Allowed To Be Alive!

But positivity IS happening in music. Despite The Overwhelming/Underwhelming Everything of Now. The (necessarily) DIY Sector of the Entertainments world is adapting with a star shaped twinkle cracking the cruelty-gloom. See our situationist, cut n paste tapestry weave, whimsically, for further details. Below are three degrees of celebration rather than six degrees of separation. Universe (“one song”) makes it so. Noisily enjoying, A-Z:

ALEX SPENCER

“I’m What The Future Becomes”.

Are people of all ages listening to what the artists are facing? Singing about? Caring about? (kudos, Just Stop Oil, for sharing support for ‘And Now The Weather’) by articulate synth punx, KILL, THE ICON! Do you listen and really HEAR?

In lockdown, Alex Spencer came to attention with videos of busking around Manchester and became part of this tale. In Summer 2023, post GCSEs, the wait was over, got to see Alex perform live (with Will Harvey from his band) at #SoccerSixFest - worth the wait and highly engaging. That #FootballMusic social day out was special day for all the Spencer family. Aces. More on that is still to follow.

For now the new single, ‘Do What I Wanna’, is a sing-along-think-along tune of the year and you just know it will be a stormer at the headline show in November. Best wishes always, Alex.

Tickets: https://www.gigsandtours.com/tour/alex-spencer

Hi. We’re a DIY multi media - more Rocking Pebble than Rolling Stone but welcome to our documentary of extraordinary artists! From the following, Vanity Fairy joined our magick folk faves. Thanks MASH! https://www.mashzine.com/

ANNA WOLF

If you haven’t yet, do please listen to the EP, ‘Romance Was Born’, it’s an aural spectacle. Currently working on exciting new music with producer, Rex Roulette, Anna Wolf and her band performed a treat of a main stage live show for the launch of key interdependent promoter, KICK OUT THE JAMS, in a brand new grand new location at the world famous Hackney Empire! Two Palms was too good! It launches properly soon. #KOTJmusic already invited back for October, November AND December events!

On Thursday night, I was just gonna leave this there for Friday’s proof read, but … I woke up this morning (da da dada!) and there’s a new single on the horizon for October 19th!

This date holds deep significance to me, and I couldn't wait any longer to share this song with you.
"MOTHER" touches on the painful experience of losing someone dear and the journey to rediscover hope amidst the darkness. It's a raw, honest portrayal of the vulnerability we all face when dealing with loss. Unlike songs that merely say, "everything will be fine, just hold on," I wanted to create something that acknowledges the difficulty of death and the acceptance that it's okay not to be okay.
I hope "MOTHER" provides solace to those who listen, letting you know that you're not alone in your grief. Be sure to pre-save the track using the link below, and mark your calendars for October 19th
Anna Wolf
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/annawolf/mother

COLOSSUS

‘The Gods Hate Colossus’ has literally just appeared on Earth. It’s a debut rock music EP that is as sparked in variety as their line ups and as passionately energised as what I’ve seen of their live shows (on line). An audio-textured mix of whipcracking rhythms, Classically hard rocking threads that call to mind Scrap Iron Scientists with a twist of Fat White Family - and art punk psyche harmonies. It just sounds like it’s own genres though. As debut EPs go, this is an inventive incentive to turn up the volume!

What a tapestry! Rob Homewood is the artbeat visual of the EP based on a band photograph by Andras Paul.

John Clay is part of the three way conversation with Nishant Joshi of previously mentioned KILL, THE ICON! and Chardine Taylor-Stone of BIG JOANIE (both bands woven into this doc).

If you haven’t read this, please do. Bring love. You won’t be uncomfortable unless yer a toryhearted bot, but I doubt you’d be reading the wibblings of TheZineUK (which is headed by working class women from Cruella-oppressed backgrounds) if you were! Maybe you’re on side, if so, bonus!

https://joyzine.org/2023/09/19/in-conversation-kill-the-icon-big-joanie-colossus-where-are-all-the-poc-in-guitar-music/ article

Well done #20YearsOfJoy. Now bring on 26th October. The Artful Party. Fonda 500 playing their finale London show and three new-release bands - Bugeye, Feral Five, Colossus - soundtracking the future with new releases. GOD IS IN THE TV and JOYZINE celebrate twenty years of existence while raising £ for Hope Not Hate anti racism charity!

The latest Moon Faeries to visit #SELondon are Nova Twins fans, Luna Tick Tock and Moona Lisa. They’ll be at the show. You can be too, for a fiver (in total!) from https://www.wegottickets.com/event/589723

God Is In The TV and Joyzine are both blessed with teams of quality writing and photography. New and alternative music reporting, reviewing, interviewing, thought piece articles, releasing hugely acclaimed compilation albums, musical downloads and staging live events! Happy Birthday, both. Again, it’s an interdependent thing.

Incidentally, Joyzine’s Rupert Hitchcox designed and photographed the entire Chapter 1 of TheZineUK. Late 2013, we went to meet a trendy publication in Shoreditch for tips. Showed them the mock up and they sneered that it was nothing special. Originally, the words off and fuck sprang to my mind, in no particular order, but I got over myself and we enjoyed a beer together with them. There’s no competition, they’re huge and doing it right.

We’re definitely different to the on-brand design concept that we may achieve one day. For now, TheZineUK is perfectly imperfect while creating in the wild.

That time TheZineUK were based at The Ministry Of Fluff n Dreama… Gordon Raphael is on the bus chatting all sorts with Ragged Cult Magazine. He also reviewed The Strokes at Hyde Park from side of stage. It was viralled across The Guardian, NME etc Heck I think somebody even remembered to credit TheZineUK - nah, y’aint seen it all before. Listen to all these artists. You may like a song and wahey!

Our first front page (uploaded mid March 2014 - some of our faves still in school) was taken with 15 minutes to capture Rhiannon The Nightmare stunning the main hall of the National Portrait Gallery (fast forward to now, she’s an award winning film maker) and the last page is of teen band, Floodliners, on the bar of Amersham Arms in a scene out of the TryLife TV drama. The bass player is now one half of Elton John faves, Nova Twins (currently on tour with Muse) and the drama is an international, top tier interactive youth powered tech sensation of international acclaim with (goes to check) 6.9 million followers on fakebook. We’re not all bad.

#Zeenagers are Generation Tremorists - All Ages And Backgrounds who are not falling for the whole Earth x Earthlings hating bullshit of the 1% - they don’t even know we exist so as the tides rise seize their yachts for your luxury squats

Maybe it’s because we live and love music world life, that in mid-March 2024, it’s TheZineUK’s tenth anniversary. Zeenagers Expo will let anybody (who is interested) decide if our new whimsical express is on point or not. Now do please go and re-read this page another day, if you likebbecause it will shape October (Artful month) which aims to create a physical event within a year.

Q: Will we succeed? A: We will try to. It’s a situationist kismet cosmic magical mystery tour, just come with… Are friends Electric? Now is the age of

ELECTRIC ENEMY

A pulsing blast of a hip-swinging rhythm that arrives into this tale via new single, ‘Fear’. BombPop Beats (bombastic, poptastic electro rock with alien invasion choir harmonies)! “I wrote, performed, recorded, produced and mixed this song about a panic attack i had” says Electric Jim. Dive in, hear him out as there’s a collection of massive tunes! Get IN! https://linktr.ee/electricenemy

MIMOSA

‘All The Time’ an Autumn single from a band who are a shade of 1970s Americana alternative rock outfit from Chesterfield with a driving rhythm paced, “sing it with me”, guitar-wigged-out shiner. Click here for the freshly unveiled video.

Mimosa are another name among a myriad of music industry who are part of Soccer Six Fest 2023 (which is part of our story) and graced the stage with a confident rock show swagger for which fans and friends had travelled miles to cut crazy, indie-disco shapes on the dance floor. The UK tour rolls on with this cumulative energy, via BBC Radio Sessions, festivals and tour dates to even greater heights as the year unfolds. A gig at Blackpool Tower?!!!

MOSES

“I’m very close to quit”… (2020) A Rock Opera In Real Time. Musicians from Eastern Europe, Ireland, South Korea form rock band. Build the seeds of a massive reputation. Brexit then Pandemica then ailments and finances hit hard. So glad that they don’t quit. Special kudos to The Wizard of Wolverhampton, producer Gavin Monaghan. A spiritual guide to many in the magical Magic Garden Studio. Fast forward to 2023 where new songs for 2024 were premiered on USA dates and the latest of their releases to hit a landmark, ‘Who Needs The Money' has passed half a million Spotify streams with no playlists in support. #ThatBandMOSES - mostly unknown but blessed with anthems for grand occasions and amazing followers who are a cross between a street team of recommendation and a gig-choir.

Look out, level playing fields, at all the names I’m blubbyblabbing here.
The Fertile Environment is a reality.

RUBY J

After hearing a world exclusive play of the energised Northern Soul tingled single ‘Home’, on John Kennedy’s X-posure Daily radio shows, I was lucky enough to experience the close range live performance at This Feeling’s Test Transmission 003 event that same evening.

With a soulful vocal distinction that I feel Ami Winehouse would enjoy, Ruby is an artist I’d like to hear sing ‘Goldfinger’ or ‘Hey Big Spender’ by Shirley Bassey. Another special artist on the runway of This Feeling’s “Zone Airport”. Yeah, the No.1 Live Music Club in the land staged something special. (cont./…)

Billie tinted Blues: https://linktr.ee/rubyjofficial

Pay attention to Music Venue Trust - if you don’t already - or you’ll no longer see a bill of live sets that you will later pay at least ten to twenty pounds EACH to witness at a later date. For instance…

Test Transmission 003 - Fitzrovia (Central London)

On 26th September you could have enjoyed Spangled, Beverly Kills, Billy Otto, Harri Larkin (introduced to our story by the above mentioned Gavin Monaghan!) AND Ruby J all on one bill for a tenner. Intimately in an inclusive welcome from This Feeling, their team and expanding community - while rubbing shoulders with banger-spinning, star heat-seeker, DJ and Host, John Kennedy, alongside more music industry influencers.

Four of the photographers in attendance - Jon Mo, Rhona Murphy, Keira Anee and Alan Wells - are also appreciated contributors to TheZineUK’s tale/heritage - look out for their highly rated work! Talking of involved interdependent media, Mike from Travellers Tunes is a prolific writer and scout.

Uniqulture. Interdependence. It works.

Yet again, an unforgettable, fun and enthralling evening. First time catching Harri Larkin, Beverly Kills and Billy Otto in the flesh. Superb. Quick taster clips of random adventures https://www.tiktok.com/@thezine.uk and https://www.instagram.com/thezine.uk/

Billy Otto and Harri Larkin, 2023 - This Feeling/TheZineUK

People travelled from all over the country and continent for This Feeling. Music Tourism.

A research of how it works was furthered by the back room that TheZineUK was born in (Amersham Arms) staging an event by 122MM in July. It was filmed by the above mentioned John Clay of Colossus. One of the bands performing was…

STILL TRAFFICO

This morning, this band released a giant bird that flies. Up. There’s something beautifully “SHACK in the Strawberry Fields Forever’ shadowing the single, ‘Seagulls’, which introduces this North/South Uniting band to a wider public. A sultans of swinged urgency within beseeching vocals, chord play rhythms and guitar chimes.

Turns out that the above mentioned 122MM (122 Music Management) are based in SELondon and we are on a wavelength, tune wise, so when up’n’comers, The Outers, were invited back to Amersham Arms, we all went together, had a brill night out and a proper social with the band (ha ha, I left them all in the beer garden until the early hours!). The Outers next show was launching a single in Hackney, supporting headliners, Still Traffico. A totally quality evening under a big big moon. Both bands. Both barrels.

My impression of Still Traffico was that their psychedelic structured layers sounded like a fresh feeling familiar for a few bars before a tango of textured tangents. No drugs required, a bit like a scene from 1980s cult TV, Twin Peaks, where the guitar band call in to the strange place, having got lost on tour and we freaks dance odd moves. Still Traffico describe themselves as ‘railway pop’ and they are, indeed, a little off the rails. Credibly.

I enjoyed myself too much, stayed late after instead of shooting for the last train and found myself on my own magical mystery night bus tour, occasionally loudly stating “I Am Moon”. Proudly weird, this is how September 2023 began. How it ends. All day long…

THE KAIROS

I want my Mummy! There’s a monster in my ear! It’s ‘Suspend’ the new single from The Kairos!

As all these random paragraphs are actually connected (uniqulture WEAVES), this is a band that were thriller killer at Test Transmission 001 on March 1st 2022. My first sighting. Dived straight in. That was a night not to forget: A new European war just declared, a rail strike thronged the doomy hearted streets with sponsored walks to get anywhere - and still a beautiful evening of noisy joys at close range - TheZine.UK insta: A “few secs of 'Money Mind' “A punky blues tint of Hamburg era Beatles”. (cont/…)

Now it’s Autumn 2023. Our mate, Louise Schofield’s increasingly busy schedule includes an (entertaining, of course!) session and interview on Spill The Sound - the bath balls reveal music TV show made in Manchester. The opening track played is ‘Suspend’!

Music journalists who go to gigs, DJ, present radio/TV shows, live events/Festivals, interview musicians they’ve put at ease - and just LOVE it. Yeah, they make our world go round. Go Lou, a perfect #NoKairoNoParty match! The UK tour is about to rock off for this band on a roll, get in The Thick Of It!

https://www.thekairosband.com/

THE OUTERS

At the end of last year, The Outers danced into TheZineUK’s ears with an insistently hooky pop TUNE ‘Danger Signs’. They were playing the launch of Bad Apple Club (no, not a policeforce disco) in Shoreditch’s Old Blue Last, supporting previously mentioned MOSES - and the song just stuck.

Their set was an instant winner, thrillingly festive and the perfect special guests for such lively headliners. The Outers are an uplifting band who are determined that you enjoy their gigs as much as they love playing them. Works for me. It’s early doors but their potential is seeding.

Yup, grabbed them to play Pop Of The Tops 2023 in Spring. They made a video for ‘Danger Signs’ in Summer and along the way, each show won fantastic feedback. Not just me, then. For Autumn, there’s a lyric video to the new single, ‘First Sight’, mentioned in the shout about Still Traffico, above… and to a noticeably bigger crowd.

https://linktr.ee/theouters2

Entwined, I tell ya!

Untwining, here is a bucket list band to tick off with a live show some day soon, hopefully.

All hail VENUS GRRRLS - Their new single, ‘Liar Liar’, is a skyward facing gongbanger of a pop strut. Huge if true. Guess what? It’s true! Leeds leads! Watch/Hear (YouTube)

***https://orcd.co/liarliar-venusgrrrls*** **by Misha Warren**

ZEENAGERS EXPO - mid March 2024.

Wish us luck putting events together during the creative copromotions of the situationist virtual festival, Artful (Oct 1st-31st). What are your visual artists, film makers, illustrators, VJs of choice to soundtrack? Who or what is your #ArtfulFest 2023?

**September 2023, Anna Wolf at the Bob Vylan social**

newer wave of art punx having cheap fun on the outside looking outwards. Over and out.