Tom Jones wows Derby

Sir Tom Jones at The Big Top, Summer 2024

Part of TheZineUK’s documenting includes weaving in heritage legends that inspire generations. Photography by John Springett Photography (Springimages)

Tom Jones is one of Britain’s greatest exports and talents who has been helping to put Wales on the global map for years.

Six decades of hit songs, performance, collaborations and TV/Radio/movie appearances - and charisma.

The multi award winning star, whose music is a melting pot of genres, played The Big Top in Derby’s Markeaton Park.

In support were a swathe of very special guests (including The Selector and Gabrielle) who entertained a crowd of all ages but it was the headliner, Sir Tom Jones, who wowed the crowd.

At 84, the hip hips are still moving. A genuine icon for decades, Sir Tom Jones, remains a 100% genuine ENTERTAINER - leaving an uplifted audience in his wake, by all accounts.

It’s not unusual!

Photography (c) https://springimages.com/

A positive beat: Matthew McCrilly of MOSES

From Dungannon in the North of Ireland to radio play, appearing on festival stages, movie soundtracks, great reviews so far, and - to great response - premiering some of the new MOSES album in USA last year, a unique musical journey continues.

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Caturday every day: Music Tourism

From A Green Cat:

Once upon another time
of song and dance and beat and rhyme
Of lyrical, literal, literate rap
Of romantic skies and chuckles on tap

Audiovisual visions of magical musicians
as whimsical musical real life magicians
A Moon Faeries friend, a green rebel cat
Went gigging and giggling in a red hat

Since millenium eve in The Land Of Song
Planet Water dimension exists all along
The green cat found fairyland on New Cross Road
Where friendly was fun: Eccentricity flowed

Stardust was sprinkled by art punky stars
Charisma was twinkled in small music bars
By poetic souls, with romantic hearts
Because heroic spirits inhabit the arts

In turn evolution becomes (r)evolution
and peace makes a much cheaper final solution

This is a true story of aiming for ease
For clean air and water, for the size of the sighs of the seas
A whisper through forests, a love of the trees
The laughter of children, the buzz of the bees

It's not much to ask to retain sanity
To care about all of our humanity
Verminous, hate-waging nazitoff trolls
Gas light mental health with their naff mind controls

But, phew…

The awake are not falling for cosplaying lies
Even as global democracy dies
The fact is the devil ain't got the best tunes
They belong to the angels, Moon’s lovable loons,

The sweary, contrary or gentle dear soul
Our real super heroes who help us to feel whole
Kind, questioning, day dreaming, nurturing friends
Whose ancestors flavoured all of our Earth’s ends

Ladies, Gentlemen and the rest of us
Take the ride, hop on our bus, no fuss
To reach this virtually parallel situation
Come into a small venue, that's the location
of the fertile environment experience
Let live music excitement make total sense

Veering daily from the ridiculous to the sublime
Whimsical situationism, once upon another time

The Music Tourist Board

Moonpuss of the Music Tourist Board

Summer 2023: The Assist

Summer 2023

West Midlands Council Pop Kings, THE ASSIST, have taken their party on a tour of festivals this year.

Image: Sarah Gibson https://www.instagram.com/opia_photos/ Truck Festival

Our photographer, Sarah Gibson, caught up with them at Truck Festival’s happening This Feeling Stage.

'Council Pop' is the debut album from The Assist. Released in 2022, it lives up to it’s name and from the dance shapes that we saw fans cutting to the tunes, there’s a lot of people who love to sing along.

This is one of the bands who have organically woven into TheZineUK documentary, itself an ever changing landscape of the ups and downs of alternative music world lives.

We’ve witnessed The Assist on stages - initially via This Feeling live music club nights - and even on football pitches where they have been champions and runners up of the Music Industry Soccer Six Fest.

It’s been a while for this tale, since the riotous album launch shows last year, though, and so it was great to catch up. The Assist are a gang who live in the moment.

It’s fair to say that this band are having the time of their lives and living the rock n roll dream every time that they get on a stage!

Truck Festival turned out to be another big occasion where their reality-lyrical, indie-psych rhythms hit the happy spot for yet another crowd.

Shout out to the festival, as a live music presentation, was tweeted by key vlogger, Tim Senna: “full crowds across the tents especially for smaller/unsigned bands is a rare & beautiful thing to see but they did it.”

True. Truck Festival DID do it. A bonus being that there is always a genuine community - The Zone - out to play for and with This Feeling. If you go to enough grassroots music venue events and enjoy meeting people, even shyly, it’s as good a route into the alternative rocking music industry/media as any.

Now watch out because The Assist have got more lnews to come - when they get their minds (and breath) back from all this festivity!

https://linktr.ee/theassistband

Sarah Gibson https://www.instagram.com/opia_photos/