AWETUMN HARVEST
Personal opinion and some picks from TheZineUK Events Department (currently, not staging events!)
September 2020 begins Whatever Happens Next in our story, with #Safety1stGigs – a mix of physically distanced or streaming events shining hope’s light during the short term future of dystopian darkest ages and financial fears.
August 2020, Artist: Jelly J (read more about this vision at her instagram), Location: #OneForTheRoad in #uniqulture central; Rocklands.
There are quarterly monumental shifts in our doc. By the end of March, the off continent isles and islands – a virtual Republic Of Song And Dance – are in lockdown.
By the time of June’s ‘Generation Tremorists‘ article (school children upwards shape this tale), with it’s Bombastic Pop playlist we had, as Idealistics pointed out on Balcony Festival (a Safety First Gig enjoyed from home), “adapted”.
Balcony Online Music Festival (and more) #Interdependent Music Industry and Multi Media – Share The Joy
It’s all changing again. Daily. Update overload for our Brain computer. Stress injections to our collective mental health. Fear and sorrow piled upon our spirits. A hysterical callous stupidity attempting to freeze our souls. Thank feck, then, for GOOD souls;
Inspirational, International, Incomparable: DecoloniseFest! 1st-6th September 2020 online bands, panels, workshops and continued wow factor. Click here for info/tickets.
I, personally, would be lost without music, musicians, music venues, festivals and the spiritual medicine that they pulse into human beings. It’s Nature’s communication with our sixth sense positivity.
Summer 2020 video: #BeyondPolitics
I want live shows to get back to normal and real life to improve (other worlds are possible), but it’s a slow, organic step by step journey.
Of the story that our creators have told for six years, this harvest is surely one of the most appreciative. Firstly that TheZineUK is actually still around!
We’ve all got our personal madness and uncertainty but what our friends and faves are doing compels reporting.
Even in a cut and paste, amateur style. Besides, others report with great documentary talent, skills and ideas.
TheZineUK is just a stepping stone – A tiny (rocking!) pebble with big ripples.
A small (but well read and connecting) multi tasking community, on and off line, so the appreciation for all support we get is off the scale. Behind the scenes are also some unbelievable kindnesses. Thank YOU!
#ArtBeat HQ #SELondon
Anyway; back to a growing positivity, drawn together during the Hostile Environment.
More recommends:
September 3rd 2020. Yay for faves from our story – Hawxx and Nova Twins – repping at Heavy Music Awards (hosted by another amazer, Sophie K). Proper awesome-and-then-some-ness. Never mind the bollocks, #MusicWomen help reshape equity for equality.
Here is creative culture/counter culture that is so against the grain of the old “normal”, that it truly is a Fertile Environment. #uniqulture. We LOVE. It works.
September 5. MOSES socially distanced gig at SNCFest. (Tickets / Info) The first live airing of April’s acclaimed debut LP, ‘Almost Everything Is Bullshit’, over a million streams underline their hard earned ‘word of mouth‘. Pic; Mike Rădulescu
Feel interdependence develop with social inclusion from grassroots to mainstream media and industry legends via all generations; i.e. #Zeenagers
2020 needs all the Shepherds Of Humanity that it can get. The Pagans S.O.H. are superb, with special guests, Y!KES, making double GR8 bands bubble on 8th September. Tickets to Planet Madlands Magnificence.Band pic: Paul Husband.
Artists inspire our passionate unfolding tale which is fronted by working class female diversity, included in a cast and crew of every background. Our continued situationism on a yellow brick road, has poetic souls of rock at heart, #NewerWave is how we roll.
21 Sept: International Peace Day. Maybe one day Fashion Week will become crapitalism’s toxic Fascism Weak (?) for now, Humanity gonna Human. #Peacemas (Autumn Equinox to Winter Solstice) on Planet Water’s dimenson. Pic: New Cross Inn
TheZineUK (UK? uniqulture KIN) faces multitple hitches, skintness, scuppering attempts etc but is somehow still weaving beloved back stories.
We attract ace mover shaker contributors. Some instigate their own ventures which we follow. The interdependent community swells.
Newer Wave supergroup at 2019’s legendary CroCroLand Festival
Alternative forward/backward time travel adventures join and/or excite the cast and crew.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRLz rock.
Relationships, bands, romances have started, changed or ended since Spring 2014. Friends have died, new Earthlings have joined our only race; Humans.
Aah, Summer 2019…
Not household names. But, proportionally, what tips in our doc achieve without consistent national media attention and huge/any budgets proves them to be stars.
Autumn 2019 cover stars, The Novus. DIY’s one band art music industry x creative youth powered “punk Da Vinci”.
I’ve recomended artists and events for decades. In the background of the most pro-active cottage industry, I appreciate it ALL.
The #BombPop video playlist I’d flavour TV with, begins with the increasingly relevant ‘Never Again’ by the increasingly relevant Ms. Mohammed
None of us are guaranteed a tomorrow. So big up the photographers, illustrators, designers, presenters, promoters… Buy the zines and gig tickets. Save Our Venues. Save Our (3 Degrees of Celebration) Selves.
Previous chapter uploaded recently …the next picture story book at TheZineUK (widely read) Issuu series has a personal time travel theme
Shielding, I’ve met with few friends since March. In summer, The Affable Bass Player gifted us my homie’s fave bread. In August, down from our Midlands home world, a Carer friend had made us face masks.
Last weekend was a Moon Magical Mystery tour with the mystical J J Bird of #SELondon – we sang, danced and almost cried at the joy sparked. A few days later, an inspiration wove a Spell in our home bubble and the circle of next life begins.
December 2019 onwards sure ain’t dull, but we GOT this, because it’s almost Autumn 2020 and I’m writing this and maybe somebody is reading it – which would mean we are still here, right?!
Stay safe, all dear and true hearts. I wish that you and yours are well and can keep hoping, laughing and creating. (Oh, and Fuck You all baddies).
Let’s go with GOOD though, so as this article began…
Onwards, then. In Harvested Power. Friends.
