Kick Out The Jams is sponsored by Rotor Videos and presents a travelling road show of Mix-Up events where the new rock n roll artists and their allies sparkle on and off stage. This Autumn celebrates three years that still offer a warm welcome and escapism these days. The alumni so far already reads like a dream music festival. You’re invited to be part of a very 21st century way of doing industry and media: interdependence.
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Firstly, fans of punky rock and indie beats can catch sixteen All -Tipped New Bands for only £12!
Saturday 14th August at The Garage on Highbury Corner in London.
Sunday 15th August at Brudenell Social Club in Leeds.
Supported by scotts and Red Stripe you KNOW it's gonna be one of this year's key gatherings.
Spotting some faves, cast & crew of this documentary on the bill, too! - The friendliness of This Feeling events has always made an impression on me. So I kept going. For years, and still do. Fancy it?
Leading on, naturally, from TheZineUK's most recent post about the interdependent new music industry), 2021 would have been a whole different story without the emerging artist support media network, Music Venue Trust saving our venues and the No.1 rock n roll club of that star-breaking circuit, This Feeling.
Team TF are sufficiently on point to realise that ALL artists are brand new again in this next world. MOMENTS radiating from the TF Zone have helped to shape TheZineUK story, even through the pandemic. Over the last five years, especially, some couch-critics have stopped putting guitar bands down as a newer wave of mover shaker future makers rise. 'If you're going to see the emergence of a new great band you'll find them at This Feeling first...' says Carl Barat.
With a better artist profile development campaign programme than that prime-timed tit, Simon Cowell, This Feeling, it's partners and zone rangers crowd nationwide are - again - making the "Big In... " series an award worthy set-up for promising talent.
There are thousands of new releases and hundreds of new artists every week.
If you are an artist that has been noticed - in any way - by team TF, know that you are next level.
If you are a music fan with a ticket to witness, know that history is making itself around you. If you have a ticket for Isle Of Wight Festival, find that tent. TheZineUK spent most of 2017 there, and called it “The Real Love Island” (21 snap shots out of hundreds).
Crawlers are one of the bands to catch up close at Rewired before setting sail in September! ‘Statues’ is a mighty-weighted rock force.
This Feeling has a growing number of alumni who have graced huge stages (as supports and headliners), TV, national radio and/or are living the stream. Some have even topped the charts. Impeccable scouting, promoting and presenting. It's down to passion, connections, instinct - and hard work.
It really is a big deal to get on TF's Best New Band's playlist and/or be the Track Of The Day on GigSlutz.
To work up the bill to those first headline shows, radio plays, London gigs, tours, major festival slots (and what This Feeling does for us working class music lovers, is not mentioned enough). As a veteran of the alternative rock industry, working on this grassroots circuit/circus, I know that This Feeling is a career landmark.
Getting involved is a goal for many guitar-blessed artists.
The indie music press and club circuit of the 90s is comparable to this 21st Century club honed to a multi discipline hub.
Take the obvious #FootballMusic relationship where sporting sport and the British Isles that make a song and dance about everything, and you see that Football Fest - for good times and causes - was a genuius move this Summer.
For 2021, This Feeling is also back of the net with a new record label.
“We like to play don't you know”. First signings, Rats, are indie-world favourites in the making. See near future for their news, but for now they kick start post lockdown's cautious next levels with extensive tour dates that start at the Rewired weekend. There’s layers to this band, ‘Section 60 - A Stop And Search Story’, being a case in point that many every day people can relate to. Watch their space/pace.
On a line up of colourful back stories with loads of performance front, Rats are part of something positive when, eight months into Brexit, we need lifting. This Feeling is a good feeling. https://thisfeeling.co.uk/
Kick Out The Jams has another #grrrltakeover at Amersham Arms for The Deptford Mix-Up sponsored by Rotor Videos.
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Read MoreThe following was inspired by hearing this song which (for me) evokes images of a space ship in bright Bugeye grrrl colourful riot shades. It hovers above parks where humans are allowed outdoors, at main stage level and the band travel around lighting up hearts and souls into their brightest moves and shapes in their least-lockdown-look gear. It’s not more improbable than what passes for real life. Taken from their 2020 world class debut album, ‘Ready Steady Bang’ (Reckless Yes) and given a Duranesque feral energy of beats that turn your speakers or headphones into your personal nightclub. The LP is a year old this month. It’s a home grown classic in every sense.
If you want an entry point to the kindness, collaboration, gifted musical activism, artbeat and multi talent tasking that has made all the difference to the last few years, then newer wave faves, Bugeye, are your arts initiative point of call.
Download the song and all profits go to The Magpie Project community who help parents and young children at risk of homelessness. In a rich country, go figure. Poverty is something that more than a few of us can relate to.
Uniqulture: ‘Don’t Stop Reset’ Remix by Feral Five. Mastered by Paul Tipler. Art by 31% Wool.
Alongside founding involvement with Cro Cro Land (how to festival) and their always engaging Rock Pop Rambles podcast (recently endorsed by Radio X’s ace John Kennedy in Clash Magazine) there is a whole remix album to follow on July 9th! Bugeye are one of TheZineUK story fuelling power points - with stem-level tunes and musicality.
June 2021: Started the next picture book diary, recording a tiny fraction of TheZineUK interactions from mid April when lockdown started to unlock. Even in these few months it’s so obvious that misgovernment HATES music, musicians, music venues, music fans, music socials, music festivals, music education (for us “povs”), music tourism, live music and music festivals. It’s time that “hands in the air”, “singing along”, “buying music/merch” and “moshing” became sports. Music Fan Olympics are GO. As we emerge from our virtual yellow submarimes, far queue, blue meanies! *(Alien hearts ain’t too keen on women/womxn or even the planet, to be fair).
After the sold out Polarized Eyes headline, June 2021. Access All Ages Amersham Arms - Generation Tremorists power.
We are so obviously on our own, the parallel dimension where the biggest arts movements are soundtracked in the smallest venues. A genuine starmaker circuit that the selfservatives attempt to cull, consistently, for years now. In the last six years new possibilities and hopes have seeded against a backdrop of climate emergency. In the last five years kindness has proven itself a super power as hate multiplied five fold since the brexshit “win”.
School children see through the bullshit of Murderoch’s propaganda empire. (What has he GOT on the hisstablishment?). Adults who have “Seen/Done It All” ain’t so bright. I’m vintage and I think we are often just twats. Note how teen media editors Scarlet of Mash Zine and Arlo of Pint Sized Punk ain’t hung up on which decade musicians are born (that is SO last century!) but are inspirationally clued up on the music that they make. I dig that Punk Word Legend, Bruno Wizard said “punk is dead, let’s start something new” at Dizzy’s Bowie night (in, erm, Amersham Arms a few years ago), Gwan Generation Tremorists, all…
Kerrie & Angela Bugeye, with inspiring friends (including Kat Five of remi(n)xers, Feral Five) out in support of Kick Out The Jams, monthly music social June 2021. Amersham Arms is part of a nationwide grassroots circuit renaissance. Thank you Music Venue Trust.
2017’s rock n roll zeitgeist - where we shrugged off seeking interest, let alone approval, from the mainstream for a newer waver wave of generation tremorist graced, genre/gender fluid music industrious (r)evolution. Yeah, guitar bands ARE back. So what if they’re virtually banned from day time TV this century and the streets aren’t as clothing bright with music tribes - children got YouTube and don’t all see lying bully bigots as role models. The audiences are more reflective of the 21st century than profile artist/events based Arts Desks have experienced.
TheZineUK Punk Takeover of St Paul’s. The Blinders/485C after party AFTER party at Abbie McCarthy’s Good Karma Club and a cast and crew party on This Feeling Stage at Isle Of Wight Festival.
In all the noise we romance and giggle. It’s almost as if Earthlings are animals connected to a living organism planet that communicates with them through music and more, while celestial forces inspire water beings who also have weather (moods). Up yours, alien hearts.
Stick with the Zeenagers, we are hell bent on having FUN and may be as imperfect as any band, cos we are natureal - but we mean well and have LOVE at heart. ArtBeat heartbeat.
There is room for us all. Interdependent media support the artists that this new, skint, diverse, friendlier and rebelliously fun community recommend. We trickle up the talent, baby. Interdependent. Collaborative. Multi talent tasking. The #MusicPeopleParty years were born when Dizzy Spell used working class woman power wonders to learn website tech etc fro m scratch.Our allies complete the cast and crew picture. December 2017 first Party. Our friends, The Velvet Hands and Katie Owen topped and tailed the live music/DJ hosting).
laid some surreal, apocalyptic foundations …but so many wonderful campaigns and creations had pumped kindness and hope into the either, also.
A 2018 trip to Genesis Cinema (Eastenders Land) to see sparkle queens, Bugeye, play a Genesisters event with Lilith Ai and more at the L7 screening added a whole new tangent. In 2019 another musical trip to the movies with Simon Baker for his movie ‘90 Minutes’ produced by Rio Ferdinand and soundtracked by MOSES. Was it watching the Star Wars finale triple until the early hours, there, or their Chadwick Boseman display outside that endeared them? Either way, TheZineUK started 2020 with a collaboration of the Velvet Goldmine film, cocktails and photo session.
Season 3 of TheZineUK doc begins as humanity is adapting to the trauma of 2020 and 2021 Planet Earth (also on line, if they can afford it).
Ha, when you started a situationist tapestry about how good gigs can propel great potential and it turns into The Dystopian Rocky Horrow ShitShow.
Would always rather SEXit that Brexit. Compassion and courtesy are SO attractive that I fancy you all (good people). Onwards darlings, onwards, stay strong, we got this. Together. Don’t Stop.
It’s the 21st year of the 21st century and we’re trying everything to Revive Live amidst a barrage of bad news, environment fears, financial stress and then our mind/spirit-medicine; gigs and festivals, cancelled, postponed, cancelled, postponed, cancelled, postponed while the crime ring continue their herd immunity eugenics.
There’s more of a war cancelling culture and being aware, than there is (the destruction distraction of) “cancel culture”. Ain’t having it. Gotta ROCK, Gotta DANCE, Gotta LAUGH. Can’t hug? No problem. We’ve got a friend who is (literally) named Massive Hugs! amidst a cast, crew and story who often sound made up.
So we spend last month inspired by movies, by the live streams unification of Balcony Festival last year and having Music Venue Trust as our actual government since 2014. The force is strong in all of us and we have the very best tunes and pop stars. Yeah, you heard me, STARS. I don’t know the name of every bint in the sky but they still all twinkle. The Music People Party will be a multi dimensional December and we have no idea how it will need to be staged but as a Twitter survivor I know we will try to find a way to share JOY. come with. Don’t Stop.
Music Tourism: “The brilliant thing about a Bugeye tour is that no stage style is too glam to wear while shimmying to their sparkling Top Of The Pops/BBC Later-worth alternative art rock disco punk!” @TheZineUK tweet 29th June. Truth.
Tickets are on sale - NOW! Ready Steady Bang! https://linktr.ee/bugeye - photography by Keira Cullinane (bring your own spaceships)