Have A Zone-tastic Isle Of Wight Weekend

The Isle Of Wight Festival returns and it’s JUST what’s needed to round off the great(er) outdoors that has been so much needed by so many people.

cinch presents Isle Of Wight Festival 2021 - Thursday 16th to Sunday 19th September - that’s some harvest!

One of the best things is the adventure that most of the people who will be there travel across water to attend the arts and hearts music festival that has inspired so many more over the decades.

Fwar, look at the line up on This Feeling’s increasingly iconic Stage - Zone Island is deffo in the house! (Or should that be the field?)

Up n comers who are definitely in a field of their own, it’s always ace to see faces from this doc as well as find new faves.

This year too many to mention individually and after what the human race has been through and is still coming to terms with, just want EVERYBODY to have the best weekend possible.

More on This Feeling in a bit as it’s a stage that TheZineUK can’t help but be magnetised by (and the documentary story with guitars, affected by).

There’s so much on, all over, all weekend.

It feels like there is eternally an eye/heart opener happening at the Cirque de la Quirk.

Say hi to one of #TheZineUK doc contributors, Heather Minx, if you see her (quick anecdotes teaser from her interview with festival head, John Giddings, pre pandemic)

At 7pm on Saturday evening, we’d recommend a highlight of the very cool Kashmir Café stage will be the UK’s top disco punx, Bugeye!

Having caught This Feeling tips, The K’s, at Manchester Night & Day a couple of years ago, their steady rise to this weekend’s main stage has been highly visible.

In fact, every festival has TF alumni blowing up on various stages and that’s not the half of it. If you want to catch talent on the rise, The Zone’s reputation is second to none for indie rock alumni.

For 2021, Isle Of Wight’s four day weekend gifts you this fest within it’s fest…

Many images from TheZineUK’s first trip to Zone Island became part of our Season 1 (2014-2017) Slideshow.

These early days images of our 2021 cast and crew prove that the biggest new story in music is in the grassroots music venues that we’ve all had to fight for so hard.

The 20th century had The Cavern, Erics, CBGBs etc to break out of and now in 2021 it feels like every artist is brand new all over again post lockdown.

We really do have a lot to celebrate, even while taking as much care of each other, and ourselves as possible.

Vibes! A “first band on” memory from This Feeling Stage 2017!

One way is to have the best times. Charge those endorphins!

It’s a fact that for fans of rock, indie, punk and alternative pop adventures, This Feeling tent is a stage, a community - a positive future boost giving opportunities to so many artists…

And FUN.

Trust.

Many people do not leave the zone all weekend except to (possibly) get some kip!

Look out for multi talent tasking music industry/media mover shakers Kelly Munro (End Of The Trail Creative) and Louise Schofield (who will also be DJ-ing for This Feeling) - TheZineUK’s reporters for the weekend. We’ll be sharing their Zone Rangers clips and quips.

Argh, Rianne Downey, hope that you’re feeling best soon again, you were fab the other weekend at Werkhaus. Yaay, Big Image to the rescue stepping in last minute. Have a very big one!

Oh and if you don’t get why the small venues are ON freaking fire right now, it’s because we’re seeing star turns, up close, affordably, inclusively, theatrically. We’ll keep on about it. This documentary has so many receipts . Many of them postmarked This Feeling (much appreciation).

Just one example: Gen and the Degenerates ‘Underwear’ to seeya onto your box-ticking-free adventures.

THIS great FEELING about 2021

This one-scene music world is a public service announcement. With guitars.

This Feeling Rewired Festival (August) & Isle Of Wight Festival Stage (September) raise the guitar blessed tunes renaissance.

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?

TF events mostly sell out in advance, so if you’re looking for a last minute high quality, noisy fun, check availability at the ticket link.

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/