Situationism’s Real Time Rock Opera is shaping 2025.

Scroll down to “ 2025 - #PlanetWater25 section” or read in full approx 5 mins.

2024 rounded a decade of documenting. 2025’s tale is set up.

From 2014-2017: CroCroLand, Music Venue Trust, Independent Venue Week, Decolonise Fest, Kick Out The Jams, LOUD Women and TheZineUK are within a movement of grassroots music love necessity on the Planet Water wavelength. Simultaneously, Earth suffered Brexit (which began with blatant corruption and right wing terrorism murdering an MP). Supernature’s instinct must have been calling to music lovers as the above mentioned now have the fertile environment’s three degrees of artist celebration between them, despite reality’s hostile environment.

In December 2017, the first #musicpeopleparty set next level horizons: Art style as lifestyle in Camden’s Hawley Arms. Seedling Cornish rockers, The Velvet Hands, opened the show. They're yet to leave this venue! In March 2025 the band will play their biggest London headline to date, This Feeling at Dingwalls - just along the road! Click here for Tickets.

The Fall and Rise of Truth and Lies.

The bumpy ride of 2018 to 2021 created origin stories which would help so many people through the first wave of Covid. Joyzine rapidly galvanised Balcony Online Festivals (charity fund raising events), proving uniqulture’s potential.

By 2025, there’s no umbrella organisation needed for much of the interdependent music sector’s instinctive activism for the grassroots venue circuit.

We adapted from bog roll zombies and bewilderment to postponed / seated gigs, distancing, extra hygiene and more through 2020. By 2022 there was a semblance of "normality" despite long covid affecting many of TheZineUK’s cast, cats and crew. By 2025, though Covid is not over and grassroots venues are still at risk, very much has been achieved on the positive side of things.

Music Tourism For The People

Spring 2023, TheZineUK began researching Music Tourism For The People at the British Music Embassy, Austin Texas, repping as band crew. Just before the gorgeous Brooke Combe took to (and funkily charmed!) the BME #SXSW23 stage catching the eye of Mark Davyd (MVT) and exchanging music-love grins. We’re at this famous event thanks to more non-umbrella allies, End Of The Trail Creative and Fierce Panda Records.

The crew thing is rewarding. Having their SXSW showcases followed by new fans (who sing the songs back to them by the last set), MOSES are the band played at Texas Stars Sports Arena a week later.

Summer 2023

The debut #SoccerSixFest Manchester. Networking and fun twerking at Belle Vue Stadium with the Chaos Twins gang in "A Football Music City United". More interdependent mega promoters, This Feeling and Scruff Of The Neck, are very much in evidence within this rising tide of good sports music world. Soccer Six is the music industry's most informal gathering and has been in our story since an invitation from Heather Minx in Chapter 1.

Autumn 2023

Despite dystopian dread's rise, tapestry threads KILL THE ICON! x Big Special x Benefits unite at a Hackney just after October 7th. Then it’s the Artful Party in New Cross with Joyzine, God Is In The TV and Rocklands (TheZineUK events department) 20th anniversary event starring Colossus, Bugeye (while on tour with The Bluetones), Hurtling and the final Fonda 500 London gig. Interdependent industry/media bringing some balance to the time of monsters.

Spring 2024

Events Department’s first live music social is something in the lake headlining The George Tavern. Then we’re on to ASBO Magazine’s BILK show launch at Rough Trade (a beautiful riot) before the Zeenagers Expo virtual installation at Amersham Arms.

2025 - #PlanetWater25

There is a theme of poetry which runs through TheZineUK’s tale before it even began… 2025 begins with Dizzy Spell reading a poem a day by Palestinian poets with a fund raiser link.

A theme of guitar bands also.

The isles  off “Europa” mainland are driving an alt-rock pipeline on the grassroots circuit. Interdependent music sector promoting unsigned releases and having patience with the development of unhyped bands. Much involves sharing live performance recommendations in advance of mainstream attention, major playlists and a bigger audience size. 

Fertile Environment reports that nurturing attention works. Faith in credible songs and magnetic charisma is valid market research. It's a long road to recognition without the privilege of finance. We also sadly see faces and places fall by the way but this documentary has no end of proof that there is a wealth of star potential and solution ideas worth developing.

Being #BigInThisFeeling is a strong case in point that has increasingly revealed sussed scouting and a discerning guitar band fan community of audience, creators and documenting to support the belief that This Feeling is an influencer in the original true sense of the word.

“TheZone” begins 2025 with more give-talent a chance to trickle-up tips that excite us (more than the increasingly safe bet BBC Sounds of What’s The Point?)

Over the last decade's hostile environment, TheZineUK has witnessed an arts renaissance fuelled by positivity, hope, whimsical moments and friendly daydreams.

Artists could not have imagined some of their experiences (working class included in our wide, multi talented diversity). We’re gonna need the building escapsim from authoritarianism, even more this year.

Anna Wolf’s Spring 2024 ‘Medicine’ poetry book launch show was a multi talented spectacle. (Events Dept YouTube clip) - this year started with an appearance at the infamous Pandamonium series of tipped artist shows in Dalston with Fierce Panda Records. Spring 2025 heralds a headline show at London’s Arts club. Get tickets for Saturday 22nd March!

“I considered writing this piece for the Morning Star, or other publications that I do ‘proper journalism’ in. Then it occurred to me. Caffy and I shouldn’t exist. We’re both victims of colonialism, we shouldn’t be here. The ZineUK’s very existence = resistance.”

(TheZineUK Editor, Dizzy Spell, writes a Summer 2024 KNEECAP article
that's also a love letter to anti-colonialism)

October 2024’s Artful Party stars Pythies, Berry Galazka and SOAKED. It’s a MAP fundraiser hosted by Kick Out The Jams at The Hawley Arms. Of course we spotted The Velvet Hands in the house (just before they played The Roundhouse supporting Hard Fi). 15th-17th May 2025 sees a return to the seaside for the increasingly iconic KOTJ free entry, hot guitar bands music festival, ‘Brighton Rock n Roll Circus’!

A quarter century of parallel dimension living, #PlanetWater25 begins.

As mentioned above, #poemsforpalestine by TheZineUK editor, Dizzy Spell. It's also Pandamonium in Dalston (a series of free gigs at The Victoria) and recently it was sparky pandemonium at the sold out Emergency Break show. There’s a punky band who have developed since they excited at the start of 2024. A minute’s taster on our TikTok.

Spring 2025

The Musos Awards (Thursday 6th March) is happening. Music Industry Soccer Six is throwing this year’s Music People Party to kick off their 30th anniversary. #musosawards are nominated and voted for by musicians. It’s “The Player’s Player” celebrates up and comers networking with established music industry. Electric Ballroom is the legendary venue next to Camden Town station. Inviting new music makers to involvement means it’s already an event of the year before the first note has been played. You never know who you’ll bump into but some of the names mentioned in this round up are bound to be there. themusosawards.com/

Making a song and dance about everything is a poetic souled resistance. Like a pack of cards (with extra jokers) here’s 52 magical musical names worth investigating during whatever happens next for this world. Play all these cards?