A #MusicPeopleParty with recommended live music
+ word/visuals, creating, tech and #stagestyle. Expect entertainment and engagement. This event will be recorded by SetMixer. It’s All Happening in the backstage bar where TheZineUK was born:
Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Road, London SE14 6TY.
Our situationist music socials and their stars, are never “just a gig” then over and finished with - but always an unfolding story’s chapter. Consider this an invitation!
(Artist support (industry/media) please DM Events Department in advance)
#PopOfTheTops Spotify playlist of #RocklandsParty alumni
A one-off celebration of the club (2003-2004) that started a season of “New Cross scene” with DIY arts and a punky live music social. If anybody’s around in 2043, celebrate this evening’s 2023 live musical gems, again!
The plan is some visuals from 7.45pm - so come early doors if you wanna experience the full audiovision (live sets until 11pm, after show tunes, then the venue is open until 2am). Trains nearby until past midnight. Buses all night (A2, Continent to The Capital main road).
Sonja The Blur Fairy is our welcoming host and one of the #MusicPeopleParty fam who are gonna be out to play. Come for joy, to scout, to connect, whatever. It’s an inclusive/effusive early start to the weekend and we’d love to see you.
Dizzy (Editor), Caffy (Events) + TheZineUK cast n crew
“It is time to do what you want while the ones who look down on you keep on doing what they can.” (Mango In Euphoria).
Photography for the single, ‘Hollywood’ by Neil Anderson.
Since catching her last-minute addition to a Kick Out The Jams on the famed Amersham Arms stage (Autumn 2021, TikTok clip) been following the UK’s glam-star, Mango In Euphoria.
Fast forward to Spring 2023 where the “Dark Disco Queen” isa released (and highly praised) recorded, reviewed and radio played artist/One To Watch. (Gonna let you into a not-secret: Every name on this event’s line up is acclaimed and tipped. If may be an affordable night but you’ll more than get your money’s worth to support new music and our beloved grassroots venue circuit).
Electro-pop on the Amazing Radio playlist. Here’s the brand new video for the recent single, ‘Hollywood’ (So Far So Good Records)
Friends! Coming? Do the Mango tango and bring your own #StageStyle to Pop Of The Tops - we love to see it!
Mango In Euphoria songs on Spotify
TheZineUK being a situationist music movement documentary, it felt like serendipity when checking out and falling for the soaring tune ‘Danger Signs’ by up comers, The Outers, late last year, courtesy of the Bad Apple Club launch at The Old Blue Last.
Uptempo engagement of the alt-pop tuned, rocked out kind. Their live show is infectious and performed with a stylish edge that mixed Blur, Jefferson Airplane and Blondie, maybe, but is all their own sound. We were introduced by gig photographer, Mark S., (who we met at our Amersham Arms show last summer). It was meant to be, then.
The Outers ended 2022 with an interview on established music site Joyzine. 2023 started with an again well received show supporting Vandal at a packed Belfast Sunflower and new recordings to step up an even busier year. post-punk-pogo-pop having FUN in the video for ‘Nobody’s Fool’
Woohoo, we’ve also nabbed one of the ultra-groovy Big Richard Records rosta. The pulsing young-n-happening label/promoter and band, Brie, introduced into this tale by Andy at Amersham Arms.
Describing themselves as “Post-Punk cheese music” the lively gigging gang are in the process of finishing off their next project, a 5-track studio EP recorded last year. Their musical output so far vacuums you into their dairytale of beats, bops and dynamics.
Over the last year, Brie have concentrated on making friends, playing shows around London and the UK (some sold-out) and are now it’s the build up to releasing their record. Catch them live and make fondue memories of the “I Was There” type! Descend into happy madness.
“Brie are bringing the rocking party” says Gouda Than War. You bring the cheese puns, then. See You, Mate! Video for ‘CuM8’ by Brie
Massive Hugs = Magick hugs!
Creator, Jean Genie, is The Bringer Of Sunshine and a great supporter of musical peers, the grassroots scene and a key mover shaker musician, member of the band Alex & The Wonderland, presenter, producer, promoter, booker, music world community leader and connector while the short film she co-wrote with Jonny Hayes ‘Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Search For The Blue Note' was screened in January to amazing response.
In February 2023 on the Bandcamp Friday of Independent Venue Week, Jean Genie’s Massive Hugs offered Preston’s top independent venue, The Ferret a Ray Of Hope with a brilliant pop single rof the year, ‘Ray Of Hope (Ferret Forever)’.
The release is in support of Music Venue Trust’s first nine lives (grassroots gig spaces) of the brilliant #OwnOurVenues investments/donations campaign. A sparkling tune, it’s picking up widespread support (Independent media, + Radio X, Loud Women on Louder Than War, Get In Her Ears and BBC Introducing plays and interviews).
March 2023 ended with #SaveTheFerret a triumph (yay!) and Music Venue Trust going to the line. Will they? Won’t they? By midnight deadline they HAD made the £2.3 million required to start buying venues for the music world to own. (yay!) Get involved, this is just the start!
April 2023, Jean Genie is live on stage at another of her regular independent venues and has a poptastic way with a story and melody. “What a song!” (John Kennedy, Radio X). A sparkling video by Robin Hill:
OMG, so excited that this entire line up can come and play!
Documenting DIY music movement serendipity. A “story being lived through the arts and poetic actions at the austerity inflicted end of broken brexit britain. The one with the best rock n roll”.
The multi-media Expo, Zeenagers, is being made in twelve parts. The first was March 2023. Pop Of The Tops 2023 is Chapter 2. Be here in person or virtual media spirit? Draw/Take a pic? Wear a chic? Applaud loudly? Dance? Make a video? …or not. We’re doing love, anyway.
Zeenagers - the early seeds (clips), then, this pic: CroCroLand Spring 2019 supergroup: Weekend Recovery, Nova Twins, Tiger Mimic
Spring 2023 links to feedback. The Fertile Environment returns to Sarf London on 20th April
This is a slideshow of the doc’s 2021 cast and crew between 2014-2017. With more people in the story by 2023, let’s make newer-news together! Yes?
Yeah, like Top Of The Pops; diverse popular music variety show of 20th century prime time BBC1 TV viewing fame. But 21st Century DIY punked! Independent artists / venue / promoter and creativity welding alternative rock, electro punk and disco pop tuned performances with a creative crowd.
Let’s make a Hallo Gallery on the second stage in the TARDIS of New Cross backstage bar where years of gigs, parties, clubs, theatre and shenanigans (like TheZineUK being born) have taken place – especially over the last decade while musician, Andy Palmer has been making heritage with a staff of mostly musicians as staff. Come, have a laff.
2003, Sarf East London - a community of artists, locals, students, fairys etc. at a weekly live music social.
By the time it was killed off in 2004 Pop Of The Tops (“The CBGBs of SE14”) had spawned acclaimed/widely screened films, an NME compilation of the year, ‘The New Cross’, an Oxford Street riot, a John Kennedy radio special and the Rocklands Party of creativity.
Over the years of shows, festival stages, sessions, collabs and expos, invited music lovers to witness, early or intimate shows by Kae Tempest, Howard Marks, Nova Twins, Anna Wolf, Art Brut, Bloc Party, gglum, Deux Furieuses, MOSES, Feral Five, Ebony Bones, Something In The Lake, Tinie Tempah, Glen Tillbrook, The Heavy, Beans On Toast, Too Many Ts … ah, so many more.
TheZineUK has officially staged and co-promoted at many events/festivals since 2014 and is always looking at the NOW and the NEXT. So come tonight!
An art rock opera in real time. Kicking against the hostile environment pricks – and despite everything – the uniqulture of the Fertile Environment is seeing talent seed and bloom. A pipeline of potential, which the interdependent music world feeds into wider attention. Often works.
Yes, of course our “2023 is inspired by 2022” TikTok short features Amersham Arms the most!
Buses: 24 hours. Stop by the venue and a minute away outside Goldsmiths Uni.
Trains: Opposite New Cross Station, 5-10 mins to New Cross Gate (both are National Rail / East London Line), 5-10 mins Deptford Bridge (DLR), 10-15 mins Deptford High Street (National Rail/Thameslink).
Access: One-level venue and toilet.
Early Pop Of The Tops-ness: "A congregation of creatives lighting up the darkness of south-east London, with musicians, filmmakers, comedians and artists coming together to conjure a modern-day Haight-Ashbury." (Time Out Magazine) * "In London, New Cross and Deptford attract the hip." (New York Times). * "The rock n roll borough" (NME) * "The new Montmartre" (Italian Vogue) * "Forget Buck Palace get down to Deptford." (The London Paper). * "You gotta be kidding!" (Daily Mail)
The Fairies Band of the naughties are now also widely exhibited and acclaimed visual artists. Pop Of The Tops DJs like The Heartbreakers, Unemployable Welsh Scum and Dirty Sounds keep creating and inspiring. Some of the original amazers can make it on the night to check out the new sounds. Very happy about that. “Rocklands”? - Where Lover’s Rock Meets Rocker’s Love: #SELondon postcodes.
We will not tolerate any gropeytwat or bigotty BS and neither will this inclusive venue - so please be respectful to each other/yourselves - (tho tbf, we’re whimsical and don’t tend to attract wrongs uns).
This includes the imperfect but mostly kind humanity of planet and peace, as well as the alien-hearted, ingreeding hate-mongers of war. There’s no Planet B. There is no Britain B, either. Even though it cost less to start littering Mars, than to steal from a nation while ensuring enough of them died to save even more on pensions etc. Black Lives Matter gifted an instant major history lesson for us to rebuild a #GR8BRTN with equity for equality. (Tyler Challenger's front cover image for the Autumn 2019 upload of this doc is reprised later in that issue as Post Modern Scary Tale. We are now in a groundhog day Stockholm Syndrome situation of All Fools Day x Halloween).
This is actually how we already operate and inspired TheZineUK from ArtBeat gatherings at the end of 2013. Uploading mid-March 2014 we could have NO idea. The last page of Chapter 1 is from a scene in TryLifeTV at the grassroots venue which spawned us, Amersham Arms. Half of Nova Twins represented in Floodliners photographed by Rupert Hitchcox.
How the wonderful Zeenagers (generation tremorists of creativity and performance) have come through this, is a heroic story of it's own making. DIY power is real.
The Dystopian Future is a reality beyond the twisted sick imaginings of fiction to screaming divided friction. Cast and crew from our pages have stepped up with kindness, courage, exceptional albums, digital adaption, charitable hearts and collaborative goodwill. (Oops, guys, we were supposed to have been divided and conquered!!! - Fuck that, our voices are 4REAL)
The Newer Wave of music industrious who rock the #SaveOurVenues circuit have organically laid the foundations of the next public service announcements - with guitars.
Between us we love - and are influenced by - every genre of music. As humans shag new beauty into the world, Nature style, our sixth sense fused heritages bloom like the living globe who gives birth to us.
Mother Earth, Father Time, Sister Moon and Brother Sun interact with the one race: Living Water Based Meat Machines. We can't live in water, live without it. We sing and dance before we can talk and walk. Laughter, romance and poetry can stay in the hearts of lifelong children, despite the 21st century being misruled by the few; Blue Meanies.
Rock n Roll is tribal, queer and fun. Anybody can be magnetised. When TheZineUK started, sofa-critics stated that guitar bands "are over". Bollocks. What STARS from our tale are achieving over our collective seven year (w)itch, is genuinely unreal.
There is no huge wealth investment financing this. Everything is a fucking struggle. I won't lie, I was in such a bad head space this weekend that I've cancelled an online appearance. I can't face people yet, but I can type and my family friend circle is inspirational, so HALLO! - I'm gonna allow myself to breathe good vibrations in, to share the joy again. Everybody we know is in a bad place. It's called Capitalist Earth. 2020 Vision turned out to mean seeing things clearly so Evil's Empire appropriated "woke" to fashion a weapon against being aware.
Sixth sense human instinct cares for planet and people. The force is weak in alien hearts who worship money, statues, flags and position. They are sad fucks, wasting their time on Eden.
Uniqulture: The day after Lockdown 2020 began, the aptly named Joyzine had assembled Balcony Online Fest to broadcast and raise charity funds.
It's the first quarter of 2021
Let SEVEN #SaveOurVenues rocking promoters speak for themselves
Then we SO want Reading and Leeds Festivals to happen so that Nova Twins can rightly take their place on the main stage.
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