‘Ray Of Hope’ (Ferret Forever) is a sparkling indiepop single release by Jean Genie’s Massive Hugs during Independent Venue Week on #BandcampFriday 3rd February raising funds to help #SaveTheFerret in Preston
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Aside from the singer, song writer, yeller and story teller being a heritage music artist…
KT Tunstall was also part of this Summer’s PASSPORT: BACK TO OUR ROOTS’
(alongside Public Service Broadcasters, Elbow, Slow Readers Club and Metronomy)
Big Artists.
Small Gigs.
Saving Venues.
Donation proceeds went towards the inndividual spaces and Music Venue Trust’s #SaveOurVenues campaign, which is very dear to #TheZineUK doc’s heart and tale.
KT Tunstall said of playing PJ Molloys in Dunfermline:
"It has been so meaningful to me and many others over this last mad year to see such support and love for our grassroots music venues”
“Music lovers and musicians have come together to help protect the future of these small but mighty venues, many of which exist as labours of love, kept alive by blood, sweat, tears and a deep passion for music.
It was a massive challenge for me getting booked in music venues when I was trying to get somewhere, so a venue like PJ Molloys is essential for aspiring musicians making their way up.
Thank you so much to everyone who supported the campaign."
Passport Back To Our Roots raised almost £140k to safeguard the futures of grassroots music venues struggling to survive the COVID-19 crisis.
We are now six months into the #ReviveLive campaign and so much difference has been made. Respect. Every live show that takes place across the country is extra special in this new world.
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.
'Play Fair' Single Out Now: https://NovaTwins.lnk.to/PlayFairReloaded Tour 2021 Tickets: https://NovaTwins.lnk.to/ReloadedTour21Director: Harry LindleyConcep...
‘Aries’ and ‘Aquarius’ are classical piano compositions and performances by astrologer, Monefa Walker. The recordings have arrived to soundtrack the drama of our lives in a rapidly unfolding (unravelling?) new world.
These pieces literally sound (to me) like a melancholic lantern festival rounding off 2021’s Lunar New Year followed by an imminent Spring welcome for the Snow Moon. I don’t know if that is just the synchronicity that weaves our tapestry, but it’s where my mind went.
Released independently on Lil Minx Records, ‘Aries’/’Aquarius’ was recorded at London’s West Kensington Studio, mixed by Thomas Rickerby and co-produced by Anita Maj.
The artwork is by multi talented artist, Emma Whitworth (a.k.a. Judy Jones, drummer with garage punk powerhouse, The C33s). This single is musical fluidity in action. “You don’t have to be stuck with one genre” Monefa Walker.
Some of TheZineUK readers may know Monefa as one of our writers (interviewed Garbage, The Mysterines, Calva Louise, reviewing Fontaines D.C. etc - among much more). At our most recent Music People Party, Monefa (a rocking, live music promoter in her own right) compered our punky artists, allies and freelancers end of year social.
From #TheZineUK doc’s Slideshow 1: Talented friends in our documentary’s tapestry: Monefa with artists, Sandy K. Moz (one of our photographers) and Jake Elliot of False Heads who were headlining Modern Age’s night, December 2017.
Maybe I’m biased because as Live Events Department of this documentary (ArtBeat Promo) Monefa has been such a force for good in shaping it’s association with so many key artists, events and co-promotions since 1st April 2017 inception. Such a rich allumni who also allow us access to diary their story. In turn the now and next fuse with inspirations from previous decades. Monefa has Mansun in her raising and we have Paul Draper in ours.
Photography by Keira Cullinane
When TheZineUK talks of the newer wave and music women, it’s the reality of the next music industry being driven by a more diverse force than the end-of-20th-century model that some still cling onto by their finger tips.
If anything, the pandemic has shone a brighter light on the fact that the fertile environment’s innovation is driven by the energetic DIY suss and necessity of the grassroots circuit community united by the #SaveOurVenues campaign.
Part of this Happening, Monefa Walker has an album in the wings. “Essentially it’s twelve preludes, no more than two minutes, every prelude represents a zodiac sign” she explained when interviewed by Louise Schofield. Her introduction to the general public, with ‘Aries’ / ‘Aquarius’, is a credible one. “Astrology never sounded so good” (Anita Maj)
