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Music Tourist Board

#twoMTB - The World’s Only Music Tourist Board Pinterest of Alternative, Affordable, Artful Adventures: #ShareTheJoy Tag your favourite events #musictouristboard and affordable places/spaces for #musictourism Venues, Studios, Equipment Shops. Record Shops, Clothing, Cafes on the music passion vibe.

Links and music love at https://facebook.com/MusicTouristBoard / https://twitter.com/MusicTourBoard

NOVA TWINS,

Above, great British ambassadors, play a headline home town show (during their latest overseas tour) at London’s hip and happening Victoria in Dalston on 24th May. 18+ Event Tickets are via stuff-the-touts app; Dice FM- Image by Sanaa Abstrakt – big up music photographers. Tweet your 5/5 #RockMusicPix over the band holiday weekend.

May 2018 begins like this, and will weave into something amazing for alternative rock music fans if you follow these yellow brick roads on line or on land.

Qualifications? Inspired Newer Wave Recommendations for letting the good times roll + Inclusive Sociable Networking and #Uniqulture 02 Portsmouth Armed with a treasure chest of Top 40 hits and sing along anthems, classic guitar popsters, The Bluetones start their UK tour with new rising stars, The Velvet Hands at The Wedgewood Rooms. The Bluetones have just been filmed for a Vintage TV special at an intimate show and The Velvet Hands, during this very week, are album of the week with their debut, ‘Party’s Over’ (Easy Action) on Radio 1’s Huw Stephens show.

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May The 4th Be With You – it’s Star Wars Day A youth powered spectacle of alternative rock dynamics, 485C, have just unleashed an eponymous album on Fierce Panda Records. This instant classic roars like a monster. Hear it performed live for free (register for a ticket) at The Finsbury in North London. A minute’s walk from Manor House tube station.

May BAND HOLIDAY WEEKEND 05

London

Pink Cigar, Couples, The Shantics, Chile, James Numbere

– an eclectic mini festival and music social for networking by newer wave music industry collective, Benumu with DIY arts movement documentary, TheZineUK, which was born in this backstage bar at Amersham Arms (opposite New Cross Station). Something fresh will be created all over again. As ever. Register for free guest list entry at the event, or it’s just £5.00 on the door.

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Live At Leeds

05 Sound City, Liverpool including IDLES, The Slow Readers Club, Asylums, The Blinders, Pirate Studios, Family Jools, End Of The Trail, Bang Bang Romeo, The Wholls and REWS to name hardly any. It’s a double day delight in the Baltic Triangle, which is like a Scouse Bermuda Triangle as there is so much on that you will truly get lost in music.

05 Insomnichord at The Water Rats Theatre in London. This is going to be something else.

This Feeling Club purveys ones to watch line ups at an affordable price while inviting newer wave media (bloggers, photographers, DIY industry) to get involved with them at ground level.

05 Croydonist Birthday gig with radio starring, alt-pop disco punks, Bugeye, and friends.

06 Glasgow with Yorkshire terrifics; Bang Bang Romeo and SHEAFS, on a stirling line up for This Feeling Stage at Stag & Dagger Festival.

08 Bristol - ‘Eight Days A Week’, innit? Insominchord at Thekla, home turf show, on the boat that truly rocks. Great Venue.

Beyond the first week of May, Swansea’s hot export, Trampolene, play their biggest headline to date at landmark venue, The Scala in Kings Cross on 9th May. Tickets are scarce.

Mid May 2018 Somebody rude suggested that the unsightly homeless make themselves scarce because posh benefit scrounging people that we have to pay for, were getting married. In turn, their lack of courtesy and conscience has given the nation;

The #RoyalBedding Weekend See Musicians Against Homelessness for details and your nearest #MAH2018 event.

“Since we launched this project in 2016 I’ve been shocked to see the numbers of homeless on our streets rapidly increasing. “We’re living in an inhumane society where suffering is common place and solutions are not forthcoming. Thousands and thousands of people are homeless or living in abject poverty. We can't ignore this and hope that it goes away or fixes itself. “It’s a sad indictment of society that we’ve become so desensitised that so many will just walk past people who are literally dying on our streets. These people don’t have a place, or a voice.” (Alan McGee) This resonates on so many levels of the exBrit Brexit age. #royalbedding events are happening all across the land. Some of this vibe is at The Great Escape Festival during the biggest year for rising star, career potential guitar bands in YEARS. To be precise, be at The Alternative Escape. Despite the @AltEscape twitter not being touched since 2016, THIS is no second class quality affair, in fact, The Alt Escape iswhere the magic is going to happen.

@AltEscape 2018

(Europe’s biggest free entry/no wristband new music scouting festival) is the official find a fave event of The Great Escape. Musicians Against Homelessness will be part of the collective of Music Tourist Board allies representing. Including Kick Out The Jams, End Of The Trail Creatives, TheZineUK, Benumu, Amazing Radio, Modern Age Music, Fierce Panda Records , Katie O and a DIY revolution’s worth of #TheMusicPartyPeople – at the seaside!

Not a corporate kind of Music Tourist Board, then? This is working class powered, welcomes all people of all backgrounds from hippies to hipsters, but it’s also based in an austerity-lie stricken and gentrification abused age. It’s all about love and escapism. As you weren’t.

Once upon another time, New Cross Inn also had a boutique with a stage courtesy of Kate & Tristan (the latter now purveyor of the multi award winning Little Nan’s Bar). The creativity of these days included Rocklands Party (multi venue take over of New Cross and Deptford, 5 th May 2007) “24 Hour Glastonbury”, then hosting a monthly 14+ event, RAR! In Deptford Albany along the road (started in 2008 with Pendulum DJs, ended with Tinie Tempah in 2010, via Kate Tempest and many more). Music Tourist Board, in 2018, is recognised as a valid project. @MusicTourBoard