TheZineUK Chapter 009

Chapter 9

New ArtBeat Riot

Once Upon Another

Time

…

Where were we at the last level of this off line multiverse game?

Chapter 8 ended on March 1 2016 at the DOLLS launch show (continues in a bit).

In March 2014 our situationist tale first uploaded (the picture on the opposite page is from Chapter 1). Our gigs are music socials where new friends and futures are made. TheZineUK’s live department (Rocklands) started out over a decade ago, described as “More DIY than B+Q” and “The CBGBs of SE14” by NME. This vibe is twisted into the 2020 vision we have NOW. In March 2016 we were still continually starting something new. The serendipity of uniqulture made #ArtBeatFest New Music Expo weave some new futures into the ether of our musical multiverse. With an expanded collective of allies, creatives, club regulars and supporters we’ve reached the next level. Welcome, to our “terrible twos”.

As ever, click the pages - they’re interactive

links to music, videos, articles, artist web sites

ArtBeatFest star, Rhiannon The Nightmare wears dress & boa by Mrs Jones. Shoes, model’s own. Photography: Rupert Hitchcox. Stylist: Ben Dodd. Location: New Cross Inn.

Art n Beat n Rock n Roll London Town. Front page SLAVES (Amersham Arms). This page; Little Death Machine & Eugene Ankomah (Brixton Windmill), Trampolene & John Kennedy, Radio X (Tooting Tramshed), The Velvet Hands (Whitechapel Urban Bar). Next Page; Enne & M O S E S (ArtBeatFest Amersham Arms)

ARTBEAT Chapter 9 - Spring 2016

© Elisa Schillaci

Chapter 9 Credits:

www.TheZineUK.co.uk

/TheZineUK

/TheZine.UK

TheZineUK home of #StageStyle - Musicians As Models / Brands x Bands.

Chapter 9 Thank you to all All Artists in these interwoven back stories and friends of Uniqulture including; Amersham Arms, Andy Palmer, Andy Ross, ArtBeatFest Artists & Crew, Bill Williams, Chris Cooper, Chris Henniker, Christy Alston, #COR, Disco MarkY, End Of The Trail Records, Electric Owls Films, James Gilder, JamX, Jean Genie Graham, Joe Moon, John Clay, John Kennedy, Jono @ Music Complex, Joyzine Radio Show, Kelly Munroe, Mike Dench, New Cross Inn, Portobello Live Festival, Rhys Downing, Rich Pack, Rupert Hitchcox, Sam Ayling, Sam Mitchell, Saymore PR, Slaves, Sonic Shocks, Sonja Amoretti, Stuart the driver, Terry Tyldesley, The Glass Collectors, Tommy Kennedy IV, Urban Bar, Zakk Dodd & TheZineUK expanding family; Fashion Director : Ben Dodd Music Love Pirate : Caffy St Luce

Photography; Thank you; Angel Michaelides, Dan Donovan, Elisa Schillaci (Eskile Photography), Jeff Moh, Lorna Paterson, Paul Madden, Stefon Grant. Unless otherwise credited, all other images by Caffy St Luce for TheZineUK

1st March 2016 (continued)

DOLLS at The Old Blue Last in London.

It’s s no surprise that Jade n Bel are being snapped up for impressive line ups, because they are in an olympic throwing spearhead of emerging excitement. #FuturePicks the emerging BritRock is enjoying one of it’s most anthemic, confident and showy waves, in decades.

We fell in love with

The Ethical Debating Society who were also on the bill that night, too (pictured, Starlady, Tegan). Ferociously fantastic, they appear on the new Morning Star Newspaper CD compilation ‘Don’t Be Left Without Us’.

The sisterhood/activism of Loud Women events, Clit Rock, the collectives/individuals, female scouts, tipsters & promoters of all back grounds, feminists of any gender/generation - all making the fact that it’s 2016 and people are still being labelled, feel backwards. This is uniqulture where we mainly focus on rocking into new futures.

Thursday 3rd March 2016, Goldsmiths SU, New Cross

“Music For All. Theatre For All”

Long distance zoom grainy pic, when ready made People’s Prime Minister, Jeremy Corbyn, came to Rocklands (#SELondon).

The Zine had been blogging on his side since the leadership race began. Whatever your politics, respect for three decades of good work is due, at the very least.

Jezza, mate, you’re loved by a lot of the people who are in this story, but you were a day early for the punky madness that happened along the road when Dead Belles invited Mourning Birds and The Scarletts to join them for single launch mayhem, with EditSelect on the decks, of ‘This Machine’s Electric’. Deptford Bunker was a seminal rock show moment, in the dark, so The Scarletts (next page), are the only snap shot of the night before the mosh pit by the end of Dead Belles set… Not to worry, we catch them again on Record Store Day, so read on.

Modernist rocking, The Scarletts, kick off a lively as fug Friday night at The Bunker on Deptford Broadway.

Friday 4th March 2016.

By Friday 4th March, Chapter 008 had raised this picture story views/reads to 50,000 in its first week. It has become a case study for a strand of the underground music and arts world.

Cover stars (images by Dan Donovan), deux furieuses are in the Music Week recommended releases with their 20th May DIY album 'Tracks Of Wire'. It is alarmingly vital and one of the rock classics of 2016. Fact.

A few days later, Zakk pops round to the tree house to return the projector that the band he sings/plays guitar with (recovered from their launch gig triumph on 4th March), Dead Belles had borrowed for the video of the (frankly awesome) This Machine’s Electric’).

Since Chapter 007 (10/9/16) we stayed in touch. The ArtBeat of Uniqulture is an expanding family of exciters and inviters.

Zakk was raving with infectious enthusiasm about a new band; M O S E S. A Soundcloud listen won them more new fans (us!) and an invitation to be part of a New Music Expo, ArtBeatFest (pix from April 2nd and 3rd are later in this issue). It’s the 2016 follow up to our #No3Expo of Chapter 006.

Seeing as Mourning Birds recommended Dead Belles who, in turn, recommended M O S E S, perhaps we should ask the latter to tip further musical artists to weave into this tapestry, next? :)

Image; Dead Belles

debut EP, ‘Black Cats, White Elephants’ imminent. photographed by

Angel Michaelides

Hey,

John Kennedy, we love you. Just sayin’.

Best regards, music lovers. Xx”

Friday 18th March 2016 And, we’re back in the room.

The Tooting Tramshed room, that is. John Kennedy’s monthly club, The Remedy has yet another amaze-bills line up. I arrive just in time to see The Buzzard Orchestral get roars, claps and hoots of approval at great decibels, as do all the bands tonight.

As ever, loads of ArtBeat friends are down the front, including Yinka Oyewole of Sabatta and Resonance FM (who has now picked up a residency at The Birds Nest), Jean Genie introduces him to John, while it’s a relief to see my good friend Seymour, and his band, Horse Party, have made it from Bury St Edmunds just in time to get on stage, because their fully fantastic album, ‘Horizons’ MUST be heard live.

They do not disappoint.

If you don’t believe how fantastic home grown rock n roll is this year, ask John Kennedy.

A find example, headliners, Trampolene, are noisily on fire AND excuding exhiliration.

Sometimes you’ve just gotta laugh out loud when you are witnessing performances that belong on the stages of expensive festivals like Reading/Leeds and Bestival, let alone smaller independents they’re not gracing, and you are right up close for free. With bigger songs than The Brits TV show had, the small and medium venues are where the anti austerity aural sex is happening. Get in! (Caffy)

Horse Party

Trampolene

Snapped Jimmy of

The Glass Collectors and Jack of

Trampolene who had done one of those interviews with him, that any music fan would enjoy hearing, before heading back to South London’s East Side from it’s West Side…

Saturday 19 March;

Laurie Vincent (Slaves) first solo art show.

Thumbs up from Abbie McCarthy, Professor Green, Katy B & many admirers packing the Take Courage gallery before Slaves, no strangers to Amersham Arms (or TheZineUK for that matter), DJ after, with Phil Taggart of Radio 1. Ah, New Cross, never a dull moment.

Laurie Vincent’s Art Show x the #StageStyle of the exhibition’s audience, all over the gallery x Beats and Dancing after = one helluva night out at Amersham Arms, just before Slaves headed off for USA dates, then are set for another summer of festivals before Austin City Limits in Texas, which looks like an out of this world experience in October.

Thursday 24th March 2016

Art X Beat = LDM Rising Stars who graced our 2015 Expo,

Little Death Machine, staged an amazing gig as installation as gallery art show at Brixton Windmill with an array of aural experiences and visual textures fused into a trans media fantasy of punky art rock goodness for the launch of their ‘Dreaming In Monochrome’ EP .

Blackmoon1348

Rotten Bliss

deux furieuses

Little Death Machine

24th March 2016, Brixton Windmill

Images from Dreaming In Monochrome EP Launch and Art Show ©

Stefon Grant.

This page; Visual artist and work of art,

Eugene Ankomah (from Chapter 3) and Spiros Pierris.

Two of the artists exhibited. Next page;

Eugene & Mr Orobo.

Eugene Ankomah Photographed by

Stefon Grant

Blush

Friday 1st April, launch their single, ‘Daggers’ at End Of The Trail Records night, Amersham Arms.

#ArtBeatFest Presented by Kitmonsters Panda Power Playhard Rocklands TheZineUK & friends In Uniqulture

Staging a DIY, rock n roll mini fest with some of 2017’s finest ‘Ones To Watch’, artists united on stage in 2016?

1) Get excited (and pro-active) 2) Hang a vintage Manics poster on the wall of Amersham Arms (add some Poundland Star Wars wrapping paper for good measure).

3) Party on.

Inspiring, talented friends from the North and South of the land gather for the music social weekender in New Cross. On and off stage, artists and audiences unite for ArtBeatFest.

Disco MarkY in front of Duncan Stafford’s photography exhibition.

New Cross, Saturday 2nd April 2016 Really chuffed to have various media and industry, grass roots and otherwise, come and check out the shows over the weekend.

We met TCO (in red) with Disco MarkY at SoccerSixFest a couple of chapters again. Great to have Co Records family involved. Freshly signed to the label,

New Reign performed live.

Getting in the mood for some Dedwardians Rock n Roll Action, later…

Joe and Jonny of

The Garage Flowers

The Connectors

The Glass Collectors Radio Show & Podcast with (this page) The Connectors and (next page) Mourning Birds

Emily Magpie

After her set, Emily Magpie catches up with Paul Maps, editor of the widely respected

Joyzine music culture site and presenter of the Joyzine Radio Show

Jean Genie’s Massive Hugs

Richard Lomax

Manchester’s alt pop meister has been getting tons of love for his gorgeous new single ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’, and it was a real highlight at #ArtBeatFest.

Dubbed ‘Lord of the Omnichord’, his tunes and tones on this rare bit of electronic kit, earned him plenty of new fans. (Kitmonsters)

So many updates, links and reviews since 2nd and 3rd April - keeping tabs of the feedback at

http://hyperurl.co/ArtBeatFest ArtBeatFest was for everybody who came. Lots of new friends and futures made this weekend through conversation.

For instance, Jimmy of The Glass Collectors met Zakk from Dead Belles, got home and played the CD he was given and was blown away. Dead Belles couldn’t play this weekend, but Zakk was one of many musicians in support of the artists on stage and was responsible for M O S E S being part of it.

Our DJ (and part of the Uniqulture road show from Day 1) Disco MarkY with Zakk Dodd of Dead Belles.

A few weeks later; Mark was on the decks for the TOWIE TV series end of season party.

Dead Belles were packing out an(other!) East End boozer, on Record Store Day, but we’ll get to that in a bit…

It was fun to catch up with our lovely Uniqulture road show compere, Helen of The Britpoppettes, where she had danced on stage with Mark Morriss a few years earlier, before she headed out back on tour with The Bluetones, again.

Dedwardians This page; by Caffy St Luce, next page © Elisa Schillaci (Eskile Photography)

This page; Ben of TheZineUK with Daniel of Little Death Machine and Jimmy of The Glass Collectors who are both having a mutual rock n roll hair moment.

Guitar legend, Debbie Smith (Blindness) playing guitar with Danela Fleckenstein’s picture of deux furieuses (while on stage with them) #ArtBeatFest was full of MOMENTS. More from those sets, to come.

But just to say that this was a DIY, unsponsored event, organised largely by women and with friends involved in Clit Rock, Louder Women, #Women In Music etc - it was very much a #HeForShe affair from supporters of any gender.

As mentioned earlier this issue, equality really is the future.

It makes everybody who was here this weekend, in person or in spirit, feel that little bit extra special to this tale.

John Clay /

Art by

Danny Butcher 'Far out in the red-sky Far out from the sad eyes Strange, mad celebration So softly a supergod dies.'

Clark Kent’s Rock And Roll Revue ArtBeat is a creative multi verse soundtracked, decorated, inspired and documented by a variety of new rising stars of the transmedia age.

One of them, the multi talented John Clay, is part of ArtBeatFest and has, himself, been immortalised in visual imagery.

So much is gonna come from the ideas factory installation that this weekend made of a Sarf London boozer …

Artwork; “Spider Fingers” by

Elliot Batten

Bubbles

Spears © Elisa Schillaci (Eskile Photography)

Elisa Schillaci in action getting shots of Spears. There was a crew of fantastic documentarians involved with all the artists in this weekend.

The exquisitely fabulous

Feral Five

ArtBeatFest was the first show by a young rock band, 485C, who you will certainly be hearing a lot about. Ask anybody that was there.

Actually EVERY set, ALL weekend, left with great applause and new friends/fans/futures. Fact.

© Elisa Schillaci (Eskile Photography)

485C © Elisa Schillaci

Rhiannon The Nightmare

Thomas Cameron, played a stunning acoustic set to open Sunday andwas

Arrows Down

also the amazing (next page) who headlined ending ArtBeatFest on an awed high.

© Paul Madden

Enne The full star package who made jaws drop.

In Rock’s next vanguard,

Mourning Birds set of brand new songs had an immediate impact, and highly encouraging results.

Image this page © Elisa Schillachi

Blindness

Blindness - full on & intoxicating.

Great to see a bank of photographers / film makers getting shots and clips of all the artists, for posterity. ArtBeatFest was a weekend to remember.

deux furieuses who

There were audible wowed gasps among the yells of for previewed their album ‘Tracks Of Wire’ with an unmissable ArtBeatFest set.

deux furieuses ripping up ArtBeatFest - within a month they had played a live session for John Kennedy of Radio X and picked up a great album review in Q Magazine

Blindness and deux furieuses - united

MOSES

To say that made an impression would be an understatement.

M O S E S Joyous rock n roll energy pumping great big songs and assured - but inclusive - presence.

© Elisa Schillachi (Eskile Photography)

© Elisa Schillachi (Eskile Photography)

© Elisa Schillachi (Eskile Photography)

ArtBeatFest

All the artists have picked up great feedback, offers and more results., courtesy of their calibre. Click the following page for updates, artist info and links, plus crew, media in attendance and reviews etc.

Image this page

© Elisa Schillachi (Eskile Photography)

TheZineUK, Panda Power, Kitmonsters, Playhard

ARTBEATFEST New Music Expo ARROWS DOWN

MOSES DEUX FURI EUSES DEDWARDIANS

FERAL FIVE RHIANNON THE NIGHTMARE

THOMAS CAMERON

S JEAN GENIE’ GS MASSIVE HU

SPEARS DISCO MARK

Y

NEW REIGN

THE CONNECTORS

485C

MOURNING BIRDS ENNE

RICHARD LOMAX

BLINDNESS

BUBBLES

ANITA MAJ

SIMEON’S MOBI L

E DISCO

Saturday 9th April 2016.

The weekend after ArtBeatFest decided to let somebody else be the organiser! Golden Cage Media do “proper night out”, free entry gigs at Traitors Gate and you can get there (Grays, Essex) with a London wide Oyster Travel Card.

The sky was so violently beautifully that we stood outside the station until the sun went down. It looked like another dimension was opening. It was. The next day we found out that this was Howard Marks’ last sunset. RIP Mr Nice.

Found an old photo of Howard Marks (with Kelly Jones) from when we went to Leicester and Manchester one weekend. He interviewed Stereophonics for a Loaded Magazine article.

Mr Nice was so legendary - and full of magic - that it was one of those weekends which you later think you must have imagined. (Caffy)

9th April 2016 - Saturday night on Broadway.

Traitors Gate, Broadway, Thurrock, Essex, that is.

SONS

Catch a riot of a highly recommended (and rightly so) duo from Brighton, called Weeks later, their Bro power smashes it onthe landmark This Feeling Club’s bill oif buzzes..

Mourning Birds

The Only Way Is… Rock n Roll. Much appreciation to Ian Hurd of Golden Cage Media and all at Traitors Gate for making the weekend go with a (noisy) bang.

Tuesday 12th April 2016 Ros & Vas

deux furieuses arrive at Radio X in Central London, for their first radio session.

It’s for John Kennedy, whose Remedy night at Tooting Tramshed they played in January.

‫@‏‬deuxfurieuses Apr 29 TNX @JohnKennedy for One Night Stand!

@JohnKennedy Apr 29 What a session! @deuxfurieuses rule!

All images © Lorna Paterson

Wednesday 13th April, 2016, bump into good friends at the

saymore Press Day. #StageStyle Central

Model, Ben, wears Jacket by

Black Eye Rags design.

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saymore press day aw16

saymore press day aw16

saymore press day aw16

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Saturday 16th April 2016 : Record Store* Day

* Non 51st State UK = Record Shop

Not major label marketing / straight to Ebay cynical hi-jacks of boosting record shops, but the energy, initiative and passion of three different / exciting rock bands with #RSD16 releases to celebrate live on stage. The Velvet Hands and The Isabelles played TheZineUK’s return to The Urban Bar a few days later, but this evening, Dead Belles were along the road, also in London E1, at the George Tavern celebrating and launching their ‘Black Cats And White Elephants’ debut EP. M O S E S opened in fine style.

MOSES

Dead Belles

The artists we’re writing about are picking up dream feedback from all that check them out.

Click the pages in this picture book and get involved.

Well done Dead Belles, and friends, for packing yet another venue with a full on punkblast of a rock show.

Dead Belles Saturday 16th April 2016 The George Tavern, London

Thursday 21st April 2016 TheZineUK music social in January was a WILD success, so we were chuffed to be invited back to The Urban Bar, Whitechapel, where The Velvet Hands, The Isabelles both (celebrating five star rated #RSD 16 releases, ‘Trains’ and ‘Permanent Rewind’ with special guest Matt Muré (and a lively crowd of friends) SMASHED IT. The formidable talents of Electric Owls Films were there to witness. We are honoured.

The evening started with our disbelief at losing Prince. This is a year for channelling lost heroes, in their honour. There are some new talents on the underground who have the potential…A few days after the show, headliners, The Velvet Hands, were being played by Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 6Music and this bill are all lapping up well deserved praise. As you were…

The Velvet Hands, pre soundcheck

Jimmy Bowman of The Glass Collectors Radio Show and Disco MarkY - we must be in the right place. Again.

Before heading on tour dates (including a show at famed venue, Ronnie Scotts, with his band), Matt Muré got the live show party started.

TheZineUK Music Social ready for a live show Thursday 21st April 2016, The Urban Bar, Whitechapel

The Isabelles

The Velvet Hands

Thursday 28th April 2016 New Cross Inn The #LostWeekend begins It starts with things having not going quite to plan.

Because our gigs exist in the real world of the modern music industry It ends with us being even more in love with the bands that come into our lives.

Couldn’t stop grinning, even by the next day.

A debt of gratitude from TheZineUK to Mourning Birds for helping, greatly, to shape this story. Having played shows with us previously and in possession of huge new songs, we are big fans, so really happy that they are one of the bands that come back and get involved. Over the last few months, they worked on a load of fresh material which they revealed at ArtBeatFest (and, alongside the cheers, got a deal offer as they left the stage).

Top: After their live set at New Cross Inn, which won more friends, again.

Bottom: Mourning Birds before going into the studio to record demos.

Next page: Introducing #FuturePicks Bugeye - our first time seeing them it won’t be the last. Anotherr tip to take seriously; for your own pleasure.

Bugeye - a newer wave dance-to-the-rock band making a superb name for themselves.

Portobello Live Festival

Monday 2nd April 2016, There’s a neighbourhood party going on Under The Westway where the spirit of punk is alive and kicking, one of the hot spots being where legendary rock scene duo, Tommy Kennedy IV and Jeff Moh are, respectively, hosting and photographing; The Mau Mau Bar.

Jeff Moh

Having photographed so many icons over the years, as well as rising stars, really is with the bands (Ming City Rockers, Healthy Junkies, Serratone)

Sam, Tommy, Jimmy and Bill Healthy Junkies

Legends everywhere; Gaz Mayall brings the Rocking Blues #StageStyle

The Kut at Portobello Live 2016

Mourning Birds at Portobello Live 2016

I think that being given your own stage at a festival can really give others the opportunity to see what you are musically made of. For me, Tommy Kennedy IV has a dream line up at Portobello Live, with the mighty Pink Cigar headlining the Mau Mau Bar stage.

I am no writer, and as such, my ability to effectively put in to words is somewhat diminished. Even so, the one good thing about being able to fan-boy/fan-girl follow gigs over a longer time line, with the bands that we do, is to see great leaps of development in their repertoire, performance and stage craft.

Mourning Birds played to a thankful and receptive crowd and received some high praise from Tommy (and Portobello Live’s official photographer, Jeff Moh) which was well deserved. They band gave it 110% and it paid off. Heathy Junkies are London's answer to Hole. Their charismatic front woman completely lost herself in the moment, to great cheers for the whole set.Ming City Rockers incorporated immersive experiences, where, after their shit-hot set, they proceeded to each hand over their instruments to the crowd (one being me - for five seconds, I was a one chord rock star!).

Pink Cigar, oh how we've missed you. You are the epitome of whats good in music, performanceand stage style.

I don't know how this band manages to do it, but I can safely say that they are so great that, if these guys don't get major festival slots soon, then someone is going to have to kick the organisers down doors and kindly insist they add Pink Cigar to any and all line ups!

They are a force of nature that cannot be contained, certainly on such a small stage as the Mau Mau Bar., we were priviliged to catch this performance. Any kind of reviewt that I could write would be cliched nonsense, when all I want to say is this band are genuinely next level rock stars.. And keep raising the bar.

If the mainstream music industry is ignoring Pink Cigar, you know there's something wrong with the machine.

With that, thank you Whiplash, Ed, Sam and Sid, you lot are the fucking bomb.

Words; Ben Dodd. Pink Cigar Image © Jeff Moh

May The 4th be with you.

We believe in All Star and No Wars.

May The 5th We are hanging outside City Hall with Enola Arts, making new magick from our situationist adventures, for the future on a sunny afternoon by Tower Bridge.

The next day, the results are in.

The planet’s most fused by creative arts & accepting hearts city on this planet chooses Hope & Unity over Fear and Division by electing Sadiq Khan new mayor of London.

The ArtBeat of Uniqulture grows. #ShareTheJoy