New Music's re-making of NOW. Part 1, 2017.
United KIN-dom's under radar rocking raving (r)Evolution steps up. 2018 is already a huge year for new arts movements/moments, from Stormzy at The Brits to Music Venue Trust's Agent Of Change at Parliament. 2017 was the year that some powerful seeds were sown.
We are in the eye of a situationist storm, documenting a facet of the arts and technology, largely at live music escapism from dystopia. TheZineUK picture book story was first uploaded in March 2014. A mix of amateur snaps graced with professional photography talents. A tapestry (around 90,000 viewers so far) woven by the artists, themselves. Ever since Brexit's Summer Of Hate 2016, the underground has rebelled with a breakout of love peace and fun. We say SEX-it!
January to May 2017; Cover snap shot; girls just wanna have fun (at The Great Escape - Goat Girl are playing again this year). Click the pic for a quick flick of thezineuk/017part1
There is a fantastic, lively and iconically photogenic guitars fightback happening underground over the last couple of years with absolute SCENES at live shows. The professional images by influencer photographers in this issue (with their kind permission) are by David Gleave, Duncan Sandelind Stafford, Sandy K. Moz and Trust A Fox. Artists visualising Artists. If only NME had been lucky enough to have been graced by the eye and access of these, and many more participants of NOW. Who knows?
Pictures of moments, on stage and behind the scenes, six degrees seperated at most - with 1403 (debut album this year), 485C (about to headline The Old Blue Last at time of writing), Abbie McCarthy (fantasic strength to strength rising star), Amy Lame (Night Czar of London), Apeman Spaceman (at our April 2017 take over opposite St Paul's cathedral, ha ha, shook up the total bankers city of London), Asylums (genius rock. boom! 2018 look out. new album alert.), Bang Bang Romeo (one of the potential festival headliners that we are blessed with in this tale), Blackwaters (they ARE the Youthquake), Bugeye (superb disco punks and feisty musical activists), Camden Rocks, Carl Barat, Coquin Migale in London and Liverpool, 2016 cover stars, deux furieuses at The Roundhouse, DMA's, Dronningen supporting their peers and also playing our music social, Emily Capell (sorry Simon Cowell, Mikey Jonns got this one), Iggy pop tips; False Heads, Fred Perry (a subculture of stage style), Jean Genie's Massive Hugs, Mr Musical Counter Culture; John Robb, Gutxi Bibang, Mark Beaumont (the journalist is one of us on the new music promoter front), Michelle O Faith (blue haired angel with our own Dizzy Spell on the front cover), MOSES (unbelievable live experience), Mourning Birds - a key player of this tale, Paves - with gold, Plastic People making waves, Red Stripe making TV, wordsmith, Rohan Murray, SHEAFS SHEAFS SHEAFS!, StarMan Simon Price, rebel rockers Sisteray, Slaves and SONS! The Alan Wells, legendary lads The Assist, star shapes punx The Blinders and The Cosmics, weaved in to our tale; The Garage Flowers, our queen minx, Heather Minx gifted our Star Wars Day social with L.A.'s Glam Skanks, a trip to Margate Wonderland got great shots, on and off stage, of The Kills, The Shimmer Band, shimmering, The Strawberries (some fruity new gigs/releases for 2018), both The Surrenders and The Velvet Hands are Big In 2018, The Wholls - stealthily going stellar, This Feeling Club's 11th year got off to a great start, Tom Grennan at the first TFTV (playing Brixton Academy this year!) and Trampolene (who, at the time were yet to unleash their mighty debut album, 'Swansea To Hornsea', let alone that they are about to play their biggest tour events to date!).
We also show they are interactive. Ups. Downs. Tangents. This movement MOVES.
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