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Well that was a proper night out and a load of noisy fun to round off the first day of December 2017. Welcome to the PUNKY house with Sisteray, The Velvet Hands, Deep City Diver and a sold out show by promoters, Modern Age Music.
Modern Age Music's special edition of Welcome To The Monkey House club, at London's Paper Dress Vintage was indicative of how the newer wave of DIY bands and promoters are shaping their future into what they want.
A bright young things convention of creators and performers converged in the Twin Peaks district of Hackney to catch Deep City Diver, then The Velvet Hands, then Sisteray rock out in a film set of a location.
None of that clique-est link, arms glued to sides, frowny pose nonsense. It's Friday night we love rock bands and are here for the noisy joys. People are grinning and dancing from the first live note. Images above and below; Deep City Diver made some new friends. Turns out my friend Mark (another of the key promoters) had introduced us at one of his shows. I'd either missed them that time, or they were hanging out, but either way I got to see them. A great start, then. I was seen doing my dad dancing.
Modern Age Music are a relatively new name in the game but join the likes of Clit Rock, This Feeling, Kick Out The Jams, Good Karma Club, Northern Exposure, Loud Women, Some Weird Sin, Panda Power and many more promoters (ourselves included) who are excited and excitable about staging thriller events. Them pay-to-play slot filling artist-haterz who give us a bad name can step aside now. We, the ethical actual music FANS, we got this.
Take a chance. Come to a gig. Get on board right now. While it's close range and personal. We are telling a story, and from the eye of this storm, so many (well deserved) great things are happening for faves that we were just about keeping up. Luckily, our team of Zeenagers has swelled with zestful new talents recently. Perfect timing.
P.S. if any journalist who has written the words "guitars are dead" sees the image above; don't you worry yourself. It's just resting. Come out of your coma and get crazy with us. The world's going mad in all sorts of ways, so why not in the places where we feel the noise? As it was pointed out to me this very evening, just when the mainstream think that "guitars are dead" is the very best time to be partying undergound.
This is not a scene, it's an amplifying fact. It ain't the first sold out WTTMH show that Sisteray (and in fact all the above mentioned) have put on. The line ups are also appearing on landmark festival bills and broadcasts. A case in point, I spot Adam and Dom of 485C (another name weaved into our tapestry) as I'm finding a spot to catch The Velvet Hands (who the previous weekend played a bands-n-booze night in a brewery and a show with Mark Morriss of The Bluetones... I'm still tittering a bit after hearing about their escapades!)
The room is packed for the punky rush of their lively garage-rocked pop presence.
There are a variety of photographers and video makers out this evening for these sets. Stay tuned to Modern Age Music for news updates and links. This evening we all get a live sneak preview of The Velvet Hands debut long playing release for 2018. They've had a year they couldn't have imagined and are gaining momentum at an increasingly noticeable pace.
Sisteray have experienced an incredible 2017. This evening rounds off a year that's seen them take on the Alternative Charts (via their label, Vallance Records) as the only genuinely alternative band on there, played Reading Festival, and even taken this club abroad. I'm enthralled by the ambition of the entertainment industry's fresh wave.
Clash tinted rebel rock spitting machine gunned lyrics of political punch, only underlines how stimulating this movement is. Their set is a racing assault of live favourites - 'Gentrification' is so close to my Deptford based heart that I could weep for our polluted air and lost trees - and new tunes that I badger about after. I'm on a mission for some lyrics. Sisteray epitomise that we are gonna have to smash walls to make the next stories, kick by kick, brick by brick. In a nation that is currently ungoverned, anything could happen in 2018. No wonder they're trying to take our music venues. We're too positive after a night out like this. More please!
Once Upon Another Time, there was a twin peaked gathering in a vintage shop where old school ways met nu skool times. Having already socialised in Cider Space, the love pirate was chuffed to meet the Modern Age Music posse in person. Not only that, but at the end of the multi mooned night, she lived happily ever after on the last tube to New Cross.
For TheZineUK's next (bizzy, buzzy) rocking London music socials, we kidnap The Velvet Hands to The Hawley Arms for an end of year party (new industry converging for fun and friendship on 10th December) then collaborate with Modern Age because you can never have too much of this behaviour with False Heads, Foxe, the aforementioned 485C and those crazy Kent punx, Mourning Birds on 22nd December at the 229 opposite Great Portland Street tube. What happens next? TheZineUK is situationist performance art so come along to Share The Joy and tell the tale...
For links to the professional film making/photography etc that was made on 1st December, follow/interact via facebook.com/modernagemanagement/ and twitteratti support the bands with RTs via @ModernAgeMgt
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