2021 #MusicTourism Gigs and Dates

November 26, 2020

2021 #MusicTourism Gigs and Dates

#MusicTourism - on land, on line, on point.

Music and arts lifestyles in the grassroots venues plus birthdays. Our stars have stages, not ages. Why would we still think in established mainstream media's mouldy moulds? https://instagram.com/musictouristboard | MTB Recommends : FB Events

#2021gigs are Pandemic permitting but Music Tourism can also be virtual. Join artists' FB events for updates and any safety first amendments. But keep the faith in the Arts and Music. Please don't ask for freebies from the artists. They've gone without, for too long. #SaveOurSelves

Twitter tag #MusicTourism #MusicTBtips *(fave Britain Ireland tips @musictourboard with (welcoming) festivals/gigs (especially under the radar stars line ups). Brexit may be trying to cull the scenes and chances of our united best reputations, but SEXit and rock ON.
Here's to all genres coming on board.

*Alternative/reasonably priced spaces for artists, audiences, crew, visitors, locals. We are community. Bigots can "do one" - that distracting, so called "Festival of Brexshit" included. This year archived at the bottom of the page, monthly. #MusicTourism inspirations include the Strawberry Fields Hotel of Blackpool (is it still there? - it was exceptional). Calendar updates:

Remember Remember Goodwill in December

01-24 The Joyzine Musical Advent Calendar will be 18!

Stormzy threw a Xmas Party for the children of Croydon

04 - Manic Street Preachers tour ends

05 - Manchester Vinyl Fair. Lewisham Vinyl and Vintage clothing at The Fox

05 - MOBO Awards, Coventry

08 - End Of The Trail Creative Free Entry Xmas Party at The Good Mixer . Camden

16 - Kick Out The Jams Xmas Party at Amersham Arms. New Cross

21 Peacemas holidays end. People from all faiths, believes (or lack of) have done something good in the world since Autumn equinox. More light is coming. Humanity is the way forward.

Thank you, friends, for the 2020 tips. They are still on the Music Tourist Board reps To-Visit bucket list in 2021.

"A disparate group with a near psychotic level of civic pride have set up the Music Tourist Board, promoting the self styled borough of Rocklands with the ultimate fanatical aim of getting the area declared an independent rock n roll republic." (NME) MTB origins, 18 years of DIY.

2021 Archive and start of 2022 calendar.

January - New Year (r)Evolutions

08 Star Man Day

08 Elvis Presley (musician birthday)

08 RtN Makes Music (musician birthday)

15 Martin Luther King (#MLKDay is celebrated on the third Monday of January). “Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all of God's children.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

17 Life line refresher: The #PeaceAndJustice campaign launched (34k+ views in under a week on YouTube alone) a refreshing change to hear and feel hope, love and truth in a world of despair, hate and lies.

18 #MLKDay 2021

19 James Creighton (musician birthday)

20 Poems and dreams. Amanda Gorman and Bernie Sanders inspired. The future is not perfect but this third week of January, it felt not so orange, and brighter.

21 was The 21st Day Of The 21st Year of the 21st Century, Once Upon Another Time.

Music Tourist Board January 2021 #MusicTourism city

Coventry. In honour of youth powered people's champion, Zarah Sultana, 2Tone and all the positive heritage which this Midlands city has pulsed into the world from special people and moments.

The Institutes are a new music case in point, as the beat keeps coming. Travellers Tunes is (suitably) one of the first independent media on board with Music Tourist Board and recently pointed out; "The Institutes are a band for right here, right now, and god willing, huge stages in 2021."

Coventry Music Museum (born Halloween 2013) was one of the first locations to pick up the Music Tourism economy baton and is located in 2-Tone Village. Of course.

By 2021 Coventry is quite rightly, City Of Culture.

Literally, The Beat keeps coming!

Jan'2021 tweet from @TheEnglishBeat:

"Here's me & #RoddyRadiationByers of @thespecials , at the #2Tone walk in Coventry. One of the amazing lessons of #TwoTone was tolerance! So if we can do it, you can too! Here's to Love & Unity, tolerance & tenderness as we help each other thru the pandemic. Stay safe out there! -x"

As Pa Salieu's stunning 2020 album title says 'Send Them To Coventry'. The BBC Sound of 2021 artist also made his USA TV appearance this month on the Fallon show, no less. Hear here! https://lnk.to/SendThemToCoventry

MTB reps will be calling back into Coventry a.s.a.p. to seal the deal, just gotta find a grassroots music venue to make an alternative rock/pop event (our promoting roots) for June onwards, probably physically distanced. Ongoing Cov updates coming, but in the mean time, a memory of The Kasbah Club;

25 St Dwynwen's Day. Welsh patron saint of love and lovers. Dydd Santes Dwynwen hapus/Happy St Dwynwen's Day. Her church on Ynys Llanddwyn (a small tidal island off the west coast of Anglesey) is a pilgrimage site steeped in folklore and a shrine for the "lovesick".

25 Scotland: Burns Night - word!

25 John Cooper Clarke - punk poet/wordsmith

25 Marshall Amps launched a Live Agency

25 - 31 #IVW21 - Independent Venue Week

https://independentvenueweek.com/uk/

27 - Holocaust Memorial Day

The growing calendar will help with be the foundation of Music Tourist Board 2022

February - Love Month

05 Bandcamp Friday returns, thank YOU Bandcamp! Artist-Centred-Ethics are

06 Bob Marley (musician birthday)

14 Send some love to all the sad and scared in the world this year. Have been inspired by all the kindness and hope that poured out of the #PeaceAndJustice launch in January.

21 Nina Simone (musician birthday)

25 George Harrison (musician birthday)

March - Spring is sprung

07 Happy Birthday Amanda Gorman

08 2021 was the definitive International Women's Day with the week that followed, against women (under cover predators, the works), and then declared "Happy Mother's Day". Sisters Uncut plus Zarah Sultana, Nadia Whittome and more, are the opposition and squad. Rock Music is helping to save us.

19 Released that day. Played by new music guru presenter, John Kennedy on his essential X-Posure show, Radio X, that same evening.

'She's Not Coming Home Tonight' by deux furieuses

"How many more generations of women have to protest to reclaim the streets? This song is dedicated to all missing women and girls. All proceeds to Reclaim These Streets who are fundraising for women's charitable causes across the country."

https://deuxfurieuses.bandcamp.com/track/shes-not-coming-home-tonight

#ReclaimTheseStreets | #wewillnotbesilenced | #endviolenceagainstwomen

2021 - It's International Women's Year, every year, from now on

The Kuntzenflagshaggaz Age - tories from the johnson crime syndicate to sir keith and cronies have gone all national front/bnp this month, not long ago labour even said "britain first" (in memory of young mum and labour MP Jo Cox starting brexit by being murdered by a white supremacy flag). Why is it supremacy when it's proud of inbreeding? See "royals" etc. Fuck it. Music Tourism is the way forward. Kindness and inclusivity. But in the mean time, stay aware, awake, woke or whatever you wanna call it as we are sleep walking to goose stepping. If you want the benefits of a different kind of news, follow Benefits. YouTube Channel. "Or, wave yer fucking flag..."

20 - Happy Birthday Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock'n'Roll.

How can this Manchester #MusicTourism from 1964 not be one of your favourite realities? This Happened - and, like the 2012 opening ceremony, it's not impossible that we - Britain - can be a beacon on the world again. Some of us are facing the evil demons of what our flags and statues actually stand for. Others are rewriting history to endslave us. If not in denial, we can be ashamed, so that we can actively move on to be better.

For the REAL #Gr8Brtn Music Tourist Board would make a key road to recovery economy, education, employment, environment and especially euphoric entertainment entity.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - 'Didn't It Rain?' (live)

"How I love you so, my English friends. Forever and ever until I leave this world" - Sister Rosetta Tharpe (March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973) Icon, musician, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and recording artist. Ah, heck let's add "This Little Light Of Mine" (1960) - because it's still shining, Rosetta!

20 Lee Scratch Perry is 85 in 2021! Roots and Reggae music living icon.

21 Census Day. Spring Day. When #SocialistSunday joins forces with the arts and sporting sports for a positive, anti bigot, pro-future kindness and conscience fuelled people power, our lights may shine again. In the mean time, look to the DIY "urban" music youth talents and the rocking interdependent grassroots musicians and their allies who would normally be in venues the size of The Cavern, for a loving heritage that is blooming against the odds.

21 World Poetry Day

April - Won't Get Fooled Again?

01 All Cools Day = might as well make it All Cools MONTH this year, we deserve it.

May we? Mais, oui!

01 May Day May Day - The Lunatics have taken over the asylum! (still) #KillTheBill protests

04 Star Wars Day - May The 4th Be With You

08 Motorhead Day - The 8th of May! The 8th of May!

08 #BlackFaeDay

08 Matthew McCrilly (musician birthday) - the Dungannon Drum Cannon.

12 #MusicTourism We have been unlocked for one month. What have been your highlights? What are you most looking forward to? Answers on a hash tagged tweet to the little @musictourboard for an RT

16th May #RomaniResistanceDay

17th May 2021 #ReviveLive Day - should be annual holiday. Thank you Music Venue Trust.

19 Grace Jones (musician birthday)

22 May to 13 June : Uniqulture as reality: Estuary 2021 (Multiple Arts Festival on the estuary of the River Thames in South East England) looks like it's gonna be beautiful from this video teaser:

Festival Trailer soundtracked by the Essex based Cool Thing Records artists: Jennifer O Neill of Indian Queens and Luke Branch of Asylums #estuaryfestival https://www.estuaryfestival.com/

31 May - Band Holiday Monday BREAK OUT at The (iconic) Water Rats theatre in Kings Cross. Rock band, The Velvet Hands, headline a matinee and an evening show.

"Honey moon, keep a-shinin' in June"

Pride and People Powered Protests Month

Access All Ages Amersham Arms Alert! 6/6 x £6!

Decolonise Festival usually around now - The annual DIY punk fest featuring music, art and workshops by punx of colour. Effusive, inclusive and highly recommended. Watch https://www.facebook.com/decolonisefest like a hawk for tickets.

12 Record Store Day (they are still shops though, eh).

19 Juneteenth

21 Make Music Day

21 MisGovernment have cottoned on to the power of solstice and equinox so Spring Equinox is census day and Summer Solstice is gigs are back day. With no opposition outside Labour Party's Squad, the Mayor of Manchester, Northern Independance Party, thousands of artists - including Jedward, and the conscience and courtesy of humanity, propaganda will ensure they misrule again in 2024 unless the divided regroup. We NEED to celebrate together again for that to happen. It's NOT #Gr8Brtn when we don't make a song and dance about everything.

21 Summer Solstice

25 Jean Genie's Massive Hugs (musician and The Bringer Of Sunshine)

Hotter Than July

Festivals, please

01 Missy Elliot (Musician Birthday)

01 International Reggae Day

18 South Norwood Community Festival #Safety1stGigs outside small event

Free Entry, all ages. Diverse and delightful music stage.

19 Lockdown Ends? (while cases rise?) Stay safe, people and bullying/threatenig fellow citizens is not "Freedom". Agree to disagree and please look after each other- in your own ways.

Latitude Festival weekend happened. Apologies to the amount of artists and audiences who can not make it to a show but gratitude to all who #takeatest to help #ReviveLive

25 #MusicWomen birthdays Dizzy Spell and Anita Maj (musicians)

26 #MusicWomen birthdays Sonja Amoretti - a tour-n-more manager of the interdependent rock n roll scenes of the grassroots venue circuit.

30-31 #JamOnTheFarm ~~- new festival by Kick Out The Jams, BBC Inroducing South, Rotor Videos and a swathe of the newer wave's rising stars. On a real farm, in Sussex.~~ Postponed

August - A gust of awe

Gigs are BACK! Suddenly it all explodes again. Be kind and respectful to the music world. It's been too hard for the last year and a half. #TakeATest and help to keep it going

1st-7th August: God Damn! Brighton, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield

02 Roma Holocaust Memorial Day #August2nd #NeverAgain

05 Birthmarks album launch supporting Tayve at Shacklewell Arms

06 SHADE headline Off The Square, Manchester (sold out)

06 Bandcamp Friday - absolute HEROES of the music world, on the side of artists.

06 The Bluetones and Sleeper co headline tour begins

07 It's #BlackBusinessDay first Saturday of every month

12 Bob Vylan at the 100 Club, London Oxford Street

12 Weekend Recovery + Snayx at Leeds Oporto

12 Berries and Tiger Mimic at The Grace, Highbury

12 More Women In Music rock The Amersham Arms at the August 2021 edition of The Deptford Mix Up by Kick Out The Jams, sponsored by Rotor Videos

13 The Battle Of Lewisham 1977 anniversary (these flats visible by New Cross Inn)

Image courtesy of Syd Shelton for a 2021 charity single released on the day with any profits to Love Music Hate Racism. https://facebook.com/cerijamesmusic