A regular selection from the Birmingham Flickr Community. from amortize from thornj from Matt Murtagh from harri b All copyright as applies – click on images for more details. To suggest photos for this feature add them to the best of threads or leave a link in the comment here, and please do as I … [Read more…]
A reminder that Test Bed, the multi-artist show at Five Ways, started yesterday and runs for the rest of this week. The artists comissioned for Test Bed are: Pauline Bailey, Nelson Douglas, Darryl Georgiou, Sandra Hall, Julie M O’Neil, Harry Palmer, George Saxon and Mark Storor. Each artist has been challenged to make a project, … [Read more…]
Skanking Dub Beats are “an independent live soundsystem” who put on gigs and such upstairs at the Bear Tavern in Bearwood of a dub / ska / punk ilk on what looks like a monthly basis. I’ve been hearing rumours about the cultural revitalization of Bearwood. Along with the Bear Tavern there’s the Atticus Bar … [Read more…]
I picked up the above flyer from Ensemble Interakt in Jibbering today and thought it worth posting here. The details in text form: New British Music with Live Electronics Monday 30 April 2007, 6pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire tickets £3 on the door Surface Tension (flute, guitar & live electronics) Jamie Bullock Feeding the Addiction … [Read more…]
Big news of the day is that the programme for the Fierce Festival has been announced and by heck there’s a lot on. Starting right now is the previously blogged Mirage Film Festival with the rest of the events clogging up the month of May like so much artistic hair in the creative plughole. Rather … [Read more…]
Steve Gerrard is a photographer whose name you’ll have come across if you pay attention to music photography. With 20 years experience in the music industry shooting bands and gigs he currently works freelance for Metal Hammer, NME, Rock Sound and Fused Magazine. Alongside this he’s recently set up a weddings and portraiture business, Steve … [Read more…]
TAK! get a nice profile in the Birmingham Post which has some background to how the design agency formed. via themselves. The nearby Litchfield Festival looks to be more impressive that you might have thought with the festival opened by Philip Glass, a performance by the Soweto Gospel Choir and work by locals Ex Cathedra. … [Read more…]
As you may know, there’s a vacancy at Advantage West Midlands for the Digital Creative Industries Manager. The deadline for applying was April 13th but I stumbled across the advert in an old Guardian and thought you might like to see it. (Click for bigger)