I got an email last week from Banner Theatre about their current production, Strangers in Paradise Circus, which is currently playing in schools across the city. A bit of digging revealed the fascinating history of the Banner Theatre. Formed in 1973 at the inspiration of broadcaster and musician Charles Parker the theatre is avowedly political … [Read more…]
From Birmingham Words: Local writer Jon Hartless has just had his second novel, An Officer and a Blob, appear at Double Dragon Publishing, an online publisher specialising in science fiction and fantasy. The site offers each of its books in a variety of digital download formats, and has recently added a paperback option to its … [Read more…]
Andrew Cowen on the Birmingham Post Blog has news of the Electric Cinema‘s new in-house eight piece orchestra. In a unique twist on cinema organists from the silent movie era, the Electric Cinema Film Orchestra play live music along to specially edited highlights from some of the world’s greatest films. Cinema owner and professional soundtrack … [Read more…]
It’s Just Noise are a relatively new (to me anyway) gig promotion setup who are putting on a significant number of gigs over the next month. Based around the oft-renamed King Edward’s Inn (aka Chapter 11 / Ben Johnson) nr Aston Uni and The Planet in Wolverhampton, they appear to have a Friday night residency … [Read more…]
Every week I’ll be presenting three local bands or musicians with a photo, song and, if available, video. I’m trying to keep my personal preferences out of this so suggestions for future posts are very welcome. — — — The Courtesy Group Questret [audio:questret.mp3] myspace.com/thecourtesygroup — — — The Big Bang Ten Million Ways (demo) … [Read more…]
A regular selection from the Birmingham Flickr Community. by harri b by Lee Jordan by amortize by Dumbfunk All copyright as applies. 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 seem to be posting the same people … [Read more…]
From the Name in Lights site On Saturday 2 June at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham there will be an informal talk between Dr. Jonathan Vickery of the Centre For Cultural Policy at Warwick University and artist Joshua Sofaer discussing the ‘Name For Lights’ installation. Looking at the changing nature of fame from the Hollywood … [Read more…]
The Dynamics 07 International Puppet Festival starts on May 19th and runs across the West Midlands for full month. Those events taking place in Birmingham are happening at the MAC, the Drum, Solihull Central Library and Chelmsley Wood Library. With over 100 performances in 30 places over 30 days, you’ll find a whole array of … [Read more…]