Capsule brings us news of the Fopp Award for New Music, run by the PRS Foundation, which is currently taking applications from Central and Northern England. The Fopp Award for New Music will give up-and-coming acts a fantastic opportunity to get their material recorded, mixed, edited and mastered at a professional recording studio for free, … [Read more…]
The Flair Designer Maker Fair at Light House in Wolverhampton on June 23rd features 40 artists and makers from the region exhibiting and selling their work, along with graduates from Wolverhampton School of Art and Design. It runs from 11am to 4pm in the covered courtyard of the Chubb Buildings. Ranging from illustration and photography … [Read more…]
From kate&drew Photos are posted here from the Birmingham Flickr community. Click on the image for more details.
The Frankensteiner Gas [audio:dacj_frankensteiner_gas.mp3] DACJ.com MySpace Birminghamusic.com
Birminghamusic.com are putting on a free gig at the Barfly on May 30th featuring Blakfish, 62pennies and Moneytree. While laudable I wonder how other promoters feel about a Council-funded project putting on free gigs? Strangetime have a new single, Personality Disorder, out on 24th May and a launch-gig on the 25th at the Acrtress and … [Read more…]
Freakiest venue news of the year, perhaps, is that the Hare and Hounds in Kings Heath is now under the same ownership as the Bulls Head in Moseley. This is not necessarily a bad thing – the H&H is an important venue on the Birmingham music scene and needs to be kept going – but … [Read more…]
By golly it’s nearly June which means the Festival of Xtreme Building is about to start in Birmingham. Running from June through to September this is an “experiment in design and experimental structures where Birmingham’s citizens, private sector developers and Local Authorities can create structures and explore architectural ideas that will reflect their visions of … [Read more…]
Keeping Secrets [audio:http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/the_heathers_secrets.mp3] MySpace (I’m going to do these randomly from now on. Bands and musicians can continue to send me mp3s and photos.)