Month: June 2007

Supersonic for free

If £35 is a bit out of your league for the Supersonic Festival then you can get in for free if you work it. We are looking for some volunteers for the festival, mainly to help unload equipment for bands and to help out in the backstage area to keep it clean and tidy. We … [Read more…]

Devil and Casey Jones – new album

Local potential-art-rockers (I can never be sure) Devil and Casey Jones have an new album out, Rule Intensive Care, but you don’t need to go to a shop or register with a download service. Just go their site and right-click a few times for mp3 goodness. Here’s one of the tracks – No True Love … [Read more…]

Appearances Excused

Rather neatly tying in with Rootsville in the Custard Factory this weekend are a couple of art events at Ikon Eastide, the off-site gallery space run by the Ikon on Heath Mill Lane in Digbeth, just down the road from the Custard Factory. Please Excuse Our Appearance is a two week residency where “artists from … [Read more…]

Silver Footed Gig Guide

Laura’s gig listings are up. Every week the Silver Footed Gig Slut does what the local live music industry seems utterly incapable of doing and prepares a gig guide that covers all the small venues and contains links to the bands in question. And she does this off her own back for no reward. Y’all … [Read more…]

Review: How To Improve The World

I finally got around to checking out the How To Improve The World exhibition at the Gas Hall and it’s a quite wonderful thing. A little slice of Tate carefully curated and positioned in Birmingham that manages to educate and entertain without patronizing the viewer or the art itself. The theme of the show is … [Read more…]