Music by Candelight

Rich Batsford plugs the Music by Candlelight concert at St Marys Church, Moseley on Thursday 28th as part of Mozfest. I’ll be playing a twenty minute set of my piano music, probably at the start, followed by a selection of madrigals from the all-girl medieval vocal group Stella Maris, who were a definite highlight of … [Read more…]

Slow News Day?

Is it me or is it really quiet at the moment? Usually on Monday mornings I get a slew of news in my various news receiving portals but so far this week very little. If I’m not careful I’m going to have to actually seek some out, maybe even make my own. And we can’t … [Read more…]

NGA Reports

Too often with events in the city when they’re over there’s no motivation to record what happens, presumably because those involved are completely wiped out by the efforts of actually putting on the darn thing, not to mention moving on to projects new. So it’s nice to see reports starting to trickle into the New … [Read more…]

The Birmingham Tunnel

From Stephen D Harper Photos are posted here from the Birmingham Flickr community. Click on the image for more details.

heartlands

From H4NUM4N Photos are posted here from the Birmingham Flickr community. Click on the image for more details.

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From andrewknowles Photos are posted here from the Birmingham Flickr community. Click on the image for more details.

Roundup

Over on the Iron Man Records blog Mark Badger reprints an essay from Bill Drummond, Pub back Rooms, concerning state funding and music. It’s a good read, as expected from Drummond, and I think pretty relevant to the situation in the West Midlands. B:INS reports on the Tunnel Vision installation that was part of Architecture … [Read more…]

Creative Entrepreneur course

Lauren Davies writes in with news of a free 2 day course from the Media Skills division of UCE, Explore You Inner Entrepreneur. Run by Annette Naudin the course “has been especially created for individuals working in the creative industries sector and will explore personal values, presentation skills, confidence and will include talks from inspiring … [Read more…]