Blogger Hydragenic waxes lyrical about the Editors album cover. “I draw your attention to the brooding, ominous colouring, the minimal stateliness of the typeface and the spectral, otherworldly image of the gasometer, the delicacy of its filigree structure contrasting with its vast industrial blankness.” Congrats to Steve and Evelyne Gerrard on the birth of their … [Read more…]
I’ve noticed this blog gets a bit of a traffic spike on Fridays which is not too surprising as nobody wants to work on Fridays. Well, some people do. They’re the ones who make up the other traffic spike on Mondays I guess. So given there might be a number of hangovers about after the … [Read more…]
The Birmingham Post’s Power Fifty was announced yesterday listing those judged to have power and influence in the region. While as a neurotic boy outsider I have an instinctive distain for such enterprises it’s an interesting list given the dominance of the creative sector above the more traditional business and sport. As Stef Lewandowski (number … [Read more…]
I’m just getting the Rhubarb Rhubarb stuff straight in my head. The actual Rhubarb Festival Of The Image runs from July 26th – 29th at Curzon St Station and I wrote about it here. What I didn’t click with is that the Light Sale runs in the same venue for five days before the festival … [Read more…]
You might have noticed Trish Keenan of Broadcast wandering around the Moseley Folk Festival last year with a Super-8 movie camera. Here’s the resulting footage. Broadcast have a new album out in August, The Future Crayon, on Warp records. There’s a bit of Moseley Folk news to report. They’ve booked Nizlopi as a headline act … [Read more…]
There’s a nice article on BBC Birmingham about Saturday Night at The Queens, an acoustic music night at the Queens Arms on Newhall St. “Essentially what we’re trying to do is create a platform for the song-writing community in Birmingham,” Tom explained. “Putting it on a Saturday night and getting rid of the standard three-pound … [Read more…]
With the post-Supersonic comedown I can hopefully be forgiven for forgetting about the Surface Unsigned Final that took place on Sunday at the Custard Factory. But take place it did with twelve bands in the running and the results are as follows: Best Band of the Festival: The Brascoes 2nd Place Band: Regis 3rd Place … [Read more…]
30-something ex-ravers are getting very excited over on Facebook over the news that the Que Club is re-opening with the first event being the next Drop Beats Not Bombs on September 14th. Here’s the reminiscences Facebook group but this other one links to centralhallbirmingham.co.uk, though it’s just a holding page right now, and states: ITS … [Read more…]