September sees the On Song Festival take over the Academy for a month. ‘On Song’ will celebrate and showcase the finest song writers and artists, alongside local emerging talent. The month long series will focus on the whole process of writing, crafting and giving life to songs. ‘On Song’ will include established genres such as … [Read more…]
The regular spotlighting of UCE Fashion graduates by Fused Magazine is online. Featured this time are (from left to right) Nadine Aljandali, Emily Crump, Rowena Parsons and Eleanor Crutchley. Photos are by Eleanor Gibbons.
Ctrl-copy is an online exhibition that features downloadable art by Juneau Projects, Caitlin Griffiths, Chris Hodson, Yoke and Zoom, Cheap Machines and Mike Cassidy via the Internet. Artists have submitted new work or adapted an existing work for the online environment that can be freely downloaded from the virtual space of the web into tangible … [Read more…]
The artist known as Carp has been leaving his paintings around the city centre for people to find. BBC Birmingham picked up on this and tracked him down for an interview (second of the RealAudio links). Here’s one of his pieces: And here’s what he’s got to say for himself: I must say I like … [Read more…]
Here’s another review of Catherine O’Flynn’s What Was Lost. Live lunchtime music at BBC Birmingham in the Mailbox between 12.45pm and 1.15pm next week. Review of Shoot the Freak, the new album from The Big Bang. Birminghamusic.com announce the winners of their Music Photography competition: Steve Gerrard, Kirk Harrington, James Harrison and Jenny Tolley made … [Read more…]
The Birmingham angle coincidental really but it’s worth posting. The Wall Street Journal reports that UB40, who record in Birmingham still, have gotten private equity money to fund their new album rather than try to get a major record label to release it. It appears that while they can sell out gigs their new material, … [Read more…]
Bearded Magazine, the new publication for music and such coming out of Birmingham, was released this week at selected venues. You can pick it up for free from Swordfish, Tempest, the Bulls Head, Island Bar and the Sunflower Lounge with more outlets to come. (Anyone wanting to stock it should get in touch.) Alternatively you … [Read more…]
The Festival and Xtreme Building is now 3/5 of the way through its run and with 6 weeks to go they’re put up a mid-term report: What has become clear since we opened is that we have actually created a new public park in Birmingham city centre. The wonderful range of natural vegetation around the … [Read more…]