Here’s a video: It was found on the MySpace of Cloud Cuckoo Land who describe it as a “psychedelic robot musical” which ran at the Edinburgh Fringe for two weeks last year. It was filmed and edited by Scott Johnson aka filmficciones70 and the music was by Matt Eaton of Pram and Micronormous. There appear … [Read more…]
I’ve been trying to avoid it like a trip to the dentist but it’s become apparent that I need to have a functioning MySpace presence rather than just dropping in there to snarf pics and music. So here it is. Birmingham-based artists, musicians, etc and the people who work with them, feel free to befriend … [Read more…]
Video: Electric Sheep EP, featuring Electric Sheep, available at iTunes robotarmy.co.uk MySpace Next gig: Barfly, 6th September.
Song: Handkerchief Dances [audio:http://createdinbirmingham.com/audio/handkerchief_dances.mp3] Members: Daz Dolczech – Vocals / Guitar / Electronics Guantanamo Ray – Guitar Annie Jones – Violectra Dark Mavis – Tuba / Electronics Mike Hurley – Drums / Percusion / Objects MySpace via a Marc Reck blog post where he writes about jamming with them.
From Matt Murtagh Photos are posted here from the Birmingham Flickr community. Click on the image for more details.
Coffee House Challenge is an initiative run by the RSA (“working to remove the barriers to social progress” being their slogan) and Starbucks, the coffee retailer. The radical notion is that a bunch of people meet in coffee shop “to talk about community issues they care about and to take action for local change” which, … [Read more…]
The video from the Creative City Awards at the ICC is up. Watch it here. Via Digital Central who have links to all the winners.
Brumcast #64 is out. Subscribe here or listen with this widget: [audio:http://ipodnetworks.com/podcast/363/1876_hifi.mp3] B:INS reports that Linda Green’s novel, Did A Bad Thing, is set in a Birmingham newspaper office based on her experiences there. Here’s an interview and the paperback is out in October from Headline. The sixth issue of Gareth Courage’s PDF design zine … [Read more…]