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Russ L’s Lots Of Things To See And Do In The West Midlands: October 2007 is up. As ever, you think it’s going to be a load of heavy metal and boxing and he goes and surprises you. Some good stuff that slipped past my radar in here.
Month: September 2007
Blast review
A great, evocative review of Blast was left in the comments today by “ezra”.
Bye Midwest
Nikki Pugh mentions, in an interesting little blog post, that Midwest is shutting down. Which is a shame as I’d started to rely on that website a bit. Here’s hoping something good comes from the ashes.
383 News
383 go through their recent work over the last month which, along with their continued inroads into the restaurant website market, gives us a lead into an interesting group of folks: Annamation are a storytelling company brining “spoken word, song and characterisation to bring the age-old oral tradition of storytelling into the 21st century.” One … [Read more…]
Day Called Desire EP
Birminghamusic.com reports that A Day Called Desire are releasing their EP Vital Signs today through a wide variety of outlets for an “unsigned” band. They’re playing at the Flapper on the 14th and then go on tour.
Five Birmingham Poets
Five Birmingham Poets by Eric Doumerc Dr. Eric Doumerc is conducting an ongoing research of the Caribbean oral traditions’ influence on Black British performance poetry. His main interests include the study of Jamaican deejaying (the early 1970’s period) and its influence on oral poetry. He travels to Birmingham, UK, where he interviews Five Poets with … [Read more…]
Soweto Kinch wins MOBO
Soweto Kinch can add Winner of the MOBO for Best Jazz to his list of awards. Well done sir! He’s also done a piece for the Times listing his ones to watch on the jazz scene.
Speaking of Gigbeth
Speaking of Gigbeth, I just found this on my desktop. Must have downloaded it while browsing the site. It’s PDF of what’s on over the Gigbeth weekend and puts it all into some perspective. Click to download (1.4mb) Golly!