Election debate for creative industries – 20 April at the Hippodrome Ed Vaizey (Con), Sion Simon (Lab) and Marc Reeves (thebusinessdesk.com) talk creative. Spoiler – it’s really, really important but cuts are going to have be made. Might be fun to ask Sion about the Digital Economy Act if you’ve been following that “Look you … [Read more…]
There’ something poignant about Record Store Day coming round on 17 April with two of Birmingham’s independent record shops about to call it a day. With Tempest and Swordfish on the way out the only ones left vaguely near the city centre (that I know of) are Hard To Find Records and The Diskery. Oh, … [Read more…]
Things we learned by hosting Popcorn Comedy – Dice Productions I’m a sucker for this kind of thing. Lessons here from putting on a stand-up comedy/short film night in a pub Six Birmingham nominations for the RPS Music Awards Big ups to BCMG, Oliver Knussen, Andris Nelsons, CBSO’s Igor Fest, Colin Matthews and Birmingham Opera … [Read more…]
The Birmingham Post’s Jon Walker spotted the above advert at Westminster tube station and this morning the paper (well, website) is reporting ‘MPs sign Commons motion to back Birmingham City of Culture bid‘. So how’s the bid going? It’s difficult to gauge this. Thing is, we (as in, the people of Birmingham) aren’t going to … [Read more…]
Birmingham Word Cloud | As part of ‘plug in’ – the opening exhibition at the new mac gallery space in Birmingham – we are generating a city word cloud, entirely constructed from words submitted by the general public and associates. You can contribute your keywords (up to 5 please) by emailing Neil.Holland@macarts.co.uk or via twitter … [Read more…]
First up, Fluid‘s Jonny Costello points out that The Rainbow does have a website – it’s at therainbowvenues.co.uk. Dave Harte pointed out the Aston Triangle Cinema Club, with the website proclaiming: The Aston Triangle Cinema Club has been created in order to put on high quality and interesting films from around the world for the … [Read more…]
If you’re interested in making a music video – be you musician/band or filmmaker – then keep an eye on the 2Weeks 2Make It website and/or if you’re on Twitter then watch @2weeksbrum like the proverbial hawk.
Some good copy from Kent Davis at The Rainbow on their upcoming plans: May 2010 sees the start our most ambitious period of metamorphosis yet. How do you get more underground than The Rainbow? – only one way – turn the cellar into a venue. The Cellar Door (opening May 28 2010) – is under … [Read more…]