Drowned in Sound has a great interview with Capsule’s Lisa Mayer previewing this weekend’s Supersonic Festival at the Custard Factory, outlining where the festival came from, what it’s all about and what’s scheduled. We’ve been doing Capsule now since 1999. Basically, the way we started was because we both had pretty eclectic musical taste and … [Read more…]
Previously… Regular appreciator of loud music Russ L overviews the whole thing and throws in his couple of pennies. After being repeatedly told Digbeth was not dead, Moseley councillor Martin Mullaney tours the pubs and compares them to his home stretch on the Alcester Rd. As has been pointed out already (by Russ above), he … [Read more…]
The View Finder is the latest project to appear at the Festival of Xtreme Building site on Moor St Queensway. The View Finder is the result of a collaborative process between an architect Will Schofield of Glenn Howells, five schools and the community of Sheldon. Visitors who seek to enter the inside will discover that … [Read more…]
Saturday 14th July form 10am to 4pm. Click on the above for a map (pdf) of where stuff is at.
The Timetable for Supersonic has been published should you be wanting to meticulously plan your schedule for the weekend. There’s a lot of overlapping so in theory you could see a little bit of everyone. As with Rootsville the Arches Stage is being used, which is nice to see, replacing the theatre as a music … [Read more…]
From srboisvert Photos are posted here from the Birmingham Flickr community. Click on the image for more details.
Jazz Thrash Assassin are getting a lot of mentions on this blog at the moment. That’s because they’re doing interesting stuff and relentlessly telling me about it. So here’s news of their new CD, Eclecticore, featuring cover art from Matt Robinson aka Jinpow and designed by local outfit Psicon Lab. The CD will be available … [Read more…]
Tying in rather neatly with the do it like Manchester debate comes this article by one of our ex-Poet Laureates, Roshan Doug, about what we can learn from Sheffield, hosts last month of the prestigious Bollywood Awards run by the International Indian Film Association. Here are some excerpts from How Brum missed out on Bollywood: … [Read more…]