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Author: Pete Ashton
Roundup
Over on the Iron Man Records blog Mark Badger reprints an essay from Bill Drummond, Pub back Rooms, concerning state funding and music. It’s a good read, as expected from Drummond, and I think pretty relevant to the situation in the West Midlands. B:INS reports on the Tunnel Vision installation that was part of Architecture … [Read more…]
Creative Entrepreneur course
Lauren Davies writes in with news of a free 2 day course from the Media Skills division of UCE, Explore You Inner Entrepreneur. Run by Annette Naudin the course “has been especially created for individuals working in the creative industries sector and will explore personal values, presentation skills, confidence and will include talks from inspiring … [Read more…]
Moseley Festival
With the gamut of music festivals and events happening in the city centre this summer it’s easy to forget about the suburban ones. Most of the districts in the sticks will be having some kind of village fete or festival usually lasting for a day, but Moseley’s lasts for a full week from June 22nd … [Read more…]
Decibel programme up
The programme of events for the Decibel Performing Arts Showcase is online. It runs from September 3rd to 7th and full details are here. I could be wrong but I think these are only open to paid-up delegates, in which case you’ll be wanting to register before the end of this month and save £50 … [Read more…]
Das Land Ohne Musik review
Einstellung‘s acoustic kraut/post-rock gig at the Old Joint Stock Theatre last week got a great write up in the Birmingham Post. Justly so. It was very good. The addition of strings seemed to suit the quartet’s reworked arrangements perfectly. Much like their usual incarnation, mellifluous guitar lines duelled and intertwined, although much more subdued than … [Read more…]
My friends are gone and my hair is grey…
Tower of Song is “a new intimate live music venue run by musicians” in Cotteridge that I’ve just found out about. Sit back and enjoy live jazz, folk, blues, roots, acoustic, bluegrass, unplugged indie, pop and rock, leftfield, dub, comedy. I haven’t visited yet but they have a load of videos embedded into their MySpace … [Read more…]
Roys Boys
Roys Boys is “an independent film company that was established in the West Midlands in 2006 by two brothers. Neil and Nathan Turner both write, direct and co-produce (along with DOP Jon Lewis) short low budget films.” They’ve got three shorts on their site which are of pretty high quality, not just in production but … [Read more…]