New Editors album due 25th June, titled “An End Has a Start”, which indeed it does. Mark Badger profiles Murdoch who are, shall we say, somewhat on the up and coming. A quick reminder that Moseley Folk are running acoustic nights every second Friday of the month at The Cross in Moseley. Birminghammusic.com reports that … [Read more…]
Have a play with this little thing: It’s called an eBay To Go widget and anyone can make one to display any eBay auction on any website, just as you might post a YouTube video to your MySpace page or blog. And it’s incredibly easy to make one. Imagine you’re an artist or craftsperson who … [Read more…]
The Fierce Festival website has been redesigned and updated for the current year (by local agency MadeMedia) so it’s time for me to start highlighting some of the rather mad events taking place. First up, at some point in the middle of next week, is the Sky Orchestra… Reprising their performance at Fierce! 2004 – … [Read more…]
A regeneration event that doesn’t take place in Eastside. This one’s based around Five Ways. The next Designed Environment West Midlands (DEWM) Network event will take place at the Attwood Green Regeneration Initiative in Birmingham, on the 10th May at 9.30am to 1.30pm. The DEWM Network is made up of design-related professionals from across the … [Read more…]
Following on from the Test Bed show, another Five Ways art event. Intrigue is a group show by 8 artists taking place in the now largely vacant 1960s Shopping Centre at 5 ways island, Birmingham, UK. The group will be showing exciting and challenging contemporary art work in the ‘Curio City shop’ at the centre, … [Read more…]
From Birmingham Words The Lichfield Poetry Writers are one year old and celebrating. “It’s a very exciting time for poets and poetry in Lichfield,” said Stewart Derry, the group’s director. “We’ve had a fantastic first year and needed to mark our birthday with a really special event.” The Big One will be a feast of … [Read more…]
Foillowing on from the Supersonic vids Chris Keenan has been uploading a shedload of moving images from last years Moseley Folk Festival. 23 are in this account so far including this one of Tunng, featured here because I like Tunng.
Project X Presents talk about their efforts in getting funding on their news blog. Vote for Soweto Kinch in the BBC Jazz on 3 Innovation Award. via Podnosh D’log has a roundup of what the Sunday Times calls “downwardly-mobile upper-middle class professional graduates” with some interesting stats about earnings within the creative professions. Straightheads, the … [Read more…]