The Drawings on the Wall Radio 4 series looking at connections between ancient rock art and modern graffiti. Birmingham connection is contributions from our own Mohammed Ali (tags: graffiti) Bachdenkel “Bachdenkel were a psychedelic rock band from south Birmingham, who Rolling Stone called ‘Britain’s Greatest Unknown Group’” explains D’log (tags: Bachdenkel music dlog) Nick Broomfield … [Read more…]
A short piece featuring the usual suspects:
The website for Public Gallery, to be housed within West Brom’s The Public building, has gone online signaling the first sign of life for this long troubled project. The building will finally open this summer and, thanks as ever to D’log’s pointers, I’ve been looking into what’s going to happen there. The best resource currently … [Read more…]
Retail Birmigham A new website for the central Brum Business Improvement District, built by 383. BiNS has commentary. (tags: website birmingham 383 bid internet) Khaliq (Acoustic / Alternative / Rock) MySpace profile (tags: myspace khaliq music) Anthony Herron reports from MIDEM 2008 Promises more posts to come. (tags: midem music blogs) Brumcast 86 ‘Viva La … [Read more…]
Illustrator Ben Javens has a weblog. via TAK but I’m sure I’ve seen his name before…
Step is the art show currently running at Crowd6 in Bearwood. Charlie Levine will be curating the first three shows in her Step series, an ongoing exploration of the ideal way to present art. The show takes a strong standpoint on the perfect way to see a piece of art, and there are a few … [Read more…]
One of the criteria for an event to make it onto this blog (as opposed to my personal hopelessly prejudiced gig guide) is that it looks to be rather strange and unique. This, sent in by Nic Bullen of Monium, just about fits that bill. Experimental image meets live sound in an exploration of representation … [Read more…]
From the Midlands with Love is a postcard book put together by BCU’s Media Content Lab brought to our attention by TAK! (who have a card in it). Media Content Lab felt that too much of the design world’s attention is focused on a handful of London companies, so decided to do something about it. … [Read more…]