English Originals Weekend Festival – Exploring the rich and diverse traditions of English Music A mini folk festival at Town Hall in April featuring Billy Bragg, Seth Lakeman, Tunng, Norma Waterson, June Tabor and Kathryn Williams. Like Moseley Folk with chairs. (tags: music folk thsh events) New Animation degree at BCU offering two pathways: Animation … [Read more…]
Combining the arts of the rock video and the avant-naivety of post-art cinema with the spirit of “Whey-hey! holiday!” MySpace presence.
Interesting looking show coming to the Custard Factory gallery in March. Featuring emerging as well as established artists, PLATFORM 01 is the first in a series of shows intended to give artists from the Midlands and surrounding areas a venue in which to display their work and to create connections between themselves, their art, and … [Read more…]
Logulogu. Lawrence Roper of the Studio 4 gallery and the Outcrowd Collective, has a weblog for his side projects and the like. Here’s a nice picture currently gracing the front page by Tsz. Attention is drwn using this to Electric Eskimo, a “secret side project, just for fun really, fairly lo-fi and analogue. My attempt … [Read more…]
Dubliner pub re-opens in Digbeth Needed a total refit having been gutted in a fire last year and, according to this report, looks to be doing live music. (tags: pubs venues) u.n.c.o.o.l..s.a.m “the artist name of musician and producer, Sam Underwood” who’s also one of the chaps at Stereographic (tags: music) Facebook | BIRMINGHAM ROCKS! … [Read more…]
Kate Beatty is working on a series of portraits of “Birmingham Creatives”. Here’s one, of Andrew Dubber. He blogs about it here. Oh, and here she is taking the photo:
Brumcast 85 ‘Crushed By Stars’ “Great electro from Future Daze, Distinct Radi0, Frysch, Crash Repeat & Arc Vel. Top Punk from RAM-MAN, Beestung Lips, and Verbal Warning. Acoustic stuff from Matt Tyler and Barnesy, and a whole lot more including The Courtesy Group & The Destroyers.” (tags: brumcast podcast) An hour long interview with Jasper … [Read more…]
BIAD has a new website and rather than just tell you that I thought it’d be nice to reproduce a few of the images from their gallery there. Sonia Poli – BA Visual Communication Helen Freeman – BA Fashion and Textiles Francesca Prowse – BA Visual Communication Hat tip to D’log