Lisa Capsule forwarded an email she’d gotten from the ZXZW Festival in Tilburg, The Netherlands, in September. They’re currently booking acts for this year and she thinks Birmingham bands should give it a go. Send CDs to PO Box 327, 5000 AH Tilburg, The Netherlands or email booking@zxzw.nl with links to mp3s (not attachments).
A new CBBC cartoon from local animators The Brothers Mcleod More info at the Animation Forum.
I don’t like to post about individual gigs and the like for fear of opening the floodgates but this terrific flyer from Coldrice is deserving of wider attention. Or maybe I’m just a sucker for pulp. There is a personal side to this too. When I moved back to Birmingham in 2003 after a few … [Read more…]
The fifth of Digital Central’s Perspectives on the West Midlands Music Industry series of interviews with local figures has Matt and Lee Parsons of Ditto Music answering three questions at great length. Topics covered are the strengths and weaknesses in the region, best practices and the inevitable but essential “next steps”. You’ll remember Ditto as … [Read more…]
Missed it: Nikki Pugh posted up her notes from the Studio Space debate last month held at Vivid. In a trade off to get people talking the event wasn’t recorded for publication, which is a shame. I was hoping more blogging, etc would come out of this. Maybe Christmas got in the way?
Downsizing the new Birmingham library. Interesting report by Paul Dale in the Post fron the city council scrutiny group on the central library’s new site next to the Rep. Starts thus: Birmingham’s £193 million new library will have half the space for exhibitions first envisaged, may have fewer books on offer than at present and … [Read more…]
One for the built environment buffs – Revealing the Town Hall is a talk given by Anthony Peers at, yes, the Town Hall this Saturday Sunday afternoon. “Anthony has been researching the history of the building for close to a decade and was involved in the planning of the recently completed scheme of repairs and … [Read more…]
Charlotte Carey of the Creative Enterprise blog just emailed: “I had this through and have been asked to forward to SMEs locally I thought it might of interest to your readers? apparently they have a significant quantity of vouchers left and it’s open to all local SME’s.” indexvouchers.org be the link in question.