The second of Autumn Store Dunc’s guides to putting on a DIY gig or club night is up, this time on the art of flyering and it’s a damn good one. The humble flyer is still the most important bit of paper in the independent promoters arsenal. Posters can be too easily ignored, but putting … [Read more…]
Mark Badger of Iron Man Records has uploaded loads of tracks to Last.FM from various artists on his label. Here’s the full list and, because I can, there’s the widget. Hit the big Play button. What’s interesting about Last.FM is the music isn’t available to download, just to stream, but people can embed stuff like … [Read more…]
An irregular look through the the Birmingham Flickr pool. from suselstahl from Garry Corbett from Homer Simpsons Donut from Jon Iles
Brumcast 76 is up [audio:http://ipodnetworks.com/podcast/363/2009_hifi.mp3]
Cat Bray of 4Talent West Midlands sent through some links to new stuff on their site. 4Talent looks ahead to Reggae event BrumFest this Saturday with Moseley boys Jam Jah. The first in a series of 4Talent inspiration sessions podcasts going out every Wednesday for six weeks is onsite. This week we’re hearing about animation … [Read more…]
I’m going away over Xmas – spending a month with family in New Zealand – which means my bloggery will suffer but quite frankly I need a holiday. I’ll still be checking in but only once or twice a week at most. Since the arts / culture / etc world slacks off big time over … [Read more…]
Bearded Magazine is recruiting, specifically for an Advertising Manager and Marketing Manager. All interested should follow that link.
BiNS picks up on the news that The NME are launching a new club in Birmingham on February 7th in a new venue called “The Place I Love”. Specific details are sketchy but it seems to be connected with The Sunflower Lounge and to be located on Allison Street in Digbeth which I note is … [Read more…]