The closing party for the Festival of Xtreme Building takes place this Friday at 9pm on the FXB site. A pretty low key for everyone that has been involved to see the site looking very pretty at night lit up, listen to some music and have a beer. The Ale Installation by Pam Ginn will … [Read more…]
Had this email through from Julie Brown at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies at Birmingham Uni: ACRE is a major, international, 4 year research project funded under the Priority 7 ‘Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge-based Society’ within the EU Sixth Framework Programme. The project brings together partners from 13 leading research centres … [Read more…]
Well, would you look at that. The Custard Factory has a new website and it appears to be based around a blog! Who saw that coming? In fact it appears to be pretty influenced by this very blog in tone and style. Hmm… Yes, I’m running it, but I’d be a fool not to plug … [Read more…]
Russ L’s Lots Of Things To See And Do In The West Midlands: October 2007 is up. As ever, you think it’s going to be a load of heavy metal and boxing and he goes and surprises you. Some good stuff that slipped past my radar in here.
A great, evocative review of Blast was left in the comments today by “ezra”.
Nikki Pugh mentions, in an interesting little blog post, that Midwest is shutting down. Which is a shame as I’d started to rely on that website a bit. Here’s hoping something good comes from the ashes.
383 go through their recent work over the last month which, along with their continued inroads into the restaurant website market, gives us a lead into an interesting group of folks: Annamation are a storytelling company brining “spoken word, song and characterisation to bring the age-old oral tradition of storytelling into the 21st century.” One … [Read more…]
Birminghamusic.com reports that A Day Called Desire are releasing their EP Vital Signs today through a wide variety of outlets for an “unsigned” band. They’re playing at the Flapper on the 14th and then go on tour.