A postcard from Flatpack 6
In case memories of this year’s Flatpack festival were starting to recede, here’s a video of some of the highlights. It seems to be quite a festival-heavy week on CiB this week, not that that’s a bad thing.
Festivals
Holy Mountain Party
It’s a Fierce party. You don’t need me to tell you how essential those are.
Still Walking
Still Walking is: A festival of walking taking place across Birmingham, 15th March – 1st April 2012. Artists, architects, historians, ramblers and lovers will show you the city in a new a light The programme’s now online and features all sorts of tours by all sorts of people across much of the city centre. Very … [Read more…]
Moseley Folk Festival 2011: the video
A nice vid from Junction 15 featuring extended bits of Badly Drawn Boy, Billy Bragg, lots of smiley people and some earnestly hippyish goings-on at last year’s Moseley Folk Festival. Moseley Folk Festival from junction15 on Vimeo.
Ikon’s Autumn Almanac
Ikon‘s Autumn Almanac, from 17-20 November will be: a four-day celebration of Birmingham’s creative life showcasing the city’s artists, filmmakers and musicians. Ikon’s gallery spaces will exclusively exhibit works created in Birmingham, also hosting some of our best-known music festivals and organisations in a programme of live performances The list of people involved includes Oliver … [Read more…]
Supersonic visitors
After Supersonic there’s often someone from out of town who goes home and blogs about their experiences, not just of the festival, but of their journeys around the rest of the city. I think my favourite was the Portuguese a few years back. This year it seems to be Alice on her blog, Quaint Living: … [Read more…]
Shout Festival 2011
I’ve got nothing to base this on particularly, but something tells me that the Shout Festival has been growing year on year. Is that right? I’m not sure what it is – maybe it’s something about the programme or the list of partner organisations involved. Maybe, heading into its third year, it’s something to do … [Read more…]
Photos from Moseley Folk 2011
The Moseley Folk Festival was its usual mix of good music and great atmosphere. There are already bundles of photos from the weekend up on Flickr. Stanthefan and katchooo have been impressively prolific but this one’s from Adrian and Sarah: And this one’s by Leodensian: That’ll be Hannah from Boat To Row playing her last … [Read more…]