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BRB wins award

Congrats to the Birmingham Royal Ballet who won the Outstanding Achievement In Dance Award from the Theartical Management Association for their Stravinksy! season earlier in the year. More info and quotes at The Stirrer.

Birminghamusic.com at Music Live

If you’re going to Music Live at the NEC next weekend be sure and check out the Birminghamusic.com area at stand P40 where they’re showcasing a whole swathe of acoustic acts from the region over the three days. Here’s the schedule.

Gigbeth Conference lineup

Digital Central has the Gigbeth conference line-up for the 1st of November. Speakers scheduled for the day are David Ashworth, Dan B, Andrew Dubber, Neil Emery, John Hemming, Anthony Hughes, Cliff Manning, John Mostyn, Matt Parsons, Tim Riches, Ben Sandbrook, Robert Sharl and Chris Thompson. Information about who these people are, with links to their … [Read more…]

Brumcast 72

Here’s Brumcast 72, as usual featuring an hour of music by some bands you know and and a whole bunch you don’t. Which is, of course, the point. [audio:http://ipodnetworks.com/podcast/363/1962_hifi.mp3]

New Creative Alliance site

I could be wrong (to be honest I get all the Creative XYZ things mixed up in my mind and, yes, I get the irony of that) but I think Creative Alliance have a new website. Part of it is a New and events page which should be pretty useful. No RSS feed but this … [Read more…]

BBC Cuts

The Stirrer reports on the announced BBC cuts and how they’ll affect the West Midlands. Apparently we’re not doing too badly and might pick up some of the factual programming from London. On the flip side (and not strictly West Mids related) the merging of online, radio and TV news is probably not a great … [Read more…]

Free Sunday Flea Stalls

The Custard Factory is offering five university students free stalls at their Sunday Flea market for six months, worth around £500. University students with creative and unique talents with a desire to earn extra money and improve their business savvy should submit a proposal of one thousand words or less. The chosen candidate with the … [Read more…]