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Bye Midwest

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 News

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…]

Day Called Desire EP

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.

Soweto Kinch wins MOBO

Soweto Kinch can add Winner of the MOBO for Best Jazz to his list of awards. Well done sir! He’s also done a piece for the Times listing his ones to watch on the jazz scene.

Speaking of Gigbeth

Speaking of Gigbeth, I just found this on my desktop. Must have downloaded it while browsing the site. It’s PDF of what’s on over the Gigbeth weekend and puts it all into some perspective. Click to download (1.4mb) Golly!

Radio To Go on Gigbeth

Robin Valk’s latest Radio To Go podcast is a Gigbeth special featuring music from some of the many bands involved and an interview with co-ordinator Clare Edwards explaining what it’s all about. Here’s the mp3, here’s the feed or just press play on the widget below. [audio:http://www.radiotogo.com/library/user/RadioToGoGigbethSpecial.mp3]

Mud Hut

The Mud Hut at the Festival of Xtreme Building site was featured on Radio 4’s PM today (about 15 mins in to this clip). They’re building a sustainable house out of mud bricks over the next week and anyone can take part.