Random posts that don’t fit anywhere else.
Much activity in blogland at the moment. Clare Edwards has a new blog. She’s the lady what runs Gigbeth but this promises to be a more personal blog. Having chatted to her a few times I’m really looking forward to this. Life in Bearwood is a blog with very close connections to the Atticus bar … [Read more…]
Blink, the new magazine from the creators of Fused, hits the streets today. Like Fused it’s free and can be picked up from the following places in Birmingham: The Mailbox restaurants Harvey Nichols Selfridges Ikon Fusion House of Fraser Brindley Place restaurants The Cross, Moseley The Fighting Cocks, Moseley and “places like that” The rational … [Read more…]
Alongside all the music you’d be forgiven for forgetting about the conference aspect of Gigbeth taking place during the day on November 1st. The Conference will return in 2007, once again bringing education and industry together. The conference is for those who work in the music industry and education. By bringing both sectors together the … [Read more…]
The Ten4 blog has posted the list of 4Talent Award winners, three of which are from Birmingham: Photographer Chris Keenan Comedian Nathan Hughes-Berry Performance Poet PolarBear The awards will take over a large chunk of Ten4 Magazine issue 8, out in November.
Birmingham has a new Poet Laureate in the form of Charlie Jordan. Here she is with the outgoing Laureate Spoz: Charlie was born and raised in Birmingham and is proud to be part of Birmingham’s growing and thriving literary scene. She is a radio presenter currently presenting the late night show on Heart FM. She … [Read more…]
BiNS does a nice review of Birmingham FIZ which is not a mis-spelling of “fizz” but stands for Free Information Zone (yup, took me a while there too). As you probably heard in various pronouncements including the phrase “digital city” over the last couple of years, Birmingham now has a wifi network across most of … [Read more…]
There’s a lot more to that graph of Nikki Pugh’s that I blogged yesterday. A hell of a lot more. I roughly grouped what I wanted from events listings into 3 different aspects: going to see stuff (consuming/whatever you want to call it); knowing about stuff (for general background awareness or specific research); and me … [Read more…]
Comic Bits has a nice profile of Hunt Emerson, one of the most criminally underrated cartoonists in the country (and I say that no matter how rated he was) who lives and works in Birmingham and is performing with his band The Black Country Cats at the opening party of the Birmingham International Comics Show … [Read more…]