Hold it Down Productions have launched an attempt to break a world record for the largest orchestra. Together with conductor Charles Hazlewood and composer Tom Basset, the Worlds Largest Orchestra will play at the LG Arena on 24 October in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care. At 12 minutes long, the piece entitled “Dawn to … [Read more…]
’11 Stops. 11 Artists. One great cause.’ On 3 October, Oxjam will be taking over the 11 bus route. Starting outside the Hare and Hounds and proceeding to ride a full lap around Birmingham’s more interesting neighborhoods, stopping en-route at The Bear in Bearwood for a few drinks and live local music. After riding Europe’s … [Read more…]
Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research are hosting ‘Jazz and the Media‘, in partnership with Birmingham Conservatoire and Birmingham Jazz on 15 October. The event welcomes three internationally recognised speakers who will be presenting seminars throughout the day. Mike Connolly is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with over 10 years experience in factual and arts … [Read more…]
After their 40th anniversary last year, Ex Cathedra are continuing their success into 2010/11. Their dairy for the next few months looks pretty packed, have a browse through this season’s brochure to see if anything suits you. Here’s a couple of things they’ve got going coming up; 3 September: Tallis’s Spem in alium and Alec … [Read more…]
Here’s a nice folksie video made by Chris Keenan, a.k.a Prime Objective, for Birmingham based band Goodnight Lenin. Their debut single ‘Crook In The Creek’ is having a release do at Hare & Hounds on 6 August. Goodnight Lenin – Crook In The Creek from Prime Objective on Vimeo. And here’s the video for ‘She … [Read more…]
This is a lovely thing – Sam Coley‘s put together an audio slideshow focussing on The Diskery. (Via Andrew Dubber)
Is Stansfield from Léon the promoter for this or something? Confirmed so far – We Are One, Rhubarb Radio, Join The Dots formerly Scratch Club, Reverb Club, Breakfest, The Beat Suite, Custom Made, Organic, Funkbox, Discomendments, Bentley Rhythm Ace, Open Minded People, Faux Real, Friendly Fire, Loafers Lounge, Planet Breaks, Mama Feel Good, Bunka, Heducation, … [Read more…]
This year’s Supersonic seems to be coming together splendidly. The bill looks suitably impressive, a couple of big names but otherwise packed with bands that I’ve never heard of in my life. That’s good though – the point of Supersonic is that Jenny and Lisa know what you should be listening to before you (or … [Read more…]