Paul Willocks is a graphic designer who makes digital art. He also produces music under the name Tech Star – he designed the above CD cover for the release of his most recent single ‘Switchblade’. There’s quite an in-depth interview with him on Abduzeedo. (Found via Behance)
Sam from Stereographic has emailed with info about a couple of his projects: Mr Underwood (and various other names, depending on musical genres) a variety of projects from creating soundtracks and effects for animations to wowing crowds with his all hardware improvised liveset. When time permits he also dabbles in the design and build of … [Read more…]
I’ve had an email from Steve Tromans, a Birmingham-born composer who’s been globetrotting for a little while and, well, I’ll let him tell it: I’m emailing to tell you about my upcoming return to Birmingham – specifically at the Yardbird Jazz Club, Paradise Circus, on Thurs 8th January 2009. I’ll be presenting the premiere performance … [Read more…]
David Rowan‘s new website has cropped up on a fair few blogs recently and with good reason. It’s real purty, with a stack of great photography on it and is dead clever to boot. David is a photographer at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and also lectures, consults and does bits of art design and … [Read more…]
Birmingham Jazz and Birmingham Town Hall‘s resonance events are well worth catching when they’re on. The last one was in October and featured the Heritage Orchestra and Lizzy Parks among others. A vid’s just gone up on YouTube with a couple of interviews that captures things really rather well.
Slightly late notice on this one but I’m going to put it up anyway because it’s nice to know this sort of thing is happening. Tonight at the Custard Factory from 10pm-6am over 20 of the city’s promoters are throwing a party together (Facebook event). It’s a follow-up to the shindig the Night Times put … [Read more…]
Oh, the glitz! The glamour! How often do I get to quote someone like Kanye on CiB? At the MTV Europe Music Awards the other week he said: I believe Mr. Hudson has the potential to be bigger than me, to be one of the most important artists of his generation Mr Hudson, if you … [Read more…]
Or ‘How to promote a night using YouTube’. This is nicely done: Beat Cypher is at Rootys on 11 Dec. Here’s the flyer: (via the Custard Factory blog)