I’ve had a nice email from Sam about Bloco Louco, which I’ll let him tell you about: Bloco Louco is a samba band/community making some awesome music – arguably some of the best unamplified beats in the city. We were started with Lottery funding, and since that happened a year and a half ago we … [Read more…]
Thanks to Peter Bacon for emailing me about this – the Cobweb Collective is “a voluntary organisation promoting innovative live improvised music in Birmingham” and they have a website that I rather like: They put on regular live events and also put out a monthly podcast called the Cobcast (downloads coming soon). They’ve also made … [Read more…]
Cul-de-Sac is: an online music magazine about the West Midlands. This is a fledgling project and we are hoping to grow in the coming months and years. Cul-de-Sac is designed to be a one-stop resource for music fans in the region, as well as being a vital source of information for people regardless of their … [Read more…]
Any wax fondlers out there (or fans thereof) might be interested in this DJ competition, running into it’s third year and with the Midlands heats taking place at the Custard Factory. The first heat is on Saturday 9 August, which it might be a bit late to register/practice for (worth getting in touch maybe). The … [Read more…]
Mark at Surely has posted up the new promo for The Destroyers – the riotous, Birmingham-based, 15 piece genre-botherers – on the Surely blog: Directed by John Humphreys and shot by Prime Chris in the late hours of a friday night in May, the merry band bring the dawn in atop a multi story with … [Read more…]
Soweto Kinch‘s slightly-delayed third album ‘B19: Part 2 Basement Fables’ is due out shortly and, in readiness, the award-winning saxophonist/MC/producer is off on a short tour to showcase the new material. The tour starts at the Town Hall on Friday 25 July. The twist is that Young people aged under 21 from the northwest Birmingham … [Read more…]
A reminder that the Birmingham International Jazz Festival started yesterday. There are no particular marquee names as such but the ethos is to put on as much jazz music in as many places as possible for the next week. You can see the programme here but otherwise don’t be surprised to stumble across something if … [Read more…]
Pop down to St Marys Church, Moseley on Tues 1 July for An evening of an evening of varied, gorgeous, diverse and engaging spiritually inspired music in the beautiful setting of St Mary’s Church by Candlelight. Music will be from Aa’shiq Al Rasul (Qawwali/Nasheed vocal group), St Marys Schola (Anglican choral), Robert Zhilmor (Flute inspired … [Read more…]