Birmingham’s own Commercially Inviable Records (motto “you record it, we release it… and we shall head off to the poorhouse together”) has been in touch about the release of an album by Birmingham’s own James Summerfield. The album’s not out until August but to whet your appetite for good things to come here’s a link … [Read more…]
On Saturday 31 May, at Green Street Warehouse, B12 0NE Frank Bretscheider, musician, composer, video artist and co-founder of the Geman based Raster-Norton label… will give a performance at Modulate. As with many things of this ilk, most of the reviews and descriptions I’ve found are purposefully obtuse. However, you get some idea of what … [Read more…]
Now this is an impressive line-up of events: Saturday 24th – Tinariwen Sunday 25th – Resonance Events presents The Herbaliser and Chris Read while Mad Flow, DJ Maxwell and Chromatouch provide the local talent. Monday 26th – Capsule & Fierce present a Julian Cope lecture plus a screening of Haxan with live soundtrack. The Saturday … [Read more…]
As it’s copyright infringement day on Created in Birmingham it seems appropriate to mention The Chop Shop – Birmingham-based audio/visual cut-and-paste japesters who cutup loads of tv and film footage and make daft audio and video with the results and describe themselves as the Chuckle Brothers with samplers. Think adverts, political speeches, sitcoms and music … [Read more…]
More news of enterprising students from BCU – four of them have established their own label called Disco Monkey Records. They’re working quickly and have already set up a showcase for their first four signings – all West Mids-based indie acts. The showcase is at the Flapper & Firkin at 7pm on Sunday 18 May, … [Read more…]
A testament to the passion and drive of Soweto Kinch, the award-winning jazz saxophonist/MC/producer/poet/writer/whatever he wants: For one day only the entire area beneath the Hockley flyover will be alive with inspiring sights and sounds, ground breaking art and music. For the line-up see the flyer, for other info see the Flyover Show on Myspace. … [Read more…]
A perfect storm of Birmingham creative scene interestingness is happening on Monday 26 May with Capsule producing an event for the Fierce Festival at the really-rather-good Town Hall (who seem to be widening the scope of the events they’re putting on). Julian Cope will be presenting his lecture entitled ‘Ancient Worship Of The Gods Beyond … [Read more…]
Computer games and individual bands are outside the traditional remit of CiB but this is a bit too cool to not warrant a mention. According to their bio on the SXSW website, local band Deluka have somehow managed to get their song ‘Sleep Is Impossible’ featured on the next installment of the Grand Theft Auto … [Read more…]