I hate to get all serious on you in my first proper guest post, but local musician and blogger Christopher Woods has been on the telly to warn musicians and music fans to protect their hearing. From the BBC article: Christopher Woods, a musician from Birmingham who is training to be a sound engineer, has … [Read more…]
Taken at the sell-out Autechre gig on Monday: You’ll note Melt Banana. For bringing Melt Banana to Birmingham again they deserve medals.
The Making the Transition seminar is all about how to make the transition into work or employment within the music industry. Speaking at the seminar will be a selected number of key local music industry ï¬gures. They will share with you their stories and experiences within the music industry. Their knowledge will give you an … [Read more…]
After many rumours over the last month The Barfly group has taken over the Digbeth Institute building previously run by the Sanctuary club. Currently Barfly sublet the back room with its entrance on Milk Street with a capacity of 400. This will increase their Birmingham audience sizes to 2,250, albeit split between at least three … [Read more…]
Whoa! It’s like looking in a mirror! The Birmingham Music Network, managed by Mark Badger of Iron Man Records and others, has a new blog inspired by Created in Birmingham apparently, right down to using the same theme. Which kinda gives the game away on how I made this blog look like it does. But … [Read more…]
Police Bastard on their recent European tour: More videos here
Some Insectoid videos have been brought to my attention after the recent post. Here’s a nice piece of recently uploaded glitch entitled Class: Insecta: And here’s a recording of them on the green at 2006’s Artsfest: More on the Insectoid Hive Mind channel.
Paul Geary introduces King Alfred Promotions, a new-ish outfit run by David Bunn and Anthony Harper for whom he did the following: They launched last April and are apparently working on establishing themselves a bit more in the city. The MySpace, it be here.