Birmingham Live! is a live music reviews blog set up by Steve Gerrard. Which explains why the photography is so good! It’s not there to promote him though – he’s hoping other gig photographers in the city will join and contribute turning it into a showcase which can help them if not break into the … [Read more…]
One of the criteria for an event to make it onto this blog (as opposed to my personal hopelessly prejudiced gig guide) is that it looks to be rather strange and unique. This, sent in by Nic Bullen of Monium, just about fits that bill. Experimental image meets live sound in an exploration of representation … [Read more…]
Nu Century Arts is an organisation established in 2000 and based in Handsworth who are “dedicated to the development and promotion of performing arts in the African-Caribbean community” The company’s work encompasses a professional theatre group, organising a regular live music event ‘The Live Box’, literature in the shape of ‘Wired Up’ magazine and a … [Read more…]
Combining the arts of the rock video and the avant-naivety of post-art cinema with the spirit of “Whey-hey! holiday!” MySpace presence.
Logulogu. Lawrence Roper of the Studio 4 gallery and the Outcrowd Collective, has a weblog for his side projects and the like. Here’s a nice picture currently gracing the front page by Tsz. Attention is drwn using this to Electric Eskimo, a “secret side project, just for fun really, fairly lo-fi and analogue. My attempt … [Read more…]
A batch of video from last years (rather fabulous) Moseley Folk Festival has emerged on YouTube. Here’s part of one of my favourite sets from Voice of the Seven Woods. More videos here, and stick August 30th / 31st in your diary for this years event. ta Jez
Another very handy post from Autumn Store Dunc on putting posters up for gigs in Birmingham in which he goes through the methodology (“If you’ve got blu-tac then offer to put it up there and then and save them a bit of time, I say this because there have been times when I’ve handed posters … [Read more…]
Punch Records are running a competition for desginers to create an advert for this year’s BASS Festival “highlighting this year’s theme of The Four Elements of Hip Hop – BBoying, DJing, graffiti, and MCing.” There will be a cash prize of £500 and the winning design will receive huge exposure by appearing for six weeks … [Read more…]