Photographer Steve Gerrard is currently doing an offer for local bands who are in need of some decent shots. An hour’s shoot and a minimum of 20 great images for just £60. From the shoot I’d expect to get a varied selection of photos in different locations, giving the impression that the pictures were taken … [Read more…]
Friends of the Stars have been leaking out tracks of theirs for free download on their blog. The current one is from their remix CD which accompanies the Lighting and Electrical album. Have a listen to the L&R Woodcutter Fabulous Remix of Sharpening a Blade… [audio:http://www.friendsofthestars.co.uk/audio/Sharp_remix.mp3] … and then go read all about it and … [Read more…]
The second of Autumn Store Dunc’s guides to putting on a DIY gig or club night is up, this time on the art of flyering and it’s a damn good one. The humble flyer is still the most important bit of paper in the independent promoters arsenal. Posters can be too easily ignored, but putting … [Read more…]
Mark Badger of Iron Man Records has uploaded loads of tracks to Last.FM from various artists on his label. Here’s the full list and, because I can, there’s the widget. Hit the big Play button. What’s interesting about Last.FM is the music isn’t available to download, just to stream, but people can embed stuff like … [Read more…]
Brumcast 76 is up [audio:http://ipodnetworks.com/podcast/363/2009_hifi.mp3]
BiNS picks up on the news that The NME are launching a new club in Birmingham on February 7th in a new venue called “The Place I Love”. Specific details are sketchy but it seems to be connected with The Sunflower Lounge and to be located on Allison Street in Digbeth which I note is … [Read more…]
Currently up on AWM’s internet television service Biztv is a short report from the Gigbeth Conference featuring vox-pops from organiser Clare Edwards, Paul Birch of Revolver Records and Dutch Van Spell of Big Help Management. The above screen grab is of the panel of six teenagers hosted by Andrew Dubber where they laughed in the … [Read more…]
Interesting thing in the current Capsule newsletter which I’ll reprint here. Budding music critics – please get in touch. We’ve been talking to Plan B Magazine and we’d like to encourage more coverage of West Midlands activity, if you’d like us to put you forward please get in touch and we’ll send your details on … [Read more…]