I was sure I’d blogged about this before but it seems not. So have a look at Birmingham Rocks a MySpace presence set up by photographer Steven Gerrard to “bring together bands, artists, promoters, venues, music photographers, magazines, recording studios and other people involved in the music scene in Birmingham and the surrounding areas. Use … [Read more…]
Go read Dave Harte’s Why Music Matters article that was published in the Post today summarising the research they’ve been doing into the local music industry, specifically the dialogues they’ve been having for the Music Matters report. Here’s a paragraph that jumped out: The first thing we found was that many hadn’t been asked their … [Read more…]
Birmingham Music has a puff piece for Hot Damn, “a weekend club night for the underground hardcore and less mainstream rock fan” taking place at the Barfly. Which is nice and all but I have to wonder, what is this doing on Birminghamusic.com? Is it in their remit to promote all the non-live music club … [Read more…]
Angry Men in Suits. Pete Ashton, for it is he, reviews the recent Curate’s Egg gig and sings the praises of Al Hutchins. There are a number of promoters in the city who are doing interesting things but the evenings that Al curates (and it is a curatorship rather then mere promotion) always intrigue and … [Read more…]
Brumcast 75 is up. [audio:http://ipodnetworks.com/podcast/363/2005_hifi.mp3] Just in case that didn’t hit home, Little Chris has now collected seventy five hours of local music and released it to the world. For free. Off his own back. With no renumeration for his time. He’s open to offers.
I’m playing favourites here but having been blown away by them over the weekend I can’t not draw your attention to Einstellung‘s new single being released online today. Tot is being released as part of the Shifty Disco Records singles subscription club and should be on the site by the time you read this (unless … [Read more…]
Congrats to Chloe Blackwell who won the National Express Student Bands compo at Gigbeth last weekend. I didn’t realise this but the competition took place in the coach station itself which seems an inspired idea. As Chloe says “it was probably the most unusual place I have played in. There were coaches coming in and … [Read more…]
Jibbering Records, the Moseley-based shop / cafe / promoters / art dealers / etc, are celebrating their 7th birthday with a 2-room gig at the Hare and Hounds on Saturday December 1st, headlined by The Destroyers. More details at the link.