Misty’s Big Adventure’s new album is out. Funny Times is avaiable at Swordfish and other local shops, from Amazon or direct from the band. I note they’re playing the Xmas Lights Swtich-on along with Sugababes and McFly on November 10th.
There’s an online survey for Gigbeth which it’d be cool if you could complete if you went to anything. If you give your address you might also win an iPod Shuffle.
Brumcast 74 is up. [audio:http://ipodnetworks.com/podcast/363/1991_hifi.mp3]
This didn’t really click until Jez pointed it out but over on Last.fm there are 14 complete sets from Supersonic 2007 available to stream. And the quality is really good, implying they’re taken from the sound desk. Very useful if you missed certain sets or your memory of them is rather vague (a problem I … [Read more…]
Right, let’s see what the online-o-sphere can give us for this weekend’s giggery. First up, there’s a group on Flickr for you to add your photos. All are welcome. Conference David Nikel reports and Dunc Autumn Store responds on the subject of promoters. Robin Valk is interviewed by The Stirrer at the conference about the … [Read more…]
Marc Reck points to photos of yesterday’s final setup for Project X Presents. More here. If you’ve got your Gigbeth wristband you can get into the dress rehersal tonight and some tickets are still available on the door tomorrow for the show proper. A year in the making, by all accounts. Should be good. If … [Read more…]
As you probably know Gigbeth starts today with the opening ceremony taking place on a closed-off High St Deritend and continues through to Saturday night. But you might not know that tickets will not be available from the venues. You need to get your wristbands from South Birmingham College which is between the Custard Factory … [Read more…]
Substrakt has posted an update of their activities which includes the announcement of the new Jibbering website for the Moseley-based record shop and cafe. The latter has been keenly anticipated in these parts as Jibbering is an interesting and vital force on the local music scene, something which until now hadn’t been reflected online. The … [Read more…]