Brumcast 70
Brumcast 70 is up with an hour of music from Birmingham musicians, all collated and curated by Little Chris. [audio:http://ipodnetworks.com/podcast/363/1932_hifi.mp3]
Music
GDFAF Starts
The Going Deaf For A Fortnight fortnight has started with a review by Russ L of a night at the Flapper. If you’re going to any gigs over the next 14 days, review them on your blog and leave a note on the GDFAF blog.
Two Promoters
I really should blog more about the many small promoters that put on gigs around the city. This is the lifeblood of our music scene really, giving a platform for new bands and those that don’t necessarily fit the criteria of the established promoters. And because they’re usually done on a non-profit basis (or more … [Read more…]
On Song report
Birminghamusic.com has a upbeat overview of the On Song festival that took over the Academy last month
Rich Batsford reflects
Rich Batsford reflects on putting on a self-promoted solo concert at the Old Joint Stock
Music Knowledge Exchange
Andrew Dubber writes about a new project starting in his department at UCE (sorry, BCU) – an “Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Knowledge Transfer Fellowship.” Thankfully Andrew translates this into English and it does look pretty interesting. The Fellowship project will buy out half of my time for two years, starting with in February, … [Read more…]
Brumcast 69
Heeeerrrree’s Brumcast 69: [audio:http://ipodnetworks.com/podcast/363/1922_hifi.mp3]
30 albums on Type
Type Records have released their 30th album. Stef runs through some of their recent releases.