8th October sees Capsule release their first record, Songs To and From An Iron Gut by Beestung Lips, “an unrepentantly vicious punk band fronted by a bloke who – with his preposterous ‘tache, white vest and braces – looks a bit like Freddie Mercury playing a Prohibition-era gangster and who launches stringy globs of spit … [Read more…]
Ten4 magazine are running a competition to win a press pass for the Gigbeth festival (oh, and an iPod Shuffle) for three budding rock journalists. To enter send in a 150 word “essay” on your favourite Midlands act, old or new, by October 1st. Full details here.
CLUB gives notice of a “Static Caravan compilation album launch party with drinks reception at Vivid in Digbeth followed by free gig at the Rainbow featuring Micronormous and Mike in Mono, and a DJ set from doTb.” Takes place on 27th September from 8pm. Static Caravan site says Wednesday 26 September 6pm onwards so we’ll … [Read more…]
Radio Heads – a nice 4Talent feature on the practical aspects of podcasting that looks at Brumcast and specifically a one off special that featured music from Iron Man Records who report making a couple of hundred pounds worth of sales from that show. via the Iron Man blog which has a slightly different edit … [Read more…]
Marc Reck reports (quite lucidly) on the Drop Beats Not Bombs re-opening of the Que Club on Friday and pronounces it good. As does Rich Batsford.
Drop Beats Not Bombs (who have a new website) open the back from the dead Que Club tonight. DJ Marc Reck talks about his opening set which is based around Joseph Cambell’s “The Hero’s journey”. (Judging by the continued popularity of this post I’ve determined that excessive clubbing there affects your ability to type in … [Read more…]
Noted: Boy Wonder Records – a record label set up in Birmingham in May this year.
Ruby Turner is the keynote speaker at the Gigbeth conference which takes place alongside all the gigs.