There appears to be a nice community consolidating around the Actress and Bishop on Ludgate Hill. Skeleton Crew Promotions have been handling the Friday and Saturday gig bookings since July and are working with Solar Creations who have put on many nights there in the past. They’re solidly booked up until the end of November … [Read more…]
Presumably following questions about whether the tracks were actually licensed for such a purpose the downloads page for the B1: Birmingham Best New Bands CD has been removed from the council website. The address resolves to an “Error: Page not found” with no explanation of what’s happened. This wouldn’t be a problem if the latest … [Read more…]
Ben Calvert was featured on BBC WM’s Introducing segment last week and you can listen to it online (RealAudio link). Calvert, if you’re not aware, is one of the key enablers in the Birmingham singer-songwriter scene as well as being a folk musician himself. Amongst other activities he’s responsible for the Bohemian Jukebox nights, the … [Read more…]
According to Antonio Roberts in this comment the Sky Orchestra (CBSO musicians in hot air balloons sailing over Birmingham at dawn) will finally take place tomorrow morning, that’s Thursday morning, starting at 6.30am. Don’t worry if you can’t make it to Edgbaston for take-off. Just keep your eyes and ears to the skies! (Idea for … [Read more…]
Okay, this is a piece of electronic incompetence of such glory that it has to be reported. Birmingham City Council’s marketing and/or PR department have put together a CD of music by some Birmingham bands. I’ll get onto that in a bit but the music is also available to download free from the council website. … [Read more…]
An ongoing collation of mentions of the Moseley Folk Festival across teh internets. Your central point is the Festival Messageboard where you can leave a quick note of praise or otherwise. Here’s the rest of the stuff I’m finding, updated as I discover new bits and bobs. As with the Supersonic Collective Memory I’ll actively … [Read more…]
Continuing the Midas chart banning story, previously blogged here, Andrew Dubber, who’s post on the subject has generated quite the debate, interviews their manager, David Kuczora, on the 4Talent site, explaining exactly what they did and why. “We came up with the idea of taking some mobile phone SIM cards to gigs, pre-loaded with credit, … [Read more…]
Well, that was tremendous fun. Massive turnout from what I could tell too. Seminal indeed.