Music

Folking Stewards

The Moseley Folk Festival is next weekend and tickets are still available but if you can’t afford them or just fancy being involved in the workings of what’s emerging as an important event on Birmingham’s music calendar, you can work as a steward in return for free entry for that day. You need to do … [Read more…]

Bleep and Grind

Here’s a video: It was found on the MySpace of Cloud Cuckoo Land who describe it as a “psychedelic robot musical” which ran at the Edinburgh Fringe for two weeks last year. It was filmed and edited by Scott Johnson aka filmficciones70 and the music was by Matt Eaton of Pram and Micronormous. There appear … [Read more…]

Music: Robot

Video: Electric Sheep EP, featuring Electric Sheep, available at iTunes robotarmy.co.uk MySpace Next gig: Barfly, 6th September.

Music: Mama Matrix

Song: Handkerchief Dances [audio:http://createdinbirmingham.com/audio/handkerchief_dances.mp3] Members: Daz Dolczech – Vocals / Guitar / Electronics Guantanamo Ray – Guitar Annie Jones – Violectra Dark Mavis – Tuba / Electronics Mike Hurley – Drums / Percusion / Objects MySpace via a Marc Reck blog post where he writes about jamming with them.

Acousticfest at Island Bar

The August Bank Holiday Sunday sees an all day festival of acoustic music taking place at the Island Bar next to the Alexandra Theatre. Doors open from 2pm, first of 15 acts on from 3pm and it’s all free. Details here.

Friends of the Allotments

Word to the wise. If you want your album launch mentioned on this blog don’t just hold it in a pub or club. Hold it in an allotment. That always works. Details.

20 Things: The Book

Andrew Dubber’s 20 Thing You Must Know About Music Online, which originally ran as a series of blog posts, then collated into a PDF has been edited into a booklet by Digital Central for easy reading on the bus or toilet. It also comes with a cardboard thing for putting stuff in. And it’s free. … [Read more…]