The rain-postponed Music in the Park part of the Moseley Festival takes place on the weekend of the 11-12th August. Here’s the lineup: 360 Laura Louise Allies Little Sister Babamundi Micky Greaney Ben Calvert Midas Blue Nation Moseley Village Band Burnside Nick Martin Charlie Hutchings Sohan Kailey Chris Tye Steve Ajao Danny Moss The Celturian … [Read more…]
Song: Sofacore [audio:Sofacore.mp3] Video: Camp Kelly Calm MySpace Prompted by The Baron’s gig review.
Needles and Hooks is the trading name of Sara Fowles, a designer/maker from Birmingham. Working mainly in textiles and wool, I use traditional techniques to produce unique modern/contemporary handmade accessories and homeware items including purses, belts, bags, cushions, tableware and decorations. I am also a traditional dressmaker making bespoke womenswear and menswear from a range … [Read more…]
Wall of Sound is another blog run by a UCE lecturer. I ask again, where are the Birmingham and Aston Uni bloggers? This one is by Tim Wall, Professor of Radio and Popular Music Studies, and the recent post I want to draw your attention to is Making money out of music: how can regional … [Read more…]
The Metal Symposium, which took place at the Walsall Art Gallery on the Friday of Supersonic, was quite excellent though unfortunately all the ideas and thoughts it generated in my head were smashed to pulp by the subsequent festival. Thank heavens, then, for this New Statesmen article where Daniel Trilling takes the themes and runs … [Read more…]
Birminghamusic.com has a couple of competitions of interest to photographers and drummers respectively. Summer of Love is run in conjunction with St Paul’s Gallery‘s exhibion of Karl Ferris’ work. Karl Ferris, the father of Psychedelic photography, is holding his one and only 40th anniversary of the Summer Of Love Exhibition – The Karl Ferris Experience, … [Read more…]
Neat video interview with Little Chris, the power behind Brumcast, now on its 61st episode. Interesting how he fell into doing what he does through sheer enthusiasm rather than any global domination plans. I can relate.
Media Skills are running a three day seminar with Andrew Dubber based around his New Music Strategies blog held at the Screen Media Lab in Digbeth from August 29th – 31st. Explore the impact of the Internet on the music industry through this unique seminar delivered by Andrew Dubber. Focusing on social networking, new distribution … [Read more…]