I’ve spent today ploughing through a month of items in Google Reader from blogs and news sources in Birmingham which I’d not managed to keep on top of this last month and I must confess I gave up when I got back to March 12th with 600 still to go and marked them all as … [Read more…]
£20m sound studio, Five and some large film corporation? Simon Howes on the Eastside blog is hearing rumours and is looking for clarification. (tags: media television eastside digbeth film) Radio 4 – Today – Fierce Festival 2008 Now there’s a media partner I wasn’t expecting. (ta Jez) (tags: fierce bbc radio4 today) Craig Holmes has … [Read more…]
From willgrant Photos are posted here from the Birmingham Flickr community. Click on the image for more details.
Johnny Foreigner kept a diary for Drowned in Sound. Here’s a day picked at random. February 14 Glasgow, King Tut’s. We play Frisbee and listen to Joan of Arc really loud in the car park as the sun sets. Fucking hippies. The venue cooks us (the lowly £50 show support act) a three-course meal. ARE … [Read more…]
If you haven’t already, go download issue 4 of Bearded magazine as a free PDF. Inside you’ll find a load of good stuff including a four page overview of Birmingham’s music scene.
This month Gary Corbett has had a photography exhibition at the Central Library Gallery of his photographs from Rush Hour Blues which he’s been shooting with great consistency for years now. You can see the whole lot in this Flickr collection and it was only a matter of time before something physical came of it. … [Read more…]
Birmingham: Shaping the City is a new book published by RIBA about our fair city written by Ben Flatman after years of research. The photographic editor was Craig Holmes who took photos at the launch night. Here’s the blurb: “Birmingham: Shaping the City” is an authoritative and objective assessment of the redevelopment and regeneration of … [Read more…]
I saw the first one of these yesterday. By the the rag markets, I’m not sure how successful this was because half the keyboard didn’t work and it was almost meloncholy to see a once intricte and loved object abandoned in the street.