At the Moseley Creative Forum meeting last night (at which I was on the panel) the chair, Steve Harding, mentioned that the Community Development Trust which owns/runs the building had secured £300,000 of funding to completely renovate the main ground floor space. What was interesting was what they intend to do with it. After the … [Read more…]
John Mostyn’s Blog John’s on a roll at the moment with his new-ish blog. One to keep tabs on, especially if you’re in the music biz (tags: blogs music mostyn) Millennium Point floor numbers to change Out with G2, G1, G0, L1, L2, L3. In with something that actually makes sense. Sanity! (tags: millenniumpoint logic … [Read more…]
Currently topping the Clipstar Animation category, this lovely piece of work by Birmingham agency Warblefly. Here’s their Animation Forum profile which is where I heard about it (though I think I saw a preview on another blog a while back).
October 4th 1997 saw a performance by Higher Intelligence Agency and Biosphere, aka Bobby Bird and Geir Jenssen, on the 12th floor of the Rotunda entitled Birmingham Frequencies. on this night, two hundred & fifty people went up into the rotunda for the first time, to hear a soundtrack by geir jenssen & bobby bird, … [Read more…]
This year, we get to vote on what we want to see as part of the Fierce Festival! After a decade of stop-you-in-your-tracks live art events and performances FIERCE is trailblazing once more giving you, the audience, the power to program your own festival! We’ve reserved a range of spaces from theatres to pavements, broom … [Read more…]
Looking at the Electric cinema’s newsletter I see that the Notorious Choir will be playing a gig there (do choirs gig?) on Sunday the 20th of April at 1pm. Called “As Seen On Tv” it promises “Fun and fabulous music from some televisions best loved shows”. Lighthearted postmodern fun or symptomatic of a doomed culture … [Read more…]
Tonight I am overly excited because I just found out that José González and The Bees are playing at this year’s Moseley Folk Festival. How did I find out this most pleasing nugget of news? Not on the interwebs, oh no, but via hard copy – a flyer I picked up at the Moseley Dance … [Read more…]
Update, May 18th: This post has been edited after we received a legal threat from Surface Unsigned. More here. Round one of the regional Surface Unsigned Festival ’08 is nearly over, but have no fear sheer volume of acts they are dealing with in the midlands alone should mean there are plenty of gigs to … [Read more…]