I came across Stuart Estell a couple of years back when he was offering a bunch of mp3s of amusing cover versions done on a concertina (I’ll Be Your Mirror, Love Will Tear Us Apart, that sort of thing) so when I saw his name on MySpace a big bell went ting. He’s not been … [Read more…]
Peanut (aka Gaz Barnett) is a Visual Communications student at BIAD specialising in illustration and animation. He has a penchant for wresters (both Mexican and classic British) and Elvis. You can find his work on Flickr and MySpace.
September sees the On Song Festival take over the Academy for a month. ‘On Song’ will celebrate and showcase the finest song writers and artists, alongside local emerging talent. The month long series will focus on the whole process of writing, crafting and giving life to songs. ‘On Song’ will include established genres such as … [Read more…]
The regular spotlighting of UCE Fashion graduates by Fused Magazine is online. Featured this time are (from left to right) Nadine Aljandali, Emily Crump, Rowena Parsons and Eleanor Crutchley. Photos are by Eleanor Gibbons.
Ctrl-copy is an online exhibition that features downloadable art by Juneau Projects, Caitlin Griffiths, Chris Hodson, Yoke and Zoom, Cheap Machines and Mike Cassidy via the Internet. Artists have submitted new work or adapted an existing work for the online environment that can be freely downloaded from the virtual space of the web into tangible … [Read more…]
The artist known as Carp has been leaving his paintings around the city centre for people to find. BBC Birmingham picked up on this and tracked him down for an interview (second of the RealAudio links). Here’s one of his pieces: And here’s what he’s got to say for himself: I must say I like … [Read more…]
Here’s another review of Catherine O’Flynn’s What Was Lost. Live lunchtime music at BBC Birmingham in the Mailbox between 12.45pm and 1.15pm next week. Review of Shoot the Freak, the new album from The Big Bang. Birminghamusic.com announce the winners of their Music Photography competition: Steve Gerrard, Kirk Harrington, James Harrison and Jenny Tolley made … [Read more…]
The Birmingham angle coincidental really but it’s worth posting. The Wall Street Journal reports that UB40, who record in Birmingham still, have gotten private equity money to fund their new album rather than try to get a major record label to release it. It appears that while they can sell out gigs their new material, … [Read more…]