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…]

Now on MySpace

I’ve been trying to avoid it like a trip to the dentist but it’s become apparent that I need to have a functioning MySpace presence rather than just dropping in there to snarf pics and music. So here it is. Birmingham-based artists, musicians, etc and the people who work with them, feel free to befriend … [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.

good shoes

From Matt Murtagh Photos are posted here from the Birmingham Flickr community. Click on the image for more details.

Coffee House Challenge

Coffee House Challenge is an initiative run by the RSA (“working to remove the barriers to social progress” being their slogan) and Starbucks, the coffee retailer. The radical notion is that a bunch of people meet in coffee shop “to talk about community issues they care about and to take action for local change” which, … [Read more…]