Audiences Central Jobs Listings

Audiences Central is a West Mids organisation that “works across the region assisting and supporting arts and cultural organisations in the development of audiences for all forms of art” they’ve started up a pretty keen looking a jobs section. Here’s the skinny: * Jobs are free to submit and listings are supplied as RSS feeds. … [Read more…]

Supersonic Preview

Drowned in Sound has a great interview with Capsule’s Lisa Mayer previewing this weekend’s Supersonic Festival at the Custard Factory, outlining where the festival came from, what it’s all about and what’s scheduled. We’ve been doing Capsule now since 1999. Basically, the way we started was because we both had pretty eclectic musical taste and … [Read more…]

Spotted Dog update

Previously… Regular appreciator of loud music Russ L overviews the whole thing and throws in his couple of pennies. After being repeatedly told Digbeth was not dead, Moseley councillor Martin Mullaney tours the pubs and compares them to his home stretch on the Alcester Rd. As has been pointed out already (by Russ above), he … [Read more…]

Through the Viewfinder

The View Finder is the latest project to appear at the Festival of Xtreme Building site on Moor St Queensway. The View Finder is the result of a collaborative process between an architect Will Schofield of Glenn Howells, five schools and the community of Sheldon. Visitors who seek to enter the inside will discover that … [Read more…]

Supersonic Schedule

The Timetable for Supersonic has been published should you be wanting to meticulously plan your schedule for the weekend. There’s a lot of overlapping so in theory you could see a little bit of everyone. As with Rootsville the Arches Stage is being used, which is nice to see, replacing the theatre as a music … [Read more…]

Harborne Happy Brick

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

Eclecticore

Jazz Thrash Assassin are getting a lot of mentions on this blog at the moment. That’s because they’re doing interesting stuff and relentlessly telling me about it. So here’s news of their new CD, Eclecticore, featuring cover art from Matt Robinson aka Jinpow and designed by local outfit Psicon Lab. The CD will be available … [Read more…]