It’s Just Noise are a relatively new (to me anyway) gig promotion setup who are putting on a significant number of gigs over the next month. Based around the oft-renamed King Edward’s Inn (aka Chapter 11 / Ben Johnson) nr Aston Uni and The Planet in Wolverhampton, they appear to have a Friday night residency … [Read more…]
Every week I’ll be presenting three local bands or musicians with a photo, song and, if available, video. I’m trying to keep my personal preferences out of this so suggestions for future posts are very welcome. — — — The Courtesy Group Questret [audio:questret.mp3] myspace.com/thecourtesygroup — — — The Big Bang Ten Million Ways (demo) … [Read more…]
A regular selection from the Birmingham Flickr Community. by harri b by Lee Jordan by amortize by Dumbfunk All copyright as applies. To suggest photos for this feature add them to the best of threads or leave a link in the comment here, and please do as I seem to be posting the same people … [Read more…]
From the Name in Lights site On Saturday 2 June at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham there will be an informal talk between Dr. Jonathan Vickery of the Centre For Cultural Policy at Warwick University and artist Joshua Sofaer discussing the ‘Name For Lights’ installation. Looking at the changing nature of fame from the Hollywood … [Read more…]
The Dynamics 07 International Puppet Festival starts on May 19th and runs across the West Midlands for full month. Those events taking place in Birmingham are happening at the MAC, the Drum, Solihull Central Library and Chelmsley Wood Library. With over 100 performances in 30 places over 30 days, you’ll find a whole array of … [Read more…]
Congratulations to Tak! who have been recognised by the Webby Awards as an Official Honoree for their work on Tallis Talk for Thomas Talis college, “a platform for pupils and staff to discuss issues & promote creative writing”. The Webby Awards are actually a rather big deal. Hailed as the “Oscars of the Internet†by … [Read more…]
Carol Alderson from the Creative Development Team at Birmingham City Council writes in to remind me of the Creative City Awards which take place for the third year at the ICC on July 19th. Unlike previous years where involvement with the Business Support for Creative Industries programme was required, the awards are now open to … [Read more…]
Pam Bishop of the Traditional Arts Team writes to inform me of their existence for which I’m very grateful. What are the traditional performance arts? Activities using music, dance, song and storytelling which were traditionally learned and passed on by ear or word of mouth. Even if the texts or the tunes are nowadays learned … [Read more…]