Birmingham promoters, Leftfoot, will be bringing their 10th anniversary year to a close with a string of live soul gigs, starting tonight with NYC disco pioneers Metro Area, followed by veteran producer and DJ Bonobo and Motown superstars Martha Reeves and the Vandellas.

Since launching at The Medicine Bar back in 2000 Leftfoot have played a huge role on Birmingham’s soul scene, Adam Regan, explains the ethos behind the music;

We started out promoting under the name Leftfoot because it seemed to represent the leftfield music we were in to.

I’ve always booked artists I’m passionate about. By making sure our production and hospitality values for live shows stay high, both those on stage and those in the audience share an amazing live experience.

Join in the celebrations at the following shows:

3 December – Metro Area
The Bull’s Head from 9pm – 2am
Tickets: £5 on the door

12 December – Bonobo
HMV Institute from 7pm
Tickets: £15 adv, order online or call 0844 248 5037

17 December – Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
The Library, HMV Institute Birmingham from 7pm
Tickets: £18.50 adv, order online or call 0844 248 5037

However, it’s the no-budget Turbulence that’s swamped my Twitter stream over the past couple of weeks:

TURBULENCE is a Musical Romantic Comedy. The project is a collaboration between the actors David Alwyn, Adrian Banks, Emma Devereaux, Connor Mills, Shay O’Driscoll and Sophie Waller (all recent graduates of Birmingham School of Acting) and BAFTA award winning producer/director team Natasha Carlish and Michael B Clifford. Other exciting collaborators in the project are Adam Regan and the Hare & Hounds, The Scholars and Katy Pryce

There’s no particular budget for the film but it’s great to see how many people have pitched in to get the thing filmed.

Things are being documented diligently on their blog, so have a browse through. There’s likely to be scope for getting involved if you fancy it – a Twitter search for #turbulencefilm should keep you up to date on that.

There are mixes from Yam Who?, Steve Cobby (Fila Brazillia), Mama Feel Good, Sam Redmore, Adam Regan and a whole bunch of others. Very nice. Here’s The Bulls Head on Mixcloud.

Is anyone else doing anything similar? There’s the listen again thing on some Rhubarb Radio events but I’m struggling to think of any others. Then again, maybe the copyright issues put some off.

If you’ve not come across Mixcloud it calls itself ‘the YouTube of radio’ and is basically somewhere to upload radio shows, podcasts, mixes and mixtapes. If you’re interested in that kind of thing then maybe cast a glance at Soundcloud and Bandcamp – they each do slightly different things but aren’t too far removed from each other.