Area 15 December/January Hot off the presses Culture Vulture West Midlands’s Blog | Pecking at the culture carrion of the West Midlands Arts/culture blog for the West Mids Home of the Autumn Store Blog » Blog Archive » Autumn Store 5th Birthday All Dayer! “in January 2011 we’ll be FIVE YEARS OLD! And we’re planning … [Read more…]
Capsule started a ball rolling the other week, talking about how to engage regional audiences. There’s a good discussion in the comments that’s worth (re)visiting. Dunc from The Autumn Store (and various indiepop bands, I’ve slightly lost track tbh) has followed this with “Why Don’t People Come To My Gigs”: Some thoughts on audience categorisation. … [Read more…]
Dunc from the Autumn Store has compiled a non-exhaustive list of 101 West Midlands bands. Non-exhaustive because he gave up at 101 and because he set himself two restrictions: There were two criteria to this, firstly, they must have a myspace page and secondly, they must have spent most of their musical lives inside the … [Read more…]
Independent Of The Month – Style Birmingham Lora Leedham – Studio 6, The Merlin Centre of Contemporary Design, Hockley Isaac – a man of many talents who redefined the word legend Roger Shannon pays tribute to the late Isaac Hayes in an article most remarkable for the idea of a band consisting of Isaac Hayes, … [Read more…]
Clusta: Pushing Forward Behance Magazine have some flattering things to say about Clusta. Capsule’s Sonar Showcase More news of Birmingham hitting the international scene – Capsule are taking Birmingham’s ZX Spectrum Orchestra and Pram to Barcelona for a showcase next Thursday. Antonio Roberts at B-VAC Antonio says thanks to everyone who went down to the … [Read more…]