Do you like to push your writing to the extreme? Well next Saturday at Grand Union you will have the chance to push your pen wielding fingers to their very extreme with a 12 hour, all night writing extravaganza. ‘Part 12-hour exam, part club night, part endurance writing event’, the organisers BAZ and Hooky Street Press … [Read more…]
Is Digbeth the new clubbing capital of Britain? | Digbeth is Good Interesting. Also, seeing as how I’ve mentioned LAB11, Gibb Street Warehouse and Air on here recently, there might even be a small chance I’ve got my finger somewhere near the pulse after all A destination wedding in Sierra Leone with Lee Allen photography … [Read more…]
Digbeth is Good recently had news of a couple of new clubs opening their doors over that side of town. Gibb Street Warehouse is the old Space 2, apparently brought up to scratch by the people behind Fabric in London. LAB11 will be on Trent Street and comes from the people behind TRMNL. (DiG post … [Read more…]
A painting by Chris Murtagh. This is in a way a continuation of my Digbeth series, most of the buildings are of that post industrial type, with some of them battered or missing, or past their prime If you look really closely (or read this blog post) you’ll see that the buildings feature graffiti from … [Read more…]
Nicky over on Digbeth is Good has picked up on some Digbeth-themed animations by some BCU students. This is Voices of Digbeth by a few people who have modestly decided not to put their full names to it: And this is Wasted Digbeth by Keanu Jones (I liked his Attack of the Dinozilla too):
Wandering back down Digbeth High Street after a tour around The Event last weekend, it was good to see that someone’s doing something useful with the run-down car dealerships. Digbeth is Good has the scoop.
Tony Graffiti presents Keep Graffiti Real, Smoke Crack, Sign On… a graffiti exhibition at Green Street Arts. The exhibition launches on 14 October and will run through to 23 October. Digbeth is Good says there’ll be… …a house band, DJ Boogie Dave, Drop Beats Not Bombs along side DJ Rosko, as well as Emjay Ladie, DJ Punk N … [Read more…]
Boxxed – the art, film, music and education venue on Floodgate Street in Digbeth – is to close its doors. The venue – which hosted the shoot for Juice Aleem’s Rock My Hologram music video and more – made this announcement on their Facebook page: It’s with a great deal of sadness that we have to … [Read more…]