икони на светци Marc Reeves: Why ‘business as usual’ is a fatal response to Birmingham’s riots If you only read one thing in this round-up, make it this ACE dancer Letty on new challenges « ACE dance and music A nice peek behind the scenes Birmingham Hippodrome Autumn Season 2011 A few musicals (Top Hat, … [Read more…]
What’s good in Brum? :: Loaf Online “Two days in a row this week I was asked for recommendations for food things happening in Birmingham […] Here’s my response” Details of new Birmingham food festival unveiled On the subject of food – “The 10-day celebration of food will take place from October 14-23 and replaces … [Read more…]
BBC iPlayer – Front Row: Home of Metal and some other stuff The interesting bit starts at 6mins 30s. The exhibition opens tomorrow The 405 – Speech Fewapy // Label Profile Decent piece about the label The National Lottery Awards – Best Arts Project – mac Birmingham Click the link and hit the ‘Vote Now’ … [Read more…]
On 26 March, Home of Metal are hosting their forth and final open day at The Public, “Think Antiques Roadshow for metal fans”. Metal fans of all ages are being invited to share their memorabilia and stories with the digital archive , further cementing West Midlands as the birthplace of Metal. Home of Metal celebrates … [Read more…]
From an interview with Earth (who’ve played Supersonic) on Pitchfork. Talking about Black Sabbath: Pitchfork: Have you ever had any kind of personal interaction with any of the Sabbath people? Dylan Carlson, Earth: No. Sabbath is from Birmingham, England and Tony Iommi supposedly came to a festival we played there once, but I didn’t actually … [Read more…]
Into March and while Capsule took Home of Metal to SXSW and Flatpack were readying another festival, Rhubarb Rhubarb opened the Rhubarb East Gallery Pete took a break from the CiB Shop to give an update 2 weeks in, The Photography Collective formed and held their first meeting and We Are Eastside launched linking up Eastside’s creative organisations. Project Brutal … [Read more…]
A message that went up on Tak‘s website last month confirming the news that had been doing the rounds for a little while: At the beginning of July 2010 – exactly six years from the day they opened – we closed the doors at TAK! Towers to explore new ideas & ventures. It’s been fun, … [Read more…]
Home of Metal are opening its doors in Wolverhampton this weekend to welcome metal fans to dig through their collections of memorabilia, t-shirts, and posters to contribute to the Home of Metal archive. As the flyer rightly says, it’s free to pop along on Thursday 17th, Friday 18th and Saturday 19th June between 10am and … [Read more…]