Supersonic festival

Supersonic Festival – 10 Years of Adventurous Music

Craig Bush — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 08:30:40 +0000

While the rest of the festival season winds down, on the 19th-21st October Supersonic Festival shows up again for its 10th year running to give the music scene a good hiding . If you haven’t been before then your eardrums are in for a treat (and a bit of a pounding) as the weekend session, run by Birmingham’s Capsule, takes over Digbeth’s Custard Factory in a multi-discipliniary cornucopia of experimental performances, workshops and films. Check out the line up here for a glimpse of what’s going on.

Tickets are still available from a multitude of locations around the city and if you happen to have an records left about then you can hand them in at this weekend’s Zinefest for the Vinyl Rally – Record Amnesty < which looks awesome fun.

And to give you a little taste, here’s a video from last years Supersonic:

Links for 25 May 2012

Chris Unitt — Fri, 25 May 2012 07:05:50 +0000

Goldie Speaking after the final performance of Wings of Desire – IDFB 2012
Nice little interview this.
The Golden Age of silver.mp4 – YouTube
“A BBC Production with the Birmingham Assay office as a Key Contributor”
Celebrating Sanctuary Birmingham – Home of Birmingham’s World Music Festival.
Showcasing the UK’s refugee musical culture, both traditional and contemporary, alongside music from across the world
Supersonic Festival – 10th anniversary | WeFund project
Capsule are doing the crowdfunding thing for Supersonic this year
Jewellery Quarter Popup Art Exhibition at The Spectacle Works June 2012
Midland`s artists are invited to submit artwork for inclusion in a selling exhibition to be located at the heart of the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham in June 2012
Birmingham Council garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Birmingham City Council is the only local authority in the UK to have a stand at this year’s flower show
Participant Call Out: If Only I Could
“a basic level of physical fitness and awareness of your own body is an advantage”. Sorry, but that bit made me laugh.
Radio To Go: Reggae City. This year, they got The Beat
Yet another good post by Robin Valk – this time talking to Jon Walsh and Ranking Roger about the Reggae City festival (2 June at the Rainbow in Digbeth)
The Voyage rehearsals at Birmingham NEC – a set on Flickr
A sneak peek at the upcoming show

The independent festivals group

Chris Unitt — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:39:28 +0000

That title should perhaps be capitalised, but I’m not sure whether it’s a Proper Thing or just a loose kinda ‘it’s complicated‘ thing*.

Anyway, I’ve had an invite to the launch of a publication celebrating the ‘vitality, innovation and diversity’ of this group that comprises:

[* not sure what I’m implying here]

**UPDATE**

Ah, it is a Proper Thing, I’ve found a blog post about it and a picture too:

We’ve never had a caption competition on CiB as far as I can remember. Just a thought…

**Another UPDATE**

Ask and you shall receive – this was submitted to the CiB email address:

Splendid.

Supersonic 2010

Chris Unitt — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:43:14 +0000

This year’s Supersonic seems to be coming together splendidly. The bill looks suitably impressive, a couple of big names but otherwise packed with bands that I’ve never heard of in my life.

That’s good though – the point of Supersonic is that Jenny and Lisa know what you should be listening to before you (or indeed the likes of ATP) do. It’s what makes the music press heap plaudits upon them every year.

I think I saw an email saying that the Paragon Hotel is already fully booked with out-of-towners, which indicates that if you’re thinking of booking a ticket it probably wouldn’t do to hang around. The tickets are on sale here.

Midlands Music Festival round-up

Kate Spragg — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:34:57 +0000

The line-up for this year’s Glastonbury Festival was announced today, and what a mediocre one it is. Like a lot of huge festivals it relies on the expected roll out of faded heroes and next week’s hipsters. If you are looking for a more, dare I say, ’boutique’ experience there are plenty of music festivals around the UK such as The Green Man Festival, End of the Road and All Tomorrow’s Parties.

Moseley Folk Festival by H4NUM4N

But thousands upon thousands of music lovers, from metal heads to twee folksters head to the Midlands every year to experience our independently run festivals, well crafted events that are deeply rooted in the community they came from.

So, forget V, Leeds and Glasto, get yourself along to one of these West Mids fests:

BASS Festival (British Arts and Street Sounds) is the UK’s only month long celebration of Black Music and Art. Every June, the UK comes alive with a phenomenal line up of events, new commissions, gigs, exhibitions, master classes, showcases, club nights, theatre, conferences and film. This year’s theme is ‘Inspired by Africa and Africans’, celebrating and exploring Africa’s influence on the UK arts scene.

When: June. Cost: Free – £10

Moseley Folk Festival has been running for 4 years now, programming a healthy mix of traditional, contemporary and downright experimental folk and acoustic music. The festival is held in what feels like a world away from Brum’s City Centre within the gorgeous woodlands of Moseley Park. This year’s line up includes: Beth Orton, Saint Etienne, Jethro Tull and Kris Drever, John McCusker & Roddy Woomble.

When: 5th, 6th and 7 th September. Cost: £10 – £65.

Supersonic Festival is definitely one for those who don’t like the mud, but do like loud and experimental music. If you think you don’t, go along to this Custard Factory festival anyway and you may just have an audio visual experience to remember, which has to beat standing the rain listening to Kasabian, right? See the Capsule website for the full line-up.

When: 24th – 25th July. Cost: £15 – £75

Indie Tracks Festival is all a twee navelgazer could ever need in a festival; indiepop bands, a museum, churches, farms and most importantly stream trains. Set further afield in Derby, this fairly new and unspoilt festival is certainly worth the journey from Brum, and is steeped in rural Midlandsness.

When: 24th – 25th July. Cost: £30 – £55

Other more than worthy regional mentions to go Gigbeth, Birmingham International Jazz Festival, CoCoMad, Wolvestock and Summer Sundae. This isn’t a definitive list, so feel free to add your recommendations in the comments.

Supersonic looking for volunteers

Kate Spragg — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:22:28 +0000

Capsule, event organisers of the Supersonic music festival are offering 2 internships to assist with: Artists liaison / Production / Marketing / Festival Management. You will be required to do at least 10 days between April to July. You will receive valuable work experience and be credited as part of the core team that deliver Supersonic Festival.

In addition to this they need a team of volunteers to help deliver the festival over the weekend of the event itself 24th -26th July and in the run up to Supersonic from June onwards. You will be required to do a minimum of 6 hrs over the weekend in return for a day ticket and festival t-shirt.

Interested? Contact info[at]capsule.org.uk with ‘volunteer’ as the subject field.

Supersonic line up

Kate Spragg — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:52 +0000

The Capsule ladies have another big year ahead of them. After receiving huge national success with the Home of Metal project last year they are now in the planning stages of what will be the 7th Supersonic Festival.

Here is the line up: