Special guests Zu93, Electric Wizard and Secret Chiefs 3 will be joined by a whole bunch of others (with more to announce) plus art, film, panel discussions and, predictably enough, cake. Full list here. I’m pleased to say I don’t think I’ve heard of anyone on the bill. Last year I recognised a couple of names and … [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…]
Just past the halfway point… Pete kicked off discussions about how to follow on from the CiB Shop, The Little Chill looked like fun and involved pretty much every promoter in town and Supersonic’s line-up started coming together. There was a lot of kerfuffle around the filming of Turbulence, with lots of people getting involved … [Read more…]
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…]
We’ve acquired a nice little pile of booklets and mini publications on the CiB desk which we’ve been meaning to mention, so thought we’d just post them all up together. First is Ammo Magazine. This cute and colourful little thing is packed with illustration and designer/ artist interviews. Ammo also accepts submissions, so if you … [Read more…]
I’m a sucker for nicely artistic gig posters. You don’t get enough of them around these days. Malleus, an artists collective from Tortona in Italy, have done a poster for Supersonic.
As part of this year’s Supersonic festival, Capsule have decided to get the kids involved in exploring experimental music. The Kids Gigs take place on Saturday 23 October at 11am and 2.30pm at mac in Cannon Hill Park. Aimed at 2 – 7 year olds and their families, these 1 hour workshops will involve performances, … [Read more…]
I got this in the post the other day: Poster and press release for Hiker Meat by Jamie Shovlin at Grand Union Supersonic flyer Two organisations mailing their stuff out together – you’d think that sort of thing would happen more often. Looks like Grand Union will be staying open later during Supersonic too.