- Did you know Antfest, “the first annual live Antmusic festival” featuring “the best Antmusic tribute acts in the world as well as new punk and established acts” took place in Birmingham last week? Truly we are at the centre of some universe or other.
- The Silver Footed Gig Slut listings are up with MySpace links for every band playing in Birmingham over the next week.
- Birmingham Words are doing some site maintenance and I notice that their RSS feed now works properly. Yay!
- Birminghamusic.com has a brief update and overview of the Surface Unsigned Festival which has it’s final at the Custard Factory this Sunday.
- Dave Hart of Digital Central has started up what could possibly be the most useful blog in the region. Strategy Digested is where he takes the somewhat impenetrable reports that come out of Advantage West Midlands and other development agencies and turns them in English. He’s a brave, brave man.
Links from Delicious- Enduring America
- Media Talent Bank - January member of the month
- Vote for Created in Birmingham
- Birmingham Photospace: Choose a Photographer
- Big Brum Quiz of the Year 2008 - Birmingham: It's Not Shit
- Birmingham Jazz News - Sammy Goulbourne: Barack Obama Mixtape
- ESRC report on Future Management of the UK's Creative Industries.
- Art Stalking: One Day Comic & Feature: Architecture
- It's behind me. Twitter pantomime, a social media experiment
- Laundry - an association of multi-disciplinary artists
1 Comment
I’ve just added a new post to Strategy blog Pete and welcome views on it. I’d also welcome any suggestions from your readers on reports, policy or strategy documents that require digesting.
Cheers,
Dave