- Island Bar has a new music night . Friday Night Live starts this week (27th) with Sabotage Left, Fillmore Gears & The Drowners. As well as this weekly event, Sunset Cinema Club, who are a band rather than a club, will be running their, um, club - Tropical Hotdog Night - on the first Friday of every month starting Aug 3rd with Distophia and Little Dipper (flyer)
- The second week of Rich Batsford’s Edinburgh Preview comedy shows at the Old Joint Stock Theatre this Tuesday and Wednesday features Robin Ince, Milton Jones, Toby Hadoke and Steve Hughes.
- Tickets for Gigbeth have gone on sale. It’s a three day festival taking place in most of the venues in Digbeth and a three day pass for all of them will cost you just £15, or if you just want to dip in for a day it’ll set you back £6.50. Here’s the ordering page which is a little unclear. Just select any day and you’ll be given an option for the weekend pass.
- Mark Badger has news of Musoplex, a “new West Midlands-based venture created by specialists from several music and multimedia backgrounds.” They offer studio recordings, photography, videography, live recording, rehearsals, PA and engineer hire and promotion and are based in Rowley Regis, just off the M5.
- 383 won a Creative City Award last week and talk about it on their blog.
- Filum Night is another cinema-related event at The Rainbow (they’ve got a good niche thing developing there). It’s “a celebration of Irish writing in film” and next monday 30th they have a discussion of James Joyce’s The Dead preceding a showing of John Huston’s 1997 film adaptation.
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