- Artstalking is a blog run by Ana Milgram who goes to arts events and writes about them. As you can imagine seeing this makes me very happy indeed! She also sticks photos on Flickr.
- Simon Peplow interviewed on the blog ELvis IN hawaii.
- Julian Cope was at Supersonic and writes a lovely review in his August Address Drudion: “Everything about the general stature, body language and overall look of the audience at Supersonic reminded me that there are gonna always be feisty refuseniks here in the West who are more than willing to Fight For Their Right To Party!”
- Speaking of which, Capsule are back from their summer break with a hefty lineup for the Autumn.
- Midwest has news of Come & Gone: Design for Change, a community art project by Thai artist, Wasinburee Supanichvoraparch and local communities from the Old Snow Hill Canal area. It takes place at the UCE’s Margaret Street Building from 1-9 September and there’s an open Private View on August 31st from 6-9pm. Full details of the project and exhibition at that link.
- The guys at Birmingham-based Johnny Two Shoes released a Flash game, High Speed Chase onto the web last week which got picked up by social bookmarking service Digg and was so popular it took their site offline for a while, the true mark of success in this internet age.
- The next Creative Networks event is on August 31st and is on “Legal Matters”. Creative Wolverhampton has a handy summary.
- The Baron went to the Moseley Festival and wrote a review with links to the acts he saw.
- Marc Reck on writing music for his DJ sets. I don’t tend to cover DJs here as it’s just playing records, innt? I am wrong.
Fanx Mr Ashton :)