Comments on: Feel the Heat debate in Post

By: What's On In Brum?

What's On In Brum? — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:05:39 +0000

WOIB mostly lists club events and live music but there are intentions of spending more time in compiling theatre, comedy and exhibitions in Birmingham. Most of the club events and live music listings are listed by the promoters themselves making the task of keeping it all up to date a bit easier but I do try to cover the whole scene.

What’s On In Brum? receives around 20,000 – 30,000 hits a week either from people knowing about the site or through Google.

If you haven’t checked the site out please do: http://www.woib.co.uk

A new version was launched this week and so any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

By: Mikhail Alexandrovich

Mikhail Alexandrovich — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:38:54 +0000

Considering the amount of money that has been poured into the likes of Birminghamusic.com (as an example)shouldn’t somebody somewhere be taking an interest in finding out why so much money has been spent but so little has been achieved that has proved actually useful in the long term? I get the feeling that “Feel the Heat” is just the tip of the iceberg that has taken a slap because the problem is more deep rooted than just the “feel the heat” campaign. I fear that Feel the heat was “the last straw” or a “catalyst” that has stimulated heated discussion…and that it’s not just “feel the heat” that needs to be called to account. What about the likes of Artsfest, Creative launchpad, Creative Insight, Creative Alliance, Creative College in the Community, LSC and Gigbeth, Creative Networks, how can these projects be evaluated properly to identify clear demonstration of best practice versus potential waste of time money and resources. Is there an effective form of evaluation and what lessons can be learned? I can’t believe all of them are “huge Successes” and I’m sure at least one of them must be demonstrating best practice. How do we find out?

By: Dave Hodgson

Dave Hodgson — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:08:49 +0000

As we are already working with the Audiences Central guys, it would be good for Lydia in my team to catch up with you on the feed issue when you meet with Caroline and Jamie. We are also setting up a joint meeting with Trinity Mirror and Audiences Central to do the same.

By: birmingham alive!

birmingham alive! — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:01:10 +0000

funnily enough my m.a. in ethnomusicology *was* to have been majorly focussing on classical iranian music, but there weren’t the contacts around at the time there are now, so i ended up focussing on something else instead…

By: bounder

bounder — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:57:41 +0000

You mean they don’t have Created in Tehran?

By: PinHoles

PinHoles — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:26:39 +0000

I think the middle east could learn a lot from this.

By: birmingham alive!

birmingham alive! — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:20:03 +0000

done !

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:14:24 +0000

I certainly would like to take you up on that offer.

We are always up for collboration for the good of the sector and I welcome this step closer for the common good.

If you wish to set up a meeting to discuss this with myself and our Programme Director Caroline Griffin please feel free to email me at your convenience at jamie.perry@audiencescentral.co.uk

By: birmingham alive!

birmingham alive! — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:31:33 +0000

we all aim to please…

but seriously, if dave, jamie, or anybody else would like a custom rss feed from birmingham alive to enhance their own listings sites, i’d be more than willing to oblige.

There are NO websites that show EVERYTHING IN BIRMINGHAM that can be watched, listened to, enjoyed, participated in etc etc.

that’s right; i don’t deny it – but if anybody can point to a site which has a more comprehensive picture of live performance in birmingham, i’ll willingly concede.

By: johnny normal

johnny normal — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:53:48 +0000

thanks for a very enjoyable, if not heated, debate on the Birmingham event scene. It’s a shame that the ArtsFest organisers didn’t have that fire in their bellies and passion to promote their event this year! Well done, very entertaining.