Soweto Kinch can add Winner of the MOBO for Best Jazz to his list of awards. Well done sir! He’s also done a piece for the Times listing his ones to watch on the jazz scene.
Archive for September, 2007
Speaking of Gigbeth, I just found this on my desktop. Must have downloaded it while browsing the site. It’s PDF of what’s on over the Gigbeth weekend and puts it all into some perspective. Click to download (1.4mb)
Golly!
Robin Valk’s latest Radio To Go podcast is a Gigbeth special featuring music from some of the many bands involved and an interview with co-ordinator Clare Edwards explaining what it’s all about. Here’s the mp3, here’s the feed or just press play on the widget below.
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The Mud Hut at the Festival of Xtreme Building site was featured on Radio 4′s PM today (about 15 mins in to this clip). They’re building a sustainable house out of mud bricks over the next week and anyone can take part.
Russ L’s Artsfest report is the most comprehensive and link-heavy I’ve seen so far.
Watch – Pencil on linen
Jane Anderson is an multidisciplinary artist who frequently uses paint, pencil and digital-based media, to explore themes around identity.
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Jane has also run workshops in education & business settings for clients such as the BBC. She has curated several exhibtons to date and is a founder of Periscope (Birmingham artists project space) taking a lead for all web and design production.
Thai school kids – Digital Media
Art © Jane Anderson. Hat-tip to Russ L who says she sells at the Custard Factory’s Sunday Flea
Jenny and Lisa from Capsule have written a great survival guide to the South by South West music festival in Austin, TX on the Digital Central site for UK bands wishing to try their luck there.
Very late notice but the next Multipack meeting, for the discussion of all things web, takes place tomorrow, Sep 22nd, at the The Old Joint Stock from 2-7pm
There are a few display space available at the Plus International Design Expo, “currently one large space and six small spaces” open to “graphic and digital design agencies that would like to exhibit their work at the festival” which takes place from the 17th to 21st October in Digbeth.
Art Stalking Ana reports from the David Thomas opening night at Crowd 6 in Bearwood.
Not content with colonising Digbeth every summer the IKON is invading Erdington:
As part of Birmingham City Council’s Arts Champion Scheme, artist Jacques Nimki has designed a range of brightly coloured banners that line Erdington’s High Street. The works feature wild fl owers that grow in the area, as observed by the artist on a research trip. To mark the twinned relationship between Ikon and Erdington, Nimki has also created a large, vibrant banner showing similar imagery, located in front of the gallery building.
Nimki, you’ll remember, was responsible for creating a meadow in a Digbeth warehouse this summer.
The banners go up on Tuesday 25th.
Brumcast number 68 is up. Download, subscribe or click to listen.
[audio:http://ipodnetworks.com/podcast/363/1913_hifi.mp3]
The Town Hall re-opening festival is nearly upon us and I’ll be profiling some of the events that have an explicit Birmingham connection. Which looks to be most of them truth be told. As you’d expect really!
Best of British Urban has been put together by local outfit Punch who operate in many fields including retail, promotion, producing, marketing, education and a record label. The lineup is a mix of national and local talent including Four Kornerz, Terri Walker, Natalie Williams, TY, Seven, Sacha Brookes and E Double D.
The night is hosted by Galaxy FM DJ Sacha Brooks and tickets are £10.
