A daily look at the last 12 months
April was when I appeared to get my head around who was doing stuff with a whole slew of profiles which I’ve listed at the end of this post. And a bunch of stuff happened too as the arts scene picked up for the Spring and CiB got […]
A daily look at the last 12 months
March saw the blog stumble for a fortnight as I came down with the worst cold of my life. Seriously. It was a bad one. But still, a hell of a lot came my way.
Name In Lights, the compo to get a name erected atop the library as […]
A daily look at the last 12 months
February saw loads of announcements for festivals, conferences and the like taking place in Birmingham over the year and I did my level best to keep up with them.
Shouted about in Feb were Fierce, BM&AG’s Open Art Show at the Gas Hall, the Plus+ Design Festival, the Moseley […]
Over the next 12 days I’ll be summarizing the last 12 months of Birmingham’s arts and creative life as seen through the filter of this this blog. And then, once I’m back in the UK and settled, I’ll catch up on all the news.
January saw this blog taking its first tentative steps as I […]
Art Stalking Ana goes to see KateGoes… Interesting to see them reviewed from an “Art” perspective.
Newest Music Strategies. Dubber’s taking his blog in a new direction this year:
In 2007, we learned about the new music business environment. In 2008, we claim it, take the reins and start driving it in a direction that suits us. It’s a direction that’s good for consumers, good for artists, good for entrepreneurs and […]
Feed, “a platform to showcase their work to a professional standard, enabling students to work across different mediums of design for print, motion and interactive graphics in addition to media, photography, music and art” coming out of Mathew Boulton College, has a weblog.
Here’s a long, positive and detailed review of the Binary Oppositions CD that accompanied the exhibition of Birmingham art in Brescia, northern Italy. The CD is sold out but I have seen digital copies floating around the interwebs. Keep your eyes peeled. via Klunk
Nice interview with Joel Wilson aka rapper Joel the Custodian on the predominantly American Music Mamma’s blog.
Here’s the Brum-specific bit:
What is the current music scene like there in Birmingham?
Birmingham, the city that spawned Black Sabbath [and recently the Editors and the Streets] has over 1 million inhabitants. Despite the wealth of creativity and access to […]
Joanna Geary had a follow-up chat with Michael Woolf after he expressed interest in helping Birmingham improve it’s image after the Plus+ festival. He suggests we ask this question:
If Birmingham was a person, or a family, what would it be like? If it was a verb, what would happen if you Birmingham-ed?
Personally that sounds […]
Animation Forum has a new website with a members area for people to upload their work to and connect with others in the area. Interestingly they’re also using a Facebook group for discussions which is a sensible move - using a service that already exists and most people are already on.
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A brief update to the Margaret Street closure blogged about here in April. A comment left on that post from BIAD Fine Art course director John Wigley implies it won’t go ahead quite as planned. If I may quote:
To reassure everybody and to end speculation, at present, as far as we are concerned working in […]
Here’s the Friction Arts Xmas letter.
Local band news: Steve Gerrard informs that Envy and Other Sins are in the final of the Mobile Act Unsigned compo (”the search for the best new band in Britain”) which could see them win a record deal with A&M. While wishing them all the best I’m amused to see the prize includes “hefty cash […]
D’log continues his coverage of Arts Council cuts. The Guardian article he links to gives a bit of context:
Nearly 200 arts organisations in England have been told that their funding will end from next April in the biggest and most bloody cull since the Arts Council was set up more than 50 years ago.
Many organisations […]
Dave Hilliard interviews the writer and blogger Thomas Moronic. Here’s the obligatory Birmingham quote:
The Midlands has other influences as well. As you know, it can be difficult being an artist round here sometimes because it can be quite an isolated place, if you are of a certain creative mindset. The place can be very depressing, […]
That’ll be Brumcast #80 then:
An amusing spoof at theSpoof.com with a Birmingham angle:
Shoppers in Birmingham’s City Centre were confronted by the spectacular vision of the city’s Arts Czar this morning. As they feebly attempted to keep their minds on their Christmas shopping their imaginations were captured by the charismatic figure of Theodore Parker Bowles, Birmingham’s Arts Czar since 2000.
Wearing […]
Ben Neal rounds up some art and music stuff he’s done / been to.
Job listings from Audiences Central