Created in Birmingham

CiB’s frequent flyers may know that 2007’s Supersonic collective memory was a thing of rare beauty, pulling together all sorts of mentions of the festival from across the interwires.  This is an attempt at replicating that for Supersonic 2008.

[Update, 29 July 2008]  I’ve noticed very little new stuff recently so I’m going to stop actively searching and have unsubscribed from my automated updates.  However, if you produce/come across any writings/photos/videos/whatever about this year’s festival then please mention them in the comments and I’ll update this post.

On with the good stuff then…

Capsule/Supersonic themselves

Here’s the Supersonic website itself.  If you had a good time at the festival you can say thanks to the Capsule ladies, Lisa & Jenny, on this Capsule blog post.  Here’s the festival catalogue, digitised.

Previews

• Birmingham Mail
  
• Metro (and again)
• Drowned In Sound
• Cows Are Just Food (general plus pt 1 - Oxbow, pt 2 - Noxagt, pt 3 - DJ Scotch Egg, pt 4 - Cath & Phil Tyler)
• Strange Attractor
• Girl Aloud
• Fact Magazine
• 4Talent
• BBC
• Birmingham Post blog and interview with Capsule
• Vice and Vice Festival Previews (reproduced on Name Me Someone Thats Not A Parasite)
• The Quietus with podcast interview
• Itchy Birmingham
• The Guardian Guide
• Safe Concerts
• Prime Objective

Blogs

• Chris Unitt (here and a roundup)
• The Hearing Aid (Friday, Saturday and Sunday)
• Digbeth Slacker
• Ben Neal (Friday)
• Pete Ashton - Twitter roundup and further blog post
• Birmingham: It’s Not Shit
• Catnip
• Peapods
• Catherine Bray
• Prime Objective
• Digbeth Is Good
• French (here and here)
• Cows Are Just Food (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
• Safety in Numbers
• Tatsu001
• thegrotto.tk
• Man Walks Into A Bar
• 7 Inch Cinema
• Surely
• cc media
• Damon Allen Davison
• I shook the royal throne
• The Mark Out
• nos Açores não há açores - dia 1, dia 2, dia 3
• marmite_clock Live Journal
• Chris Hathway (with photos)
• one man dan’s dump
• Birmingham Live
• Outcrowd Collective
• Russ L

Other websites

• Drowned in Sound (plus a passing mention of Supersonic ruining the single reviewer’s appreciation of pop music)
• Guardian
• Culturedeluxe
• 4Talent with interviews with Rolo Tomassi and Fuck Buttons
• Bearded Magazine
• Itchy Birmingham
• Southern Records
• Kerrang (magazine scan)
• Heathen Harvest
• ninehertz
• Rock Sound (magazine scan) pt 1 and pt 2

Fora

• Xltronic
• Collective Zine

Social networks

• Last.fm Supersonic event
• Twitter - ’supersonic’ search on Summize
• Supersonic 08 Facebook event
• Supersonic MySpace

Photos

• Supersonic Flickr group
• abrinsky
• Midge Diabolik
• Terekhova
• compact col
• bibamatt
• malcolm8
• Peapod
• kukulaka
• Catnip
• shrinkwrapped
• sloejoe
• Bunny Bissoux
• lamentables
• Techno Self Harm
• marxs_beard
• JohnJohn2004
• pennymcconnell
• Damon Allen Davison
• shot2bits
• foxtrotyankee
• Sumlin
• possible_area
• Pete Ashton

Video

• Montage of the weekend by blaahhrrgg
• Harvey Milk - Crush Them All, The Anvil Will Fall (excerpt), A Maelstrom Of Bad Decisions
• Kikuri (and again)
  
• Justice Yeldham
  
• Thrones
• Gravetemple.  Plus more from YouTuber righteousharmony here and here and from jungliemonkey in pt 1, pt 2, pt 3 and pt 4
• Fucked Up
• Noxagt
• Oxbow
• Fuck Buttons
• Asva (pt 1, pt 2)
• Parts & Labor - Fractured Skies
• Battles - Tras, Tonto
• Red Sparowes
• DJ Scotch Egg - start of set and more
• Maruosa and a little more
• Transitional
• Earth - pt1, pt2, pt3, pt4 and pt5
• Harmonia
• Orthodox
• The Heads

If you’re interested about the process of pulling together all this info as quickly/easily as possible then I’ll be writing about it at chrisunitt.co.uk shortly.  By shortly I probably mean ‘in a month or two’.

Remember if you spot something Supersonic 08-related on the internet (or just want to say what you thought of the festival) then please use the comments below to let me know.