Birmingham promoters, Leftfoot, will be bringing their 10th anniversary year to a close with a string of live soul gigs, starting tonight with NYC disco pioneers Metro Area, followed by veteran producer and DJ Bonobo and Motown superstars Martha Reeves and the Vandellas.
Since launching at The Medicine Bar back in 2000 Leftfoot have played a huge role on Birmingham’s soul scene, Adam Regan, explains the ethos behind the music;
We started out promoting under the name Leftfoot because it seemed to represent the leftfield music we were in to.
I’ve always booked artists I’m passionate about. By making sure our production and hospitality values for live shows stay high, both those on stage and those in the audience share an amazing live experience.
Big caveat on this – I’ve not heard an official announcement about this (or even much speculation, to be honest – there’s been more focus on the Arts Council England and the UK Film Council). Who’s been informed of these figures and whether they’re 100% correct, I have no idea. That said, I’ve asked around a few people and the general gist of it seems to be correct.
The document says these figures are ‘recommended’. If I understand rightly, they’ll be put to a public cabinet meeting on 13 December. If anyone has any info on that then feel free to share it. Info might be at birmingham.gov.uk/democracy but, well…
If they are right it doesn’t look good, but then not much news coming out of the council is at the moment. Savings of £300k a day need to be made and 10,000 jobs are going.
I’m not going to go through that document an pull apart the figures but the comment box is below if you want to discuss things. Just be aware that I’d rather not have to moderate any potentially defamatory comments.
UPDATE
The Business Desk have done some digging and been told (if I’m reading this right) that the doc that’s doing the rounds may be an example of ‘scenario planning’. Which isn’t to say it’s necessarily right or wrong.
Yoyophoto is a contemporary print service offering unique, limited run prints, recently launched by award-winning photographer George Benson and image maker/ musician Sam Underwood.
The site currently features work by George and Sam, but they’re keen to get more photographers on board in the near future.
They’re currently at the collecting contacts stage, so if getting your work featured on the site is something you may be interested in, sign up to their mailing list to receive news on when the site is accepting portfolio reviews.
Since launching, they’ve also been featured on 4Homes and are supplying to Mydeco, so you’d clearly be in good hands!
Fullrange – This Is Birmingham
“The film was being commissioned by commercial property giant Land Securities. Although buried under layers of non-disclosure at the time, they were planning to use the film as part of a sales pitch to sell a sizeable stake in Britain’s busiest shopping centre, Bullring”
Hell’s Kitchen star Marco Pierre White to open Birmingham restaurant
“Marco Pierre White – who was the youngest ever chef to receive three Michelin stars – is set to launch a Steakhouse Bar and Grill on the 25th floor of the recently completed Cube development in the heart of Birmingham”
Birmingham City Council reveals plans to axe 10,000 jobs
“Coun Randal Brew (Con Northfield), cabinet member for finance, said: “We are giving people the opportunity to help themselves.” Right, yes, aren’t they the lucky ones.
steveharding’s posterous
Steve Harding works “in a policy role in Birmingham City University on EU projects about the creative economy”. Interesting to see comparisons between Birmingham and the other cities he visits
Chris Stokes is a video artist in Birmingham, and has made this animation using a Sky Attack game, with music supplied by Creeping Jaw Society, consisting of manipulated sounds taken from samples of the game. Pretty cool.
Musicians and artists based in Birmingham will be putting on this special performance, featuring live adjusted sound and video, guitar, bass, drums, trumpet, sax & ableton.
Doors open at 7.30pm, and the performance starts at 8pm.
Four years ago today Pete posted an interview with Rob Youngson (the full text of which has since disappeared). 2,659 posts, a hatful of contributors, 3,799 comments and a couple of awards later and here we are.
There’s a couple of Christmas parties coming up at the Hare & Hounds…
First is BIAD’s Christmas p-Arty on 9 December, which is £5 in with live music from Black Heart Generator and the Juneau Brothers, plus sets from dj Cassie- Philomena and a portion of poetry from Jodi Ann Bickley and the Mongrel S.Mutt.
They have only one request…
Dress code is no biggy but please leave your pikey mates at home. I’m sure no-one wants to be Santa skanking it out next to a Lacoste cladded pisstramp.
