1. The Conscripts – The Run Down
2. Dastards -Take a left
3. Gillian Stapleton – people pleaser
4. Filthy Cake – A Smile on your face
5. che – shiver
6. The Fores – I’m nobody
7. Amberphonik – Night Sailor
8. 35 seconds – Chew
9. Miss Halliwell – SORGHUM
10. Dead Letter Office – Chairkickers
11. Rawality – BRrum BRum
12. Crash Repeat – Son of the drum
13. Steve Heathcock – White Flag
14. The Lean Yellows – 21st Dream Syndrome
15. The Garcia LX – 70s Dad
16. The Riptides – An English Sentence
17. Jonathan Beckett – about the midlands
18. Tom Lord – Blitzkrieg Flop
19. Malevolent Aspect – Cold Steel Bars
20. Aquila – Let me Go

This is the tracklisting:

1. Old School Tie – Fireflies
2. The Me Band – If It Was Up To Me
3. The hungry i – Jaws of Love
4. The Fury – Ninja
5. Betty & The Id – Cellophane Man
6. Johnny Normal – Jake’s Ride
7. The Mallory Heart – Judas Revisited
8. Mayday – Barracudas
9. BSN420 – Student Life
10. Aaron.C – Fall For Anything
11. Porpoise – Big Cat Tag Team Take Down
12. Flesh Eating Foundation – 05 – The Dead
13. And She Said… – Me
14. Cueball 8 – Chocolate Blue Skies
15. Distinct Radi0 – these modern times
16. The Riptides – Soldier in your heart

They put on regular live events and also put out a monthly podcast called the Cobcast (downloads coming soon).  They’ve also made a short documentary with bits of interviews, live footage and so on that’s worth a gander:

Nic Treadwell wrote (bloody ages ago actually – sorry!) about his Homegrown Podcast where he’s been featuring artists form Birmingham and elsewhere for a couple of years now. He’s interested in doing interviews / features with folk in his Rowly Regis studio. Get in touch at nic [at] homegrownpodcast.co.uk

Over on the Ikon site there’s a 1hr45m recording of a symposium on printmaking that took place on Feb 20th.

Ikon and Birmingham City University School of Art co-hosted a lively roundtable discussion about the nature of contemporary printmaking. The implications of digital technology were considered not just in terms of production, but also its possible impact on the meaning of printed artwork.

Ikon’s Director, Jonathan Watkins was joined on the panel by artists Tim Maguire and Christiane Baumgartner, Tessa Sidey (Curator, Prints and Drawings Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery), Frank Bordas (studio Frank Bordas) and Jeremy Lewison (Independent Curator).

Can’t find a download link so you’ll have to listen to it from your computer but this is a fantastic development for Ikon.

Pic taken from Ikon, labeled “Tim Maguire Studio. Work in progress”

The fifth and final edition of Antonio Gould’s New Media 4Casts is online covering how engaging with the blogging community can help creative types reach new customers across the world. The core example, which I’d encourage you to check out, is Emily Malcom’s Black Apple blog. Subscribe on the site or listen here:
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Brumcast 81
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Brumcast 82
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Brumcast 83
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