Brumcast #47 is an Iron Man Records special featuring bands who’ve released music through the 10 year old Birmingham label. Here’s the tracklisting:
1. Nightingales – Carry On Up The Ante
2. Damn Dirty Apes – Egg Eating Ants
3. P.A.I.N. – Rocking Cross De Borda
4. Dufus – A Having Party
5. Last Under The Sun – Bring me their Heads
6. Citizen Fish – Sink Or Swim
7. Pigfish – 50,000,000 Miles Away
8. I.O.D. – Injury Or Death – Transform
9. Rejestracja – Wokol Nas
10. G.O.R.G.E.O.U.S – The Prodigal Scum
11. Less – Only Users Lose Drugs
12. toby wainwirght johns – to kill a sailor
13. Police Bastard – Race Hate
14. Mocca – the last sucker
15. Sensa Yuma – War
16. Fuck Hate Propaganda – His Story In History
17. Legion Of Dynamic Dischord – Onwards To Oblivion
18. Sist – Chinese Whispers
19. Nightingales – The Chorus Is The Title
20. P.A.I.N – British Justice
I listened to it while on my morning walk and it’s a good one.
To download this particular show right-click on this link. To subscribe to the podcast drag this into iTunes or similar. Or just press play on this page:
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Iron Man is run by Mark Badger and it would be remiss of me not to remind you of the long interview I did with him last year.
PLOT put on a number of interesting talks and events at the the Light House in Wolverhampton related to the development of the creative industries. The problem with these, and the many other information dissemination sessions that go on in the region, is if you miss them then you miss them. The knowledge isn’t saved anywhere.
There are exceptions. the Lower Eastside Dialogues are filmed with DVDs are made available later and 4Talent based at Maverick are starting to act as “media partner” on a number of events, helping to bring the knowledge online. But on the whole the knowledge just goes to those who attended.
Which is why the PLOT Podcasts (or Plotcasts) are so interesting. The first one is a simple 40 minute recording of the Q&A that followed the showing of three local films with the writers and directors. Technically it’s nothing special but it’s quick and easy to produce and the talk is archived for anyone who might find it useful.
The Plotcasts don’t appear to have their own page yet but clicking here should subscribe you in iTunes. Alternatively you can simply download the mp3.
Radio To Go is a regular podcast featuring music from the West Midlands selected and presented by Robin Valk, a broadcaster and software consultant who, according to his bio, worked for BRMB in the 70s presenting amongst other things their rock show. Which makes perfect sense as his astonishing voice really evokes that era of the gentleman DJ. The music selection is oddly refreshing, going for what a cynic might call MOR, eschewing novelty for solid musicianship in the rock spectrum – not something I hear a lot of online. It’s not my personal cuppa but there’s certainly a place for this and Robin seems very well connected to a vibrant scene in the region. Here’s the RSS feed.
Antonio Gould has started a series of podcasts, New Media 4casts, for the Channel 4 4talent site exploring how creatives can use new media techniques and technologies effectively. Two shows are online so far on selling online and building a website and he’ll be covering the music and film industries soon. Here’s the RSS feed or you can download direct.
See also the rest of 4talent West Midlands for more resources and advice in this area which I’ll no doubt be exploring over time.
I came across the Brumcast podcast around the time it started and my initial impressions were “meh…” so I filed it away under “Nice idea, shame about the execution.” That was a mistake and having dabbled in podcasting myself I should have known it takes a while to get into the swing of things.
Prompted by a few mentions about the place I checked out the latest show, number 35 which in itself is an achievement. Little Chris has certainly found his groove. The hour long show, featuring only Birmingham-based musicians with an emphasis on the unsigned, darts all over the genre map from jangly indie to death metal, ska to post-rock, acoustic singer-songwriter to the madness of the Modified Toy Orchestra. The quality is generally high and the presentation clear. There’s not much from the rap/r&b or bhangra aspects of the city (bearing in mind I’ve only listened to one show so far) but that’s more indicative of the way music tends to be segregated in Birmingham as a whole than a criticism. It’d be nice to see someone try to bridge those divides though.
To subscribe to Brumcast drag this link into iTunes (or similar). Alternatively mp3 downloads can be found here. More info can be found on MySpace.
