- Birmingham: British rock’s forgotten city?
Louis Pattison at The Guardian Music blog chews the fat over the city’s musical heritage and starts debate a plenty with statements like ‘Birmingham, however, is not a music city’, and comparing Brum to the swaggering ‘Madchester’.
- D’log – Handsworth Songs
The excellent 60-minute film Handsworth Songs (John Akomfrah & Black Audio Film Collective; 1986) is now available on YouTube, taken from an old VHS tape of a Channel 4 broadcast in the late 1980s.
- Vivid – Pioneers Series
VIVID’s Pioneers series continues in February with two exciting programmes, Inspirations and Figuring Landscapes. Inspirations + special screening programme presented by Malcolm Le Grice Sat 07 Feb 2009.
- Bloggers love snow
Matt Murtagh’s photographs of an eerie winter wonderland. Parboo’s snaps of Mac, kebablog’s obligatory snow post and finally snowc*ckhunt, snowy adventures of the … erm, phallic kind.
- Birmingham Twitter Flash Mob
Simply a flash mob of Twitterers in Birmingham City Centre. At midday, the mob will stand still for two or three minutes, and produce signs saying “I’m a twitterer”, “Twitter rocks”, “tweet tweet”, you get the idea.
