A nice vid from Junction 15 featuring extended bits of Badly Drawn Boy, Billy Bragg, lots of smiley people and some earnestly hippyish goings-on at last year’s Moseley Folk Festival.
Moseley Folk Festival from junction15 on Vimeo.
After a great year, raising over £9,000, OxjamBrum are ending 2010 on a high by teaming up with Moseley Folk Festival to present a Chrsitmas Ceilidh on 17 December.
The evening will take place at Moseley All Services Club, from 7:30 – 11:30pm, with entertainment provided by Cut The Mustard, who’ll be performing some Ceilidh classics.
Tickets are £4 which can be bought online or on the door. All proceeds of course going to Oxfam.
After headlining the second stage at Moseley Folk Festival back in September, Goodnight Lenin are back in their hometown once again, for this special gig in St. Pauls Church on 4 December.
With support from Boat to Row, what better way to warm up a chilly night than with a nice bit of folky music.
Doors open at 7.30pm, tickets are £5 in advance online / £6 on the door.
- New ideas for Cinderella
A Q&A with David Bintley about his new production for Birmingham Royal Ballet - April Meet ‘em Up | Birmingham – 28 April
The get-together for WM-based folks in the games industry rolls into Birmingham - EAT A BOOK RECORDS!
“yo, i’ve been running a little tape label for a short while now, im using this to post about releases, as well as put up interviews and writings that might be turned into an annual zine!!” - Project Pigeon News « We Are Eastside
An update on goings on at the pigeon loft - Ideal Skateboard Supply
The skate shop in the Custard Factory. I like their blog - Best Believe – Vans film premiere in Birmingham
Amy says – “Just peeped this over at Ideal Skate Supply, looks like they have secured a screening of the Vans film just out. This is a high coo by any standard. The film will be shown at the shop down at The Custard Factory on 24th April” - Spaghetti Gazetti: Martineau 10 – the fight continues
“This is a campaign which is trying to save the Martineau Centre, a building which belongs to Birmingham City Council on Balden Road” - Flip Animation Festival 2010 calls for submissions
“FLIP, and the festivals organisers, would like to invite animators to submit animated films of up to 15 minutes in length” - The City Dream
“A blog dedicated to reviewing and commenting on all things “arts” by a city life lad. Dedicated to theatre, modern / classic art, fashion, dance and all things cosmopolitan” - Moseley Folk Festival 2010 – Stewards
“We are looking for a team of friendly faces to help during the festival. In return for two shifts of stewarding you can free entry for the whole weekend”. Get the form here - City of Culture – Talk to us | birminghamnewsroom.com
Some follow up from the post where I had a look at Birmingham’s City of Culture related stuff (unfortunately what I intended as discursive has been taken as criticism) - Digbeth is Good » Getgood Link: YouTube – CELLAR DOOR 2
Nicky’s right, this does start off looking like something from a horror film. It’s the trailer for the new Rainbow venue
The Metro’s West Midlands Life blog (fresh from giving Artsfest a rather unnecessary shoeing) have reminded me of the Outer Sight film nights at The Edge that I mentioned a while back and completely forgot to follow up on.
The next one is apparently on Saturday and:
the very vague theme is ‘French Fancies & Freaky Kids Flicks’. Expect weird film from psychedelic animator Vince Collins and even weirder music. Entry is £2.50 with invite or £3.50 without; for more information, text OUTERSIGHT to 07887 956297, or e-mail outersight@live.com to join the mailing list
So if you’re not listening politely to another quite pleasant acoustic act at Moseley Folk Festival then perhaps pop down to this. Speaking of the Mofo Festival (as no-one is calling it, thankfully) it kicks off today and I hear that kids’ tickets have gone. When I bought a ticket the other day (pay in cash at Polar Bear and avoid a hefty booking fee from some other outlets) they were going quick – apparently it looks like Saturday might sell out but there should be tickets on the door if you get down in time.
Mark at Surely has posted up the new promo for The Destroyers – the riotous, Birmingham-based, 15 piece genre-botherers – on the Surely blog:
Directed by John Humphreys and shot by Prime Chris in the late hours of a friday night in May, the merry band bring the dawn in atop a multi story with city views.
And here it is:
The Destroyers will be playing the Moseley Folk Festival at the end of August, which I really must grab a ticket for.
- Music Network meeting Thursday 31 July 4pm at The TIC
“The Birmingham branch of Musicians Union will be supplying luxury chocolate biscuits and good coffee for all. There’s food and drink afterwards supplied by the creative networks lot too. Come and talk about what you’re up to and meet some new people” - Rosie Kay Dance Company at the Edinburgh Fringe
Rosie has been invited to show Double Points: K at the festival but could do with some support to help make it happen. Here’s the justgiving page set up for that purpose - Birmingham fails to make cultural top 10
Paul Groves doesn’t know what to make of what purports to be a list of the UK’s ‘most cultured local authority areas’. Neither do I. Birmingham comes in 14th behind a slew of London authorities and Manchester - Baron Davenport’s Charity require someone to copy a (bronze?) bust
If you can help, or if you know someone who can, then contact Marlene Keenan at mkeenan@barondavenportscharity.org or on 0121 236 8004 - Moseley Folk Festival 2008
“Moseley Folk Festival is again looking for smiley, happy people to help
out at the festival”. Details via the link and/or email nicola@moseleyfolk.co.uk - Bobbie’s 1st Post
Bobbie Gardner joins the Gigbeth bloggers
