Highlighting under the radar arts and culture in Birmingham, UK

Category Archives: Music

Flatpack need your help!

Flatpack is back! The seventh Flatpack Festival returns from 21-31 March 2013, spreading across eleven days. This year audiences can expect  and cycle-powered screenings, Lotte Reiniger’s 1926 cut-out fairy-tale, The Adventures of … Continue reading

December 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Supersonic celebrates 10 years + vinyl amnesty

Next weekend (19-21 October) Digbeth will once again vibrate with strange, wonderful sounds as the Custard Factory hosts Supersonic, one of the UK’s most distinctive, experimental and multi-disciplinary arts festivals. … Continue reading

October 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Birmingham Zine Festival

Birmingham Zine Festival 2012 takes place this year from 12-15 October. Held at Sidewalk on Hurst Street it will  feature workshops, talks, film screenings, gigs as well as an independent publishing fair. … Continue reading

October 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Invasion

Invasion is a ‘momentary cultural take over’ of  the AE Harris building in the Jewellery Quarter taking place from 22 – 30 September. 40 artists specialising in painting, print, sculpture, installation … Continue reading

September 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Sound Lounge 21

Town Hall and Symphony Hall are currently looking for a core group of ten young people aged 16-21 years from Birmingham to be part of Sound Lounge 21, an exciting new … Continue reading

September 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Stockhausen – a Festival of LIGHT

Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Kraftwerk, Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, Bjork – None of them (and many many more) would be the same if it hadn’t been for Karlheinz Stockhausen. The … Continue reading

August 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment

The Alif Ensemble feat. Khyam Allami

One night earlier this year I sat in a tent in the desert in Wadi Rum, Jordan being taught the oud by a rather handsome young  Bedouin man. The whole … Continue reading

July 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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