Going up in The Public
From 18th July until September the large glass edition of the Birmingham Music Map is going to be on display at The Public in West Bromwich as part of their Summer Exhibition.Read More…
Tag Archives: music
Touching cloth
On Friday, as part of Flatpack Festival, there’ll be a screening of Lawrence of Belgravia: the documentary about the Felt, Denim and Go Kart Mozart frontman (nay, genius). The blurb goes thusly:Read More…
New LP free: with chicken seasoning
The Internet has disrupted the musician’s lot as much as that or any artist, perhaps more so. So how do you get people to value an new LP? Maybe give it awayRead More…
Broadcast’s Trish Keenan: a singer for whom life was a discovery | Music | guardian.co.uk
"If the reaction of the blogosphere and Twitterati to Keenan's sudden death are reliable indicators, every one of their four studio albums should have been worldwide No 1s. Blur's Graham Coxon calledRead More…
The King and I — my Elvis Marathon.
Pleased to have one less thing in common with the Wonder Stuff, I do love Elvis. I love the hillbilly cat and the jumpsuited entertainer, and to prevent disillusionment I find itRead More…
My new music blog
fuckyeahobscuretunes where I’m going to try to post an obscure tune a day.
Birmingham Music Map
I’m a great supporter of the Birmingham Music Archive, and have long been discussing types of social media and other work that could contribute to their archiving of Birmingham based music andRead More…
Half Map Half Biscuit
A map of everywhere mentioned in a Half Man Half Biscuit song. Genuis psychogeography.
Radio Free Horse Shit For The Garden
If you like the Two Ronnies your first thought when using the word Rhubarb is probably “manure”, but no more. At least until they run out of themes and end up doingRead More…
Glasvegas
Have the look of the band of 2009 – as imagined in a British film from the early nineties. They’re various old punk scenesters playing the future Jesus and Mary chain. TheRead More…