Music Live Venue Open - Mic
It’s the launch of an open jam night. Come down and bring something that makes noise or bring friends that make noise…. Bring the noise. x
The Jekyll & Hyde
28 Steelhouse Lane,
Birmingham
B4 6BJ
Tel no. 0121 236 0345
Music Charity
It all started with the baby Pete story in the news. I remember looking at Joey (the drummer of my band, Divine Oblivion) saying “Someone needs to do something about this. No one deserves to suffer like that, especially a child.” From then on, more and more child abuse stories seemed to come into the news. My band wanted to do something to make a big difference to these vulnerable children, but we just didn’t know how.
Inspiration hit me one night when I heard of a pub that had recorded its Saturday night karaoke singers onto an album and sold it to raise money for a local charity. I realised we could do something very similar, but on a much grander scale. My band (Divine Oblivion) talked it over, and we came to the conclusion that to make the album stand out and be noticed it would have to be the very best quality so it could give the top releases a run for their money.
We knew of a excellent music producer called Dan Foster and we decided to meet with him to discuss the idea. Luckily, he was just in the process of having his own professional music studio built in Hull called “Element”. We met him there amidst lots of sawdust, wires and bubble wrap and to our delight he loved the concept. We all decided to get the very best unsigned bands from throughout the UK to contribute one song each to the album, and to record it with Dan to give the album consistency.
The obvious choice for the charity was the NSPCC, and after discussing our plan to representative Claire Reading she suggested donating the proceeds to the Child’s Voice Appeal. The Child’s Voice Appeal was set up to raise money for Child Line, and we were shocked to hear that with current funding 1 out of 3 calls go unanswered. Every day, thousands of children and young people call Child Line to talk about a problem they face. Hundreds of caring adults also call the NSPCC helpline because they are worried about a child’s safety. The NSPCC can only ensure they have the right amount of trained volunteers and professional counsellors to answer these calls with the right funding. Answering one such call to Child Line costs £4.
From this, we decided to call the album “One Voice” as the project represented unsigned bands coming together as one to give a voice to vulnerable children in the UK. We are currently in the process of recording all the bands at Element studio in Hull, and we hope to release a single where each vocalist from each band contributes to one song which will be the title track of the album. The bands vary in genre, but all are in the Metal / Rock vein and we hope give a good scope of the amazing undiscovered talent in the UK!
Our aims with this ambitious project are:
1) To raise loads of money for the NSPCC!
2) To change perceptions about rock/metal music - an often feared and misunderstood genre. We hope to raise its profile and show it in a more positive light.
3) To show that a charity product doesn’t have to be a cheap/low quality offering - we want to prove that a charity product can be sold and promoted alongside mainstream music.
4) To inspire others to do something positive with their music, and to prove that by working together we can make a huge difference to those who need help!
We are looking to release the album in Spring 2010 with 100% profit going to the Child’s Voice Appeal. Plans are also being made for a huge launch show in London featuring all the bands involved playing live on the same day! We are also looking at doing a UK wide tour so watch this space!
For more information, please have a look at our myspace:
www.myspace.com/onevoicecharitycd
We really need more people to help and grow the project so it can be a huge success for Child line! If you can help in any way – through promotion, advertising or volunteering please get in touch:
Every little donation to the project makes a huge difference and we hope that with many people coming together and helping we can make become one big voice and speak out for vulnerable children. Many thanks!
Creative Community Networking
“I strongly believe that Birmingham needs to do a better job of creating community amongst our businesses if we are to compete with other emerging ‘out of London’ creative/digital hubs like Manchester, Bristol and Brighton. After we have created a cohesive community we will be able to start successfully promoting our offerings to the outside.”
First meet up on Thursday 13th August at the Spotted Dog, Warwick Street,Digbeth, Birmingham B12 0NH @ 6.30pm
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HIGH DEFINITION TRAINING Light House Media Centre offers structured and bespoke continuous professional development in High Definition production techniques, which will enable UK based filmmakers and broadcast engineers to widen their skills base as well as allowing independent production companies to access this knowledge transfer at a competitive rate. Post Production for High Definition This is an intensive 2 day workshop covering: Please note, this workshop is only open to applicants who have some professional experience of working in the film & TV industry and are heavily subsidised by Skillset. For an application form please visit the website or email the training department. |
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Light House The Chubb Buildings Fryer St Wolverhampton WV1 1HT |
It can be difficult to understand the investment opportunities available to Creative businesses. So, Business Link West Midlands, Screen West Midlands and Advantage Proof of Concept have designed a series of FREE seminars to provide you with information on the range of funding support available to help develop your business.
The road show will be visiting the following locations:
30.07.09
Fazeley Studios, 191 Fazeley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5SE.
2pm-6pm
5.08.09
The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Jordan Well, Coventry, CV1 5QP.
2pm-6pm
7.08.09
Light House Media Centre, The Chubb Buildings, Fryer Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1HT
2pm-6pm
2pm Registration
2:30pm - 3:45pm Short presentations from a panel of investment bodies including 4iP, Proof of Concept, Digital Content Development, UnLtd, Innovations Network and Innovations Vouchers
3:45pm - 4pm Questions and Answers
4pm - 4:20pm Break
4:20pm - 5pm Market Place
5pm - 6pm Networking
To book your place call 0845 113 1234* or email
*Lines are open weekdays 8am - 6pm and are charged at a local rate.
Written Word Blog
Love amongst the ruins is a new blog/diary we’ve chanced upon - upon enquiring with the author who wishes to remain anonymous - it’s a day by day account of dealing with a real-life turbulent but love-fueled relationship that has “destroyed it self”. Its starts with the first day of their agreed 1 year “curfew” from each other.
What makes it so compeeling is that is is a topic that has touched all of us at some stage and more so the author based right here in the centre of Birmingham will be providing daily updates on progress and the new future he envisions for himself.
It’ll make for some moving reading! Subscribe to keep uptodate with this what I’d say is our very own “Carrie Bradshaw”! Stay Tuned
Music Opportunity Festival
Play live at this year’s Big Chill festivalAlterhit.com in conjunction with the Big Chill festival is giving one band or solo artist the chance to perform live at this year’s festival.
To win this awesome prize, create an artist account on Alterhit.com. The artist that earns the most from download sales will win the competition and perform at the festival on August 9th.The competition finishes on August 5th at 11am. For more information visit Alterhit.com
Photography
I am a Architect from Birmingham with an addiction for Photography. The following is a link to my redbubble webpage.
www.redbubble.com/people/jimmy999
I have also had a series of images published within the context of a high quality online gallery called One Exposure:
I am keen to expand my work. I found Debut and thought I might share what I do with others.
Cheers
Ian
Art
Keith Wilson
What is Industry? (Moon Boot Yoga Launch)
7.30 - 8.30pm Friday 24 July 2009
Corner of Typhoo Basin & Warwick Bar Stop Lock, canal accesible from Fazely Street, at canal bridge between Andover Street and Pickford Street.
Join the canal side moon boot yoga launch of Keith Wilson’s What is Industry? a specially bound, numbered and boxed sample book, gathering together redundant materials, to serve as more or less recognisable ‘triggers’. The question, What is Industry? is strongly embedded in Wilson’s ongoing practice, which often makes use of industrial processes just as they are falling out of currency, or he employs them in alternative ways in unfamiliar contexts. The publication is number 25 in a series of 40 Strategic Questions, curated by Gavin Wade, and written by R. Buckminster Fuller, in 1966.
At the launch event, and the following day, Saturday 25th, inside Supersonic, you are invited to be part of a new film by Wilson called Moon Landing. In slow motion the film will capture the landing moment of a sequence of people’s backsides sitting down onto moon boot fabric yoga mats, fashioned by Wilson from one of the key materials in his sample book. Don’t miss out on the chance to go down in history and to see the first screening of the rough-edit of the film on Sunday at Supersonic.
What is industry? ISBN –978-0-9551611-9-3 Published by Strategic Questions
Edition of 250 copies. Price: £15
Strategic Questions 2007-9 kindly supported by Arts Council England GFA.
• Filming - Launch event and Saturday 25th July 6 - 8pm, Custard Factory.
• Screening - Sunday 26th 5.45 - 6.15pm, Custard Factory.
Openings also take place at Supersonic and Ikon Eastside on 24th July.
Supersonic Festival, Custard Factory 24-26 July www.supersonicfestival.com
Eastside Projects 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AR, UK
Contact info@eastsideprojects.org www.eastsideprojects.org
Open Thursday 12-7pm, Friday to Sunday 12-5pm
Band Music Opportunity
Play live at this year’s Big Chill festival
Alterhit.com in conjunction with the Big Chill festival is giving one band or solo artists the chance to perform live at this year’s festival.
The public decide who wins the competition and the successful artist will get to play at the festival on Sunday 9th August. For more information visit Alterhit
