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5 hours ago - RT @WMPolice: M5 has fully re-opened following earlier incident. Traffic moving freely. Thanks to motorists for your patience.
9 hours ago - RT @WMPolice: Due to a police incident there are heavy delays on M5 jc 4 southbound. Drivers are having to exit motorway and re enter vi ...
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2012/05/16 - RT @THSHBirmingham: Reminder: if you're in #Birmingham city centre at 9.15pm tonight, head to Victoria Square for something *very* speci ...
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Video Archive
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CBSO animated silent movie challenge
As part of the process of packing the books in to boxes ready for the move to the new Library of Birmingham, staff in the Archives and Heritage department uncovered several boxes of old silent film scores – so they sent them over to the CBSO to have a few recorded to launch a competition [...] -
Video – Ska Fell Pike, The Yardbird, 9 March, 2012
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Video – The Urban Folk Quartet, 3 March 2012
The Urban Folk Quartet played an astoundingly excellent concert at The Yardbird to launch their new album “Off Beaten Tracks“, and of course I was there video camera in hand. I found it so difficult to choose just 10 minutes out of all the footage I captured to edit into one piece that I decided [...] -
Laura J Martin + Duotone, 15 December 2011, Symphony Hall bar
Symphony Hall‘s Folk for Free series rounded of its 2011 season with two excellent loop-based artists – Laura J Martin and Duotone. Laura J Martin Duotone 3D And as a special bonus track, if you have a pair of red-cyan 3D glasses, here’s an experimental 3D video! -
Auriyga, Sharron Kraus, and Fursaxa
I had a most excellent evening on 2nd December at the Hare and Hounds in the company of Auriyga, Sharron Kraus, and Fursaxa – here are some videos I made to hopefully give you a bit of a flavour of the excellence of the evening: Auriyga Sharron Kraus Fursaxa It was my first go with [...] -
The Sound of Ore + Lash Frenzy, Ikon Gallery, 20 November 2011
Birmingham curators of fine music Capsule presented a concert of drone-based music in the Ikon gallery; here are the edited highlights of both performances. The Sound of Ore Lash Frenzy -
The DruMachine Project – High Street, 16 November
Oded Kafri, an Israeli-born drummer now living in London, is the latest in the series of street musicians to have made me late back for work after lunch; fortunately on this day the meeting I was late for was with somebody sitting directly behind me who had a flexible calendar… http://www.thedrumachineproject.com/ And now also in [...] -
Review – The Bonfire Radicals + Auriyga, Frederick’s Bar, Jewellery Quarter – 10 November 2011
I have to admit, I’m rather envious of Joe Broughton; when I first set up the Birmingham Conservatoire Folk Ensemble in 1993 it did OKish – we had did an internal concert every term, which was reasonably well received each time, but it never broke out beyond the Conservatoire itself. I formed a couple of [...]







