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FlixFixer — a new type of cinema at the Custard Factory

FlixFixer is Social Cinema at the Custard Factory Theatre. “It allows you to choose movies you love, find a venue to screen them and invite friends, family or other like-minded film-lovers to share in a screening where you set the rules – be it dress-up, dress down, no hats or no food. It allows you to build a community of friends around your shared love of movies and get together regularly to celebrate that. We screen here on Wednesdays… or you can screen here whenever you want” Loads of special nights already booking, including an offering from the Dirty Bristow team.

…to line the rabbit’s hunch mainly. Losing relevancy to the faster, closer to “the kids”, world of the music blog the NME is in real circulation trouble. It knows it has to get back to the roots of music rather than keep putting the bloody Libertines on the cover every week, so what better to do than to praise the small venues around the country—to show just how much they know about your life. And so it’s a bit of a shame that, despite quite a few shouts for such venues as the Hare and Hounds, they decided that ‘Custard Factory, Birmingham’ was our local representative in such a poll. Shame really that that’s not much of a small venue containing as it does a few spaces sometimes used for gigs, and one quite large —but “not officially connected”—venue space in, er, Space2. Great as the Supersonic festival is it’s probably the only gig/festival/event that takes place at ‘Custard Factory’—and that is bloody huge, not small. They might have course meant ‘The Factory Club’ which was in the Custard Factory, but that closed some time ago. People on the Tweets are not happy. ...

By Karen Strunks – click to enlarge This weeks Friday Photo hails from the Custard Factory in Digbeth. From the Custard Factory’s website: Six hundred paces from the Bull Ring is The Custard Factory, Birmingham’s revolutionary new arts and media quarter. Built 100 years ago it is now home to a hive of young creative companies, galleries, fine artists, independent shops and terrific restaurants. One of Birmingham’s biggest nightclubs and a number of renowned live music venues are located here. All are part of a vigorous working community that knows how to party too. This was taken on a Sunday stroll around Digbeth to primarily take pictures of the all the old pubs in the area, but I couldn’t help but be drawn into the Custard Factory. It struck me at how much more I ‘see’ when I have my camera in hand. I have been to the Custard Factory quite a few times overs the years, and yet hadn’t noticed these walkways before. I think this is one of the most angular shots I’ve taken. I was quite taken with the window of sky framed by a black overhang and the walls of the walkway, but what really...

Soft Custard

In what I think they call a ‘soft launch’ Mr Pete Ashton Esq of Created in Birmingham fame has opened the doors ever so slightly on the new Custard Factory website: This weblog the first stage of the new Custard Factory website which, in time, will attempt to reflect and complement one of Europe’s largest concentrations of creativity online. Plans for this site are big but to get there we must take small steps, one at a time. Do join us on this journey. If it takes off in the same way as some of Pete’s other blogs I doubt he’ll ever get chance to sleep, let alone until noon. Already a whacking great improvement on what’s gone before, and I’m sure it’ll only get better.

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FlixFixer — a new type of cinema at the Custard Factory

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Friday Photo By Karen Strunks

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