This is one of those things that is so good you just have to mention, but then it’s so good that most people already know about it. If you don’t know, then Soweto Kinch has organised a show under Hockley flyover (well known to anyone who takes the 16 bus into town) if you do know, then he still has. The BBC Birmingham site has a good feature, and here’s the flyer (not my poor compression):
Here’s a quick review of what we saw and did on Thursday at Gigbeth - just the shows really, as we haven’t chance to make the conference aspect (David Nikel has a post about that). I’ll try to leave out any conclusions about the event as a whole too, at least until we’ve been to all three days. On a personal note it was both nice to bump into Pete, and Christopher for the first times (as well Nick too) – if that speaker had come down there might be no blogging on Brum today. The bands had spent “a weird day with people we didn’t know” hanging out together jamming yesterday – I’ve never really heard of that at a festival before – it was a shame that the sound guys hadn’t had a similar bonding session, because technical difficulties didn’t really cover what was going on. Nizlopi played without amplification for at least part of their set – while Achanak set up behind them, the tabla player making frantic signals to the gazebo’d sound desk. At Live Aid, Harvey Goldsmith came up with the idea of a rotating stage to make quick turn arounds possible – at...
