Posts Tagged ‘ Supersonic ’

The Big Paws 23/10/2010 — Listen Again

Listen to the latest from BiNS’s radio show The Big Paws: Loads of tracks from the wonderful Supersonic festival and local stuff: The Big Paws is live every Saturday at 8am on Rhubarb Radio, who are streaming highlights from the festival all weekend.

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Supersonic Festival 2010 – announced for October

Yes, in fact 22 – 24 October at the Custard Factory. Tickets are now on sale — you don't need to line-up details, but some are here:

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Supersonic, Boom Time

Supersonic, Boom Time

I only managed to get to the Saturday of Supersonic this year, although given that my head still feels battered on Monday morning that may have been a blessing for my sanity. Supersonic, of course, is the mad as hell festival of avant garde noise-making that blesses Brum with its presence on a yearly basis. Manchester has built up an industry around a Sex Pistols gig that supposedly kick-started their entire culture — but that was just one gig, with about ten people there. Capsule bring the most inspiring bands to Brum all the time, without you having to stand next to Mick Hucknall to see them. If there’s any evolution in music then the coming years should see Birmingham becoming the world centre for beguiling noise, and we’ll have Lisa and Jenny to thank. That said there weren’t too many impressionable youngsters there (if the glut of facial hair was anything to go on), we should be sweeping up the emos and nu-ravers and depositing them in front of the stage. I’m not going to review the bands, others will do that with more in-depth knowledge and without the spurious asides (feel free to post links in the...

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Very Metal

For too long Birmingham and the Black Country have failed to celebrate what is rightfully theirs, to claim the city and the region as home of “Heavy Metal”. And to celebrate it is the aim of METAL – A symposium to celebrate and explore the West Midlands musical heritage. The symposium is being held as part of the Supersonic Festival organised by Capsule, and features:Jim Simpson – Black Sabbaths manager for their first 3 albumsEdwin Pouncey aka Savage Pencil – renowned music journalist and cartoonistMark Titchner – Turner Prize nominee 2006Nicholas Bullen – Originator of Napalm Death/Scorn – inventor of ‘Grindcore’ Sounds smart – if you’re metal enough and can get to New Art Gallery, Walsall for a 5pm start on 13th July, then you should. www.capsule.org.uk/supersonic

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