Sam Amidon at the Tin Angel, Coventry

Last night I took Emily on a bit of a magical mystery tour over to Coventry. It was a surprise - she didn’t know what we were doing or where we were going.
The reason? Sam Amidon, the artists behind our favourite album of this year “All is Well” was doing a show over at [...]

I’m blogging for the Birmingham Post

In an interesting turn of events I was invited by Joanna Geary of the Birmingham Post to join their new blogging team.
Seems like something that I should try out - the reasons being:

I’m mixing lots of different types of content on this blog. Perhaps some of my ‘birmingham-centric’ stuff should have a different home?
This might [...]

Birmingham Big City Plan - The Video

Given away at the Big City Plan launch yesterday was a lovely little 5 minute video by Squint Opera. I like.
But nobody thought to put this online anywhere, so I asked Kelvin from Urban Initiatives for permission and I’ve ripped it from DVD using HandBrake and uploaded to Viddler for you…
(Yeah - okay, I’m in [...]

Podcast of The Big City Plan Launch

The Big City Plan launched yesterday and I was there to see (and hear) it happen.
I grabbed a 50 minute recording of all of the speeches, which I’m posting here for your listening pleasure (?).
Speaking:

Clive Dutton - Director of Planning, Birmingham City Council (0:00 - 3:37)

Mike Whitby - Leader of Birmingham City Council (3:37 - [...]

 
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South by South West (Midlands)

In short - a bunch of Birmingham digital media types are going to SXSW Interactive in Texas next week, and we are doing a ‘remote control blogging’ thing where you get to ask us to attend stuff and report back for you.
Last year I went to the SXSW Interactive festival in Austin, Texas - the [...]