I had an email in the week about a little gig/party that someone was going to be hosting at their house – part of the (mobile phone sponsored) Unlit tour that has been making it’s way around the country for the past month.  It sounded interesting so last night,

Not many people, percentagely-speaking, comment on blogs.  A bit of Jakob Nielsen research showed that: In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action. I write a lot of blog posts

I’m not quite sure what I’ve got myself involved in here. I was chatting to Carl from Made Media a couple of weeks ago.  He makes short films from time to time and aparrently, when he was living in Sheffield, he took part in a few little competitions

The other weekend I went to the UK launch of Mother India 21st Century Remix at The Drum and was more than a little impressed. Mother India, Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1957, follows the story of Radha who endures poverty, the death of her child, the destruction

I’m going to organise a film competition in Birmingham. There.  I’ve said it.  You’re not allowed to lie on the internet so I have to do it now. Any thoughts, suggestions, offers of help/experience/equipment/venues/common sense/etc would be welcome.  Hit me in the

For the past few weeks I’ve been working on a project called Cquestrate – known to my friends and family before 21 July as ‘that science project I’m not allowed to talk about’. Cquestrate is an attempt to develop a solution to climate change in an ‘open source’ way.

This talk took place on 15 May and was organised by Creative Republic.   I sat at the back of the room typing away and these are my unexpurgated notes in all their glory… Creative industries employ 10p of workforce in WMids.  Twice as likely to be self-employed though – motivation for

So the krautrock legends of Harmonia brought Supersonic 2008 to a suitable end – by turns soothing, pulsing and hammering.  My review (to go up on Birmingham Live) is almost finished but music reviews are a little constraining content-wise so here’s the other stuff. Overall it was a fantastic weekend.

Today I’m down at Supersonic in the Custard Factory.  I’ve just got here and can’t believe my luck – Steve Gerrard (who’s snapping for Rock Sound, Terrorizer and Birmingham Live) has a studio right by the outside stage which makes a perfect base for writing up reviews,

I had a pretty incredible day on 31 May.  It started and ended at the Hippodrome with some Fierce Festival events – Motionhouse’s Underground early on and then the Courtesan Tales later.  More on them later. Between those two I went down to one of Birmingham’s least celebrated spots