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links for 2009-06-30
July 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Rock Werchter :: Festival Belgium CHANGING TIMES, PASSION, DESIRE AND AN OVERDOSE OF LUCK. THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE ELEMENTS THAT HAVE TURNED ROCK WERCHTER INTO ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND - ACCORDING TO ITS COLLEAGUES - BEST FESTIVAL IN THE WORLD. THE CONCISE HISTORY OF A FESTIVAL BETWEEN 1975 AND 2006. in 1967, a so-called beat happening was organised. Long before Woodstock in the United States and Isle Of Wight in Great-Britain. At its height in 1978, Jazz Bilzen, back then a four-day festival, drew 15,000 festival-goers... [Read the full story]
Meeting Minutes
June 2009 Music Network Meeting Minutes
June 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment
June 2009 Music Network Meeting Minutes Present : Andy Derrick (Sostenuto LLP), Mark Badger (Iron Man Records, The Music Network), Adrian Kimberlin (Exit Recording), David Powell, Jayla Nyota (Performance Poet) , Ashley (prole position, numb ratio) and a number of latecomers whose names i didn’t get. Apologies: Anthony Hughes, Clare Edwards, Jayla: She is putting on a showcase for unsigned acts, 1st july 2009 7.20pm £2.00 with flyer lizzie dean(from boy george) basil gavidon(ex steel pulse), shakti, j-disco, chinky,... [Read the full story]
Artists
CLUB 444 @ THE RAINBOW, DIGBETH: MAEVEN, DRAG AND NEWSPEAK DIVIDE, AGE 14+ GIG
February 3, 2009 · 2 Comments
Event Title - CLUB 444 @ THE RAINBOW, DIGBETH Event description - FEMALE FRONTED BANDS, MAEVEN, DRAG AND NEWSPEAK DIVIDE PERFORM AT THE RAINBOW IN DIGBETH, AGE 14+ GIG Event Date(s) and Time(s) - MONDAY 9TH FEBRUARY, DOORS 8PM Website link to event information - HTTP://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/KAMIKAZEE Website link to book tickets - £4 FROM HTTP://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/FORERUNNERRECORDS Any other external links (such as a performers website) - HTTP://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/DRESSEDASGIRL, HTTP://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/NEWSPEAKDIVIDE Event Title - FORERUNNER... [Read the full story]
Education
Basic advice on copyright
January 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Visit here for an article dealing with the basics of copyright: Copyright 101 SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Basic advice on copyright", url: "http://birminghammusicnetwork.com/2009/01/08/basic-advice-on-copyright/" }); Read More →
Tour Dates
Rieser - Monday 15th June 2009 - The Roadhouse, Birmingham
June 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Rieser *Gigs*: Monday 15th June - The Roadhouse, Birmingham, supporting Miami band ‘Nothing Rhymes With Orange’, 8pm, £5. Saturday 20th June - Pivo Pivo, Glasgow, supporting NRWO, 8pm, £5. Sunday 21st June - Fete de la Musique 09, French Institute, Randolf Cres, Edinburgh. 5pm, FREE *Radio*: Tuesday 16th June - British Forces Broadcasting Service, Interview/Session, High Wycombe. Details at: http://www.bfbs-radio.com *Recent Reviews*: http://www.sonicdice.com/2009/05/25/ep-review-rieser-drinking-den/ http://www.loudhorizonmusic.com/lhm/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=299&Itemid=70 http://noiseaddiction.co.uk/... [Read the full story]
Reviews
Gigbeth 2008:another failure or another success?Was it both?What are your thoughts a few months on?
February 3, 2009 · 8 Comments
I have resisted the temptation to put my thoughts on Gigbeth 2008 down as I didn’t attend any part of it. I was hoping to hear all the stories, read up on the reviews and look at the pictures but to be honest there hasn’t been much to look at. Perhaps I haven’t looked very far. Was it a another failure or another success, how do you define failure, how do you define success? Was it a failure and also a success? How was Gigbeth for you? What impact has Gigbeth had? How do you measure an event’s success? This... [Read the full story]
Aside
300×250 Banner Ad
June 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment
If you want to advertise on The Music Network here’s how it works: 1. Supply a 300 x 250 Banner Ad 2. Supply a brief one sentence pitch on how you support, promote and encourage new music in the region. 3. Supply a Declaration that your advert refers to something that has never had any form of funding or government support(’cos that’s cheating isn’t it?) and that you do not wish to pursue any in future for the purposes of making your event or music thing happen. 4. The Music Network will review and... [Read the full story]
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Featured Event
Scarlet Fever Presents…An Evening of Music and Burlesque, Moseley Festival Sunday 5th July
Moseley Festival grande finale on Sunday 5th July Patrick Kavanagh, Trafalgar Road, Moseley, Birmingham, B13 8BX A fabulous evening of music and burlesque to mark the grande finale... [Read more]
More Events
- Is it time to take creative industries seriously? 4pm-9pm Thursday 25th June 2009, Birmingham TIC, Millennium Point
- The Music Network - 4pm Thursday 25th June 2009, Birmingham TIC, Millennium Point. All Invited
- Rieser - Monday 15th June 2009 - The Roadhouse, Birmingham
- The Flyover Show Saturday 13th June 2009 underneath Hockley Flyover, Birmingham
- CREATIVE NETWORKS - THURSDAY 28TH MAY 2009, BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY, MILLENNIUM POINT, CURZON STREET, BIRMINGHAM B4 7XG
Featured Pitch
Andy Roberts - Birmingham Music and ongoing work to promote it
For a while now, Andy Roberts has been blogging about Birmingham Music here, take a look. While you are at it, have a look at In The Belly - Birmingham Music Podcast up now for... [Read more]
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Strategy
Here is a link to “Countercultural Capital & the Creative Economy - How do 1990s DiY Music ‘Entrepreneurs’ talk about the contemporary music business?”... [more]
Andy Ward responds to the blog post http://birminghammusicnetwork.com/2009/02/03/what-is-your-view-of-the-west-midlands%E2%80%99-music-industry/ Off topic to start with... [more]
This report was commissioned primarily to inform potential investment in the West Midlands music industry by Advantage West Midlands between 2008 and 2011. In particular... [more]
I don’t know if you are aware, but Dominic McGonigal, our Director of Government Relations just launched a blog concentrating on the progress of the copyright term... [more]