Music Network Meeting Thursday 26th June at 4pm

Are you coming to the Music Network meeting Thursday 26th June 4 til 6pm at The TIC?

The Birmingham branch of Musicians Union will be supplying luxury chocolate biscuits and good coffee for all. There’s food and drink afterwards supplied by the creative networks lot too. Come and talk about what you’re up to and meet some new people, you know it makes sense.

The Music Network organises a NETWORKING EVENT on the last Thursday of each month, 4-6pm at The BCU Technology and Innovation Centre(TIC), Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham, B4 7XG. (directions/info tel: 08712 262725)

The meeting is open to all involved in Birmingham Music who wish to network.

The Music Network organises the meeting for the benefit of music related businesses in the West Midlands region. If you have news to report, a presentation to give, an event to promote, any new points for discussion, a pitch to make, business cards or flyers to hand round, an appeal for help, advice or guidance or even if you just want the free tea and biscuits and some quality entertainment…you are all invited.

Joseph Arthur Birmingham Glee Club Fri 13th June 2008

The Market Tavern has closed, The Jug of Ale has gone but, the remaining venues and promoters in Birmingham are putting up a good fight to make the best music available at reasonable door prices.

Markus Sargeant and The Glee Club are yet another example of what is possible on a budget you can stick under a glass. Many years ago I gave Markus a tape of two Joseph Arthur albums and suggested he may be worth booking to play. Markus gave the tape a listen and promptly phoned the agent and booked Joseph Arthur to play. Ever since then, whenever Joseph has been in the Country Markus has given him a stage. It was also Markus that worked so hard to support David Gray when no one else could afford to give him a gig in the Midlands in the early 1990’s.

If you go to one gig this month, give Markus a break and go and see what he gets up to at The Glee Club, Joseph Arthur is a genius and Markus has brought him to Birmingham again. The Glee Club is an amazing music venue. Don’t Miss it.

www.josepharthur.com
www.realworldrecords.com
www.myspace.com/josepharthur

JOSEPH ARTHUR TAKES OVER 2008 WITH FIVE NEW RELEASES

Four EP Series Unfolds With ‘Could We Survive’
(March 18th / Lonely Astronaut) and
‘Crazy Rain’ (April 15th)

Additional EPs in June and July

Full-length ‘Temporary People’
To Be Released September 16th

“One of our most emotionally revealing and
talented singer-songwriters” – Vanity Fair

This spring marks the return of maverick songsmith Joseph Arthur with the release of two EPs - the raw, atmospheric pop of ‘Could We Survive’ (March 18th / Lonely Astronaut), followed by the near-techno and wonderfully chaotic ‘Crazy Rain’ (April 15th). Arthur and his own label, Lonely Astronaut Records, will be releasing a series of four EPs this year, leading up to the full-length ‘Temporary People’ (September 16th). The final two will be available nationally June 10th and July 8th.

‘Could We Survive’ and ‘Crazy Rain’ are the follow-ups to Joseph’s two critically acclaimed full-length albums, both released in 2006 - ‘Let’s Just Be’ (“it’s a ride and it’s a good one” – NY Times) and ‘Nuclear Daydream,’ hailed by Paste Magazine as “endlessly ponderable and disturbingly beautiful.”

An acclaimed painter and Grammy-nominated visual artist, Joseph often creates his artwork while taking breaks during writing and recording. He has written, performed and produced nearly all of the music on these five albums and recorded most of the material in his newly opened Brooklyn art gallery, the Museum of Modern Arthur.

Catch Joseph Arthur at SXSW and on tour throughout the spring and summer, and visit his ongoing exhibition at the Museum of Modern Arthur, like you should.

‘Could We Survive’ track listing: 1) “Rages of Babylon,” 2) “Morning Cup,” 3) “Shadows of Lies,” 4) “Could We Survive,” 5) ”Walk Away,” 6) “King of the Pavement”

Joseph Arthur…

‘A driven, visionary character… he might just be a genuine mad genius’ Guardian

‘A talent worthy of taking seriously… a gripping spectacle’ Evening Standard

‘A song writing beacon ****’ Mojo

Joseph Arthur’s lyrics are charged with pure feelings that writhe uncomfortably beneath the tough skin of backstreet imagery and big city attitude. The music is disjointed, but it hangs together with a wired nonchalance; rhythms shuffle along, heads tucked into a world of their own as melodies surge and tumble around them. The guitar sounds like it’s had a pretty rough time and is on the verge of snapping, yet when Joseph’s voice expresses all over it, a frazzled beauty arises.

www.glee.co.uk
All agents, artist, promoter, management enquiries to markus_sargeant(at)yahoo.com 07973 121 958.

May 2008 Music Network Meeting Minutes

The Music Network
May 2008 Meeting Minutes

Present:
Mark Badger (The Music Network / Iron Man Records), Zak (Music Journalist), Gary Seeney (Bham Yamaha Music School). Lee Phillips (Corner Studios / Rebelion records), Natasha Whalley (TIC student), Simon Howes (TIC Student), Anthony Hughes (TIC), Rob Horrocks (Einstellung / Cellar Dor), Jadecandi-Faid, K.Rueban - Kantae, Rob Taylor (Impatient management), Andy Derrick (Musicians union), Aldo Costa (Musician), Bob Ubhi (ekta usic project), Abigail seabrook (Musician), Clare Edwards (Gigbeth), Haleigh Power (Dont Call Us regional filmaker)

Apologies:
Sue Buckler

Introductions:

New points:

Anthony Hughes - creative networks:
Mentioned the free food at 6pm and detailed the talk scheduled from Pete Ashton and Stef Lewandski
Rob Horrocks
asked about a trade fair in Leipzig and if anyone had been before or had any knowledge of it to impart. discussion followed.
Question about arts council funding and access to loans to buy equipment. suggestion made of talking to kevin de costa on 0121 631 5747
Einstellung releasing an album on capsule records and band called Cellardoor have an ep out already.

Andy Derrick Musicians union
Gave a detailed run down of forthcoming events from musicians union and then talked about the launch of Network musician. Details handed out to all present.
see next posting to the site for full information on Network Musician.

Also talked about the Andy derrick Jazz Quartet

Abigail Seabrook
Raised some questions about Creative republic, who are they, what do they do, who do they represent and on what basis. Abi asked how to contact them or get involved. A discussion followed.

Gary Seeney - Birmingham yamaha Music School
Talked about the school teaching drums and keyboards.
Gary also runs a music management company working with several bands. gary is currently on the look out for some good funk bands.
Talked about Sue Buckler being a local radio plugger based in the Jewellry Quarter

Zak
Talked about the recent sophie lancaster gig that raised well over £1000.
Mentioned a new venue called THE ASYLUM that has just opened and putting on rock bands. mention of Clice aid and charity for MS sufferers. Blaise Bailey will be playing at the venue and contact info for the Venue is 0121 233 1109.

Clare Edwards
Talked about the forthcoming Soweto Kinch show playing under hockley flyover
www.myspace.com/flyovershow
Gigbeth will be 6-8th November with conference at the Radison.
Clare will be at London Calling 19th june

Ruben
talked about his album and single, genre reggae and soul RnB
dicsussion followed with reference to potential people who may be able to help him with his record release. Mention of Black Rose Projects and Ian who runs it.

Bob Ubhi
mentioned projects he’s involved with, looking for help to complete some recordings he is working on. He has set up a new website and is looking for help to get a media pack together.

Next Meeting will be Thursday June 26th at 4pm at TIC, Birmingham.

I will aim to keep the minutes short and to the point. If you want the full detail and contact numbers you will have to attend a meeting in person and take notes. Turning up will always be more productive for you than trying to read about it later.

The people who control the Funding are damaging the Creative Industries in The West Midlands

Funding as a concept and the funding and economic redevelopment projects aimed at supporting ‘creative industries’ has actually become a system supporting government ‘intervention’. That policy has either intentionally or inadvertently become a controlling factor in the human act of creativity and now acts in a legislative, often excluding manner and is often damaging for the industries it claims to ‘support.’ Anthony Hughes puts an opinion in the open on some important issues that have probably had impact on all of us in recent times whether we are aware of it or not. Leave a comment if you have any constructive opinions on the issues raised, I think this one needs some debate. Read the full article here.

Read more on the subject of Local Funding and Creative Industry here

Get your Music News onto The Music Network site

If you would like to get your music news and information onto this site there are two ways to do it.

1. Come to our Monthly Networking Meeting on the last Thursday of each month, 4-6pm at The BCU Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC), Millennium Point, Birmingham, B4 7XG.

The Monthly Networking Meeting is an ideal place to present your information and meet others who will be doing the same.

If you have news to report, a presentation to give, an event to promote, any new points for discussion, a pitch to make, business cards or flyers to hand round, or if you wish to make an appeal for help, advice or guidance then the meeting could be useful to you. Any points raised in the meeting will be included in the minutes and posted to the site and you will meet plenty of interested people who may want to question you further or get involved.

2. If you can’t get to a meeting you can email your information. Send no more than 250 words and a picture(jpg) with your contact details and a link to your own site or relevant page. You can also upload the document to Scribd (it’s free) and send the link.Be aware that anything you send in may be reproduced on the website in an unedited form and some may just get deleted. Remember to check your spelling and don’t get mad if your info doesn’t get posted, it may not be possible to include everything that gets sent in.

You can also send stuff to Created In Birmingham as it also covers Birmingham’s artistic and creative communities.

Get your Gig Listed

The Music Network imports all the gig listings on this site by RSS feed from Live Brum. Please send your gig listing info to Live brum and they will ensure your gigs are put into the system

Please submit event information to events at livebrum.co.uk.

Please include as many of the following details as possible:

• Event Title
• Event description
• Event Date(s) and Time(s)
• Website link to event information
• Website link to book tickets
• An event image
• Any other external links (such as a performers website)

If you are supplying listings, try and provide all the Event information at least by the month before so your paying punters get a chance to plan a night out!

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