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.

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. [Read more]

AU-Squat-Festival Frankfurt, Germany- squatted for 25 years

Birmingham based band Police Bastard have been invited to Frankfurt, Germany.

On the 7 and 8th of June 2008 the autonomous cultural and living project and oldest squat in Germany, the AU in Frankfurt/Main, celebrates the 25th aniversary of the squatting.

The AU can look back on 25 years of non-profit DIY concerts, soup/people’s kitchen and many other great cultural and political events. The area offers a self-organized living space for a lot of different people.The AU is a political space which positions itself against each way of racism, nationalism, antisemitism and sexism.

Sat 07.06. Open-Air Festival (AU-Fest)
Bands playing are

LIFE BUT HOW TO LIVE IT! (Norway), 1982 (Germany), POLICE BASTARD (UK), CHARGE 69 (France), NOISE ANNOYS (Germany)

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Sophie Lancaster Campaign

Message from Zak:

The correct link for Sophie Lancaster, is http://www.myspace.com/inmemoryofsophie

Sorry I didn’t let you know sooner.

I have also attached a flyer for the S.o.p.h.i.e gig @ JBs gig on the 25th May 08.

You can also find the JBs flyer by visiting http://www.myspace.com/miss_higher

Cheers Zak.

The Curate’s Egg: Look like Hippies - Play like Bailiffs

Thursday May 29th, from Austin,Texas
Scott H.Biram www.myspace.com/scotthbiram
in support
Honkeyfinger(LONDINIUM) www.myspace.com/honkeyfinger
+ The Courtesy Group (Smethwick, Louisiana, Kings Norton, Alabama) www.myspace.com/thecourtesygroup
8 till late: £5 Advance ..£7 Door!
Hare and Hounds, High St., Kings Heath, Birmingham. B14 7JZ
Tickets from Swordfish, Jibbering Records or online at Ticketweb

Monday June 16th, garage guru gal and ex headcoattee
Holly Golightly and the brokeoffs www.myspace.com/hollygolightlyandthebrokeoffs
in support
Ted Edwards (The Music Lovers) www.myspace.com/themusiclovers

+ The Courtesy Group www.myspace.com/thecourtesygroup
& D.J set from CARMEN
8 till late: £8.50 Advance ..£10 Door!
Hare and Hounds, High St., Kings Heath, Birmingham. B14 7JZ
Tickets from Swordfish, Jibbering Records or online at Ticketweb

Look like Hippies - Play like Bailiffs : If it ain’t Fixed - Break it!
SPACE THIS WATCH: www.myspace.com/thecuratesegg

Volume Magazine wants you

Words from Volume Magazine:”Hi,  My name is Ruby Ocean and I run Volume Magazine, a quarterly London-based publication geared towards the promotion of new art, music and writing. We are currently in Birmingham researching and sourcing for our next issue which will be totally dedicated to the arts and music in the city.

I wondered if you would like to get involved in any way?

[Read more]

CUBANS / MUSOPLEX / RAVEN – 22nd May 2008

The Cubans Release New AA single and Remastered Album on RAVEN:

Wolverhampton’s brightest independents The Cubans release a new AA single and remastered album through our friends at Musoplex (the new home of the legendary Framework studios and top producer Si Reeves).

The single, released on 24th May, has received a warm preliminary reception and got its first airing on the BBC WM Introducing show with Daz Hale.

The band and Si were interviewed by Central TV last week.
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Gig Listings supplied by Live Brum

Live Brum have just Launched the most comprehensive listings site in Birmingham and the RSS feed provided is now embedded in The Music Network site, you can embed it in your site too. Live Brum aims to list every live performance event at every venue in Birmingham UK. You can find events by genre, venue, date or keyword search and comment on any event.

Live Brum is editorially independent from all venues, organisations, bands, & promoters except where explicitly stated otherwise.

Harmonising event data across Birmingham

More than just a website, the Live Brum plan is to accept data in any format (web, email, flyers, word of mouth, etc) and then publish it in a range of standard formats that others can do new exciting things with. Options include:

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Moving Space Tours - Vehicle Hire for Music and Film.

Moving Space operates from Birmingham and London, supplying the music and film industry with high quality Mercedes splitter and sleeper tour buses.

All the vehicles are serviced and maintained to the highest standard and fully insured for self drive hire within the UK and Europe.

A professional approach and personal touch ensures all clients benefit from a smooth and simple service.

Moving Space is part of Grand Union Group, which is comprised of:

Grand Union Artist Management, 2kHz Studios, and Source Productions.

Our vans start from £60 per day

All our vehicles are self drive. However, we can provide drivers for you.
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April 2008 Music Network Meeting Minutes

April 2008

Music Networking Minutes

Present: Jake Dubber, Zak (Miss Higher Productions), Gary Seeney (Plug and play pomo, melting ice management, Birmingham Yamaha Music School), Andy derrick (Musicians Union), Mark Badger (The Music Network), Raymond Clarke (Singer Producer songwriter), Nick Dunn(horus Music), Emma Nouriel (Scratch Radio), Kevin Moore (Scratch radio), Les Hutchins (Composer performer), Marc Bhatti (TIC student), Damian Jennings, Jenna Varndell, Nzinga (Queen of the Crop), Natasha Whalley (BCU), Lee Phillips (Cornerstudios / Rebellion Records), Adrian Kimberlin (Exit Recording), Stephen Markham(Sempre Entertainments Ltd), Mike Mcdonagh (Independent), Andy Blakemore (Creative launchpad)

Apologies: Anthony Hughes, Andy Ward (Musoplex.com), Issi (TIC), Paul Spicer (LNP), Andrew Dubber (BCU), Clare Edwards.

Note: Next Meeting 29th May in room 360 on 3rd floor of TIC

Andy Derrick - Musicians union

Talked about Soweto Kinch and forthcoming Creative Networks event upstairs from 6pm.

Musicians union provide coffee and biscuits for the network meetings.

Recent MU events in Stoke on trent and Kettering big success. Events dealt with Royalties and Copyright. Mention of Andrew Dubber’s presentation and how inspirational it was for those attending the event.

MU will be launching “Network Musician” in September in partnership with The Music Network.

Tues 2nd september Burslem College, stoke on trent

wed 10th sept the musician leicester

wed 10th oct confetti studios, nottingham

tues 21st oct cox’s yard, stratford on avon

tues 4th nov the flowerpot, derby

wed 19th nov the drill hall, lincoln

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Music Network Meeting Today at 4pm

Are you coming to the Music Network meeting today 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. Keep an eye on the new look website, I might work out how to get it fully functional over the next few days.

The Music Network organises a NETWORKING EVENT on the last Thursday of each month, 4-6pm at The UCE 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.

Love Music Hate Racism Carnival 2008

12-6pm, Sunday 27th April 2008
Victoria Park, London E3
www.lmhrcarnival.com

Its only two weeks to go until the 30th anniversary commemorative Rock Against Racism gig in Victoria Park, London. Taking place on 27th April, four days before the 1st May local and GLA elections, the carnival will bring together musicians and music fans from a wide variety of genres and different generations, celebrating black, white and asian unity.

Financial Appeal
We are making an URGENT appeal for financial donations! The Carnival is a free event, but is costing over £400,000 to stage (so that’s why festival tickets are so expensive!). The trade union movement in particular has been brilliant, helping raise much of the costs.  However. we still urgently need support from anyone who can afford to contribute - no matter how small the amount- we would like to raise a further £25,000 over the course of this week.  Please rush a personal donation to us if you can, either via the website www.lovemusichateracism.com/donate or by cheque (make payable to LMHR-RAR Carnival 2008 and send to Love Music Hate Racism, 231 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 1EH) and ask family and friends to do the same. And please take the attached collection sheet round at work or your place of study.  If you belong to a trade union and haven’t already done so, please ask your union branch or region to make a donation - model resolution is at www.lmrhcarnival.com . The sort of fantastic music lineup we have would cost £50+ at a regular festival - and the Carnival will help smash racism and fascism into the bargain, so please dig deep!

Final Lineup Confirmation
The final lineup is now confirmed and its AWESOME! The Good The Bad The Queen (Damon Albarn from Blur, Paul Simonon from The Clash and afrobeat legend Tony Allen) will headline and Akala and The View have also recently been added to the bill. See below for the complete list of artists playing. This is going to be the biggest (and best!) anti-racist event in Britain for decades, possibly ever.

Read All About Us!
The media have caught on - the Observer Review section will carry a 4,500-word cover article the Sunday before and BBC One show Sunday Life want to do live interviews from the park on the morning of the event.  Don Letts’ and Giorgio Testi’s documentary/live film of the Carnival will be broadcast on Channel 4 at midnight on Friday 9th May, and broadcast across the MTV network from the following day. However we need more! Why not write to your local paper about coming to the Carnival?

They Came From Far And Wide
The mobilisation from across the country is looking impressive too - we know of at least 40 coaches booked, with thousands planning to come by car and train - and would like to urge more places to book a coach.  Anyone who can get down to the Carnival will be inspired to get active in the anti-fascist movement after the event, including the final run-up to May 1st.

The latest flyer is available here http://www.lovemusichateracism.com/images/lmhrC_A5w3_107_lo.pdf Please circulate this widely and let us know ASAP if you need more printed flyers and posters - anita@lovemusichateracism.com.  If you or someone you know is willing to volunteer as a steward on the day please email olivia@lovemusichateracismcom.

FINAL CARNIVAL LINE-UP:
THE GOOD THE BAD THE QUEEN
HARD-FI
ROLL DEEP
DREW McCONNELL (BABYSHAMBLES) & FRIENDS ft VERY SPECIAL GUESTS
ROCK AGAINST RACISM ALL-STARS
JAY SEAN
THE VIEW
JERRY DAMMERS (ex-The Specials)
GET CAPE.WEAR CAPE.FLY
WILEY
AKALA
NIHAL
DENNIS BOVELL’S LONDON LOVERS’ ROCK CREW
POLY STYRENE (X-RAY SPEX)
BASHY
TINCHY STRYDER
THE PADDINGTONS
PATRICK WOLF
NATTY
SKREAM & BENGA
DON LETTS
ACE & VIS
BISHI
JAMMER
JUGGY D + MC SPECIAL
MECCA 2 MEDINA
NY
DJ HYPE + DADDY EARL
RIZ MC
CHIPMUNK
TARGET
MISTAJAM
HYPA FEN & MARCIE PHONIX
STATIK
ALEX MILLS
THE THIRST
THE TRIBUNES
ADELAIDE McKENZIE
NO.LAY
METZ & TRIX
HOODSTARS
ARUBA RED
LIL RASCALS
STYLO G
DECYPHER COLLECTIVE
DJ RUGRAT
NATHAN ‘FLUTEBOX’ LEE

New website for The Music Network

The Music Network has a new website. It’s not all finished yet but after a few hours of ranting and raving and cursing Brian who designed the template, the site is looking a lot better. Brian is actually all right after all, In fact I recommend his work. Let me know if you have any better ideas or suggestions. Stay tuned, cheers Brian, there’s more to follow…..

Music Network Meeting Today at 4pm

Are you coming to the Music Network meeting today 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. Keep an eye on the new look website, I might work out how to get it fully fuctional over the next few days.

The Music Network organises a NETWORKING EVENT on the last Thursday of each month, 4-6pm at The UCE 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.

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