Moozim.com offers the opportunity for EVERY band and artist to have their own, fully functional website for just £3 per month and we think that’s great considering the price of web design and hosting!
Moozim has never had any form of funding or government support and we do not wish to pursue any in the future.
Thats it!
Please feel free to ask any questions you may have.
Thanks very much.
Andy Charrington.
ps. This is all run from Kings Heath, South Birmingham.
So, 2009 is going to be the year of the great depression-recession, well this won’t ‘stop the music’ because its a well known fact that ‘nobody can stop the music’, and White Noise will be one of the first festivals to kick off the bleakest 12 months of your life so far???.
The independent electronic music label White Label Music Present a new event for your festival calendar
The White Noise Electronic Music Festival. 2 Days of cutting edge electronic music from Krautrock to car alarm techno, Dub Folk-Moogtastic mayhem. Theremins galore- glam-tronic- electro-billy lunacy.
Pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and haul yourself out. Beg, borrow or turn the sofa upside down and get yourself a ticket. If you’re not from Brum there’s great/cheap hostels we can recommend too, all close to the venue so you can just stumble home in the early hours.
Venue: The Rainbow, Digbeth.Birmingham.
The White Noise Festival 2009 will be held at The Rainbow, Digbeth, Birmingham on the 27th & 28th of March 2009, featuring an international line up of music with 12 bands and 7 djs battling it out in this unique Victorian boozer in Birmingham?s regenerated arts quarter.
This intimate space, boasting a smokers courtyard, has recently enjoyed accolades from The Guardain and The Independant and regular features in The Metro newspaper.
Battle commences at 7pm each night and runs through to 4am each morning. Tickets are priced £10 for a day ticket or £20 for a 2 day pass (plus £1.50 booking fee.)
Featuring:
Dave Ball (DJ set)[SoftCell/TheGrid].Heim.HK119.Richard- Pop Will Eat Itself (DJ set).The Asbo Kid [James Atkin/EMF + Justin/Elastica]. Pygmy Globetrotters.DJ Whitenoise, Playground Mafia, Contra Mundum [Republica / Flowered up].Tongue & Groove (DJ set).Lung Rotter 7 feat.Barry 7 [add n to x].Vars Of Litchi.
Dub Chieftain. Beat Frequency.Ann [add n to x].Ribside. Beat Bigot. Gordon & Gunn (featuring Louis Gordon), Glatze.
Details: You can either buy a 1 day pass or a 2 day pass for the festival. 1 days passes are £10 + £1.50 booking fee and 2 day passes are £20 + £1.50 booking fee. Tickets can be bought exclusively through the website @. www.whitenoisefestival.co.uk
or @ www.theticketsellers.co.uk 0844 870 0000 (24 hours)
For full details of the line up please see the website.
The Music Network organises a NETWORKING EVENT on the last Thursday of each month, 4-6pm
The Music Network meeting is open to all on Thursday 26th February 2009 4pm til 6pm
at Technology and Innovation Centre(TIC), Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham, B4 7XG.
Come and talk about music and what you’re up to and meet some new people. Here’s a video from last month.
The Music Network organises the meeting for the benefit of music related businesses in the West Midlands region.
If you are a musician, work with musicians, represent musicians, have involvement with the music industry, or are looking to make new contacts the meeting will be useful to you.
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.
You can also post in by email any news or gig dates or press release information for inclusion on the website and for distribution through the mailing list and RSS feed. More details on the website.
There will be luxury chocolate biscuits and good coffee for all. There’s food and drink afterwards supplied by the creative networks too. Please pass this invite on to Musicians you know or anyone else who you think may benefit.
https://birminghammusicnetwork.com
Jokers or time wasters who play on the internet all day and don’t actually do anything else other than talk about what cake they’re eating or how they are so successful and amazing all the time or whatever need not apply. Go and play on twitter.
Mark and Andy, and all those others who help run and support the Birmingham Music Network, surely this is partly what the BMN was created for.
1. Producer and studio flooded out in Wolverhampton
2. Producer goes to BMN to ask for help
3. BMN asks members for help
4. Producer happy with offer of help from new studio (Musoplex.com) and should move in soon
Andy Ward responds to the blog post
Off topic to start with I guess – it is the 1st time we (Musoplex.com) have been mentioned alongside Artisan and Magic Garden outside the phrase ‘a lot louder than….’ or ‘not as posh as…..’ but I am aware Si at Framework Studios is a more than exceptional producer but that is not why I am here (but thanks for the inclusion).
I feel I should establish my lack of credentials here….I have played for over 20 years from empty pubs to 3000 people….I love music, but not all of it – all my formal qualifications (degrees / MPhil) are outside of music – I have only been running my own business for less than two years.
Funding: It hasn’t yet been 18 months since we moved Framework Studios out of the congested basements of Hockley to bigger premises with a vision of creating a small hub of people genuinely interested in music and ALL of its associated artistic and business areas.
I have to say that after 6 months of sheer bloody-minded arguing and some truly mind-numbing blunders we received a 5k Creative Space grant – which was a massive boost for us in year 1. But this is the thing….that 5k went towards relocation, rent, building materials (we built every room ourselves), infrastructure, security, legal and professional fees for 3 people in a 2, 500 square foot business. Now that’s value for money…
However – these types of grants are available for pretty much any start up – but here is the thing: we spent 5k and created a thriving, happy, encouraging, inclusive music playground AND business turning a small profit in year 2 from start up without the wasted hundreds of thousands thrown at most god-awful music programmes and projects in the West Midlands. So – I have to agree, though somewhat hypocritically, that I don’t hold with the principals of the funding either – or at least not under the current system anyway of chucking hundreds of thousands into a bottomless hole and hoping to fill it.
As another aside you have no idea how much bile and anger has started to come back to me just writing about this topic some 18 months after the events over funding. A few people in the end were angels but the rest…and the system….AARGH!!
Having attended several funded and sponsored events over just the past 2 years I remain utterly dumbfounded as to where the money goes or exactly what any funding has hoped to achieve – except for watching some nepotistic, city-centric, self-promoting truly awful nonsense. I attended one with a Bristol arts writer bud and we left half way through both howling with laughter and crying that that is where our money was going – shameful really.
I have reached the point where I consider this to be fast becoming a rant and a tirade against the near-contuniuous stream of a**-holes that you have to wade through only to reach an uninhabited atomic island, stripped of ideas and bereft of a sense of reality (Lost, anybody??). It really shouldn’t be – there are some excellent bands out there, young and old, great promoters, great venues, great times ahead but all of them survive, just about.
There are no paid gigs except for those who turn to the dark side of covers and tributes, there are no easy promotions and many lazy promoters, there are venues looking and needing to make money in a tight and overcrowded market faced by closures that are reluctant to try new music for lack of new crowds or alienation of existing ones.
You do not fix these things by throwing money at them. Good bands will be listened to, good promoters will source good acts and promote them well, some venues will stick by their guns to raise themselves above the others. Sandwell needs a venue, cheap, simple for use by all – what do we get? The Public…shame on you all.
All this can be achieved by small donations and grants, spreading the money around in small packets to those with drive and commitment. Instead – all the huge amounts of money we get assigned goes to a handul of organisations to squander and fritter on self-glorification and the further promotion of expensive white elephants.
Andy ward, Musoplex.com
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