Category: Artists (Page 12 of 17)

News and information about Artists who are part of the Music Network

RHYMES – Best of Birmingham’s Performance Poetry. 24th September 2009

RHYMES
The Best of Birminghams Performance Poetry.
24th September. 8pm.

The Mixing Bowl Theatre@The Custard Factory. £5 on the door.

This Months Poets;

Marcus Taylor started performing his own poetry through the encouragement and tutelage of Wrote Under’s “Sunday Express”. He has a large quantity of self penned “Straight” poetry and a small collection of “Comedic” poetry and supported John Cooper Clarke as part of last year’s Comedy Festival

Dave Reeves was editor of Raw Edge Magazine for 13 years and now presents a spoken word and music show for www.radiowildfire.com, the internet spoken word broadcaster and has had work commissioned by BBC Radios 4 & 5.

Kerry Orange writes poems that combine a sense of place with intimate memories. His work is full of play with sounds as well as details of towns, landscapes and journeys. He is also guitarist and singer of The Orange whose debut album ‘Concealed Exit’ is available on itunes.

Kimmy Sue Ann, freshly arrived from her most recent bemused and accidental appearances on1click2fame talent show, is dysfunctional and proud of it and regales audiences with recitations of her pwoetry wot as got social comment innit.

51 Breaks – From self release to the edge of V festival!

It’s been a whirlwind year for 51 Breaks. The band from Birmingham have gone from self releasing an a download single with only 100 limited pressed copies to standing on the edge of opening this years V Festival, whilst supporting  The Spinto band, The Maccabees, The Infadels and even Tinchy Stryder along the way!

They find themselves as part of the final 6 acts now facing a public vote to see who will open this years V festival. It all came as quite a surprise to the band and their singer Michael Turner, who by his own admission never saw all this coming. ‘’We released 3 tracks, and carried on gigging and soon we were getting asked to play alongside some of our favourite bands, and then from up loading a track onto the V site we get a call saying were into the last 10’’

This saw 51 Breaks play the Great Escape festival in Brighton last month mollinebonus.net where they supported competition mentor Just Jack. ‘’It was an amazing feeling, to look back at a year ago, wed just finished recording  and had a whole load of dates stretched out in front of us, the single did better than we ever thought it could and we just seemed to be on a roll, gigs kept coming and we we’ve now ended up here! Hopefully people will be voting for us and well get to go even further’’

Their mixture of orchestral arrangements, catchy hooks and electro beats has earned them rave reviews and with fans including the NME & Tom Robinson you get the feeling this is far from the end of the ride.

Music can be found for reviews @ http://roadtov.com/artists/51-breaks/
info at 51breaks.com

Rieser – Monday 15th June 2009 – The Roadhouse, Birmingham

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/ Page 18-19 of E mag.

http://www.shout4music.com/album-reviews/drinking-den-ep/86

Have a good week and hope to see you soon, if not this month then in August
for some Highland fun & games!

love
Rieser
www.rieser.co.uk

CLUB 444 @ THE RAINBOW, DIGBETH: MAEVEN, DRAG AND NEWSPEAK DIVIDE, AGE 14+ GIG

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 RECORDS OFFICIAL LAUNCH
Event description – Forerunner Records is the new record label of Matthew Boulton College in Birmingham. Its main purpose is to give students the experience of working in the music industry, in a safe and educational environment. The label is of benefit to student-musicians, as well as those wishing to gain experience in sound engineering, live sound, photography and journalism. The official launch will take the form of a performance ind introduction featuring some of the artists Forerunner Records is currently working with. Tickets are FREE, but must be prebooked.
Event Date(s) and Time(s) – Thursday 26th February, 2pm (schools event) and 7pm (public)
Website link to event information – http://www.myspace.com/forerunnerrecords
Website link to book tickets – email forerunnerrecords@hotmail.com stating how many tickets you require and for which performance
NSD - rainbow 9th feb
Forerunner Records
http://www.myspace.com/forerunnerrecords
“The forerunner in innovative music…”

« Older posts Newer posts »