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Written by Nicky Getgood on Monday, May 11th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
Tags: Digbethisgood, eccentriccity, links, toblog
Cock out — Eccentric City 3 – Birmingham: It’s Not Shit – Jon Bounds covers the content of the forthcoming issue of the city’s eccentric newspaper, Eccentric City issue no. 3. Come along to the launch on 12th May at 7.30pm in The Anchor. I’ve been invited as Guest of Honour for my Faunography Trail submission. Wow. I’m honoured.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Thursday, December 4th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: eccentriccity, harrypalmer, theanchor
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: &, antiquesdiva, bigcityplan, birminghamcentral, birminghameastside, creativerepublic, custardfactory, Digbethisgood, eagle, eccentriccity, fazeleystudios, harrypalmer, islamawarenessweek, links, michaelwolff, southbirminghamcollege, sundayflea, sundaymercury, toblog, tub, UB40
- Harry Palmer: Birmingham’s hedgehog crisis. – Make it to St Martin’s Church on Saturday afternoon to hear plight of the ickle, prickly things. ‘This will be followed by Dominik Kai Brotherton who will publicly speak about alternative relationships and why they have a lasting impact.’ Sounds bizarre enough to be fascinating.
- Custard Factory Flea Market – The Antiques Diva gives us the lowdown on the Sunday arts and crafts market. ‘Stalls range from the bizarre to the truly wonderful. Japanese baby clothes, vintage and handmade garments, rare records, original photography and art, crepe suzettes, pottery, kitsch collectables and homemade fudge are a small taste of what’s available.’
- A Creative Masterclass with Michael Wolff – Creative Republic offer you the chance to join the team of Michael Wolff ‘a champion of design and innovation’. ‘We have invited Michael to take on the challenge of developing a fantasy brief for that imaginary role, a creative director for Birmingham. This event is not a lecture – those attending will be participating and expected to contribute actively during the evening…we plan to run a session as if we, the creatives, were part of Michael ’s team . How would this team market the creativity of the city? How would Michael brief the first meeting of this campaign team? What would the immediate actions and priorities be in the first 90 days? Come along to find out.’ The event is at Fazeley Studios next Thursday 27th November from 5.30pm and is well worth signing up to the Creative Republic Charter for.
- Birmingham Central – The Big City plans outlines the options for each of the policy areas. Let’s see, do we want Digbeth to be Start-up Digbeth, Business Digbeth or Living and Working Digbeth? Or all of the above? And how will it connect to the core and other outer quarters? Ta to D’log for bringing this to the wider web.
- UB40’s Red Red Wine pub becomes a victim of the Credit Crunch – Birmingham Eastside blog features the Sunday Mercury’s coverage of the closed-down pub, with UB40’s Red, Red Wine video that was filmed there for those feeling nostalgic. Local ‘UB40 fanatic’ Helena Payne said, “The Eagle & Tun was an historical venue for UB40 and their fans, so it’s really sad to see it boarded up and shut down…it’s been closed for a while now, so although we really hope someone will take it over, we’re not hopeful that will happen. I don’t know what’s in store for the building. It may turn into apartments or it could even be knocked down.”
- Islam Awareness Week 2008: Celebrating the Best of Britain- Promoting Shared Values – ‘South Birmingham College are proud to be holding an event for Islam Awareness Week. Activities include a series of monologues followed by a Question Time session, a light buffet and an opportunity to view some displays.’ On Thurs 20th November 2-4pm. Part of a series of events going on around Birmingham.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Thursday, October 16th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: eccentriccity, faunography, harrypalmer, peteashton
When Harry Palmer suggested I write an article for the forthcoming edition of Eccentric City, I decided to expand upon a blog post idea I already had in mind – a trail of Digbeth animal life, both real and painted/sculpted. This I did with the help of Pete Ashton’s great photography, and it looks like my words are finally going to appear in hard copy print!
It was great fun to do and we ended up stumbling across far more than I was aware of, or could include in the article. I gave poor Pete the fright of his life when I suddenly pointed and screamed, “THERE’S A GORILLA!” And I really enjoyed getting to meet the sheep in Mr Meat Ltd up close. Guardoggy was unfortunately not at home. I felt the inevitable google map of the trail warranted its own page, so click on the Faunography tab to see it. Let me know if I’ve left any of your furry friends out.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Friday, October 3rd, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: eccentriccity, harry palmer, simon walker, The Edge
News from Harry Palmer and Simon Walker at The Eccentric City:
The final £1 Arts Commission of 2008, last minute announcement and reminder:
Final commission for 2008, via open submission is Monday 6th October. The winning commission will have the opportunity to print their material in the newspaper’s tabloid newspaper with a 10,000 worldwide circulation.
Email your £1 Arts commission idea – short or as long as you like, to eccentriccity@hotmail.co.uk
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: anotherbyteofbanality, Cheapside, Digbethisgood, eccentriccity, frictionarts, links, midgediabolik, theedge, toblog
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: birminghamforward, birminghamitsnotshit, bradfordstreet, cmykern, creativerepublic, custardfactory, daveharte, Digbethisgood, eccentriccity, fragiledesign, inspiraculum, jonbounds, kingfieldheath, links, lizzypiffany, lostheritage, melindaschwakhofer, steflewandowski, studio4gallery, sundayflea, toblog
- Lizzy Piffany Digbeth Lost Heritage Project – Liz’ pictures of the project on her Myspace account. In her words, “A group of protesters squatted the Kingfield Heath building on Bradford Street for a weekend in April, took loads of piccies, made a bit of art and generally got very excited about the whole idea of free space for all.” Apparently the owners are planning to flatten it and build a new road right through the middle of it, with luxury apartments on either side. How original.
- Custard Factory « Inspiraculum – Melinda Schwakhofer’s visit to the Custard Factory, featuring some great pictures of Fragile Design’s stock and a vintage Lambretta. The tiny Birmingham Forward jug she bought from the Sunday Flea was actually part of a pair with a tiny chamber pot, which I bought for Jon Bounds. A case of seeing it and thinking of him.
- A Creative Director for Birmingham? – God knows how Creative Republic last night passed me by, but it did. Lucky for me Stef Lewandowski, who stepped in for a poorly bad Michael Wolff, has blogged it. His Birmingham Ambient Creativity Audit, which tells us ‘Don’t Venture Into Digbeth’, is hilarious. Dave Harte’s also done a round-up: Birmingham – The Uncreative City.
- CMYKern – Studio 4 gallery – CMYKern’s take on the gallery in The Custard Factory, with some cool photos. There’s also a post about Ikon Eastside and James Langdon’s promotional material for the gallery.
- You can’t win a raffle without buying a ticket | Birmingham: It’s Not Shit – The Eccentric City newspaper Auction and International Prize Draw is on Tuesday 23rd September 2008, 7.30pm in the Anchor Pub, Digbeth. ‘A cross between Ebay and a CarBoot’, sell and buy items to raise money for the emotional newspaper and enter the raffle to win a page of newspaper to do with as you will.
- The Hearing Aid’s Rogue States review from the gig in The Rainbow on Monday. Support acts were The Likely Lads and This Beautiful Thief.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Monday, September 8th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: allisonstreet, birminghamflickr, bradfordstreet, brettwilde, butlerofjoy, chrisunitt, createdinbirmingham, custardfactory, Digbethisgood, digbetholympics, eccentriccity, frictionarts, harrypalmer, ipsofactofilms, links, mayorofhappiness, photospacebirmingham, rodpeace, rootys, souledout, sprocketcycles, theedge, toblog, tourdebrum
- The Eccentric City’s Youtube channel – The Eccentric City’s Mayor of Happiness Harry Palmer and Butler of Joy Simon (sans hat) spread the love around Birmingham.
- Bradford Street’s a battleground – According to Brett Wilde ‘many battles took place here between 1642 and 1648 between the Cavaliers and the Roundheads during the English Civil War’. Now it’s between the Blues and the Villa fans during closing time.
- Tour De Brum: ILLEGAL STREET RACE – First we get Digbeth Olympics and now there’s Tour De Brum, the most illicit fun you’ll have on two wheels. Meet on Saturday 13th September 1pm at Allison Street (near Sprocket Cycles, who are in no way involved apparently).
- Created in Birmingham » Souled Out extras – If Rod Peace, Rooty’s own Godfather of Soul, doesn’t get a starring role in this film it’ll be a crime.
- Created in Birmingham » Birmingham Photospace – Birmingham Flickr group members are meeting in Rooty’s on Weds 17 Sept to discuss a photospace for Birmingham from 6.30pm. All welcome!
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