We are deeply shocked by the tragic incident on Saturday night when four people were shot at an “urban music” event in Digbeth. We are hoping against hope that the gun shot injuries inflicted are not life threatening. Thankfully present indications are that they are not.
We are concerned by suggestions that the Custard Factory was somehow associated with this event. We were not. The “urban music” event did not take place in the Custard Factory – it took place in a converted factory next door.
The “urban music” event not hosted organised or managed in any way by the Custard Factory. It was organised and managed entirely by a company called Factory Events Ltd. The Custard Factory has no connection with the ownership or management of Factory Events Ltd.
Pending the result of the police investigation which is now under way it is difficult for us to throw any more light on this tragic incident.
Although the mistaken connection is unfortunate, it’s easy to see how it’s happened. Factory Events clubnights are often seen as ‘a night out at the Custard Factory’ and I was under the impression that the Custard Factory owned the Space2 building. For a long time now people haven’t seen the two as separate things in their minds, but I’m guessing from now on the difference might be marked out a bit more clearly.
With forums and facebook groups bemoaing the Factory Club’s move from the main Custard Factory to the nearby Space2, Factory Club felt the need to make an official announcement. It is not The End, but ‘a new beginning’.
The Factory Events team, have decided to focus their energy on financing the redevelopment and complete refurbishment of some exciting new spaces within the Custard Factory, to include the 1500 capacity Space 2 warehouse, two large adjoining railway arches and a new, never used before ‘secret room’. These new spaces will herald a wave of bigger and bolder club events organised by some of the most successful promoters in the business.
The Rainbow is expanding it’s venues. We are recruiting…We feel that Digbeth is in need of a little bit more. We have been scouring the city for more hidden gems and have found some jaw dropping spaces some intimate some not. There is a certain criteria for the spaces to fit in with our plans but what we have added to the triangle exceeds our expectations. They will wet your appetite some for many years to come.
Custard Factory In Birmingham closing Down – Yes, that headline made me start too, but it’s just the subject header of an interesting forum discussion that says The Factory Club at the Custard Factory is closing down after Eclectricity’s “END OF AN ERA WEEKENDER” on Easter Bank Holiday weekend 2010.
as the Factory Club @ Custard Factory closes down for good, we are proud to putting on the official closing parties….. It goes without saying that it will be an emotional end to what has been Birmingham’s finest music institution… We will ensure it goes out in style!!
A lot of the clubbers in the forum are understandably gutted, but I can imagine some of the Custard Factory’s tenants might not be quite so upset. Does anyone know if The Factory Club is moving home to a new venue, or is it shutting up shop for good?
Front woman Yasuko O.’s ultra-high-pitched screeches and Agata’s screaming slide guitar vie for supremacy across a rhythmic frenzy that is so ridiculous and precise, it will crush you with it’s brilliance.
