Written by Nicky Getgood on Monday, January 19th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
Tags: bigcatgroup, custardfactory, Digbethisgood, links, oldlibrary, TheRainbow, toblog
A sweet Birmingham accompaniment – Birmingham Central congratulates:
The Old Library at Birmingham’s Custard Factory being voted number 10 in a poll of the best event venues in the UK. The poll by Event magazine polled 2,000 readers on a total of 400 venues. The Old Library was the only venue in the top ten outside of London…The accolade supports the continuing reputation the Custard Factory and Birmingham overall attracts for being a centre of creativity with the Custard Factory itself being in the top 10 best outdoor dancefloors in the UK in an article by the Guardian in August 2008 together with fellow Digbeth venue The Rainbow.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Thursday, October 9th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
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- Plus International Design Festival – Now’s you last chance to make your application to exhibit, speak or run a workshop at the 2008 Plus International Design Festival. All proposals must be made via the Plus website (www.youplusus.net) by midnight Friday 17 October 2008. Rumour has it the festival will be held on Fazeley Street, but the venue has yet to be confirmed.
- Ladyhawke / Deluka / Death Ohh Eff / Electrilickers @ The Rainbow, Digbeth Monday 6th October 2008 – The Hearing Aid’s review of the gig.
- Connecting Digbeth – ‘Nicky is sort of the Hostess of Diggers, a cyber social networker if you will; keeping tabs on all of the goings on and her blog is like a drinks party (anyone for Pimms?) where you can find out about the recent Digbeth gossip and upcoming happenings.’ Flattery, my dear Melinda Schwakhofer, will get you everywhere!
- The Dubliner pub in Digbeth refurbished after fire – Spice Girls covers act Spice Aloud joined landlord Patrick Finn in a pint of the black stuff to mark the refurbishment of The Dubliner in Digbeth. Woo-hoo!
- Film Dash – On Friday 17 October at 6pm at the Old Library Theatre in the Custard Factory participating teams will be given a short briefing and the criteria for their films. At 7pm the teams will be set loose and will then have 48 hours to script, shoot and edit their films.
- Fluid Design: Bleep Bleep – Fluid is starting a new night at The Sanctuary called Bleep Bleep playing techno and such.
- Deritend Bridge, anyone know anything about it? – Situated between Digbeth High Street and Bradford Street, Deritend Bridge is a mixed use development comprising offices, shops, hotel and residential accommodation.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: bigcatgroup, custardfactory, Digbethisgood, fazeleystudios, ikoneastside, links, melindaschwakhofer, oldlibrary, realwomen, toblog
- Fazeley Studios set to have new restaurant – Picked up by The Custard Factory blog. Yay! Another lunch option!
- Coleen’s Real Women Casting in The Old Library, The Custard Factory 27 & 28 August – Good grief. ‘The nation’s favourite girl next door will continue her UK search for more Real Women’, featured on The Big Cat Group’s new blog. I, fortunately, will be away on holiday.
- Melinda Schwakhofer’s Digbeth Souvenirs – Artist Melinda fitted in some serious exploring of Digbeth around her visit to the Festival of Quilts at the NEC. She found this rusty old gas mask. More posts with pictures are to follow. ‘I’ll be taking us to an abandoned galvanising factory, a building site, along the graffiti scrawled Union Canal and to the former Bird’s Custard factory, now an art studio and gallery complex.’ I wish I’d got to meet her whilst she was here, I would have loved to have tagged along. I can’t wait for the forthcoming photos.
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