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Posts from ‘June, 2008’

The Flyover Show

I had a pretty incredible day on 31 May.  It started and ended at the Hippodrome with some Fierce Festival events - Motionhouse’s Underground early on and then the Courtesan Tales later.  More on them later.
Between those two I went down to one of Birmingham’s least celebrated spots - underneath the Hockley Flyover - to [...]

The Big Debate - More Power or More Powerless?

Yesterday I attended The Big Debate at the ICC. As one of the bloggers for the NGA Festival, this came within my remit so I was there, laptop at the ready. I’ve also been helping to flesh out the Birmingham Post’s coverage of this particular event (out of the goodness of my heart).
I’ve [...]

The Big Debate - live transcript

Please bear in mind that the following was typed as the event was happening. I’ve expanded any abbvs and even added the occasional bit of punctuation but otherwise it’s in a pretty raw state. To take or leave but I need to put this somewhere.

International Dance Festival Birmingham

The past month or so has been amazing and nuts in equal measure so here’s an attempt to get it all down and make sense of it. The first thing is that I’ve been out and about a heck of a lot. Part of this is to do with Created in Birmingham - [...]