Some gigs and things I’m going to in the near future.
This Thursday is Jeffrey Lewis at the Jug of Ale, Moseley. The last time I saw him his guitar was about to explode and the History Of Communism had reached the Russian Revolution. Support is from The New York Howl and Will Tattersdill, aka Faceometer, who, as it happens, was supporting Lewis when I saw him in May 05 and I’d been wanting to catch him again ever since.
Next weekend, being September 2nd / 3rd, is the Moseley Folk Festival which sounds terribly tweedy but should, I think, be rather awesome. Most of the acts I don’t know (not historically being a folk fan) but those I’ve recently seen (The Destroyers, Circulus) have impressed no end. Tickets are pricey (£38.50 for the weekend) but what the hell.
Way in the distance on November 9th is The Flaming Lips at the NIA. Tickets are £23.00 and are available here but watch out for the 37.5% booking fee, the buggers. Still, it’ll be well worth it.
It’s also my intention to check out A Slice Of The Pie, an intriguing gig/club/event thing held at the Rainbow pub in Digbeth on the first Sunday of each month. Here be some photos.
In photography land the Birmingham Flickrmeets group has started stretching its wings with a couple of impromptu meets. On Saturday we’re doing a night shoot with tripods around the Brindley Place canals and then next Friday afternoon we’ll be shooting the Midlands leg of the Tour of Britain cycle race as it ends in Birmingham.
The big one, however, is Artsfest, a weekend of free arts events in central Birmingham on September 8th-10th where the Flickrmeet group have been invited by the organisers to documents the event with press passes and everything. Which is, of course, fucking cool. The photos will be in this group after the event.
And that’s about it for now.
You need to be careful taking photos around the canals near Brindley place. You’re pretty safe on the canals themselves but once you step off the tow path a lot of the areas are private property and have seriously hostile security guards. I’ve been hassled a lot by the security even when I’ve been on the towpath.
Point taken, though it applies to most of the city centre. To be honest it adds to the fun!
The other week we got stopped photographing the goods entrance to the wholesale markets, of all places. Amusingly there were fifteen of us quite spread out so the guard got a bit exasperated by the end.