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Merzbow, David Grubbs, Mira Calix, Calvados Beam Trio, VVM, Oxes on Boxes, Fugazi, Godspeed, Kid 606, Black Dice, Melt Bananarama, Lydia Lunch, Lightning Bolt. 10 Years ago if you wanted to go see any of these or similar bands you would be taking a trip to London or nearby, better cities like Manchester, Edinburgh or Wolverhampton, and sleeping under some damp cardboard boxes at the station, or someone's sticky lino kitchen floor because the last train back to Brum was at ten to nine. If you wanted music in Birmingham in the dark, dark days of 1995, you could choose from Bob Dylan at the NEC (£35.00 plus booking fee) or Ronnie Scott's for Tony Hadley supported by King Pleasure and Broken Biscuit Boys any given Wednesday for £12.00 (drinks £4 per pint).

Because let's face it, in those days Birmingham WAS shit... I certainly don't recall anyone contesting the fact on website or elsewhere! In the last five years or so things have changed, big shops have been built, nice places to eat after 5pm have began to emerge, things have been painted white and broken biscuits have been banned from the city centre. And more importantly you can go to see good, interesting new music at a fair price, meet groovy, fun people and still have enough change from a twenty for a balti.It is almost exclusively the Capsule Girls who have made this happen. We should be grateful. Posted on: 5/18/2004 4:29:19 AM
http://www.chatarea.com/birminghamitsnotshit.m2258553

"Capsule are the most artistically directed rock & electronic production team in the UK,… They are a blessing. SUNN returned to Birmingham and headlined SUPERSONIC 2007 last July to staggering success both artistically for us and socially amongst the amazing community of music which was gathered. This type of gathering brings and helps identify some of the otherwise indescribable connections & threads happening between contemporary music and art"
Stephen O'Malley Sunn 0)))

'Of this welter of well organised, wisely curated festivals (ATP, Faster Than Sound, Sonar, Greenman) perhaps the best organised and most wisely curated was Supersonic. Plotted by Birmingham promoters Capsule, 2007's Supersonic inhabited the nexus where metal, folk and noise met.'
Louis Pattison Plan B Magazine

'The Supersonic musical festival makes a loud, strident, reverberating noise that booms and vibrates against the mainstream's bedroom wall, ensuring that the tedious sellout and the weak of heart who dominate the mainstream music events, will never be able to sleep at night. Viva Supersonic! Long live hate!'
Andy Capper - Editor of Vice Magazine