The Broad Street Business Improvement District is delighted to announce that Heaven and Hell guitarist, founding member of Black Sabbath, Grammy Award winner and king of heavy metal Tony Iommiwill be honoured on the Broad Street Walk of Star’s on Sunday 23rd November 2008.
Following an afternoon of live music from local bands on the stage in Centenary Square ‘Kerrang Radio’ presenter Johnny Doom will host the evening, with the presentation of the star taking place at 6.30pm.
Home of Metalencourages fans of Black Sabbath to be photographed wearing their prized band t-shirts.
Images will be taken by the Birmingham photographer Steve Gerrard, who has been capturing bands in action for over 20 years, and has photographed some of the biggest names and artists. The photographs will then go on display on the Home Of Metal website and in future exhibitions.
Next open day at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery on Saturday 7th of Feb - plenty of time for you to hunt out your photos, programmes, ticket stubs and stories. Or you can upload your own images to the archive and contribute to this project, which aims to celebrate Birmingham & The Black Country as the birth place of Heavy Metal.
Another busy week ahead firstly we have Constellation Records latest signing Seattle-based group THE DEAD SCIENCE with support from the incredible one man guitar/drums bandTHEO (for fans of Battles, Oxes, Steve Reich) and Brummie post rock favs UNA CORDA- thats at the Hare & Hounds on this Wednesday.
. The Dead Science talk through some of their artwork.
Una Corda -’Three’
Followed on Thursday by our next HOME OF METAL event at The New Art Gallery Walsall 6pm - 9pm FREE EVENT
With special live performance by Einstellung ‘… A Touch Of Sabbath’ Einstellung are proud to have the opportunity to pay homage to Sabbath and thank them for allowing four like minds to meet. For this special evening Einstellung will be performing a Sabbath inspired piece. If you listen carefully within the simplistic motorik beats and slabs of Sabbath inspired riffage you may well be raising those metal fists in the air to some monstrously well know Sabbath gems.
The evening will be hosted by Kerrang! Radio DJ Johnny Doom with special guest Nicholas Bullen (one of the founding members of Napalm Death - responsible for inventing Grindcore)
We have been lucky enough to be given a handful of ‘Halford Live at Rock In Rio III’ Promos to give away, so don’t forget to hunt out your old ticket stubs, programmes, photos and stories relating to the innovators of the genre - Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest, Napalm Death and Godflesh!
Last Saturday was an overwhelming success with Wolverhampton Art Gallery reporting over 970 people in attendance at our first Home Of Metal open day, we had everyone from small kids, to teenagers right through to the more distinguished older gentlemen. We all had a blast and are incredibly grateful to Kate Williams Pryror and her team at Wolverhampton for all their hard work, Johnny Doom from Kerrang! Radio for hosting the day and for his interviews with our special guests Jim Simpson and Digby Pearson.
The website has now been launched and over the next week or so we will be adding the digitised artefacts to the archive - check out www.homeofmetal.com
Here are a few photos taken by Naz, from the day to give you a feel for what happened; Johnny Doom interviewing Jim Simpson A selection of press clippings and photos on display Adults and kids making badges & colouring in Black Sabbath picture by Aye Jaye Godflesh & Napalm Death related cabinet courtesy of Earache Records - included hand written lyrics, original art work mock ups (old school hand made cut n paste) Judas Priest & Black Sabbath cabinet of treasures Led Zeppelin cabinet with rare Russian release of Stairway To Heaven (Courtesy of Lisa Bardsley) and only known official 7″ release of Stairway To Heaven (Courtesy of Nigel Dodds) Home Of Metal family tree created by Francesca Bunny Williams Fascinating stuff! A rare outing for this Robert Plant painting by John Judkins ‘Pop Star ‘73′- part of Wolverhamptons permanent collection. Stuart Williams from Walsall local history archive Teenage kicks!
The pace is definitely quickening as Saturday approaches, we were at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery yesterday, dropping off the bits and pieces of memorabilia along with a variety of old press clippings to put on display, we also did a photo shoot for the Express & Star as well as a little practice run with our wonderful group of volunteers - here we all are in our HOME OF METAL T-shirts which were kindly sponsored by Fly53. Aren’t we a happy bunch!!! Now its heads down to add all the content to launch the archive. Photo by Najma Hussain
Earlier in the week myself and two of our team Dunc and Bill went on Kerrang! Radio and did an interview with Johnny Doom, talked all about why Capsule had initiated the project and why Bill & Dunc wanted to get involved - you can listen to here. L-R : Johnny Dooms plastic bag(!!!!), Johnny Doom, Bill and Dunc.
We have a couple of nice pieces of press out about Home Of Metal and of course you are also free to help us spread the word and get involved with this project. Read more about it on the Home Of Metal blog - the website itself launches on Saturday.
From the Birmingham Post - today article by Andrew Cowan
A selection of portraits taken by photographer Steve Gerrard as part of Home Of Metal.
To keep you up to date with what we’re doing with the Home Of Metal project we have set up a blog, this will hopfully fill you in until the archive gets launched towards the end of October. The blog will have contributions from our volunteers as well as news on what we are starting to collect for the digital archive, and who we encounter along the journey with related news for our events too.
Photographer Steve Gerrard, who is working with us on the Home Of Metal project to capture fans portraits has taken some amazing images of Capsule favourite band of all time, the wonderful Melvins. We were gutted to have missed them just recently when they played in Nottingham, and to make life worse we heard they put on a show to remember, now joined but another of our fav bands the mighty duo that is Big Business….these photos go some way to easying the pain of missing them and we’re really excited about ATP’s Nightmare Before Xmas, where they’ll be curating the weekend alongside Mike Patton. (The Capsule Grannies will also be DJing).
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