The Birmingham 2022 project aims to provide a space for unique perspectives on the current and future cultural offer for young people in Birmingham. Capsule are producing this project with Fused Magazine, Amy Martin, mac, Ideas Tap and is part of the Library of Birmingham opening season. A group of young people are working together over 6 months to generate alternative visions for the future of arts and culture in Birmingham,and will work as a team to create a professional-standard printed magazine-style brochure for the Discovery Festival of the New Library of Birmingham. We’ve put together an editorial team and now we are looking for a designer to jump on board and get involved…

JOB DETAILS

We’re looking for an experienced and talented all-round graphics whizz to work on a magazine layout project with up to 15 young people over the summer of 2013.

You’ll be working with a team of facilitators on an intensive project to produce the official brochure of the ‘Discovery Season’ for the opening of Birmingham’s new Library based around the designed Discovery Season logo.

During a 2 week summer school (based in Birmingham city centre) an editorial team will produce text, images and artwork. We’re looking for an individual to work closely with the group (during the second week) to help turn their vision of the brochure in to reality with a highly professional finished product.

Download the Job Description here: www.fusedmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/GD_JobDescription.pdf

You can keep up with Birmingham 2022 project via birmingham2022.wordpress.com

Image by Katja Ogrin

Gig Junkies have published a glowing review of the show with Barn Owl, Grumbling Fur and Ex Easter Island Head.

“The reassuring predictability of any Capsule event (nothing so vulgar or prosaic as just a ‘gig’ about Capsule) will be its…well, unpredictability. And none more so that with this electronica/existential/experimenta triple line-up. Though it did take some getting used to watching congregated punters with pints shuffling politely in to high, wooden box-stall pews surrounded by the austere beauty of St Paul’s neo-classical columns and pediments.”

Read the full review by John Kennedy, with photos from Katja Ogrin via www.gigjunkies.com

Thanks to all who came to St Paul’s Church on Saturday to see the spectacular line up of Barn Owl, Grumbling Fur and Ex Easter Island Head. We do hope you enjoyed the event (and that strong cider!).

Here’s some photos taken by Katja Ogrin

A guitar-less Barn Owl, loving their new synth led direction

Grumbling Fur on stage at the grand St Paul’s Church. We love doing shows here.

Daniel O’Sullivan of Grumbling Fur

Alexander Tucker of Grumbling Fur

Ex Easter Island Head wowed with their mallet guitars performance

The next Capsule event takes place Wednesday 15th May with a firm favourite, Daniel Higgs of Lungfish fame, with support from The Horse Loom, at Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath. Hope to see you there!

Our good friend and designer/illustrator extraordinaire David Hand has screenprinted some beautiful editions of the poster he designed for Saturday’s show at St Paul’s Church. And they’re absolute beauties. We’re hoping to have them in time for Saturday for people to buy at the show, and we’ll make them available online after. They’re super limited so they won’t be around for long.

David also runs the wonderful Lancashire & Somerset records and is producing a great event in June in Shropshire with Kogumaza, Trembling Bells, Richard Dawson and lots of other good stuff, more info at www.lancashireandsomerset.co.uk

Tickets are flying out for the Barn Owl show at the moment so snap up yours via www.theticketsellers.co.uk

Doors are 8pm and the first act will start soon after, so we recommend you get down early. See you then!

Volume: Birmingham’s Art, Book and Print Fair, 5-7 December 2013 has been created as a unique event for the Library of Birmingham Discovery Season by Capsule. Working with Writing West Midlands, Birmingham Zine Festival, An Endless Supply, The Baskerville Society, Grand Union and Eastside Projects, the event will celebrate the very best in independent publishing. Volume will open with a keynote speech from artist, musician and writer, Bill Drummond.

“Scottish artist Bill Drummond (1953) has used various media in his practice including actions, music and words. His actions too numerous to list, some more infamous than others; his music from the multi million selling KLF to the choral music of The17; the words have accumulated into a pile of books. His work of the last twelve years is catalogued at www.penkilnburn.com.”

Drummond’s World Tour Retrospective ‘Bill Drummond: 25 Paintings’ starts at Eastside Projects, Birmingham in March 2014.

Here’s a sample of some of the sounds we’re currently enjoying. Featuring Grouper, Delia Derbyshire and Dinos Chapman’s new music project, and artists we’re looking forward to seeing perform in the next few months, including Barn Owl, Daniel Higgs and The Horse Loom.

On Saturday 27th April we’re bringing an incredible line up to the beautiful St Paul’s church in the historic Jewellery Quarter. If you’ve not been to St Paul’s before, we thought some pictures should get you excited for the event. It’s an amazing place to hear music, and famed for its acoustics. Last year we presented Esmerine at St Paul’s, next week Barn Owl, Grumbling Fur (Alexander Tucker and Daniel O’Sullivan) and Ex Easter Island Head will take over the space. We hope to present more events in exciting places like this in the future.

We’ll also have a pop up bar with Purity ales and wine available.

Tickets are available via theticketsellers.co.uk

Our good friends at HTF Media have released this video of Gnod performing at last year’s Supersonic. It was the second Supersonic outing for the Manchester collective and they’ve fast become one of the best live bands in the country.

If you head over to the Supersonic Festival youtube channel you can see some brilliant footage from previous festivals, including The Bug, Vinyl rally, Bardo Pond and interviews with Godflesh and Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai. If you subscribe to the channel, you’ll get an email letting you know when new stuff is uploaded.

Gnod are back in Birmingham on Saturday May 11th at the Wagon & Horses in Digbeth with ORE and Author & Punisher. Facebook event page.