Supersonic Festival have been invited to curate and host a stage at the RITUAL CVLT FEST in Barcelona on October 2nd/3rd. The artists we’ve selected include Nicholas Bullen co-founder of Napalm Death, a highlight of Supersonic 2014 Sly and the Family Drone , a brand new AV act Giant Axe Field and Robert Curgenven. In addition there will be a number of awesome Spanish artists performing as part of our stage.
To buy tickets and find out more details about the line up check ritualcvlt.com
We’re delighted to be partnering with the amazing Supernormal Festival in Oxfordshire this weekend to present one of our Supersonic Kids Gigs. Performing at the Kids Gig are FLAMINGODS –
This Bahrain-born, Brixton-based troupe take African rhythms, repetitive grooves and a hedonistic sensibility to form a riot of sound and fury that’s both sonically adventurous and feverishly compelling. With po-faced muso tactics at a minimum and dancefloor frenzy to the fore, they bring a welcome and vibrant splash of day-glo to all or any proceedings.
Ever since Schoenberg and Kandinsky became pen pals back in 1907, avant-garde art and experimental music has been attempting to find some common ground. But, it’s not been easy. Here’s Capsule’s contribution towards a solution: Supersonic Kids Gigs ‘Big Sounds for Little People’. If you couldn’t guess from the snappy title, it’s a gig for kids and their families, which aims to introduce children to experimental music at an early age. Kids Gigs provide a fantastic opportunity to show children the beauty of live music.
Listen to Flamingods here http://flamingods.bandcamp.com/
Capsule have been invited to curate a festival of new music and performance as part of Appetite in Stoke-on-Trent. Appetite’s mission is to get more people in Stoke-on-Trent to experience and be inspired by the arts, working with a range of local and national artists and communities to deliver an expanding menu of artistic projects to develop the appetite for the arts.
The Grand Cross Fayre will be taking place on Saturday 6 September in Hanford Park and will include live performances from James Blackshaw, White Manna from California and Rattle to name but a few as well as workshops led by artist duo Juneau Projects and the costumed Swoomptheeng .
An array of Street food, vintage stalls and more to entertain!
The event is free and will be open from 12 – 7.30pm
More confirmed artists coming soon…
James Blackshaw – We Who Stole The Dream from esther may campbell on Vimeo.
General Manager
Capsule are seeking a highly organised and systematic individual with excellent communication skills and a successful track record in project management to join one of the UK’s most dynamic arts organisations.
Capsule is a Birmingham based arts organisation, we craft extraordinary cultural events for adventurous audiences. Capsule is a cultural alchemist: an innovative arts producer initiating, commissioning and producing multi disciplinary work, which includes festivals, events, artist development and partnerships with a range of organisations. Audiences are at the heart of our thinking. We champion extraordinary artists, working across artforms including digital culture and sound, ensuring many can enjoy them. Our work is of the highest quality, authentic and inclusive, our role as cultural developer – spotting as-yet unmet potential and building on it.
Capsule have a successful history of creating and producing projects including the groundbreaking heritage project Home Of Metal and one of the UK’s leading experimental arts festivals, Supersonic. In addition we deliver high profile work for clients which has included curating the cultural programme for the opening of Europe’s largest public library, exhibitions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and international work for UKTI.
You’ll work with the Director to deliver our flagship project Supersonic Festival, now in its 11th year, and shape the year round programme.
You’ll have a successful track record in project management and fundraising, with hands-on experience of delivering complex arts events, a proven ability to manage budgets and cashflow, and the ability to lead small teams of staff.
Key areas of responsibility:
– Running the Capsule office, including:
– Team management / recruitment
– Finance management
– Servicing Board meetings
– Project management, including:
– Project logistics
– Liaising with and managing project stakeholders
– Report writing and project evaluation
– Fundraising
Contract: Freelance for 12 months beginning in Oct 2014
Hours: Part time
Salary: £25 – £28k depending on experience
Deadline for applications is 22nd August 5pm.
To apply, please email info[at]capsule.org.uk to request an application pack, with General Manager in the subject line.
See https://www.capsule.org.uk/about/#recruitment for more details
We’re delighted to be partnering with the amazing Sineater Festival in Shropshire to present one of our Supersonic Kids Gigs. Leading the Kids Gig is Woven Skull – think “minimal psychedelic repetitions made inside of haunted woods & burning bogs.” This will take place on the afternoon of Saturday 21st June. This is recommended for children under 10 and their families.
Tickets for the festival can be purchased from HERE
Ever since Schoenberg and Kandinsky became pen pals back in 1907, avant-garde art and experimental music has been attempting to find some common ground. But, it’s not been easy. Here’s Capsule’s contribution towards a solution: Supersonic Kids Gigs ‘Big Sounds for Little People’. If you couldn’t guess from the snappy title, it’s a gig for kids and their families, which aims to introduce children to experimental music at an early age. Kids Gigs provide a fantastic opportunity to show children the beauty of live music.
Woven Skull
Previous Supersonic Kids Gig with artist Sarah Kenchington at Symphony Hall, Birmingham
What a weekend Supersonic Festival 2014 “Ltd Edt” was! At Capsule HQ we are all still buzzing from the incredible reviews, kind feedback, fun photos and wicked, wicked memories (Oh, Sly!). Thank you our loyal & lovely audience for the big part you played in making the weekend such a success!
We have a selection of Supersonic treats from our online shop to help you through the slump. There are T-shirts, live recordings on heavyweight vinyl and all sorts of other bits & bobs. Check out all our goodies HERE.
Especially designed by David Hand for this year’s festival, we have a super limited edition tea towel ‘For Curious Audiences’, pic above. It’s so lovely we’ve had people tell us they can’t bear to actually use them. Instead people are opting to hang them up… whatever makes you happy is fine by us! If you are more of an out and about type, then you may prefer to grab one of our rad tote bags. With an orange this bright you can’t fail to get noticed for all the right reasons!
It’s always a proud moment when we see someone supporting us in a tee or looking sharp carrying one of our tote bags! So thank you in advance for supporting what we do.
For these items and more visit our shop!
We’ve had some great reviews already including The Times naming Supersonic as ‘Excellent’ with 4/5 stars and the Arts Desk giving us 5/5, The Quietus wrote ” Supersonic 2014 was a revitalising and refreshing weekend of challenging – and incredibly good fun – music in excellent company, and a pleasing air freshener against the stench of nostalgia one all too often encounters elsewhere. Here’s to 2015?” Nine Hertz claimed “there’s nothing like it in the world.”
We will start posting up our Supersonic Collective memory over the next few days, so feel free to send your comments, let us know what your highlights were, blog post links and photos to us. Supersonic photos should be added to our Flickr group (if you could tag them with band name & supersonic 2014)
A massive thank you to all the artists, our incredible team, especially the amazing Supersonic volunteers and of course our audience for making this years Supersonic Festival Ltd Edtn a truly remarkable event. It is always such a pleasure to welcome back old friends and make new ones. Thank you & we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
SUPERSONIC QUESTIONNAIRE
We know that people who come to SUPERSONIC are a knowledgeable and opinionated lot so we’d like to ask for your assistance to develop and improve the next festival by answering a few questions about you and your experience. This should take no more than a few minutes of your time, and your feedback is greatly appreciated.
Your answers here will aid us in keeping our work going and in making sure new and interesting artists will keep coming to the festival – so your input really does matter in making SUPERSONIC work.
Lisa Meyer, Capsule/Supersonic director was Stuart Maconie’s guest on the BBC 6 Music’s the Freakier Zone on 7 June.
“Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival occupies an exalted position at the vanguard of the festival circuit. And rightly so. Since its inception over ten years ago, it has maintained a staggeringly focused and intelligent curatorial policy, transcending the music and art worlds to present a programme teeming with invention, audience participation and a certain amount of unpredictability. It’s also a bloody good knees up.”
The Skinny
Folks it’s time to plan your weekend – our timetable is now up
In addition we would recommend the following
Friday
10.30 am – 12 Supersonic Kids Gig at Symphony Hall Foyer with Sarah Kenchington (for unders 10′s and their families)
from 5.30pm Digbeth Dining Club – great selection of street food
Bill Drummond exhibition at Eastside Projects Friday – Saturday, 12–5pm
Descent at Millennium Point
Supersonic Festival – Doors open at 9.00pm – 11.30pm (No Entry after 11.30pm)
Saturday
Birmingham Loves Photography ‘Collective Memory’ talk at Alfie Birds 1-2pm
Supersonic Festival – Doors open at 4.00pm
Sunday
2pm Racket at Stryx with Graham Dunning, Sarah Farmer, Manoli Moriaty , Rosanne Robertson , David Birchall , Debbie Sharp
***Remember***
Cash Points
There is only one cash point on site and they charge for withdrawals but there is one located at Digbeth Coach Station
Food & Drink
Friday:
Gourmet Pizzas in Alfie Birds + Supersonic Tearoom
Supersonic Bar – with Purity Ales + Plantation Rum
Alfie Birds cocktail bar
Saturday:
Gourmet Pizzas in Alfie Birds + Supersonic Tearoom + Mexican Bean + Canoodle (Pan Asian Street food)
Supersonic Bar – with Purity Ales + Plantation Rum
Alfie Birds cocktail bar
