To celebrate the arrival and stay of the Jamaican and American Olympic teams in Birmingham for London 2012, Sara Fowles (long running Supersonic artist liaison, many of you will have also met this lovely lady on the door of many a Capsule gig) and Stitches and Hos will cover with knit graffiti the columns on the exterior of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. A palette of six colours (red, blue, white, yellow, green and black) will be used to create the installation. The palette is derived from the colours used on both teams national flags and are also the same colours used in the Olympic rings logo.
To help finance this project the team guerilla knitting team are trying to raise £2500 to pay for activity in a pop up shop located in the Pavilions. The shop will be a relaxing central hub where anyone can come and contribute to the project by knitting a square or even a few rows. There will also be staff on hand to teach you the basics if you can’t already knit.

Project blog http://knit2together.tumblr.com

Crowdfunding page http://www.sponsume.com/project.k2tog-knit-2-together

The very talented Tom Hughes has produced this poster for our 4th July show with Unsane, Big Business and Stinky Wizzleteat at Rainbow Warehouse. It’s gonna be a right good ‘un and tickets are available here. Check out more of Tom’s work via http://cargocollective.com/thomasjhughes

Congratulations to the Roadburn team in Tilburg for another amazing edition of their annual celebration of the heavy. We had a blast and saw some incredible performances. Cheers to Jess for the snaps.

Michael Gira performing a mixture of Swans and solo material

Justin Broadrick performing as JK Flesh. Justin had a residency at the festival and also performed as White Static Demon, Final and Jesu

J G Thirlwell’s Manorexia

Barn Owl

Some late night Gnod

J Mascis was at Roadburn perfoming in Witch, but also took part in a stellar ‘Heavy Jam’ along with members of Witch and Earthless

Each year Roadburn come along to Supersonic Festival to DJ and set up shop in the Marketplace. They’ve announced that Jus Osborn of Electric Wizard will curate next year’s Roadburn – more info here http://www.roadburn.com/

A very special performance at Town Hall – The Sinking of the Titanic. Don’t miss the unique chance to catch Gavin Bryars at Town Hall this Friday performing his classic experimental work The Sinking of the Titanic accompanied by visuals and Philip Jeck on turntables, on the centenary weekend of the disaster.
Tickets can be found here http://www.thsh.co.uk/event/the-sinking-of-the-titanic

6.15pm Free

pre-concert conversation with Gavin Bryars and Andy Lound, expert on Birmingham’s Titanic connections.

Thanks to all who came out to last Friday’s sold out show with Grouper performing ‘Violet Replacement’. The show coincided with Fierce Festival’s opening weekend and was a very special evening, with excellent performances from Liz Harris (Grouper), Diamond Catalog and SWLLWS.

Grouper presents ‘Violet Replacement’. Looped field recordings using an array of cassette players, against a beautiful  lunar backdrop

Image courtesy of Katja Ogrin

Diamond Catalog blew us away with their complex noise, seeped groove and DIY lightshow. Sit down rave!

SWLLWS created a special performance for this event. ‘Seance’ drew from Victoriana imagery and found family photographs.

Image courtesy of Katja Ogrin

A really special show, thanks to all who came out and thanks to VIVID and Fierce.

Next up, you lucky ones who snapped up the limited tickets for the SECRET SHOW are in for a  unique experience tonight. Some of you are being met in the city centre, others being met from their home – then your journey will begin. Enjoy, and do let us know about your experience  by commenting here, on the Facebook event page or via Twitter.

Daniel Margetts (who also designed the great poster for our show with Teeth of the Sea) has designed this for the forthcoming Harvey Milk show on Tuesday 22nd May at Hare & Hounds. You can see more of Daniel’s work here – http://www.behance.net/Margetts

Support will come from West Midlands trio Grimpen Mire who combine sludge with Sabbath and released their debut album last year on At War with False Noise.

Tickets are £10 adv and available here

An incredible line up hits Birmingham on Wednesday 4th July. Call it an American Independence celebration – Unsane and Big Business will play The Rainbow Warehouse.

Unsane’s long awaited new album is complete and will be released in May, so here is your chance to hear new material from the NYC noise rock powerhouse. They’re joined by the ever brilliant Big Business.

Tickets are £10 and available here

A little belated, but here are some pics from our show with Flatpack Festival – Panopticon with live music from Pontiak and White hills plus visuals and DJs – it was a psych dream.

PONTIAK

WHITE HILLS

Thanks to all who came along to the sold out show – it was a great night.

Photos from Grouper (another sell out!) coming up soon plus details of a very exciting gig in July.

Coming up next though its the SECRET SHOW, tickets have sold out (we’re on a roll!) but tickets are still available for both Esmerine and Harvey Milk