Barn Owl
In case you missed it, here’s a little playlist of what sounds are currently filling Capsule HQ, including Barn Owl, Ex Easter Island Head and Grumbling Fur who will be performing at St Paul’s Church on Saturday 27th April. Tickets available here.
Capsule are delighted to be partnering with Birmingham 2022, Fused Magazine and IdeasTap for an exciting opportunity as part of the opening season for Library of Birmingham.
Do you want to help generate alternative visions for the future of arts and culture in Birmingham? Draw up an arts strategy for the year 2022? Work as a team to create a publication for the new Library of Birmingham’s Discovery Festival?
Then read on.
September 2013 sees the much-anticipated launch of the new Library of Birmingham: the largest public library in Europe. To celebrate the iconic building, the Discovery Festival will host cultural events, activities, projects and performances on the theme of Discovery, including the publication of a new magazine all about the festival.
We’re using this unique opportunity to generate visions for the future of arts and culture in Birmingham for the year 2022, created, written and produced by young creatives.
This brief closes on Friday 1 March at 5pm and is open to IdeasTap members aged 16 to 24 and living in the West Midlands.
For more information and details on how to apply visit IdeasTap
Birmingham 2022 is in partnership with IdeasTap, mac, Fused Magazine, The Library of Birmingham, Capsule and funded by Arts Council England.
Sonic Graffiti by Sam Underwood
The next Wire Salon, produced by Wire magazine takes place on Thursday 7th February at Café Oto in London and will discuss instrument building and its links with hacking and DIY culture. As well as Leafcutter John and Tom Bugs, the panel will feature Capsule associated artist Sam Underwood. Capsule and Vivid commissioned Sam’s piece Sonic Graffiti back in 2011 and the project has grown and evolved, with a residency at Bristol’s Ished currently exploring ‘sounds of warning’.
In related news, Vivid will be relaunching as Vivid Projects on Friday 22nd February with an exciting programme of performances and exhibitions. It will be great to have them back.
Our friends at HTF Media have just released this brilliant footage of The Bug live at the last Supersonic. Joined by Miss Red, Daddy Freddy and Flow Dan they closed the Saturday night programme with earth shattering effect…that bass!
We’ve got a sale in the shop of two top-notch releases from Capsule Recordings. Tweak Bird live at Supersonic Festival 2010 and Iron Lung live at Supersonic Festival 2009. They’re both available at £6 – a new year bargain for you!
We’ve just announced a very special show to take place on Saturday 27th April. We’re big fans of Barn Owl over at Capsule, and are thrilled to invite them back to Birmingham, and have them play in the stunning setting of St Paul’s Church. Playing in front of modified super 8 footage, the twin guitars of Evan Caminiti and Jon Porras intertwine instinctively, equal parts slow-burning twang and spaced-out feedback drone.
They’ll be joined by Grumbling Fur, a project by Alexander Tucker and Daniel O’Sullivan and Liverpool based Ex Easter Island Head (for fans of Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca).
Tickets are now on sale via theticketsellers.co.uk
Barn Owl live at Supersonic Festival 2011:
Our friends at The Quietus are celebrating their 5th year this year and and will embarking on a bunch of new projects to mark this. One of those is a ‘new music digest’ on Tumblr – offering a simple breakdown of some key emerging acts they bill it as an ‘ongoing archive of adventurous and exciting new music’.
There’s already lots to read on there, including info on Supersonic 2012 artist Goat, Birmingham born Lee Gamble, and other great new acts like Ex Easter Island Head and Heatsick.Take a look via quietusnewmusic.tumblr.com
In other pleasing Quietus news, Oxbow frontman Eugene Robinson has started a new column, his first one is about English grammar and getting into fights http://thequietus.com/articles/11121-i-was-attacked-by-a-grammarian-by-eugene-s-robinson
Any krautrock fans out there will be pleased to hear that the Einstellung record ‘Wings of Desire’ is available again on the Capsule shop. The limited edition double vinyl comes with gatefold sleeve designed by Lucy McLauchlan www.lucy.beat13.co.uk
“From the deepest depths of the industrial heartlands of Middle England comes a small ray of light. Since late 2003 a warm glow has steadily grown into what can only be described as a fireball. From this point on let this gentle fireball be known as Einstellung.
Blending glorious monotonous Krautrock with melodic tones and heavy slabs of Sabbath riffage, whilst finding time to declare sonic warfare on those tinnitus victims who have passed the point of no return.
Einstellung feature ex members of Sally, Katastrophy Wife, Cable Regime, Godflesh and Grover”
www.myspace.com/einstellung
“If Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother had undergone their musical educations in 1990s Birmingham instead of 1960s Berlin, the music they would have made together under the Neu! banner probably would have sounded a lot like Einstellung’s debut, Wings Of Desire.”
Drum Media, Sydney