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.

Joining the bill for Wednesday 15th May is Steve Malley aka The Horse Loom. The Northumbrian guitarist plays dark folk music, telling twisted tales. Steve also plays in the trio The Unit Ama and has also played in Crane, Kodiak and Four Frame.

Daniel Higgs and The Horse Loom play Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath on Wednesday 15th May.Tickets are £8 advance and available from www.theticketsellers.co.uk

Pitchfork are hosting a preview of the new Barn Owl album on their site. V sees Barn Owl in a bit of a new direction with the use of synths adding a new feel to their guitar drones.

You can see them perform material from their new record in Birmingham on Saturday 27th April at St Paul’s Church.
Support comes from Grumbling Fur, featuring Alexander Tucker and Daniel O’Sullivan (Guapo, Aethenor) and Ex Easter Island Head (for fans of Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham).

Tickets are available via www.theticketsellers.co.uk. Doors are 8pm.

We are very pleased to announce a show with firm Capsule favourite Daniel Higgs. A performer unlike anyone else, if you’ve never seen him perform live before, we thoroughly recommend you come along to this intimate gig at the Hare & Hounds on Wednesday 15th May (and if you have seen him before, well you probably want to see him again hey?)

Tickets are now available for £8 from theticketsellers.co.uk. Support to be announced.