Supersonic Festival tickets go on sale tomorrow- at a special discounted price for early birders, for a limited time only. We’ll also announce our first wave of live acts, hotel deals and other ways you can help to support the festival in its 10th year.
Go to http://supersonicfestival.com/ on Tuesday 1st May for tickets, line up and more info
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
Lots of great pieces have been added to the Home of Metal digital archive recently. Including Judas Priest stage costumes, direct from the band themselves. How they manage to perform in those is beyond us. There’s also a handwritten letter to a fan from Rob Halford, where he passionately declares his love for all things METAL, a gig journal from the most devoted Sabbath fan the Home of Metal team have met yet and handwritten lyrics from Ozzy’s ‘Diary of a Madman’ loaned by the album cover artist Krusher.
It’s so exiting to see these pieces from music history alongside precious fan memorabilia. And we want more! Upload images of your ticket stubs, photographs, prized records or tell us about your Heavy Metal memories and be part of this global music archive. To find out more, go here .
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.
For one weekend each year Digbeth’s arches vibrate with strange, wonderful sounds as the Custard Factory becomes the focal point for one of the UK’s most distinctive and respected music festivals…Supersonic Festival.
Join us this year to celebrate our 10th birthday.
Tickets will go on sale on the 1st May and we’ll be announcing our first wave of confirmed artists as well as hotel deals and more. www.supersonicfestival.com
“Capsule’s Supersonic festival has evolved…to consistently provide one of UK’s most anticipated Festival line-ups.” Clash Magazine
Stourbridge based Adam Beckley creates drone infused soundscapes from a variety of sources. We’re looking forward to seeing him support Esmerine at St Paul’s Church on 12th May. Tickets are available here https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/
Find out more about Adam here http://adambeckley.bandcamp.com/ and take a look at his record label here http://armedwithinmovement.bandcamp.com/
