BIRMINGHAM WEEKENDER – Volunteers wanted

Between 25 – 27 September 2015, the city centre will come alive for an extraordinary weekend of high quality outdoor arts called Birmingham Weekender. Including independent street food traders, plenty of city fashion and style events and also the Rugby World Cup games at Villa Park, there’s never been so much going on in Birmingham!

Building on the success of 4 Squares Weekender and produced and coordinated by the same team, nearly all events will be free including our own Mucho Brumcha: Day of the Dead fiesta – a great day out for families and friends!

Heart and Soul at The Irish Centre, Digbeth – 20 June

Fans of soul take note: June will see the ever-popular Heart & Soul return to Digbeth’s Irish Centre for an all-out summer special.

After losing his son Ethan, aged three, following a corrective operation for TGA (transposition of the great arteries) in 2009, South Birmingham Scooter Club’s Andrew Marshall set up the event in the hope of making money for UK based charity, Heart Research UK.

NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL A MILLION – COMPETITION

NOW That’s What I Call A Million features 61 tracks from the NOW compilation series of the best million selling hits. Featuring tracks from Queen, Wings, Take That & Boney M, through to digital success from Pharrell, Gotye and Passenger and we’ve got 3 x copies to giveaway.

Competition: Win DVDs

Boulevard Entertainment presents four fantastic music documentaries: All You Need Is Love – The Beatles, Leonard Cohen – Bird On A Wire, The World Of Liberace and the truly original surrealist film Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels from celebrated journalist and film director Tony Palmer, which have just been made available on DVD. We have two copies of each one to give away.

REVIEW: Let’s Wrestle, 23.7.11 Hare & Hounds

Cocky cockneys through and through, Let’s Wrestle take attitude to the next level, binding together the naughties indie scene of trend setters Franz Ferdinand with sixties garage rock. Their downtrodden appearance leaves no signs of conformity, with a clear indication of independence to those fashion followers.

The Catapult Club celebrates 10 years at Birmingham’s 02 Academy

Legendary Midlands based promoters The Catapult Club, who helped to establish local acts from throughout the region, including Ocean Colour Scene, Editors, Dodgy, Kasabian and The Twang, this March celebrated its 10th year of promoting gigs at Birmingham’S 02 Academy.

Calling All Music Producers

The Midlands-based independent record company Speech Fewapy Records are teaming up with electronic two-piece Waler to offer budding and established music producers, the unique opportunity to remix the Waler track ‘No Excuses’. The winning remixes will be selected to feature on the forth-coming ‘No Excuses – Remix EP’ which is released nationally on digital download and CD  on 2nd May, 2011.

Area Culture Guide – Dec/Jan

Here is the December/January combined edition of Area Culture Guide for your viewing pleasure.

Be sure to pick one up – they are HOT off the presses and we know how fast they move.

This issue is light enough on the Xmas theme but we do have some cracking competitions for you to enter if the thought of spending your hard earned cash on others is too much for you to deal with.

Area Culture Guide for October

We’ve had a very busy September here at Fused towers with no less than 3 magazines to produce this month. It doesn’t look like we’ll be getting too much rest either due to the amount of great happenings in the region throughout October – all neatly packed in to the Area Culture Guide for your enjoyment. Read more here…

Jibbering 10th Birthday Bash

Jibbering are celebrating their 10th Birthday with a night of live ska, funk, reggae and dubstep.