7inch July listings

Hello again.

Thanks to all who came along for our birthday do
on Saturday, a fitting occasion. We particularly
enjoyed the frenzied dancing to pop videos at the
end. A few photos can be found here:
> http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2008/07/birthday-pics/
But we mustn’t dwell in the past, there’s another
7inch event tomorrow…

Thursday 3 July, 7pm-1am
The Rainbow Warehouse, Adderley St in Digbeth
FLUMMOXED
An evening of music, film and action as part of
Vivid’s Flux-Fest season. Includes silent raving,
the first ever performance of a composition based
on the number 11 bus route, limited edition flipbooks,
a selection of work by Oliver Laric and a
three-turntable improvisation by audio-collagist
Ergo Phizmiz using assorted vinyl and no headphones.
Nicholas Bullen will be filling a white box with
Fluxus scores, performances, props and ephemera,
and Film Ficciones & Micronormous climax with the

7inch june listings

Heyup,

Here’s another headlong canter through various
Birmingham-related events, many of them nothing to do with
us. Firstly, one that is:

Saturday 28 June, 7pm-2am at the Rainbow in Digbeth
7 INCH CINEMA FIFTH BIRTHDAY BLOWOUT
No, we don’t believe it’s been five years either. To
celebrate, a return to the birthplace of 7inch for a night
of maudlin nostalgia and a-v revelry. Includes:
JUNEAU PROJECTS
MIKE IN MONO
JAYGO BLOOM’S GREENSCREEN BOUDOIR
MICHAEL VALENTINE WEST
GRANDMASTER GARETH (dj set)
FILMFICCIONES YOUTUBE ODYSSEY
PRIME OBJECTIVE + DJ DOM
Plus lots of shorts, installations, birthday cake,
barbeque…
£5 on the door.
> http://www.7inch.org.uk/events

Scroll down for further 7inch activities in July. And look
out for the Destroyers gig at Town Hall on 12 June.

SO WHAT ELSE IS ON?

Sat 31 May, 1-9pm under Hockley Flyover near Handsworth

7inch May listings

hello,

It’s that busy time of year, so our listings are extra patchy
this month - but we hope you find some things here of interest.
Firstly, 7inch-related news…

Next 7inch event::
Sunday 18 May, 7pm
at the Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath B14 7JZ
7INCH no.32 :: folk special
featuring TRAVELLING FOR A LIVING

Our last Kings Heath event for a while includes a lovely
film from 1965 about Hull’s Waterson family; singing,
talking and drinking lots of tea. The director Derrick
Knight will be our guest, recounting his experiences making
the film and some other early adventures in documentary.
(Including an important role in pulling together a
10-camera record of the 1958 CND march on Aldermaston.)
Plus assorted folky clips, musical interludes and shorts.
£4 on the door.

We’ve also done a little interview with Derrick Knight.

Peering further into the future…

New 7inch site

Phew. After many hours of wading through our archives and solving lots of niggly little problems, we have a new website. And the fact that I keep going back through it to ‘ooh’ and ‘aah’ is a good sign I think. If you go visit you’ll notice that there’s a news page which looks suspiciously blog-like, and that’s how we hope to use it. This will continue to be a dumping-ground for our listings emails for now, but if you want to be kept fully informed of 7inch goings-on then 7inch.org is the place to go…

April listings, the Divine Edgar

Hello,

Please find below a rapid canter through some things
happening around Birmingham over the next few weeks. First
though, an important notice…

THE DIVINE EDGAR
at FIERCE FESTIVAL 2008
Anyone who came to the 7inch Halloween or Christmas events
last year will know a little about this unique horizontal
ghost-train ride of an installation. While we were setting
up at Highbury Hall one of the ladies working there asked
if she could try out The Divine Edgar, and the cackles of
glee and screams of terror which emanated from the next
room were a joy to behold.

Anyway, Edgar needs your votes. It is currently hovering
outside the top 3 in contention for a place in the
‘Unconventional Spaces’ programme at this year’s Fierce
Festival. How much more unconventional can you get than a
coffin? Voting closes on 11 April, and you’re allowed to
vote each day – so as Mr Capone said, vote early and vote
often…
More information here:
> http://tinyurl.com/69gars
> http://www.myfiercefestival.co.uk

NEXT 7INCH EVENT::
I FOR INDIA
Sunday 27 April, 7pm

March listings

Blimey, it’s all going on at the moment. For a start we are
on the brink of launching a new 7inch website (just as long
as our web designer doesn’t strangle us first). The old site
has served us extremely well, but we felt it needed a bit
of a springclean and we hope you enjoy our new direction…
There is also a shedload of exciting gigs and projects coming
up over the next few months, and remarkably enough 7inch is
nearly five years old. More info soon, but in the meantime:

7INCH no.30
JACK STEVENSON presents:
STRANGE MAGIC
Sunday 23 March, from 7pm
At the Hare and Hounds in Kings Heath

Globetrotting film collector and writer Jack Stevenson had
a memorable one-night stand with us at the Rainbow a couple
of years ago, presenting a wonderful show of Elvis-related
obscurities. This time he is bringing his own very personal

February listings

Heyup,

It has been a while, but here are some film-related things
happening around Birmingham over the next few weeks.
Firstly:

7INCH NEWS
This month we return to Kings Heath for a series of Sunday
filmnights throughout the spring, kicking off with:

Sunday 24 Feb, 7pm at the Hare and Hounds
7INCH no.29
Super 8 special including filmficciones selection and the
folks from straight8, who will be presenting a greatest
hits selection and talking about how you can get involved
in this year’s scheme. Plus shorts, music, and what have
you. £4 on the door.
> http://www.7inch.org.uk/About_7inch/Events/64.aspx
> http://www.youtube.com/user/filmficciones70
> http://straight8.net/

The 7inch site also has info on other forthcoming dates,
including a screening of I For India and a visit in March
by underground film don Mr Jack Stevenson. And a big thank
you to all who submitted to our DIY Flipbook Challenge.
We’ve extended the deadline, so if you want to see your
flipbook film on the big screen then grab a notepad or
postits and get your animation to the address at the bottom
of this email by Tuesday 19 Feb. All the results will be shown
at the super8 special.

[  By the way, if you are an 8mm fan the submissions
deadline for Cambridge Super 8 Fest is next week:
http://www.cambridge-super8.org/  ]

SO WHAT ELSE IS ON?

December listings

Hello,

This month’s listings come in fingerless gloves. Firstly a
reminder about our Christmas special next week, and another
dvd giveaway…

7 Inch Cinema present:
CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES
Weds 12 December, 7.30pm at Highbury Hall, Moseley
The Cambridge scholar MR James dreamed up his tales of
gloomy cloisters and desolate beaches as a way of giving
friends the heebie-jeebies at Christmas, and has influenced
countless writers of suspense since. During the 70s the BBC
branded many a young, impressionable mind with a series of
spine-chilling James adaptations, and for this very special
festive one-off we’ll be dusting off two of the best: A
Warning to the Curious and Whistle and I’ll Come to You.
There will also be a selection of shorts, sundry DJs, audio
reworkings of a couple of Michael Hordern readings by
Nicholas Bullen (Black Galaxy) and another chance to
experience The Divine Edgar, the filmficciones installation
unveiled at our Ikon Halloween event. And if all that gets
too much for you we’ll keep the fire going in the bar.

Tickets: £7 advance / £8 on the night
Available from Swordfish, Jibbering and Polar Bear records
from 5 December.
Or via paypal to flatpack[at]7inch.org for £7 + 50p postage.
> http://www.7inch.org.uk/About_7inch/Events/63.aspx

Venue: Highbury Hall, Yew Tree Road, Moseley, Bham B13 8QG
Commissioned by Birmingham MP Joseph Chamberlain as his
‘country retreat’, Highbury can be found tucked behind the
Britannic Assurance building near where Russell Road meets
Queensbridge Road.
Google map
Council info

Win! A dvd of A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS (Dir: L.G.Clark,
1972), generously donated by the BFI. And! A free ticket to
the Ghost Stories event.
Just answer this question correctly:
Q] Who wrote a song inspired by MR James entitled Spectre
vs Rector?
Answers to info[at]7inch.org.uk by Friday 7 December. The
winner will be informed on Monday 10 Dec.

SO WHAT ELSE IS ON?

November listings

Hello -

Another Birmingham listings overload for you. Firstly,
thanks to everyone who came to the Halloween do at Ikon
last week. We will post up some pictures shortly, but in
the meantime Created in Birmingham have done a collective
memory thing::
> http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=990

UPCOMING 7INCH EVENTS

Weds 7 November, from 8pm at Norwich Arts Centre
7 INCH CINEMA / ZX SPECTRUM ORCHESTRA
A night of hand-coded disco and youtube thrills to mark
the opening of the Aurora festival, with guest DJs from
Sugarfoot Stomp.
> http://www.aurora.org.uk/?lid=1057

Friday 16 November, 7pm at Wolverhampton Light House
A HISTORY OF SHORT FILM IN 7 INCHES
Headlong canter through some of our favourites as part of
the Short Film Is Dead weekend (see below).
> http://www.screenwm.co.uk

Saturday 24 November, 8pm at the Cube in Bristol
7 INCH CINEMA / PRAM
An evening of film and music with support from Romanhead.
> http://www.cubecinema.com

Sunday 25 November, 7pm at the Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath
7INCH no. 28 :: ANIMATION SPECIAL
With work by Don Hertzfeldt, Malcolm Sutherland and the
Brothers McLeod. Plus a DIY Flipbook Challenge.
> http://www.7inch.org.uk/About_7inch/Events/61.aspx
> http://www.bitterfilms.com
> http://www.thebrothersmcleod.co.uk

Weds 12 December at Highbury Hall in Moseley
7INCH CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
Fireside ghost stories. More details shortly…

SOME OTHER THINGS GOING ON THIS MONTH

Tuesday 6 November, 7.30 at mac in Edgbaston
SCREEN TEST

October listings

Phew,
A glut of Birmingham listings this month, and plenty of
7inch gigs coming up too…

Saturday 20 October, 8pm at the Abbey in Kentish Town
SUGARFOOT STOMP vs 7 INCH CINEMA
Jazz-age showdown in the big smoke.
http://www.7inch.org.uk/About_7inch/Events/58.aspx

Sunday 28 October, 7pm at the Hare & Hounds in Kings Heath
7INCH no. 27
Featuring Broadcast and Jonny from Trunk Records.
£4 on the door.
> http://www.7inch.org.uk/About_7inch/Events/57.aspx

Weds 31 October, 8pm at Ikon Eastside in Digbeth
DREAM WITHIN A DREAM
7inch/Ikon event with live scores by Broadcast and Black
Galaxy, DJ Julian House from the Focus Group and a
filmficciones installation. Free entry - and feel free
to dress Halloweenish.
> http://www.7inch.org.uk/About_7inch/Events/59.aspx

Weds 7 November, 9pm at Norwich Arts Centre
AURORA FESTIVAL OPENING DO
With live guests ZX Spectrum Orchestra and DJs from
Sugarfoot Stomp.
> http://www.aurora.org.uk/?lid=1057

Saturday 24 November at the Cube in Bristol
PRAM + 7INCH
Evening of live music and short film, with DJs from Hot
on the Heels of Love. Details tbc.
> http://www.cubecinema.com

SO WHAT ELSE IS ON?

Tues 2 October at the Glee Club in Bham
PUPPINI SISTERS
Sassy harmonising threesome, with support from Patti
Plinko and her Boy.
> http://www.glee.co.uk/php/listings-gig.php?id_gig=4326