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

September listings

Hello,

Another listings splurge for you – later than usual, so
only covering the back-end of September this time. Firstly,
a quick 7INCH UPDATE…

We thought you should be the first to know that the
Flatpack Festival will be having a year off in 2008.
Regular viewers will know that the event has grown rapidly
from humble beginnings into an ambitious and (dare we say
it) hugely enjoyable barrage of events and screenings in
venues across Birmingham. It remains a vital cornerstone of
7inch antics, but rather than scramble together the
resources to put on Flatpack no.3 we felt that for the
future health of the festival and indeed our sanity it
would be wise to take a year out in order to do some
long-term planning. A big thank you to all funders,
contributors and punters for supporting us thus far, and
watch this space for further news…

In the more immediate future, we’re very happy to announce
a short season of monthly events at the Hare and Hounds in
Kings Heath this autumn. On the last Sundays of September,
October and November you will find all manner of filmic and
musical goodies in the upstairs room from 7pm, for the
nominal fee of £4. As always we’re open to submissions for
these events, so if you’d like to send us a short or an
audio-visual proposition look up our details at the bottom.
We’re also working with Ikon gallery on a Halloween special
and planning Norwich and London visits – more details
shortly.

SO WHAT ELSE IS ON?

August listings

Hello–

Many thanks to our guest artistes Scott, Freeka, Alexandre
& the Juneaus for providing an auspicious start in our new
home at the Hare and Hounds. Our next event there is on Aug
30th as part of an AV summer party – details below, along with
the usual listings missive rounding up various things going
on around Birmingham…

SO WHAT’S ON?

Thursday 26 July, from 8pm at the Bulls Head in Moseley
SUGARFOOT STOMP
Special Oxfam edition raising money for the Darfur crisis.
> http://www.myspace.com/thesugarfootstomp

26-29 at Curzon St Station in Digbeth
RHUBARB 2007
Eighth instalment of the international photography festival.
> http://www.rhubarb-rhubarb.net/01_festival.asp

July listings

More Birmingham goings-on.
Proper brief this time, I mean it.
Firstly, 7inch news…

Saturday 14 July at the Custard Factory in Digbeth
7INCH FILM SPACE at SUPERSONIC
For the fifth year running we are showing fillums at Capsule’s annual hoe-down, this time in the Custard Factory theatre. Hide in the dark from all those noisy bands with delights including the UK premiere of a new doc about the pioneering Electronic Music Studios, a mini-retrospective for Brighton-based carboot connoisseur Ian Helliwell and a wealth of unseen live footage from the Southern Records vaults. Elsewhere in the festival you can find Mogwai, Sunn 0))), Om, Kling Klang, Pharoah Overlord and Big Fun (maybe).
> http://www.capsule.org.uk/supersonic/
> http://www.myspace.com/whatthefuturesoundedlike
> http://www.ianhelliwell.co.uk/

Sunday 22 July, 7pm at the Hare and Hounds in Kings Heath
7 INCH CINEMA no.25
One of those pub filmnights we used to do all the time, in a new home at the recently-refurbished Hare and Hounds on Kings Heath High St. Expect shorts, DJs and live treats. Submissions are open til 10 July…

> http://www.7inch.org.uk/About_7inch/Events/53.aspx

4/5 August at Compton Verney near Stratford-upon-Avon
SHADOWFILM

7inch in blogland

After some gentle web-nudging from Pete Ashton, I’ve set up this blog as an online repository for our regular 7inch listings. They are a monthly attempt at rounding up some of the things happening around Birmingham, which you can also receive directly by writing to info[at]7inch.org. Inabit! Ian x