🎉Tickets for #Flatpack2023 are on sale🎉 We’re super excited to share this year’s line-up. It’s chock-full of mind-altering AV performances, brilliant music docs, exciting guest programming and a delectable smorgasbord of films long and short. Tuck in: flatpackfestival.org.uk/flatpack-2023

All welcome to this Wednesday's Popular Music Research cluster's seminar at the Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research. It's online! We will be presenting "Demo Tapes" work-in-progress short papers. eventbrite.co.uk/e/popular-musi…

Extra, extra! Popular music research seminar tomorrow with guest speaker Mark Duffett feat. an experimental playlist and short talks on the theme "audience". All welcome, details below. BCMCR #popularmusic #fandom eventbrite.co.uk/e/responses-to…

Wow!Amazing day yesterday,delivering a ‘zine making workshop.Fantastic day working with Girl Grind UK for the ‘She Don Did It’ project.Great working alongside NAMYWA Michelle Matt Grimes Asya Draganova Corinne Stewart @bcuschoolofmedia RoyalBirminghamConservatoireJazz goyouthbcu

New #journal! DiY, Alternative Cultures and Society is here, launched by SAGE! And I am very pleased to be on the editorial board. Research friends, please consider publishing your work with this exciting new journal.

Delighted that The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Music has been published and it features a chapter I wrote! Thanks to editor Margaret H. Beissinger for including me in this fantastic project. Full contents and info here: academic.oup.com/edited-volume/… BCMCR

What do record stores mean to individuals, musical genres & society in general? This book collects stories & memories about different local stores & celebrates that neglected history. Find out more about The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Record Store: bit.ly/3PsyXOd

Balsall Heath! Surrealism! Stewart Lee! And Ruth Millington! No idea why people keep recommending this programme to us 🧐 Airs at 11:30 this morning on #Radio4, and on BBC Sounds thereafter bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

What's cultural/music industry significance of Songwriting Camps in the 21st Century? If you are curious about this international project, come to our Popular Music research BCMCR event online tomorrow! Details in link. tickettailor.com/events/birming…

On Wed 8 Nov, it's my book launch for Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities, and I'll be chatting to the excellent @r_gealga. It's hybrid (zoom/Birmingham City Uni campus) 4pm-5.30pm. Info/booking here: poppywilde.co.uk/book-launch/ #Posthumanism #GameStudies

Today an 88-year lease on 47 Station Street, Birmingham comes to an end. It’s a chance to reflect on the remarkable life of this resilient little picture house behind New St Station, arguably the oldest cinema in the UK. What might its next chapter might look like? 1/21