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Geektastic – Chillax with Recording Sound In the Midlands Part 3 – Panel Interview – The Suit Interview #2

by The Suit Covert

  Its Sunday Morning. So have you got your Bacon Buttie at hand,  your mug of tea and you reading glasses on? yes? Good as its time for the 2nd half of the interview questions on music recording in the midlands and this half is very chilled .   12. Software or hardware? Discuss Jon: [...]

Music Geek Extreme! Recording Sound In the Midlands Part 2 – Panel Interview – The Suit Interview #2

by The Suit Covert

  Ok – In the 1st part of the Interview we met the panel, and I bet you thought “that was nice but where are the actual questions” Well here they are!!! This is the first half and then tomorrow we’ll put up the second half. This is the proper muso geek stuff , so [...]

Hector Osbert Silenced due to Egyptian riots

by The Suit Covert

This is just a quick post, but I thought it needed sharing Some of you maybe aware of the Riots and demonstrations that are currently going in Egypt. And to most people of coventry this will have no relevance, and covert normally shy’s away from Politics because, lets be honest, it has no place here. [...]

Calling The Shots: Independent Film-making in Coventry (Part Two)

by Brian Harley Features

PART TWO: So Call The Shots, the unique forum under which local film-makers could network and collaborate had expired, exposing a deficient, isolated scene, inhabited by creative refugees and struggling, aspiring film-makers. However, Wood and Pinches were defiant, certain that Call The Shots could still play a valuable role in Coventry’s film-making, they set about plotting its comeback. (Cue Rocky Theme). Just a [...]

Calling The Shots: Independent Film-making in Coventry (Part One)

by Brian Harley Features

PART ONE: Director Robert Altman once said that film-making is a chance to live many lifetimes. With this single remark, Altman sent forth what is arguably one of the most laconic endorsements for film-making ever, in which he refers not only to the subject matter of each film, but to the lives and times that revolve [...]

My Dad: The Binman-Director

by Brian Harley Film/Animation

  A few months after I was born in 1979, my dad, Bernard, and my uncle Jim made a short horror film called The Phantom in the Mirror, which they shot on Super 8 and edited in camera as they went along. The film spins a familiar yarn, about a haunted mirror which consumes the [...]

The Gentleman’s Dub Club “Emergency” Tour

by Valenti General

This skanking ninepeice is really one to keep you eye on… taking dub, ska & roots and bringing it to you with the air and disgrace of a classic 80′s ska night. We caught them over at Outlook festival last September where they had the place jumping to their offbeats and upbeats. They’ve been real [...]

Quick question…

by pieye General

No. I didn’t think so either. In fact, it’s still effing November! So shut up about it already! Can I not enjoy my day off in my jimmers without having to endure a bajillion seasonally excruciating adverts! Brrrr….

Roots to Shoots – Short Films Night

by pieye Film/Animation

This Thursday 25th November, Taylor Johns in the Canal Basin will be hosting a night of short films. They’re encouraging media students to come along and showcase their work. I for one will be there to check out the local talent. You should too! Find all the info here on their Facebook page. It’s only [...]

A brand new point of view.

by pieye Art/Design

Hey there fellow Coventrifolk. On a day as remarkably dull day as this, when it’s cold, you’re skint, you’re bored and watching endless re-runs of Friends or Bill Hicks or Family Guy, or whatever tickles your televisual pickle…I have a way for you to feel better about being trapped inside. You’re going to need lots [...]

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Dub FX Hits UK

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Covert favourite Dub FX the pedal looping, street blazing, aussie beatboxer is in the UK for one date that is well worth reaching (Bristol ain’t that far!) at The Island, Bristol, Saturday June 12. Event details.