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I’m delighted to be involved with the next ProjectX presents night. I did a set at the last ProjectX but this time i’m lucky enough to play twice. I will start the main room at the very early 8pm but i will also play in the Other Room at around 11.30pm. Both should be one hour each…<\/p>\n
This night promises to be something special and dont take my word for it. Below are a series of links to previews and interviews for Digital Dystopia. As the ProjectX website states…<\/p>\n
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“Project X Presents invites you on a journey into the heart of Digital Dystopia.<\/em>“<\/p>\n Our fourth event takes place at BUSK – a wonderful new venue in Birmingham City Centre. Join us for a joyous celebration where many performers combine to present a seamless whole of sound, light and interaction \u2026an \u201comnimedia experience\u201d.<\/p>\n Three stages and multiple projection screens will allow the presentation of a seamless flow of multi genre entertainment including bands, performers, comedians, VJs, DJs, dancers, poets.<\/p>\n You can\u2019t bottle it \u2013 but you can be part of it on Saturday 13th September<\/p>\n Poets, performers, dancers, costumes, stage sets, audience participation<\/p>\n \u2026and much more playing a part during an unforgettable night<\/p>\n Join us on this moving and engaging journey and be entertained by three stages housing a seamless procession of music and spoken word – all woven into a continual mix of sound and supported by performers, dancers and an amazing team of VJ\u2019s.<\/p>\n Our smaller room offers a chilled selection of beats, bleeps and glitches and our Object X crew has an amazing array of weird and wonderful pieces to enjoy – interactive toys for the curious<\/p>\n Project X Presents<\/a> \u00a0<\/p>\n Paper Interviews with Rich from Project X<\/strong><\/p>\n Birmingham Post – Project X hits the right spot<\/p>\n Sep 9 2008 By Simon Harper<\/p>\n Simon Harper meets Birmingham\u2019s musical catalyst, Rich Batsford.<\/p>\n In the past decade and more, Birmingham has undergone something of a \u201cThere\u2019s loads more happening now than in recent times,\u201d enthuses Rich \u201cI\u2019ve gradually become much more a part of it, and I\u2019d say that it\u2019s Whether playing music, booking gigs, promoting shows or doing This weekend sees the fourth Project X event \u2013 described as an The line-up features the warm electronica of Arc Vel, 360\u2019s sunshine- For Rich \u2013 who will also be performing a set of his meditative piano \u201cIt grew out of ongoing discussions between five friends, basically. \u201cIn life we tend to get thrown together with people to some degree, \u201cThere was one catalytic event, which was a party we had to say bon After the first event in July 2006, charmingly titled \u2018Like Fxck\u2019, a It seems to be part of a laudable attempt to develop audiences and \u201cThis is one of the things that Project X is intended to address; to \u201cWe very much want to challenge the audience a bit; not make it \u201cWith Project X, because the audience are in the room and the stages Away from such multi-faceted events, Rich is also heavily involved in \u201cI saw an opportunity to book the sort of shows that I really enjoy,\u201d \u201cWe\u2019ve been there for a couple of years now, building up an audience \u201cReginald D Hunter has been, from the moment I first saw him on a \u201cI did try to get Doug Stanhope, who I saw at Edinburgh last year and \u201cI really enjoy an act called Paul Provenza, who made a rather amazing \u201cStand-up is such a varied and loose format at the end of the day; Quite how he manages to fit the life of a musician into his hectic \u201cBy far and away the biggest single musical influence in my life is You can catch Rich and a slew of other performers at Project X I’m delighted to be involved with the next ProjectX presents night. I did a set at the last ProjectX but this time i’m lucky enough to play twice. I will start the main room at the very early 8pm but i will also play in the Other Room at around 11.30pm. 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\ncultural renaissance. Creative activity in the city is now much more
\nwidespread and there\u2019s a host of artists, events and venues in the
\ncity which are getting national recognition too.<\/p>\n
\nBatsford.<\/p>\n
\nreally taken off. We all too often measure ourselves against other
\ncities. The reality is that Birmingham is a very diverse city and may
\nnot have had a scene like Madchester or stuff that\u2019s happened in
\nLondon, at least not since the 70s and metal, but it\u2019s got some
\namazing music and other stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nvoluntary work at several cultural events in Birmingham, Rich finds
\nhimself involved in all sorts of activity within the city, perhaps
\nmost notably with his involvement as one of the key figures behind
\nProject X Presents.<\/p>\n
\n\u2018omnimedia experience\u2019, it is built around the theme of a \u2018digital
\ndystopia\u2019, bringing together a multitude of art forms for a sensory
\noverload.<\/p>\n
\nfuelled ska, stand-up comedy from Reginald D Hunter and Khalgani\u2019s
\ntribal belly dancing, plus a number of other performers taking in
\nmyriad creative formats.<\/p>\n
\ncompositions as part of proceedings \u2013 this is a logical step in the
\ndevelopment of Project X, a process that has been underway since long
\nbefore their inaugural event in 2006.<\/p>\n
\nWe spent a lot of time talking art, entertainment and life generally,
\nand how we\u2019d like things to be, and it dawned on us fairly gradually
\nthat we should do something together.<\/p>\n
\nand certainly in normal working life you don\u2019t choose who you get to
\nwork with, and we saw that we had an opportunity to work with exactly
\nthe people we did want to work with.<\/p>\n
\nvoyage to a close friend of ours who was going off travelling, but
\nalso partly for my birthday. We had the party at Robannas, the
\nrehearsal studio. There\u2019s no one big room in there but we had a number
\nof different things going on in a number of rooms. There\u2019s no reason
\nwhy you can\u2019t have lots of different types of creative endeavour side
\nby side at the same event.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nprogramme was devised as part of last year\u2019s Gigbeth festival to
\nprovide the follow-up, while \u2018Digital Dystopia\u2019 will be the second
\nProject X shindig this year.<\/p>\n
\npartnerships both within Birmingham and also nationally, with a
\ncreative ethos at its heart.<\/p>\n
\ndevelop and engage with an audience. By having such a diverse range of
\nstuff within the show, we will hopefully be introducing people to at
\nleast some stuff that they haven\u2019t previously engaged with.<\/p>\n
\ndifficult for them, but engage with them and not just have them
\npassively watching something at the back of the room.<\/p>\n
\nare around them, you feel much more a part of it and much more caught
\nup in it, so that the audience are actively participating in the
\nevent.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nthe live comedy scene in Birmingham, booking and promoting stand-up
\nand theatre shows at the Old Joint Stock Theatre as well as several
\nother venues around the country. He\u2019s brought the likes of stand-up
\nstalwart Stewart Lee to such an intimate venue, along with fast-
\nemerging mirth-makers such as Wil Hodgson, Nick Doody and Paul Sinha.<\/p>\n
\nhe grins. \u201cThe hour-long festival and theatre-style shows in which
\npeople have that much more chance to extend themselves comedically
\nthan they do in your standard 20-minute or 30-minute club or pub gig
\nformat.<\/p>\n
\nof people who want to see some pretty interesting comics, doing the
\nhour shows that they deliver at the Edinburgh festival and other
\ncomedy and arts festivals across the world.<\/p>\n
\nstage, one of my favourite acts and he\u2019s the first name on my team-
\nsheet.<\/p>\n
\nwas tremendously impressed by. Stewart Lee, who I think at his best is
\namazing.<\/p>\n
\nfilm called The Aristocrats.<\/p>\n
\nthere\u2019s so many options.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nschedule remains unclear, but \u2013 armed with a love of French classical
\npiano and a stack of Beach Boys albums \u2013 he\u2019s quietly built a
\nfollowing for his melodic and magical compositions.<\/p>\n
\nBrian Wilson. From initially appreciating the \u2018Fun Fun Fun\u2019 pure joy
\ncaptured in a two-minute pop song, to gradually discovering the extent
\nof Brian Wilson\u2019s creative genius, he\u2019s taught me a great deal.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nPresents on Saturday September 13, at BUSK, Gough Street, Birmingham,
\n8pm. projectxpresents.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"