[Video link] My friend Saskia (from New Music Strategies) sent me a link to this trailer for a Dutch-made documentary film about young people in South Africa using music to escape or improve their situation. It’s not all in English, of course – but you’ll get the idea from the video above, and there’s a [...]
Categories: Music
Tagged: South Africa, unconvention
Jez introduces his film My friend and colleague Jez (of Dubber and Jez fame) produced a documentary film about music heritage in Birmingham. It’s called Made In Birmingham: Reggae, Punk, Bhangra. Today was the private invitation-only premiere of that film at the MAC. The one-hour documentary was screened to a cinema packed full of creative [...]
Categories: Birmingham,culture,Music
Tagged: documentary, Film
I’ve been looking for this video. It’s one by one of the hip hop groups we met and became friends with in Colombia. Really love this track. Have a listen.
Categories: Music
We haven’t seen our friend Craig for a few years, and so it’s nice to stumble across something like this. It’s just a chat, really – giving a short overview of his career as an actor. But the other thing I really like about this is that NZ On Screen make this sort of stuff [...]
Categories: New Zealand
[Video link] We’re in a home studio. Lupa (in the baseball cap and black t-shirt) runs it as a drop-in recording and music workshop facility for the local kids, as well as the headquarters of his crew, FB7. Bibiana translates as rapper Fly So High explains why Un-Convention in Medellín is so important to them. [...]
Tagged: Medellin, unconvention
Ruth, Martín & Me in downtown Medellín To say a trip was “life-changing” is an awful cliché. But I’ve been trying to think of other ways to describe my time in Colombia, and I keep coming back to that one phrase as a fair and accurate description. I met such inspirational people, went to such [...]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] These might be more sporadic for a little while – not because I’m meeting fewer interesting people, but because the opposite is true. Our itinerary while we’re here in Medellín is crazy busy – lots of amazing people, events, and things to do. So much so, in fact [...]
Categories: 30 Days
Jez resets his watch as Dallas Mike shows a stranger his photos of London The end of a long day – and the beginning of an even longer one. A late night train to Heathrow starts our journey to Medellín. That Mike guy over there was just someone we happened to meet on the way. [...]
Tagged: Photo
