Brum team qualifier rounds

Hello wars fans!

The team versus team series is approaching on the horizon and we are having a mini series / tournament to pick our team.. details to follow, but a quick heads up for your artists and fans alike. Stick these dates in your calendar..

4 Oct 2009
Rainbow Pub, Digbeth, Birmingham

18 Oct 2009
Rainbow Pub, Digbeth, Birmingham

1 Nov 2009
Rainbow Pub, Digbeth, Birmingham

15 Nov 2009
Rainbow Pub, Digbeth, Birmingham

This mini series will comprise of 8 artists battling over the 4 dates for a place in the Brum team.. these dates will be Sunday all-dayer sessions, with all our usual resident dj's and standard frolics.

Wanna enter? send 10 images of your work and a brief bio to:
Birmingham@secretwars.co.uk
and we will be in touch

*and to everyone who has already emailed us, don't worry we will get back to you!

*facebookers! peep the first event page HERE

peace!

SWBRUM

Rainbow Street Festival x aug. 1st

one bedford ice cream van (boy this took some emulsioning!)

Saturday the first of Aug. 09 is a date for the history books, the St. fest was huge, massive in fact. Its monday morning now and i am seriously still in pain. Rave ache at its best this morn.. but boy was it worth it.


newso rocks the logo up

With the whole street sectioned off, we (secretwars brum team) found ourselves down the bottom end of the street by the warehouse doors, with Bigger than Barry's giant marquee next door. We had a reet nice and cosy set up though, with one ice cream van to draw on and an ad trailer just in case we needed it. We dj'ed out of the van whilst brum kings Agent, Newso, Posh 1, Roo and Title made it beautiful...
here's some flicks from our keith holland:









We smashed our little rig to bits with Automaton, Slobz and Skeleton + Royal kicking things off playing a variety of different stuff from broken beat glitchy business to straight up and down hip hop killers. It all got pretty Gas Lamp up in there! We were all pretty tipsy by about 11/12 ish and the obvious tomfoolery began with Seeds standing on the roof at one stage waving himself about like a fool as the security boys panikced trying to get him down.

an out of focus seeds on the roof

We did plan on having a battle on the trailer about this time but the artists were still well into the van, and the mad 300+ ravers and fans where goin mad for it so we just murk'd on hard scecret wars style.


Dan Dna and an almost finished van

Jem Atkins then fed the crowd a ton of party hip hop and they loved it.. a quick slot from mr Dan Dna from the GOTAW (gotaw.co.uk) and then, if i remember rightly, Slobz took the helm again for a secondary session before Boogie Dave finished us off with his deadly blend of dubstep pressure. Big up all the dj's who played late against our failing needles! all the artists obviously, you all killed it, big up all the many people involved with the street festival in general, especially Adam Shelton, and most of all the crowds!! we love you all.

out to you guys.....



We unfortunately didn't get shots of the fully finished van as of yet, due to the fact is was such chaos at the end of the night we simply couldn't get them. However we will get some this week..so keep checking back!
more photo's on ur myspace here > myspace.com/secretwarsbrum

much love and respect

KeeefyG / Seeedz / Slobz

Southampton V Birmingham final piece and video footage

Big shout to Ash Cooke
for this lovely layout shot of the recent city v city smackdown...

its too big for the blogger so click it for a larger version in a new window



nice 1 Ash!

and here's the footage >>

Secret wars-Birmingham vs Southampton from Trav on Vimeo.

BIG up Trav EXM

BRUM SERIES 2 DVD >>>

our highly anticipated dvd of brums second series is nearly ready
apologies for the delay..
we will be hopefully giving away some promo copies of it on aug. 1st as well as some other goodies.. so get down early folks!

here's the trailer in case you aint seen it yet..

Secret wars Brum DVD advert from Trav on Vimeo.

see ya soon

swbrum

Birmingham v Southampton - full report

Hi wars fans
Its all been happening in middle earth of late as last weekend saw the first of hopefully a 3 series between Brumtown and Sarrrfhampton. The first round being held at the new Brum venue "The Garden" (down the road a little and run the same fam as our usual venue the Rainbow Pub) It was a scorcher of a day and we were knackered from emulsioning the giant new white panel. But excited as we knew the very same panel would be beautiful 12 hrs later with the help of the two, 3 man teams. Namely..

Southampton - Rem1 / Pykee / Dirty30
Birmingham - Phill Blake / Newso / Ouch

We rolled out the red carpet and got the Eddings out (nice 1 Andy G)



With 2 champs on our side we were feeling pretty confident, but as we kicked off the battle i must admit us Brummies were a little worried as Rem and 30 started putting up nasty looking, big characters really fast.. However our boys soon caught up and Ouch began a crazy landscape for the whole Brum end of the panel, with a sick gallion at the far end, it was on.


Rem 1 goes big!


Phill's world


Ill Phill Blake the purple killer

Slobodan and Skeleton supplied us with a silky selection of beats and breaks as ink spilled.. big respect goes out to our Skelly who ran about in the day smacking up A0 posters in the sun, then still came and totally rinsed out the place. The giant 3 on 3 panel continued to grow as about 6 photographers flashed away (where's ya photo's then people!? big up Witts and Keef - Seeds)

The panel got sicker and sicker and as the battle drew to a close it obviously didn't matter who was gonna win.. the panel is a journey and a half. And can still be seen at the "Garden" in Digbeth at the moment if you fancy a look. Everyone had a great time as standard and all the artists were chuffed with the overal piece, big up ya selfs boys! (+ girl!)
But in the end Brumtown took it 3 nil to win the first stage. Bad luck Southampton! We'll be down to see you guys soon. Tons of thanks..
Out to Rem1, Pykee and Dirty30

It looked a little something like this (big up Witts on the photo's)


Dirty30 and Rem murking it!


Brums final side.. feel the Phill Blake skull power


Almost the whole panel



Thanks to everyone who showed out on such a hot day, big ups.

1-0 to Birmingham.. keep em peeled for more intercity news soon

SW BRUM

animated ad. for the 30th by Trav

check it..



big up trav
www.myspace.com/trav_art

up, and a long time coming ... intercity battle in brumtown !!