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Framework Recording Studios – The Art of Grassroots Music Making in Birmingham

Mark Sampson

Iron Man Records works with Simon Reeves at Framework Recording Studios, a purpose built recording studio based in Hockley, Birmingham, just outside the clean air zone. Simon specialises in recording, mixing and mastering. Framework Recording Studios has worked with Napalm Death, Carcass, Cathedral, Meathook Seed, PJ Harvey, Ride, Family Cat, Lock-Up, Charger, Harpies, Narcosis, Ambervoid, Sist, Damn Dirty Apes, Last Under The Sun, I.O.D, Godsize, Long Time Dead, Locus of Control, Piss On Authority, Police Bastard, Spirit Bomb, Selfless, Cerebral Fix, Drongos For Europe, Ted Chippington, Academy Morticians, Rainbow Grave, John Sinclair, Robert Anton Wilson, Steve Fly, Deathfiend, Church Of Elvis and many more. Framework Recording Studios UNIT 8A, City Industrial…

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All Power To The People – Join Iron Man Records on Patreon – Support the Underground

Mark

For more than 30 years, Iron Man Records has been working with Musicians and Artists, across the UK and Europe, from a base within Birmingham’s music scene. Sometimes disguised as a Music Promoter, sometimes a Rehearsal Space or Recording Studio, sometimes a Record Label, sometimes providing Tour Management, and wherever possible a supporter of the cause. Iron Man Records works to provide a grassroots engine for experimental, alternative, and authentic artworks from musicians, poets, performers, and travellers in the arts. From rock, punk, metal and jazz to folk, blues, dance and electronic. Iron Man Records seeks to champion ideas and the artists who dare to operate outside the safe space of…

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UPDATE: Project to Uncover Ancient Hill Figures on Wandlebury Hill, Cambridgeshire

Mark

Some things I get involved with make no sense to me at all. The Project to Uncover  Ancient Hill Figures is one of them. Flinton Chalk is a dangerous optimist and I find it hard to say no. Would you take instruction from a used car salesman? This is the man who got chased across Fyfield Down near Avebury by a spectral Black Dog and used to spend his spare time dressing up as a Transvestite Pirate Nun, driving around in an old police car which was used in one of the Superman films. You may also know him from recent outings as a member of the band Badger Kull. Let…

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