As well as providing a platform for experienced creatives to further their particular practice, we are very much about inspiring people to try new things.

For Xhibition, Lyndall Fitzgerald turned her hand to film making for the first time, taking as her subject local Moseley legend Pete the Feet – a warm and fascinating interviewee.

Her interview with Pete was shot by Ian McCormick and they edited it together – the results being shown on the Moseley Exchange building as part of the Xhbition event. Since then its finding a new life on the internet.

There have been a number of issues lately where venues key to the Birmingham music scene have been faced with difficulties amounting to eventual closure due to complaints of a very small minority of people and alleged behaviour by the Council and Property Developers which leaves much to be desired.

In response, we have produced this short film to highlight some of the issues and hopefully stir up some action:

Thanks to long suffering landlord of Digbeth’s wonderful Spotted Dog (best pub in Brum?), Kent Davies at the Rainbow, Keith Marsden at the Prince of Wales and just one of the many Digbeth residents who moved to the area in order to appreciate (not complain about) the vibrant atmosphere, Adam Crossley.

Superb editing and graphics on this film by Anthony Davies.

One aspect of Xhibition (in a weird way its only looking back on it now that we seem to realise how big an event it was) was the Performance on the Village Green. Presuming that Green is the best way to describe what is largely a paved area.

Altho the Village generally seemed very quiet (sign of the times) the PXP Poets – drawn essentially from the Wrote Under group) drew a reasonable crowd of friends and onlookers, demonstrating what a lovely little performance space it is. I hope we see more events happening there – it has bags of potential for spoken word, music and more and it’d be love to see it used more.

Heres a short video of our “Queen of the Poets” Louise Stokes, performing in character as Chav Kimmy Sue Ann:

and speaking of Matt Murtagh – here’s a beautiful set of images he took at the event with one shown below to tempt you (featuring headline band, The Cracked Actors who, it has to be said, rocked the joint!).

One of the characteristics of Project X is that we stretch ourselves and try and achieve an awful lot at the same time. This tends to mean that not everything works all the time (tho thankfully most things do!). At least we know this means we are pushing ourselves.

One thing that unfortunately didnt come together (due to technical issues and time constraints) for Xhibition was the printing of Matt Murtaghs photography piece – which was particularly disappointing as he had produced it specially for our event.

However, its a fine piece of work and will hopefully have a life long beyond this moment in time.

It takes the form of a photographic panorama of Moseley Village and it can be seen here in, as Matt puts it “full Google Maps wrap-around-o-vision (with zooming!)”.

We have a poster for our event on May and its an absolute beauty. Many thanks to Hunt Emerson for the design – the original will be on display in the exhibition alongside more of Hunt’s amazing work.

The design was inspired by a cartoon in the New Yorker depicting Manhattan Island as the centre of the Universe, which is ridiculous, cos we all know its Moseley.

Click on the poster to view it in all its glory.

In our last event Digital Dystopia, we showcased a strand of work coordinated by Leon Trimble aka VJ Chromatouch and featuring the combined talents of Leon himself with the music and piano playing of Rich Batsford and choreography from Lisa Natasha Wetton.

Hope you enjoy this lovely video:

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When planning Xhibition – our forthcoming event (May 9), we discussed a few options for venue and decided in the end to look no further than our immediate environment. That means, for many of us, Moseley.

Well, actually many of us now live in Kings Heath – its not easy to afford to live in Moseley these days!

For this event, rather than putting many different kinds of creative output into one big space and fusing it together, we’ve decided to put art into a few different venues in and around Moseley Village. To this end, some of us took a stroll around the area meeting with people and discussing options. Do many of these places and views look familiar?

Exciting times at PXP central as we plan for our new event coming up May 9th – please put that in your diary!

Meanwhile, one of the odd things about being involved in Project X Presents is that we spend months and months planning each event, only for it to be over in the matter of a few hours.

Thanks to the delights of modern technology and the hard work of Anthony from Last Phoenix Films, we now have this brilliant film to remind us what our last event – Digital Dystopia – was all about.

And if you haven’t been to a Project X Presents event, then please check it out for a taster: