Big Cat growth continues

The perpetual expansion of Big Cat sees the recent hiring of 2 new members.

Big Cat is delighted to announce the arrival of Nick Ruffles as Senior Event Manager, and Annette Massam as PR Account Manager.

The new arrivals have been brought in response to a swelling in new business and to bring their expertise in finding new business for the company. Big Cat has recently enjoyed many large new business wins for including the Pr/marketing/event management contracts for the digital media festival, Hello Digital, as well as Pr/marketing/creative design/ event contracts for Gigbeth, and the Creative City Awards.

Say Hello to Killriculum

Our good friends at Killriculum are starting their horror film workshops this weekend at the Bond on Fazeley street in Digbeth.

Killriculum is an original and innovative West Midlands-based project aimed at enabling a diverse range of young people to engage with film and new media, via a new interactive website, www.killriculum.co.uk, and a series of free workshops.

The website allows young people to upload their own short horror films. The website also brings you the exciting and innovative ‘Horror Mash Up’, a part of the site that will allow you to edit and save your own short horror film trailers online!

The Killriculum workshops are free to attend and places are still available for this weekend.
The first Killriculum workshop is being held in two sessions at The Bond on Fazeley Street in Digbeth on Saturday 13th September. People are invited to attend between 10am-1pm (pre-bookable tel. 0121 687 1404), and then from between 2pm-5pm (open drop-in session). The workshops will be teaching young people how to design and create films through digital media. www.killriculum.co.uk

Titan at the Bullring

Thousands flocked to Birmingham's Bullring to witness the phenomenon that is Titan the Robot and Hello Digital. Titan entertained crowds with his witty patter, realistic mobility and uncannily realistic impressions of Louis Armstrong.

It was, of course, all done for our fantastic Hello Digital festival and making sure as many people as possible heard about the free municipal event. Throngs of people gathered around the 8 foot giant as it charmed the crowd like a goucho at a singles night, and hit the shops like a robotic Winona Ryder. The highlight for me was definately Titan singing ‘Lady in Red’ to a manikin in a red dress.

Still some people were less impressed; I was stopped by a midly vexed punter who asked me, in the manner of a spoilt child, ‘why can’t he dance’. This is 2008 after all, and we are living in the age of ‘on demand’ technology, and completely sympathise with the young lady. The thought that all the robot could do was walk, talk, sing, joke, conduct a light opera and give a physiology class isn’t really good enough, and I have sent her a cheque for mental damages and strong letter to the makers of Titan.
Hello Digital is 23-26 October at Millenium Point.

Moseley Folk Festival

This weekend saw the annual Moseley Folk Festival roll into town once again, bringing some of the biggest folk artists from around the world to the musical epicentre of the globe, Moseley.
As well as competitively priced beer (and glasses), the music was superb and a great time was had by all. Jose Gonzales and Seth Lakeman were very well recieved and creditable mentions go to The Bees and Morcheeba.



Bar Sunday, the weather was lavish and created a perfect back drop to the atmosphere of the festival.

Although I enjoy a bit of folk as much as the next man, the festival exposed me to the full gambit of the genre, and although I heard some music that could only be described as absolute guff, it was far outweighed by high quality music that poured over the audience like a dry ice machine at an 80's night.

The highlight of the weekend was obviously the mad rush to the bar as the excellent proprieters gave cider away for £1, with the help of a megaphone and a grim determination to shift ciders and encourage responsible drinking.

Overall the festival was a roaring success with acts that blew the socks off all who witnessed, booze that flowed like wine and tremendous Tisky marketing.

Jason and Ed's reign of terror comes to end

Big Cat directors Nick Morgan and Anthony Tattum are back from their respective holidays to bring to an end Jason Liggitt and Ed King's terranical autocracy.

In their absence, many staff complained of Jason's robust attitude towards motivation with the Big Cats getting particularly annoyed with his insistance on horse whipping and shouting "work faster/harder".

Ed has been accused of gaffer taping staff member's faces to their computer screens in bid to stop to distractions. He was also seen sticking everyones chairs and computer screens to the ceiling claiming " if you can work upside down, you can work the right way up"; never a truer word spoken.

This is actually a splinter blog as we were all made to sign gagging orders to stop us squeeling, in fact this blog will explode immediately after you have finished reading this.

Big Cat to market Gigbeth

Birmingham’s biggest city festival have called on Big Cat to handle their promotional campaign.

Birmingham based Big Cat Group have been awarded the contract to raise the profile of one of the Midlands’ biggest entertainment showcases, Gigbeth. Big Cat will be responsible for the press and marketing campaigns for the prestigious musical event.

Gigbeth will be held all across the 2nd city at iconic venues such as The Custard Factory between 6th and 8th of November 2008. Big Cat’s local knowledge and influence in the area are key reasons for their victory in an extremely competitive pitch. Big Cat is a full service agency and they pride themselves in their expertise and understanding of youth and creative markets.

Coleen comes back to Custard Factory spaces

Coleens Real Women is starting to film its second series and is coming back to the Old Library at the Custard Factory Spaces in Birmingham. This will be the second time Coleen has come down to the iconic Custard Factory to film the shows Birmingham regional casting.

Unlike last year, the casting is now taking place over two days, rather than just one.

During the first series of Coleen’s Real Women shown earlier this year, Coleen took on the mission of putting REAL women into high-profile advertising and modelling jobs. After approaching eight national brands, Coleen’s Real Women won seven contracts!

The nation's favourite girl next door will continue her UK search for more Real Women in a second series. The castings take place over 27th and 28th August. Anyone that wants to enter can apply via the link below...
http://www.itv.com/Lifestyle/Fashion/Coleen-sRealWomen/default.html