Okay I am in the space waiting for Camilla to arrive via Skype and in the meantime I have got soem photos of interesteding places near The Wig. I shall share them with you.
On Monday I went to a canal spot in the pouring rain under Livery street bridge. The acoustics were great and I recorded the rain falling. I found out later that Birmingham has more canals than Venice and that of course you can go by canal from Birmingham to London, even to Hackney Wick where my studio is located: even here I have a connectioniwht my performance home.
We also encountered a Carnegie library:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Carnegie_libr…
Or at least what I think is a Carnegie library set up by Scottish millionare Andrew Carnegie. However theere is no info on Wiki relating to this particular structure. I will go there tomorrow before the performance to find out the history of the place. Nearby there were two tower blocks seperated by a road, and knowing of the areas associations with JRR Tolkiens LOTR trilogy, joked that they were the two towers. Then nearby I found a closed pub called The Twin Towers in a complex of shops related to these blocks.
I have thought up possible performances for both of them, and want to find out more about them. So many public and private spaces in Birmingham make great platforms.
