NEWS

Revolution in your Pocket, my new EP, is coming soon.
See below for Promo podcast, and look out for more info over the next two weeks...

In describing his reworking of Selina Blakeney's beautiful choral version of The Killers' "On Top", Ray had this to say:

"I feel like I have just added a moustache to the Mona Lisa, and a white silk shirt and some shades."

Download/listen here:
http://soundcloud.com/dj-ray-vaughan/selina-blakeney-on-top

Benjamin Blower and the Army of the Broken Hearted will be supporting Birmingham's veteran apocalyptic punk theologians Maccabees, previously known as Dissident Prophet (and not to be confused with The Maccabees, of international fame). Tickets are £5.

Happy New Year everyone!

To welcome in this new year, we have a FREE album for you all. Selina Blakeney's first full release on Zang: a collection of sketches recorded over 7 years in various bedrooms around the UK.

Download and listen to the album here.

HO HO HO! We have yet another Christmas present for you all! Florent have recorded a Free Christmas EP for you all featuring Deck the Halls, White Christmas and Carol of the Bells... What's that? You don't know that last one? Of course you do, Garmin (the Sat Nav guys) have been ruining it for the last 3 years or so...

You can download the Free EP in the Free Downloads section. Or listen to it here on its release page...

Another Christmas present for you all!

Joel the Custodian has produced a music video for the festive track - The Visitors.

From Joel - "Peace people, This is my entry to the Nativity Factor Video Contest [being judged by Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child among others].

Rap, astrology, prophecy, 8-sided dice and my daughter starring as an angel: the perfect combo. Watch, share, go to the Nativity Factor site and vote for it! Thank you & I wish you a  pensive advent!"

View the video on Youtube.

Please vote for the video over at the Nativity Factor Website, you'll have to scroll down the page a bit to find it...

By the way, this track is still available in our free download section :)

Here is our second Christmas offering this year. A FREE Christmas EP from Benjamin Blower & the Army of the Broken Hearted. 3 tracks recorded in a back alley in Birmingham. Friends of the Army of the Broken joined, we made some new friends as well... You can grab the EP for free in the Free Downloads section, and have a listen to it here.

Here it is! The first Zang Christmas song of the season!

Up first is ye olde "Gabriel's Message" from Greybeard and Selina Blakeney.

Listen to it now in the Free Downloads Section

Benjamin Blower & the Army of the Broken Hearted will be recording an EP of Christmas songs live in an alleyway in Moseley.

All are invited to come join the choir and be part of this heartfelt live record.

The session will take place in the alleyway by the Patrick Kavanagh, Woodbridge Rd, Moseley, South Brum on Thursday 1st December, at 6pm.

Songsheets are provided. Wrap up warm and please bring a candle to read by…

Waler have a new video for the track - Look What You've Done.

This is the 3rd video from the album Formulas.

Watch it in the Zang video section or over at Youtube

Bang! Bang!, an art party-cum-club-night concieved and curated by artist Trevor Pitt happened last Saturday at Vivid Art Gallery and we were very excited to be a part of it. We both contributed work as solo artists along with fellow artists Joey Vivo and Roseanna Velin.

"Pop Is Dead" by Vincent Gould was a makeshift funeral for pop music, complete with candles, a book of condolence, an urn and an order of service. Viewers were encouraged to light a candle and wear a black poppy to commemorate the death of pop.




"99 Red Balloons" by John Napier

I wanted to bring musical legends down a peg or two and remind us all that they are not divine beings whose work is unnatainable for us mere mortals. With this in mind I wrote some of pop history's most iconic and respected bands on loads of balloons, filled them with helium and slipped a tiny strip of paper inside each one with a specific criticism of that band or artist. At 11:30 I then went around popping each balloon to reveal the secret inside...