Pop-up seems to be all the range at the moment. There’s the obvious Created in Birmingham shop in the Bullring, but last week an email came my way about a pop-up tour which will be visiting Birmingham tomorrow.
It’s an interesting idea, the Chevrolet Spark Unscheduled Tour. A tour which just pops up in whatever city votes for it (Brum narrowly beat Liverpool for second stop) could go horribly wrong. After all, what if no one turns up? It’s not like there’s been much notice and all the good venues will have been booked up months ago. Good job the tour is being headlined by a well established band with a sturdy fan-base like the Mystery Jets, who are fresh off touring with the Arctic Monkeys and will be previewing songs from their latest album, Serotonin, ahead of its release in July. Oh and it’s free too (well, free with an invite there may be some left).
The organisers also managed to score what’s supposed to be a half decent venue too, so that’ll solve the ‘no room at the inn’ issue. Then again I’ve never been to Space 2 and my knowledge of the Custard Factory extends to a bit of a fluke invite to wander the venues and too much time spent in the Bead Shop. But I’ve been told it’s nice…
So tomorrow, I’m off to cast my vote, spend a few hours at work and then off to see how exactly a pop up gig works. Oh and see the Transformer-esque world’s first fully functioning car DJ booth – transformed from roadworthy to a fully-functional DJ booth in under 20 minutes, apparently. Which considering I know nothing of cars, I’m genuinely quite intrigued to see. If it turns into Optimus Prime as an encore I may very well start saving for one…
