Events, Family Events, Featured, Festival Style, Past Events, Workshops

Mr Elephant’s 2nd Birthday Video by Jack Brabant

Our first professional produced video by super talented Jack Brabant. Along with Jules Hyland, we captured the footage, and he’s spent the last week creating the video below. Suffice to say we are all somewhat blown away with the result! Great to have you onboard Mr B

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Cinephonic, Events, Featured, Past Events, Videos

Our 17th Event – Cinephonic #1 @ Hare & Hounds – June 2009

Cinephonic was a really great experience, with a sumptuous av set from our residents, some tight rolling percussion from our guest percussionists, a great vj set from our guest Vj TheLab, and a crowd pleasing set from the legendary Quantic and B+. We have video to come courtesy of Jack B, but for now check this [...]

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Birmingham, Cinephonic, Events, Family Events, Featured, Festival Style, Intermix, Live and Free, Party Rockin Mammal Sessions, Past Events

Mr Elephant in the Paper!

Those lovely people at the Night Times have featured Mr Elephant twice in this month’s issue! An interview and a review! Click on the pics for a readable version

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Cinephonic, Events, Featured

The Cinephonic Launch is almost here – Sat 13th June 2008

(Its only a week away til the launch of Cinephonic @ Hare & Hounds, so time for a little overview Cinephonic #1 Poster by Blendstate https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/buy_tickets/events/?id=10007316 Cinephonic Born out of frequent collaborations between Marc Reck and Blendstate Visuals at Mr Elephant’s various events as well as with Project X and The Night Times, this project aims to [...]

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Events, Featured, Festival Style, Live and Free, Party Rockin Mammal Sessions, Past Events, Workshops

Paper Tiger & Funkbox rock the Adam & Eve @ Live & Free #2

It was no surprise that our graphic designer Aart Tanner was so keen to get the 8 piece Paper Tiger Band down from Leeds! After seeing them at a festival in Croatia, he came back with one clear instruction…Book Paper Tiger for Mr Elephant. Our first available opportunity was our 2nd Live and Free event [...]

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With Live Performances from The Heels, The Hidden Half, & Flame of Fervour. Proper video to come from Jack Brabant






Cinephonic was a really great experience, with a sumptuous av set from our residents, some tight rolling percussion from our guest percussionists, a great vj set from our guest Vj TheLab, and a crowd pleasing set from the legendary Quantic and B+.

We have video to come courtesy of Jack B, but for now check this out! Made by Tea from The Lab, this is the start of our residents Vj Blendstate & Dj Marc Reck’s AV set based around the theme of nature. Tony not only created this great little piece of video, he also captured the rest of the night, and along with Jack will be making more visual feasts from the footage of the night.

Please note the VERY nice touches, like the t.v, the elephant logo, and the smooth action of the video. Marc djed, Liam vjed, but Tony has bought it to us. Please check the credits for the source of the footage, and come back for more footage.
Cinephonic @ the Hare and Hounds from theLAB on Vimeo.

For any viewers the tracklisting is
1. Bombay – A.R Rahman
2. Biotech – Tabla Beat Science

and the video footage is taken from excerpts of Baraka and Earth.

All of the above are well worth buying in their entirety





With Live Performances from Smiley Mic, Playing Django & Munch Break






Events, Live and Free, Past Events

Great performances at Live @ Free # 3 @ Adam & Eve – Sat June 2009

Posted on 23 June 2009

Massive elephant noises to everyone who came down and filled the Adam & Eve with appreciative sounds to the great array of talent on show from our 3 special guests this month. Flame of Fervour were dark, gritty, acoustic with a very cool sound and great musicianship, the flamenco & latin fusion of the Hidden [...] Continue Reading

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Events, Live and Free, Past Events

Live & Free #3 @ The Adam & Eve with The Heels, Hidden Half & Flame of Fervour

Posted on 19 June 2009

An Amazing line for our 3rd installment of Live & Free @ the Adam & Eve. And here’s our facebook listing / event info - On Saturday 20th June – We have 3 of Brum’s best live bands at our 3rd live and free event @ The Adam & Eve. As always its FREE entry and the bar [...] Continue Reading

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Events, Party Rockin Mammal Sessions, Past Events

Custom Made Party Rockin Mammal Sessions # 6 – Fri 5th June 2009

Posted on 07 June 2009

This month was a blinder for the party rockin mammal stable. Mark Smallman on those wheels of music was a treat,  along side some nice juicy plump sets from our residents. We only caught a few snaps before the camera ran out, but big props to all who bought the smiles and filled the floor. Mark Smallman, [...] Continue Reading

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Events, Party Rockin Mammal Sessions

Party Rockin Mammal Sessions #6 @ Bulls Head

Posted on 29 May 2009

This month it’s the return of the Custom Made custodian and all round superstar dj Mark Smallman!! Mark is one of the few djs who can play chillout all the way through to drum and bass. He knows how to rock the party, and his (and shona’s) award winning custom made events are testament to his [...] Continue Reading

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Birmingham, Events, Festival Style, Past Events, Workshops

Mr Elephant’s Second Birthday Review by Dom Brotherton – A Large Slice of Birthday Cake

Posted on 27 May 2009

Mr Elephant’s Second Birthday Review by Dom Brotherton A Large Slice of Birthday Cake – Mr Elephant is Putting on Weight!! Mr Elephant by Elin Morgan Since its inception in 2007, Mr Elephant has been on a steadily increasing diet of eclecticism, celebrating some of the best underground club nights, djs, vjs, live bands, dancers, performers and inhabitants [...] Continue Reading

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Events, Festival Style, Past Events, Workshops

Mr Elephant’s 2nd Birthday Review by The Lab

Posted on 26 May 2009

Tony from The Lab who hosted vj workshops, vjed all night, and is to be producing Mr Elephant T.v has wrote his review of the Mr Elephant 2nd Birthday, so until he has a log in on this site (big elephant things afoot with The Lab) i’ll post it. The link one of his many [...] Continue Reading

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Workshops

Masks, Poodles & Performance

Posted on 22 May 2009

All these have come from one of the core members of Mr Elephant – Pyn Stockman. No stranger to running workshops and having been trained by the best in business Pyn has over 20 years experience, a committed passion for masks, theatre and community arts, and runs leading arts organisation Dramask In between her own workshops [...] Continue Reading

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Workshops

Learn to beatbox

Posted on 22 May 2009

Beatboxing sounds really cool if you can do it. A quick google and a few beardy man or dub fx videos provide plenty of inspiration but a quick attempt leaves us sounding somewhere between a spitting dog, and a discontent business man. Never fear though because the host with the most, Mr Bass6 will be coming [...] Continue Reading

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Workshops

Drum in & the art of Poi

Posted on 22 May 2009

Get yourself ready for the midnight mask parade with live drumming workshops from Circadia’s very own Jon Elliot.  He’s beaten the drum at many a mr elephant event, and at our 2nd birthday on Sat May 23rd, he’ll be showing us all how he does it. “Drumming: Learn the basics of hand percussion: about the drums [...] Continue Reading

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Workshops

Get animated

Posted on 22 May 2009

Claire, a local animator who helped to run the poodle parlour at our last big event is also a very talented animator. She has years of experience in educational and community workshops of all ages, and will be offering a chance to get an insight into how she does it at our 2nd birthday on [...] Continue Reading

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Workshops

Everybody wants to be a vj…

Posted on 22 May 2009

But very few know how these masters of visuals paint with light. At mr Elephant we’ve been fortunate to work with 3 of the best, and at our next mr elephant event in may you can get the chance to not only learn, but also perform with them yourself! Yes thats right, Liam Blendstate, of Blendstate [...] Continue Reading

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Events, Festival Style, Workshops

Programme of Workshops & Music for our 2nd Birthday

Posted on 22 May 2009

For anyone who is interested in trying out the free mr elephant workshops on saturday here’s the programme. All workshops are FREE, and are aim to give you a taster of various creative artforms in a grassroots stylee. Some are drop in, Some are tasters, and some will enable suitable participants to perform on the night. If you [...] Continue Reading

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