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17th April 2010

SHOWCASE - It's happening!

We're really excited to present our next concert featuring brand new extensive commissions from Tom Bassett and Rob Peate. You'll also get the chance to hear pieces from Ed Bennett and Stephen Willey so this is definite one to come and watch.

Tickets are available on the door or at the birmingham box office, this time with generous student discounts so make sure you come along! Any more information, just drop us a line or check the projects page.

See you there!

2nd March 2010

That was Frenetics!

Thank you everyone who made it to Frenetics! We all had an awesome time and we hope you did too. The recording we captured is sounding great. We shall be taking it into the studio so we can prepare it for our CD launch in may...watch this space.

Massive, massive thanks to: All the saxophonists, Rebecca Price, Tom Martin, Paul McEachran and neil McGovern for their amazing talents. Oli Clark (www.fcnk.co.uk) for videoing the concert and helping us with our promo video we're putting together. Andrew Mawson, Phil Harnett and all the tech team for being amazing when the entire PA/recording system stopped working shortly before the concert and got it all going again not to mention capturing a great recording! And finally but not least, all the ensemble who put in such a massive amount of time and dedication to the project. Check out their profiles, they're all awesome players and we're really lucky to have them! 

Thanks also to Ben Mitchell for taking some great pictures of the event. We'll get them up on the website asap and find out a web link for his work.

See you at the up and coming concerts, we've got a really exciting season ahead of us, this is just the beginning!

2nd February 2010

RNCM and BC collaboration confirmed

Thumb are excited to announce that they have been confirmed as the featured ensemble in the collaborative competition between Birmingham Conservatoire and Royal Northern. More news on this event will soon be announced so keep checking back for more details.

Also don't forget to grab your tickets for Frenetics! It's going to be an awesome concert!

25th January 2010

Get your tickets for Frenetics

You can get your tickets for this exciting event online by going to the projects page. With in the event listing there is now a fun little Buy Now button which should enable you to get your hands on your tickets. We are aware of a couple small hitches, most notably the 'Buy Now' button being really small. Don't worry we're working on it and we'll have it fixed soon. Look forward to seeing you there!

9th January 2010

Frenetics Tickets

Firstly, Happy New Year! We hope the new year has brought good things for you along with lots of snow.

Just a quick update with regard to tickets for Frenetics in February. We are currently putting in place a way of ordering tickets online from thisisthumb.co.uk/tickets. Although this will be up and running soon you can still reserve tickets just by emailing us. This can simply be done by emailing us at shout@thisisisthumb.co.uk. Frenetics is looking to be a highly charged evening of exciting and exhilarating music. This is definitely one not to be missed.

4th December 2009

Treehouse Recording

Thumb have made a recording of Stephen Willey's piece, Treehouse. We are currently busy mixing and mastering it but envisage it will be with you shortly.

We have now also confirmed that our very own Ed Carpenter will be playing Andriessen's A Very Sharp Trumpet Sonata and A Very Sad Trumpet Sonata at two of our Spring concerts. Make sure you get along and hear them both. Ed Carpenter shall also be playing one of the sonatas in a concert for Andriessen when he visits Birmingham Conservatoire in March. For more information check the projects page.

11th November 2009

New Website

Welcome to the brand new online home of Thumb. Please take your time to have a look around and learn a bit more about us.

If you want to find out about the kind of things we do, take a look at the projects page for information on previous and upcoming events.

Bear with us whilst we iron out any technical creases, but keep checking back for more updates.

26th June 2009

Launch Concerts a Success!

June has been a busy month for Thumb, with the highly anticipated launch concerts taking place in Coventry and Birmingham.

Firstly, the debut concert at the Herbert Art Gallery (www.theherbert.org) with the Mobius Dance Company (www.mobiusdance.com) was an explosive success, with three performances throughout the afternoon. Many thanks to those who stopped by and watched, it was great to have you with us and we hope you enjoyed the experience. There are some wonderful pictures in the media seciton of this website, and the video contains some clips from the project too.

We also want to offer a big thank you to one particular audience member who confided, "I came to Coventry many years ago and absolutely hated it, and I decided I would never come back. I found myself back here today, and after hearing the music, I absolutely love Coventry".

Secondly, Thumb made a guest appearance at the Birmingham Conservatoire Saxophone Ensemble concert playing Mark-Anthony Turnage, Release. Pictures and exclusive rehearsal/performance video footage can be seen on the media page.

9th June 2009

Thumb Performance at Herbert

Thumb's debut concert at Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry is finally here. Tomorrow, six new pieces will be given across three seperate performances alongside Mobius Dance Company's dancers. See the projoects page for details of the composers and performers.

1st April 2009

Thumb appearance at Birmingham Conservatoire

Thumb will perform Mark-Anthony Turnage, Release at Birmingham Conservatoire Saxophone Department concert on the June 22nd. See the projects page for more details.