Andrew and Valerie Smith by Steve Gerrard
Metal fans wanted! From Thursday 17th June – Saturday 19th Home Of Metal will be taking up residence in a disused shop in Wolverhampton city centre (City 10. 18 Queen Square, Wolverhampton, WV1 1TQ), inviting fans to bring along their memorabilia & stories to be photographed & recorded to contribute to the digital archive. CONTINUE READING THIS POST >
Earlier in February Capsule presented Home of Metal at the Waterhall gallery in Birmingham city centre. The project aim? To celebrate Birmingham and the Black Country as the birthplace of Heavy Metal and “create a digital archive of everything heavy metal from the 60’s to now”. It is all part of an ongoing mission to encourage Birmingham metal fans to bring in memorabilia which will help tell the story of the genre and generate a collective home for metal identity.
