During the summer of 2009, Trevor Pitt took a subjective journey through his formative years in Birmingham (1971- 1999), examining the spaces where popular culture fraternizes with the canonical world of art. Using the pod at VIVID as a project space, Pitt embarked upon a cartographic venture in which he traced his flirtations with pop, punk, film, art and cultural theory, and charted his personal trajectory from council estate suedehead to disco speed freak, via Hawkwind and Althusser.

Working with artist Shelli Graham, Pitt launched the new phase of this project by uncovering artefacts made in response to the Sleeve Notes Sessions, 2009.

In spring 2010 Pitt returned to VIVID to launch the second phase of Sleeve Notes, supported by Hello Digital. Starting with a tweet, Pitt looked at how social media can proliferate information and widen participation in events which would otherwise stay ‘underground'. Using Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, SMS, and email, Pitt created a platform for collective memory and discussion, unearthing remnants from Birmingham's cultural underground.

More recently, Trevor Pitt in association with VIVID hosted Cum Clubbing, an art party inspired by Gay Jon and the colourful club nights of Birmingham's underground scenes in the 1980s and GET BENT! an eccentric club night inspired by pop culture’s affection for gender-bending.

The Sleeve Notes project will culminate at The Garage, VIVID, Birmingham on 12 November when he will host the final act of his club trilogy BANG! BANG! It's all over, where do we begin? feat The Bang Collective.

For the 'Final Act' in the Sleeve Notes residency , Pitt will invite a host of artists, designers, performers and musicians from Birmingham to become part of The Demimonde, an art-rock band that will collaboratively write and record and perform new material at a one-off performance in October 2012.