Archive for August, 2007

Stourbridge band Midas have had their single ‘Red Shoes’ removed from the top 20 due to what the compilers OCC (Official Chart Company) say are sales that are “not eligible for the chart”. According to The Stirrer this has something to do with them selling pre-loaded SIM cards. How you sell music on SIM...
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Showing why blogging isn’t journalism – apparently the Jug isn’t closing. Sorry to scare people unduly, still you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone and all that, celebrate the Jug of Ale!
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if you like Goldie Lookin Chain or Biz Bizley, then you should definitely check out Fraz ‘n’ Gus and their awesome tracks such as “West Brom”, “Moseley”, “Northfield Nan” and “My Old Man”. Fraz and Gus are two born and bred Brummies who have been living in the area all their lives. Fraz (Faisal...
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And then you can watch blurry unsaturated footage of some buses on You Tube. Been scratching my head as to where the main vantage point for this was, but I can’t quite place it (some might be filmed from opposite where the Square Peg is now, maybe?).
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One of Brum’s (and England’s) most loved toilet circuit venues, The Jug of Ale in Moseley, is to close in around six weeks – to be pulled down and replaced with 100 much needed (hem hem) flats. The pub was sold in June of last year and now the owners have sold on again,...
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Russ L’s Lots Of Things To See And Do In The West Midlands. Amongst the music there’s a Tortoise MOT day.
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When is a festival not a festival? When it’s a series of gigs that don’t seem to have much connection and might of happened without the On Song Festival. Some gems there though, Alabama 3 are a fantastic band (hardly ‘songwriters’ in the sense they seem to be trying to imply) and I’m from...
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Friend of BiNS Catherine O’Flynn’s novel “What Was Lost” has made it onto the longlists of two awards: the long-running Man Booker Prize, announced earlier this month and now also the Guardian’s First Book Award, announced today. The Guardian prize rewards the best new writing from all genres and allows readers’ groups to play...
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As Brummies, most of our first experiences of the wonder of penguinos would have been at Dudley Zoo, but I doubt they were as weird as this game – Frozen Faggot Fight. I love its almost willful disregard of reality and shoehorning of black country offal-based foodstuffs into a quite christmassy game. As an...
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