Comments on: Brummie of the Year 2007 – nominations open

By: Jon Bounds

Jon Bounds — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:18:10 +0000

Erm, you could try the page for this year’s voting. At the mo, the vote is also on the home page.

By: Amy Jones

Amy Jones — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:03:35 +0000

How the hell do I vote? I vote Mr Jonny Doom !

By: Brummie of the Year 2007 - John Tighe - Birmingham: It's Not Shit

Brummie of the Year 2007 - John Tighe - Birmingham: It's Not Shit — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:19:04 +0000

[...] Read our runners up post, the voting page, and the original nominations thread. [...]

By: Sam Ashcroft

Sam Ashcroft — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:16:15 +0000

no contest…. Brummie of the year should go to Johnny Doom!

By: fifi

fifi — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:36:26 +0000

JOHN TIGHE FOR PRIME MINISTER!!!

By: bounder

bounder — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:51:05 +0000

Sorry Postie, too late for this year – nominations closed on the 1st of the month. Love to hear about Gramham tho’ – why not tell us in your own words what he’s been doing?

By: postie

postie — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:30:45 +0000

There can only be one candidate, Graham Webb,cyclist extrodinair, google him to find out what being a brummie is all about

By: Pete Ashton’s Blog » Eight to One

Pete Ashton’s Blog » Eight to One — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:29:04 +0000

[...] I do consider myself a Brummie. I just said I thought the award should only go to born and bred Brummies, not recent immigrants like [...]

By: Brummie of the Year | Rich Batsford

Brummie of the Year | Rich Batsford — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:08:05 +0000

[...] received a nomination which was very touching (thanks Bren) but didnt get through to the actual voting round which is [...]

By: Brummie of the Year 2007 - vote now | Birmingham: It’s Not Shit

Brummie of the Year 2007 - vote now | Birmingham: It’s Not Shit — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:08:14 +0000

[...] In a spirit of openness, you can even read all about the actual nominations. [...]

By: bounder

bounder — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:01:46 +0000

—————Nominations Closed —————————

Even in a freewheeling modern online democracy we have to have some rules in order to pare down the nominations, so one we’ve gone for is that people have to be doing stuff over and above ‘work’ – otherwise you get into the realms of wondering whether a DJ is doing as valuable work as a fire-fighter or nurse. So for that reason people, like WM late night presenter Danny Kelly, who have been nominated for basically doing their jobs (however well) haven’t made the cut.

We’ve picked ‘Big Chief Busks-with-recorder’ as a kind of representative of Brum’s buskers and street entertainers – those that brighten up a trek up New Street, past the chuggers and scientology girls – even the bloke I caught today not plucking his violin despite the sound coming out of his amp.

So that’s it – we’ve picked nine – go vote…

Please keep discussing the vote here, or on our forums.

By: bounder

bounder — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:16:53 +0000

I think we'd have to declare an interest in Mick. But if anyone does want to sponsor Airbiscuit for the race (and it is for charidee you know) email us and we'll sort something out.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:57:41 +0000

I would like to nominate Mick AIR BISCUIT Stokes for Brummy of the Year for romping home first in the annual pantomime horse grand national .And the idiot is doing it again this year .So if anybody would like to sponsor Mick please get in touch.

By: Spinky

Spinky — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:39:43 +0000

Has anyone nominated Capsule yet? Can I?

By: Peter Lewis

Peter Lewis — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:31:16 +0000

What about that guy who’s always out and about busking with his saxophone in the city centre? He always used to stand by the Copthorne, but I’ve seen him on New Street too. He’s been around for years and always makes a walk through the centre slightly more pleasant. Because let’s face it – city centre regeneration has been good, though very commercial. This feels like an antidote to me…

By: Jim Smith

Jim Smith — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:01:32 +0000

How about Carl Chinn, I was lucky enough to meet him and share a few cool beverages this summer.
Now theres a down to earth fella who genuinly loves birmingham its people its culture its history.
Hes also doing all he can for the citys heritage, by promoting its historic buildings and markets etc.
Also the way he is on the radio is the way he is in real life, he’ll talk to anyone for as long as they want about what ever they want,and he really does call everyone “mucker”.
Hes a properly nice guy and a great Brummie, im glad I was lucky enough to meet him.
Carl Chin Great Call.

By: Russell Pearce

Russell Pearce — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:44:47 +0000

Wayne Elcock, boxer, beat Howard Eastman in the British Middleweight Title Fight

By: ben hughes

ben hughes — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:44:05 +0000

I’d like to nominate a brummie of the year. I work as a furnace operator with a group of metalagists at a place called wallwork and it is exactly that. Solid graft. Some of the people I work with I feel are legends in their own right and I feel at least one of them should be picked out for a reward for the work they do that largely goes unspoken. We’ve got a great team supporting what is a dieng industry and an industry that defines Birmingham as a city “heavy metal”, in the true sinister war mongering, hate filled sense of the words. These are truely the real legends of Birmingham.

Pete Mc Caulley, Scots/Irish who has been Production Supervisor for 20 years in probably one of the most hellish work environments you can imagine and is someone I admire and respect and personifies to me everything to be feared and respected about the true nature of Birmingham’s industrial working class history. He is a fair boss and quite often quite literally looks like a zombie because the hours he works are so long which is quite entertaining. I certainly feel he deserves some kind of recognition for someone who I feel could have done anything with his life and decided to stick it out in this place.

It’s not just Pete.all the staff collectively make a great team, from oxford graduates to ex-professional rugby players they’re all winners in their own right. But considering Pete’s position he could sit back and let people get on with it but he can’t help but get stuck in and his enthusiasm is contagious.

Big up Pete Mac!

By: bounder

bounder — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:24:46 +0000

I like Steve as a manager, but I'd still like to see him sacked - as I've got a sitcom proposal that stars him and Peter Schmiecel living next door to each other (as they did in the nineties), if he's out of work he might just do it. I don't think the award has been any kind of albatross to the winners over the years - although we don't hear so much about Charlie Mitton these days. Just to throw another hat into the sack - what about my favourite Redskin busker - Big Chief Busks With Recorder?

By: Paul Ashton

Paul Ashton — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:12:47 +0000

Well, since Pete doesn’t want it and I can’t vote for him anyway, being family, I nominate Steve Bruce in the hope that he gets fired before he can claim the award. A double whammy for all us long-suffering bluenoses.