Monthly Archives: January 2008

Basie, how low can you go

If you’d like to hear Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler talk about Count Basie’s influence on Sabbath, and some other stuff about ‘metal’, then you could do much worse than going round to their houses and asking listening to this documentary from Radio 4 – Metal at 40. Link comes from the brill Speechification blog, who point out all the little speech-based gems you may have missed on the radio. They also have a MP3 of the programme to download.

Drinkers at Moseley’s famous Prince of Darkness faced a ‘sobriety’ test by police – with fines and warnings for anyone committing the crime of being ‘drunk in a pub’ according to yesterday’s Sunday Mercury (sorry, last online story on the Mercury site is 30 Dec). Keith Marsden, the landlord, had to get his regulars to walk along a chalk line – to prove they were sober enough (in November, but the Mercury have just caught up). They pub had already been sent a letter warning them that “there is clear evidence in the premises…of numerous people who are drunk/intoxicated” (The Stirrer). To my mind a pub isn’t doing its duty if people aren’t tipsy, and the patrons of the Prince aren’t any drunker than elsewhere, and Moseley’s more cerebral drinkers (Councillors, MPs, er me sometimes) might be a bit of an easy target for this bizarre law – I’d like to see the police take this line in the Australian bar up Broad St of a Saturday night.

t.jpg” /> The Rosa’s Cafe Blog tells us that the cafe sadly closed over Christmas, which is very sad – especially for fans of fried breakfasts who spend a lot of time ‘eastsiiiide’. If you’re gagging for a runny egg and slice of fried bread tho’, you could do worse (especially for your heart) that try a virtual ‘random rosa‘ – also available on Facebook.

Gigbeth returns

6th – 8th November 2008. According to their myspace.

Lost wins

Congrats to Cath O’Flynn who has won the Costa first novel award. Yay! What Was Lost, was named winner of the 2007 Costa first novel award after being longlisted but not winning the Booker and the Orange prize and shortlisted for the Guardian’s first book award.

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Basie, how low can you go

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