Wonder what the red bits will be sfx’d into, giant pork scratchings? Channel Four TV ident filming in Birmingham, originally uploaded by Tony Worrall.
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Tags: Bull Ring, bullring, Channel 4, TV
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Dave Harte does a list/linkbait post, and it works as I agree with every single point. Don’t share his obsession with fried breakfasts, so much
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Tags: birminghamuk, daveharte, Digbeth
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For John Mostyn, the opening titles to Gangsters (filmed in Brum doncha know): Series two: Series one (embeding disabled, sods — it’s not as if _they_ made Gangsters, they just uploaded it to the interwebs).
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Tags: BBC, birminghamuk, gangsters, YouTube
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Les Ross interviews Hardeep Singh Kohli, it doesn’t go well. (via Tom Watson)
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"This event, aimed at all ages of the general public, will feature talks by researchers from the School of Physics and Astronomy, including Dr William Chaplin on the "Music of the Sun" and Dr Somak Raychaudhury on "Einstein's Outrageous Legacy – Black Holes, Cosmic Illusions and Dark Energy", as well as interactive workshops which...
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I’ve recently stumbled upon MACE — that’s the Media Archive for Central England — a government funded body that archives ” moving images held on film, video, DVD or any other carrier that relate in some way to the Midlands”. While I doubt they’ve got every episode of Boon on VHS, they do have...
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Tags: archive, Back To Backs, Birmingham City, birminghamuk, culture, film, history, internet, MACE, video, West Bromwich Albion
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The Birmingham Conservation Trust has a new website just gone live (disclaimer: which I’ve worked on), it’s focussed more around its blog which is nice and goes with a new look all round — logos, fonts, colours that sort of thing. The Trust look after historic buildings in Brum, they restored the Back to...
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Tags: architecture, Birmingham, Birmingham Conservation Trust, birminghamuk, environment, history
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The Eccentric Auction seems to have gone down well at the Anchor the other night (well there are people there in this photo and they’re not throwing stuff at the autioneers). Nicky Getgood was there and bought some kind of weird hamster thing. Not sure who one the prize draw, I’ll keep you posted…...
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Tags: auction, Digbeth, Eccentric City, fun, misc
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There’s a painfully slow flash site announcing a Kerrang radio unsigned bands competition — with the chance to play at the Bull Ring. Festibull is going on at the Bull Ring on the 18th and 19th of October — where eight bands battle the public vote to win the chance to support ‘Cage The...
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Tags: band, birminghamuk, bullring, competition, festibull, internet, music, The Bull Ring
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