Who is Brummie of the Year 2008?

Voting has now closed for the 2008 Brummie of the Year Award.

Brummie of the Year 2009, is…

Mr Ralph (22%, 213 Votes)
Lisa and Jenny Capsule (15%, 147 Votes)
Gurcharan Mall (1%, 7 Votes)
Glynn Purnell (8%, 81 Votes)
Paul Hadley (2%, 24 Votes)
Brian Travers (49%, 479 Votes)
Justice Williams (2%, 15 Votes)
Mohammed Arif (1%, 17 Votes)

Total Voters: 982

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The nominees were:

Adam Smith (aka Steve Zacharanda), for showing just how to deal with breaking history. Get in there and get pissed.

TWMDriver – Brum’s best blogging bus driver, who has come from nowhere to become a fixture online and on Les Ross. All whilst staying anonymous, a bit.

Johnny Doom, the voice of metal in Brum. Late night DJ for Kerrang! Radio and previously lead vocalist of the band Doom.

Little Chris of Brumcast. Brumcast plays only music from the Midlands’ underground, dedicated to showing that there’s more to the area than Black Sabbath and UB40 (there is?). And Little Chris has been doing it off his own bat. One hundred and eleven times so far.

Roshan Doug. Writer, poet and internet troll. Roshan is loved and hated in fairly equal measure, based on reading the comments on his Birmingham Post blog.

Pogus Caesar. In the year of his retrospective exhibition, can one of Birmingham’s best known photographers snap to victory?

Paul Murphy of the Destroyers (see some video). Paul has called Birmingham home for over 30 years and has been a vocal supporter of songwriting and live music in his adopted city.

Helga Henry, creative industy all round good egg. Runs a mean tea stall too, and is loved a great deal.

Barbara Nice, “From crowd surfing to crap raffles… Barbara is the queen of comedy”.

The poll closed at midnight on Saturday 13th December.

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andywalker82 (Andy Walker)

Vote for the Brummie of the Year 2008: http://tinyurl.com/5lo3u8

twm_driver (twm_driver)

erm How did I get nominated for Brummie of the Year? http://is.gd/96EJ Who knows? its come as a surprise thanks @bounder

bounder (Jon Bounds)

Go on then. It's Brummie of the Year 2008 vote time: http://is.gd/96EJ featuting twitters own @twm_driver

Ben

I know I'm probably being really thick and I've read the post over and over again but I can't see how to vote.

Did I miss a link or summfing?

Jon Bounds

Hi Ben, it's right in the middle of the post. Have you got javascript on?

Robert Lane

I met Mrs Barbra Nice at the 2007 Edinburgh fringe, and I’ve since performed with her in Wolverhampton, and given her a lift to and from that gig (getting lost in brum with her because one of the tunnels was closed was an immensely odd but fun experience)

And I’ve also been on BBC 3 with her, locked in a box playing children’s games with 6 other would be comics. This was odd as well, especially when performing "work class hero" and "ring of fire" with her

So she has to get my vote, a fantastically funny stand up who appeals to all, and a very nice lady to boot.

Fiona

How can you force me to choose between Helga Henry and Barbara Nice? What are you trying to do to me?!

Dave Harte

Torn between Johnny Doom (ex-student of Birmingham City University; taught him on a couple of modules; all round good guy) and Pogus Caesar (stalwart of the media sector; 20 years ago he gave a talk to us City & Guilds students and was inspiring and also said nice things about the video I had made).

Good list all told.

aexeo

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BARBRA NICE

billy milk

It's gotta be steve zacharandah.... look at the hits on his youtube clip... he's got the city of birmingham on Good Morning America. no contest...

Barnard

Barbara Nice that is Barbara as in Streisand and Nice as in the Biscuit

When asked by one of her five sons whether she knew Words for Windows she
thought about it for ages and the only word she could come up with was fenêtre

Barnard

Smithers

C'mon its all about Little Chris! The guy is a legend, holding it down for all the unsigned and underground goodness in birmingham for all styles of music AND he's not an arse! GO YOU BEAST!!

rob

i voted for barbra nice who is a great performer ,house wife and mother , and advocate for the number 50 bus route , however friends have tried to vote since sunday and they cannot see the link to vote !!!! i feel this is unfair ....are they missing something or is there something up with the page ? please help and fix it ..... as Barbra would be winning now :)

Jon Bounds

Hi rob,

If you (or anyone) sees the results instead of the voting buttons then someone else using the same computer (or the same IP - internet address, sometimes an office will share one) has already voted. It's only possible to vote once per computer.

Andy Westcott

Like I said before, Birmingham without Doom is like Catchphrase without Mr Chips. I have nothing more to add at this time. Doom all the way.

Rosetta

Barbara Nice...it has to be...she's an inspiration...!!

Charlie

Vote for Helga shes got more energy than a small tornado and in every conversation big ups Birmingham.

Danny Gallagher

Paul Murphy should be cannonised or at least made pope as soon as possible

edward

Oh my god,

why in heavens is Pogus the Bogus in that list?

Awful talentless wannabe.

paul murphy fanatic

go paul murphy. go go paul murphy.
for anyone who is unsure who to vote for.. VOTE PAUL MURPHY FOR BRUMMY OF THE YEAR 2008.
A vote for Paul Murphy is the RIGHT vote.
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