On the eleventh of November 2009 there happened a pyschogeographical epic. A window of eleven hours to complete a circuit of Birmingham’s number eleven bus.
This 39 story glass structure can be found on Holloway Circus Queensway and at 122 metres it is the tallest building in Birmingham. Next time you are passing by the Raddison, stand on the pavement and face the building, tilt your head back and look right up at the top of the...
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The Flatpack Festival draws out another gem with a screening of Privilege — on 16mm at Ikon Eastside on Sunday 15 March. The film is a 1967 exploration of the power of fame, and has depth and darkness not quite communicated in the poster: Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Steven Shorter is a pop phenomenon,...
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Long preamble to this, but bear with us, it (like all good things do) ends in a song. Here’s what happened: Some people decided to do a Birmingham Twitter Festival. Craig Friends of the Stars offered the band’s services as cover artistes as a raffle prize. Nicky Getgood won that prize. Nicky is obsessed...
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The Convention on Modern Liberty will be holding a half-day satellite event this Saturday, 28th Feb 2009 at Aston University. NO2ID is involved in this major nationwide event.
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For the weather presenter fans amongst you, photos that "can be used for everything from web sites to books" – are we going to see shefali.com or an autobiography? Only time will tell.
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This is good, but complicated. So take a look at the flyer and read this (copied from editorialgirl): What? Where? When? Photographers of all abilities are invited to bring their work along to exhibit at a spontaneous, free event at the Custard Factory on Saturday 21 March. But there’s a twist. Everything exhibited can...
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Reg Eccles was chosen out of 100 people as a juror at the Birmingham pub bombings trial in the summer of 1975. Here’s an interview, longer than the version that made it to Radio 4′s PM.
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From the Baron: "International soul legend Joss Stone – yes…THE Joss Stone…the 10million album selling Grammy award winning Joss Stone…is playing The Rainbow on Monday 23rd February. This ain't a wind up…it's (as far as I can tell) a low key warm up gig to début tracks from her as yet untitled new album."...
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#365 – i’ve discovered where birminghames apostrophes have gone, originally uploaded by star-one. Simon has discovered where Birmingham’s apostrophes have gone.
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