by Jon Bounds June 30th, 2009
9:00 am
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Athletico Spizz 80 – Effortless Do A Runner
And that’s it, a full month of Brum music videos — loads of bands I’d have liked to have picked had no YouTubery to embed, but what’s even more remarkable is that we’ve got through the month without repeating what’s been on the Brum Music Month blog (a couple of bands perhaps…). So there’s 60-odd top Brum tracks you might not have thought of, enjoy it all.
June is Birmingham Music Month, so get off your arses and talk Brum Music, make Brum Music, promote Brum Music, listen to Brum Music and have fun with Brum Music. BiNS is showcasing a Brummie Music vid every day in June, The Big Paws had a Brum Music Special (listen here) and you can do whatever you likes…
by Jon Bounds June 29th, 2009
11:00 pm
Oh yes, that's what it is. A valuable pub-based resource. [link]
by Jon Bounds June 29th, 2009
1:14 pm
The whole show “live from glastonbury” (hem, hem) with the last few Brum Music Month goodies:
by Jon Bounds June 28th, 2009
9:00 am
The Move – Blackberry Way
Who have we missed so far? Leave a comment…
June is Birmingham Music Month, so get off your arses and talk Brum Music, make Brum Music, promote Brum Music, listen to Brum Music and have fun with Brum Music. BiNS is showcasing a Brummie Music vid every day in June, The Big Paws had a Brum Music Special (listen here) and you can do whatever you likes…
by Jon Bounds June 27th, 2009
9:00 am
Black Sabbath – Iron Man
Who have we missed so far? Leave a comment…
June is Birmingham Music Month, so get off your arses and talk Brum Music, make Brum Music, promote Brum Music, listen to Brum Music and have fun with Brum Music. BiNS is showcasing a Brummie Music vid every day in June, The Big Paws had a Brum Music Special (listen here) and you can do whatever you likes…
by Karen Strunks June 26th, 2009
11:52 am
Remember Refused by Karen Strunks
I spotted this intriguing message on the bridge that crosses over Constitution Hill. It’s just brings forth questions that so far remained unanswered. What does it mean? Is Refused a person? Who wrote it? What’s it’s message? What do you think?
by Jon Bounds June 26th, 2009
9:00 am
Duran Duran – Planet Earth
Who have we missed so far? Leave a comment…
June is Birmingham Music Month, so get off your arses and talk Brum Music, make Brum Music, promote Brum Music, listen to Brum Music and have fun with Brum Music. BiNS is showcasing a Brummie Music vid every day in June, The Big Paws had a Brum Music Special (listen here) and you can do whatever you likes…
by Harry Palmer June 26th, 2009
8:59 am
VICTORIAN ICE-SKATING CLOG It was with some amusement that local fisherman, Alf Barnsley, retrieved this skating clog from Soho Loop, Winson Green in 1972. But where did it come from? The story concerns the great winter of 1901 when the entire stretch of the canal from central Birmingham towards Smethwick became iced over. Many people came from all of the West Midlands to enjoy skating and join with the local canal families (who were usually resistant to ‘foreigners’ as they called them). It became such a marvellous four weeks in January that ice skating competitions soon started to occur. Many enthusiastic people made their own ice skating clogs. As you will see from this original clog specimen, many had managed to adapt their working boots to great effect, never underestimate the innovation of the canal boatworker!
The Siren (in which this excerpt is taken from)
About Harry Palmer
Harry Palmer is an eccentric archaeologist who has, for many years, actively explored places, spaces and people, circumstances and situations. From early work from the mid 1990s as a reverse pedestrian world record attemptee, through to conversations with Catfish specimen masters and friendships with allotment champions, Mr Palmer has taken it upon himself to joyfully roam and enquire (within) here on planet earth for a sustained period since his birth…
Harry is the co-founder and research editor-in-chief of The Eccentric City newspaper – the world’s first dedicated eccentric tabloid newspaper
Forthcoming events: Eccentric Treasure Hunt across Birmingham (UK). Also, touring talks and visits. For more information and updates www.eccentriccity.co.uk
Harry Palmer’s Life and times of a Submerging Artist 1990-2009 pending www.harrypalmer.co.uk
by Jon Bounds June 25th, 2009
12:00 pm
The Council's new e-petition site gets it's first real use. A nicely worded petition to repeal the noise abatement order on the Rainbow. You'd be wrong not to sign, probably. [link]
by Jon Bounds June 25th, 2009
9:00 am
Toyah Wilcox – Echo Beach
Who have we missed so far? Leave a comment…
June is Birmingham Music Month, so get off your arses and talk Brum Music, make Brum Music, promote Brum Music, listen to Brum Music and have fun with Brum Music. BiNS is showcasing a Brummie Music vid every day in June, The Big Paws had a Brum Music Special (listen here) and you can do whatever you likes…
