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.
Hey Ho, Let’s Go….down to the Epic Skate Park! Now the kids are on their summer holiday and some of the grown ups too….dust off your skateboards and skates and have a ‘wheelie’ (sorry) fab day out! The park is housed in a former bus garage and attracts skaters from all over the country....
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Don’t be put of by the almost-enyaesque tunes, a view inside the Battery in Selly Oak is well worth the trip. Cheers Kingdale
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A Supersonicy special plus news of other stuff going on in and around Brum, minus cartoon-dog vocals, with all the usual stuff – Northern Soul, Sweary News and the Tiiiiiiiime Tunnel:
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Cliff Richards is no doubt upset, as the “Cliff Richards’s Millennium Flame” has been pulled down so they can build the underground library in Centenary Square. Photo by davidsesa
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I don’t wear perfume. The idea of applying pollutant glue that ‘sticks’ to my skin doesn’t appeal to me. Nonetheless, I do wear some medical non-chalk talc that works well for what it needs to do – preventing body odour and sweat from presenting an unpleasant reaction on skin and in public. Equally, my...
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The Guardian asked me to write about Brum, so as it needs all the support it can I did a bit on Digbeth. They subbed out a clever line about the Rainbow that I'll now save for something else — but did keep the words "pimply bosom".
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Neil Houston has analysed every parking ticket issued in Brum from March 2008 to April 2009 and the Council-run pay-and-display by Snow Hill is a nice little earner in more ways than one. A scandal? Perhaps.
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Danny Smith was writing lots of guides to Brum for the Itchy guide, last year. It never happened, so we present his guide to the past in a number of parts (see all the parts): Q Club 212 Corporation St Birmingham B4 6QB Tel: 0121 212 1212 With a cavernous main room and labyrinthine...
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Nice history of the Library and asks of the Government: "Will it support great architecture, or a group of powerful officers and councillors, lobbying hard, and bent on destroying it?".
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