Monthly Archives: September 2009

Small Heath Gym Protest Film

Trawling youtube I’ve just stumbled across this slideshow proclaiming Small Heath leisure centre to have the “gym from hell”. Complete with music out of The Omen:

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Friday Photo by Karen Strunks

Friday Photo by Karen Strunks

This weekend Birmingham is going to be even more of a  hive of cultural activity. It’s the annual Arts Festival. Beginning this afternoon and running until Sunday night Birmingham is host to more events than you can shake a stick at; dance, films, arts, comedy, music, theatre. There will be something for everyone – and it’s all FREE! It’s also the last few days for the Monarch Beach (yes, Birmingham even has it’s own beach!) which is holding lots of music and dance events on their stage. The weather is going to be great this weekend, so grab a deckchair and a drink and enjoy. You can find the beach on Chamberlain Square next to the library. It’s going to be a fabulous weekend. You will be spoiled for choice. Have fun! :)

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Live Brum's guide to Heritage Open days

"Heritage Open Days celebrates England’s fantastic architecture and culture by offering free access to properties that are usually closed to the public or normally charge for admission" — that includes the Back to Backs and loads of other stuff. Various stuff open from Thursday until Sunday.

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7 Inch Cinema's guide to what's going on

Picking out the best bits, filmic and otherwise, for the next month or so.

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Up the nautical

A wonderful array of recordings of the "Audience in the Nautical Club, Birmingham, led by male singer" have made it to the British Library sound archive. You'd never believe 1986 could sound so far back in time. Cheers to Will Perrin for the spot.

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Get out.

Get out.

There doesn’t seem to be an excuse to spend any time in your own house this week: On Wednesday you can have a drink with internet types at The Anchor, or pop along to The Edge and hack to your hearts content with the fizzPOPpers. On Friday, the Twitter mafia will be very upset if you don’t get to the Arcadian and “tweet up” (bleeding hell) at Twestival. It’s raising money for the YMCA, so expect more village people references than is healthy. The whole weekend is covered by ArtsFest — but we need recommendations for anything worth going to during that. If you’re not all classical fireworks fantasia’d out by Saturday evening, them you could do a lot worse than pop along to the Irish Centre where Rhubarb Radio are hosting an afterparty — will all the more danceable DJs as well as live acts fresh from ArtsFest.

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New Gov dot co dot uk

New Gov dot co dot uk

Reserving judgement on the new Birmingham City Council website, but: as there is no RSS for updates I thought I’d take a look at the What’s New page “to keep track of recent additions”. Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!

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Michaelmas Fayre in Birmingham

Mayor Hobbit the first promises : "old fashioned entertainment, history talks and of course the outstandingly good value of Birmingham’s historic outdoor and indoor markets. There will be a medieval theme at St Martins, the Town Crier and we are also including echoes of Birmingham’s historic Onion Fair – and what's more, you could even get your onions, fruit and veg. served by the Lord Mayor!" Michaelmas Fayre on Tuesday, 29th September, Friday 2nd October and Saturday 3rd October from 10.00 am until 4.00 pm

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Load of balls?

All the stars; Mike Whitby, Paul Tilsley, Martin Mullaney, Cameron Jerome and Martin Taylor and avid Blue nose, comedian Jasper Carrott. Former Villa player, Ian Taylor, current Villa defender Carlos Cuellar, arch Villans, Phil Etheridge lead singer of Birmingham based indie rock band The Twang, and Birmingham Royal Ballet dancer, Kit Holder.   Birmingham City FC Ladies Team  Centre Forward Cristina Torkilsden as well as  Jabbar Khan manager of  Lasan Indian Restaurant were out in Victoria square today to promote “backing Birmingham” as a host city for any potential 2018 World Cup in England. Um, like it wouldn’t be anyway? A World Cup requires — FIFA say —12 to 18 stadiums capable of seating at least 40,000 spectators each (England are going for 11 cities, 12 stadiums). Only one city is allowed more that one stadium —  and we’re betting that’s London (come on, sure we are). So perhaps Birmingham might well be in with a shout — consider that there are only ten football grounds that would be able to host a World Cup were it tomorrow: Three  – Wembley, Arsenal’s Emirates and Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge are in London, two are in Manchester, two are in Liverpool. Which actually...

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