Archive for December, 2009

A run, at midnight (Sat night/Sunday morn). Starting from Bearwood, the location of Dexy's fave cafe, to Birmingham city centre — where hopefully we can get a Dexy's tribute band to play. We'll dress like Dexy's MK 1 — donkey jackets and woolly hats. And we'll have a look for the young soul rebels...
Read more »

Just a little bit of festive fun, I’ve taken the winner of every Brummie of the Year award and popped them into a poll so you can vote for your Brummie of the Decade. Since there was no Brummie of the Year prior to 2003 I’ve allowed you to write another option in if...
Read more »

I love panto, I love its traditions, its history, its very Englishness and its tendency to throw up hairy men in backless dresses and tights. So much that I’ve spend way too much time dragging the medium into the 21st Century on Twitter, but last night I went to see my first actual in-the-flesh...
Read more »

What next? Great Barr to get a cafe with wifi? Broad Street to get a bar you'd go into voluntarily?
Read more »

Seren Worton did his dissertation on Central Library, it's long but worth a read
Read more »

I want to talk about Birmingham’s bid for Britain’s City of Culture. Now this shouldn’t be confused for the European City of Culture bid, which if won brings money, tourists and actual prestige, That’s going to the South Hampshire region in 2022 which by then, if Internet idiots are to be believed, we will...
Read more »

Congratulations to civic sax-god Brian Travers – Birmingham It’s Not Shit’s 2009 Brummie of the Year. I spoke to him on our radio show The Big Paws and this is what he said: Brian Travers Brummie of the Year 2009 on The Big Paws UB40 / Brian Travers, originally uploaded by Sebastian Gerhard. See...
Read more »

"A world famous city, with world-class ambition" want a replacement for Clive Dutton.
Read more »

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! If you were in Birmingham yesterday you couldn’t have missed the super snow flurry! Tweeters sprang into action using the hashtag #uksnow along with the first part of their post code and a rating of the snow out of 10. I gave Birmingham a 7/10 rating....
Read more »