Very nicely done.
A superbitch famous for wide-shouldered dresses, those are the qualities that made Leo Morgado the idea person to meet Joan Collins. She’s staring the Hippodrome’s panto this year, y’see: As Birmingham waits to see whether or not it will receive the title of being UK City of Culture 2013, we have already received a much more important honour, and that’s having Joan Collins booked to perform pantomime at the Birmingham Hippodrome. Detractors and cynics say that panto is just giving losing contestants in reality TV shows, and once popular light entertainment stars a reason to exist. All I can say to that is, Goldilocks. Pantomime, like all art (and it is art), has its low and high forms. Low form is the excruciatingly embarrassing spectacle of seeing sub-lebrities trying extremely hard to be liked by an indifferent audience. Truly great and engaging pantomime not only brings out the best actors, but also the best out of an audience. Pantomime allows families to leave their homes and spend time together whilst being lavished with colourful productions. It gives theatres the opportunity to fill auditoriums day after day, night after night and create much needed income. It is also a chance...
Graham Dunning, a Manchester-based artist soon to take up a residency at The Rea Garden on Floodgate Street, puts an appeal on the Birmingham History Forum for information about the old Record Pressing Plant that used to be on The Rea Garden’s site:
There’s nothing that worries me more than consultation (still no results btw) , apart from knocking down Birmingham’s most important building. So I was a bit disappointed with only “the main themes” being released from the consultation into what might happen with Paradise Circus — out of 153 responses I know at least a few had very strong “don’t knock down Central Library” themes. Why not publish everything? Alan Crawley at The Stirrer pulls the response apart. And if you’re feeling in need of sleep, here it is published as a PDF so that even fewer people will read it.
Including scans of two fantastic fanzines, Bob takes us through what it was like to be young and need music in a Midlands town in the late 80s. Great read.
From Vale Mail: "A total of 26 officers across north Birmingham Local Policing Unit have been specially trained to use tasers, and the officers will be on alternate shifts in order to ensure availability of equipment and operators 24/7 The tasers were issued to officers in north Birmingham yesterday (Monday 14 June)."
Genuinely useful service from the Council's PR site…
It's a blog about Stirchley
And Birmingham's obviously… includes Lauren Laverne
