Monthly Archives: August 2010

Brumcast's Supersonic Festival Podcasts

Little Chris is pulling together a series of three podcasts of music from the Supersonic festival — that's taking place at The Custard Factory, Digbeth, Birmingham 22-24 Oct.

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Smileymic Live Filming – Your Invitation

A Press Release we can’t be bothered to rewrite, but that might interest you: We would like to invite you to Smileymics live set at The Free Love Club, The Yardbird,  Birmingham on 5th September 2010 from 6.30pm – 10pm. The set will be filmed for use as his promotional video. Smileymic is a modern day one man band, creating his loops live on stage by beat-boxing, triggering samples and playing instruments including guitar, bass, keyboard, glockenspiel and cow-bell! In under two years his one man show has seen him go from winning a local battle of the bands competition to playing body art, snowboarding and VW festivals to opening for acts like Son Of Dave, Ugly Duckling, The Heavy and De La Soul. Expect anything from acoustic songs to old school hip hop and always a crowd pleasing cover or two. Check him out at www.facebook.com/pages/Smileymic/40611961408 or www.myspace.com/smileymic The Free Love Club Anti folk festival will also include the artists Killing Fields of Ontario, Jim Alloye, Lp45, Dominic Crane, Chloe Juliette Evans, Brains For Breakfast, Angela Armstrong, David Lloyd Henry & Odell Millen, Graham Spencer (Urbangulf), Kieran Lawrence, & The Rogue State Circus. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

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Bullring Open Market — will it survive?

Simon Gray looks at the fruit and veg market in town and says that it's likely the drop in quality rather than town planning that will kill it.

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Brums Smallest Chipshop (by martinpickard)

Brums Smallest Chipshop (by martinpickard)

from Brumblr, the scrapbook of Brum web ephemera: Brums Smallest Chipshop (by martinpickard)

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The Big Paws 28/08/2010 — Listen Again

Listen to the latest from BiNS’s radio show The Big Paws: Loads of art-happening round ups: The Big Paws is live every Saturday at 8am on Rhubarb Radio.

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Camp as a row of metal

Camp as a row of metal

While researching something else, here’s some stuff I found of Brum’s own scalextric Camp Hill Flyover: A photo by Phyllis Nicklin: And a bus-driver’s eye-view of a trip out of town on the 37. mmmm, short-term nostalgia.

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BBC WM looks back on its 40 years of broadcasting

Few snippets of an anniversary documentary.

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Cum Clubbing: “ For one night only VIVID hosts an art…

Cum Clubbing:
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For one night only VIVID hosts an art…

from Brumblr, the scrapbook of Brum web ephemera: Cum Clubbing: “ For one night only VIVID hosts an art party inspired by the colourful club nights of Birmingham’s underground scenes in the 1980s. VIVID’s project space will be taken over by live music, DJs and visual artists who’ll conspire to create an excitingly strange evening of camp disco! DJs include 80s original ‘Gay Jon’, the brains behind Bradford Street’s outrageously lewd and notorious Cum Club; and Brian Duffy, award winning sound artist and creator of The Modified Toy Orchestra. Also at VIVID, John Napier (Jugend Klub), Greg Haines (Tropical Hotdog) and Richard A. Spears (Ducks Bath) each bring you a special playlist crafted in response to The Cum Club.”

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King of Kong

King of Kong

A local, erm, enthusiast is campaigning for the King King statue late of the Bull Ring Markets (and some car place, and Dudley Zoo apparently) to be returned to tower over Brum. That’s despite him saying: “apparently poor old King Kong has recently been melted down by his Scottish owners” — or is he in Penrith? An enduring image, isn’t it.

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