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Brummie of the Decade?

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 there’s someone you feel would have won if they could. So who’s Brummie of the decade?(survey) Poll closes on New Year’s Day.

NEW DATE FOR THE 4AM PROJECT! Put the date in your diaries and tell your friends. The 4am Project has announced a new date – 4am on 21st June which is on a Sunday! It is also Summer Solstice and the longest day of the year. The sun will rise in London at 4.42 am. It’s going to be a beautiful time of day to capture! There is a theme this time around for the Project. It is street signs and/or shadows. With the sun rising when it does on this morning it will be great to capture the first shadows of the day breaking over the city. I am organising a 4am photo walk AND picnic! On the last 4am photo date on the 4th April I organised an outing to Birmingham New Street and Birmingham Wholesale Markets and we were all able to enjoy a very hearty breakfast at the market’s cafe. Unfortunately the cafe is closed on Sundays, so bring a flask and a butty and we can relax after the photo walk with our special early morning city picnic! It will be a first! We will meet at St Paul’s Square just before 4am and...

Mr Doom “Kerrang Radio DJ and full time loser” (according to his MySpace) has triumphed. 31% (879 Votes) was enough to pip Destroyers powerhouse Paul Murphy (23%, 652 Votes) to our famous trophy. Johnny, once of the very loud band Doom, has been providing a voice for metal — not only in the wee small hours on Kerrang Radio, but as part of the Home of Metal team. Metal needs a voice, one that can discuss the “merits of cut n paste aesthetics and early flyer artwork” and well as go “URRRGHR URRH RUGGGH” or whatever metal vocalists get up to these days. A leather and denim clad congratulations to Johnny Doom, who wins the all new Brummie of the Year trophy (that has last year’s winner John Tighe‘s hair encased in it), and lashings of kudos (but no actual money or anything like that). Congratulations also to Paul Murphy, whose energy and enthusiasm for the Brum music scene may be a guiding factor in any future genres we get to invent. Third was Barbara Nice, Fourth Little Chris. See those in ninth to fifth positions. See the voting thread. See the nominations.

So who wasn’t quite Brummie of the Year 2008?

Only those of us who can see the final numbers know who is Brummie of the Year 2008, but it’s no secret that some people ran away into a sort of “top four” quite early on in the voting. This becomes a little self-fulfilling, as new voters think “what’s the point in voting for them, they can’t win”. But despite that, all the nominees can feel a little bit proud (if that’s what they would like to feel) to have done good things in or for Birmingham this year. Roshan Doug (0%, 8 Votes) Pogus Caesar (0%, 12 Votes) Helga Henry (3%, 73 Votes) — Despite Helga being nominated a whole ton of times, it didn’t seem to translate into votes. Loved a whole lot by a tight community is just as good as fame tho’, we’re sure. TWM Driver (4%, 107 Votes) — TWM Driver has spent a good long year producing an episodic chronicle of bus-bound life in Birmingham. Are you a plumber, or a postman or something and want to be in with a shout of Brummie of the Year 2009? Get blogging now. Adam Smith (aka Steve Zacharanda) (5%, 152 Votes) – With all his...

Who is Brummie of the Year 2008?

Voting has now closed for the 2008 Brummie of the Year Award. The nominees were: Adam Smith (aka Steve Zacharanda), for showing just how to deal with breaking history. Get in there and get pissed. TWMDriver – Brum’s best blogging bus driver, who has come from nowhere to become a fixture online and on Les Ross. All whilst staying anonymous, a bit. Johnny Doom, the voice of metal in Brum. Late night DJ for Kerrang! Radio and previously lead vocalist of the band Doom. Little Chris of Brumcast. Brumcast plays only music from the Midlands’ underground, dedicated to showing that there’s more to the area than Black Sabbath and UB40 (there is?). And Little Chris has been doing it off his own bat. One hundred and eleven times so far. Roshan Doug. Writer, poet and internet troll. Roshan is loved and hated in fairly equal measure, based on reading the comments on his Birmingham Post blog. Pogus Caesar. In the year of his retrospective exhibition, can one of Birmingham’s best known photographers snap to victory? Paul Murphy of the Destroyers (see some video). Paul has called Birmingham home for over 30 years and has been a vocal supporter of...

Brummie of the Year 2008 – Nominations open

Who will follow in the bootsteps of landlord extraordinaire John Tighe, blues hobo Charlie Mitton, dancer-under-the-stars Malik, cricketer Jason Furnell and red panda Babu? Only the people of Birmingham can decide — after the nominations have been assessed by a panel. But nominations are now open and you’re welcome to list any Brummie or Brum resident that has put Birmingham on the map this year. How about “world’s worst boxer” Peter Buckley (although I’m sure he’s better than me)? Or Brummies for Obama leader Adam Smith? Maybe there’s an old dear who’ll be so excited by Kilroy in the Jungle that the orange man of British politics will triumph? Or is this the year that Metal will force it’s denim and leather clad way into the forefront? Wouldn’t it be great if concrete won out and we’ll recognise John Madin architectural genius behind the Central Library? All that we know is that the nominations wil close at 9am Sunday 23rd November and the voting will open the next day. Leave your nominations, with a reason, in the comments — and feel free to discuss amongst yourselves. NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED

Last year‘s Birmingham Post Power Fifty caused a lot of fun in offices around the city. I remember Chas Watkin (Editor of Midlands Today) being referred to as “number 48″ by his newsroom staff for a few days, which is alright unless you’re the second “most powerful” and get people sniggering “number two” behind your back. I went to the launch of this year’s list, where Marc Reeves of the Post admitted that it was designed to “infuriate” and stimulate debate (and one would hope from his point of view stimulate paper sales and website traffic). The Post have been brave and put the entire list up online, with open comments on each entrant (it’s a bit flaky at the moment — the paging system doesn’t work and the images are missing, but the list is there and you can comment on it). One can only hope their moderators are up to the task of the heated debate. Reading the list, and especially listening to the top ten being announced, it strikes you how difficult it would be to work out a list of people in order of real ‘power’ (influence is a better term, I think). You’d probably...

Despite the speed of the web, and my anal skim-reading of absolutely everything that mentions Brum, I still end up finding out things from the Evening Mail (or it’s 15 at a time, title only RSS feeds at least). Today I learnt that there are two projects in Brum up for Lottery Funding in one of these dreadful public votes (leading to lottery idol TV show). Nechells Baths are looking for help with the restoration, the Lottery web-site says £1.6M (but seems to talk in the past tense) while the Mail article talks about two thousand pounds . You can vote just with a click, without registering (think it looks at IP address, so if anyone was to continually reset their router and are on a ISP with dynamic IP addresses…). There’s a link through to an organisation called the Birmingham Foundation, a charity I’d never come across before, they obviously do a lot of good work but don’t like to talk about it. (photo by ray_wilkes2003)

Not this morning with Richard and Judy

Catherine O’Flynn won the Newcomer of the Year award we asked you to vote for. The award cermony that will be shown this Sunday on Channel 4 at a quarter to five presented by Richard and Judy.

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