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
With voting now open for Brummie of the Year we’re taking a look at all the candidates. So just who is Mohammed Arif?
He said he decided to try to free the man because “if he was going to explode he would have exploded by now”.
Brave, logical, a little bit stupid? Brummie of the Year?
With voting now open for Brummie of the Year we’re taking a look at all the candidates. Let’s find out about Justice Williams.
She’s number 30 in the Birmingham Post Power 50, so they’ve done all our work for us:
“This year, at the age of 28, Justice Williams became the youngest black woman in the UK to be awarded an MBE. She was honoured for her services to young people in Birmingham, including founding the Inner City Creative Media Group which trains 17 to 26-year-olds in media and business skills.”
With voting now open for Brummie of the Year we’re taking a look at all the candidates. Not blowing his own trumpet, it’s UB40’s saxophonist Brian Travers:
Brian (or B-TUB as he might be known to Twitterers) is a founder member of UB40 and is still honking, squeaking and winking at the girls in the front row (that’s what all sax players do isn’t it?) some thirty years later. Not only that he’s still speaking up for Brum, and he’s been very vocal in the fight to save The Rainbow.
With voting now open for Brummie of the Year, we’re going to take a look at all the candidates. Here’s Paul Hadley of Rhubarb Radio:
Paul is one of the driving forces behind Rhubarb — BIrmingham’s award winning online radio station — and Lyle Bignon says:
“Paul Hadley has worked solidly for around 2 years to bring Rhubarb Radio to life, with great results. An absolute diamond geezer and great Brummie.”
With voting now open for Brummie of the Year, we’re going to take a look at all the candidates. It’s chef fella Glynn Purnell:
We’ve no idea if he’s got as hearty a laugh a Rustie Lee, but he’s certainly popular. Nick Drew:
“How many other Brummies won the AA National Restaurant of the Year AND made Tim Lovejoy look stupid on national TV in 2009? Answer: none. The man’s a legend.”
& Birmingham Post Editor Marc Reeves:
“He may be a bluenose, but no-one else serves up a haddock foam poached egg with curry oil like his.”
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With voting now open for Brummie of the Year, we’re going to take a look at all the candidates. This time king of dhols Gurcharan Mall.
Nominated by Julia Gilbert:
“organiser of the World 501 Dholis world recording breaking dhol playing event, and the man behind Birmingham’s wonderful Dhol Blasters. He is a brilliant dhol teacher, who made me feel very welcome at the event and subsequent dhol classes. He is an very likeable man who recognises that music can transcend cultural differences.”
With voting now open for Brummie of the Year, we’re going to take a look at all the candidates. This time multi-headed metal machine, Lisa and Jenny from Capsule:
Yin and Yang by pennymcconnell on Flickr
(not a great photo, but the only one I can find of them together…)
Everyone knows what Capsule do, don’t they? Let’s get Pete Ashton to explain:
“in 1999 Jenny Moore and Lisa Meyer decided they were fed up with travelling to see bands they liked so they started putting on gigs in Brum. In 2003 they put on a big gig and called it Supersonic. Now ten years on they’re put on hundreds of gigs and the Supersonic Festival is a world-renowned event. They don’t operate in a vaccum though, often working with arts and culture people across the region and have started the Home of Metal project to cement Birmingham’s reputation as the birthplace of heavy metal.”
With voting now open for Brummie of the Year, we’re going to take a look at all the candidates. First, the last of the pub-to-pub peddllers — Digbeth’s Mr Ralph.
mr ralph by getgood on flickr
Let’s let Nicky Getgood explain:
“Mr Ralph is something of a Digbeth institution, invariably found in one of the many Digbeth pubs, peddling customised goods from his battered old suitcases. Rumour has it he holds the last existing Birmingham pedlars license. I found Mr Ralph quite fascinating so I wrote a blog post about him after he kindly agreed to it, including photos of him and his Mr Ralph branded goods.”
Brummie of the Year 2009, is…
Total Voters: 982
Loading ...Poll closed midnight on Friday 18th December. The winner was be announced on The Big Paws on Sat 19th from 8am.
How did we get the list? See the nominations. Who won? See here…
