Down Poplar Road in King’s Heath is the sewing machine shop of Frank L Nutt: And if you travel down to near Star City you see signs for the sewing machine shop of one S Nutt: And I’ve been told of Walsall’s DC Nutt and Sutton’s M Nutt. It’s fascinating to me, none of the shops or website refer to any of the others…are we dealing with a schism of Dassler brothers proportions (you’ll remember that Adi Dassler set up adidas, his brother Rudolph: Puma) ? Of course we could just ask them, but it’s more fun to speculate: do you know any more Nutts? Have you been assaulted by one of them?
Planning your journey online can be useful, save time and money if you do it right (and if then the busses actually turn up of course) so kudos to Network West Midlands for promoting that. In a bold marketing move, they’ve got for a poster campaign all over the city to promote planning your journey online without mentioning where one might do that. Small posters and large billboards: No web address, URL, app, QR code, nor mention of any of the three online journey planning services they promote at all. Brave egalitarian move, or oversight (all of the posters they’ve got that promoting offline things like bus-passes do have their web address on)? Bold, brave. Er, Centro?
Very amusing Twitter public service, not of course from WMPTE. Spotted (well, where I saw it) by Harry Vale.
Don’t normally churn PR quite as straight, but this is a good one: “Sunday 3rd October will see OxjamBrum and The Green Bus take over the 11 bus route for an afternoon of music with a difference, as part of the month long Oxjam music festival taking place across the country during October. Starting at the Hare and Hounds in Kings Heath our passengers will hop on board The Green Bus to drive a full lap of Europe’s longest urban bus route – the Number 11. Touring the outer circle and visiting some of Birmingham’s most interesting neighbourhoods we will make 11 stops en-route to pick up musical entertainment for our paying passengers. We’re keeping the lid on who the acts will be but be prepared for an eclectic mix of old and new, spanning the genres. Mid route we’ll be stopping at The Bear in Barewood for a quick drink and music from a local band before making our way back to the Hare & Hounds for a Sunday Lunch with a soulful twist from the Soul Food Project. The number 11 has a rich history in Birmingham with a book written about it, a dedicated blog and...
Long time since I’ve seen a Brum-related topic trend on Twitter, but a great pun-game today — Birmingham Film Remakes. Started I think by Gordon Eight8all. Here are some of the best I spotted: mandapops Howls Moving Castle Bromwich thecoldgun Toyah Story 3 mazzawoo Smilla’s Feeling for Snow Hill jaymeetee You’ve got Mailbox captjenny Charlie & The Custard Factory craigfots Things To Do In Deritend When You’re Ed Doolan RussL Three Colours: Rednal brumchick Oscott of the Antarctic drivelbunny Digbeth, the biggest dog in the World lpmorgado Raging Bullring siwhitehouse A Bout De South Yardley
Note, not worst band. We like some of the bands listed. You can be a great band and have an appalling name, or at least you can have hit records and have a shite name (Audio Bullys — sort the grammar out thickos) or have a good frontman and a guitar genius and have a shite name (The Tears — as it eye water leakage or ripping? sort it out). You can certainly come from New York and have a shite name, and that’s where we’ll be shamelessly half-inching this idea from. “band names have only gotten more loathsome ever since we ran out of words back in 1993.” Annually* BiNS in association with the The Big Paws will be launching the hunt to find the worst band name in Brum. The rule: 1. The band must actually play shows in the city. Anyone can name a bedroom project Private Lynndie England & The Ball-Pointer-Atters but it takes real nerve to actually book a show and put it on a flyer. Here are some to think about: Rase — decent indie pop, but can’t work out how to pronounce it, doesn’t mean anything… don’t think you’re allowed to make...
