Very amusing Twitter public service, not of course from WMPTE. Spotted (well, where I saw it) by Harry Vale.
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
Brum is, as you’ll no doubt be aware, is bidding to be UK City of Culture 2013. The final bid has to be in in May and getting a full picture of what culture is for Birmingham is and important part of it. We’ve already had Cliff Richard and heavy metal ballet suggested — but what do people actually get up to? One idea to capture that is to let everyone contribute to a one day celebration of all Birmingham’s cultural activity. For 24 hours from midday on Friday 23rd April to midday on Saturday 24th anyone can blog anything cultural they’re doing on the bid website (it’ll be at http://birminghamculture.org/blog) — you contribute via email. Anything sent to blog@birminghamculture.org will make the site — pictures video or audio included. I think this is the opportunity to show all that stuff that’s going on that doesn’t usually get publicity — culture is a pretty wide thing; are you watching football and singing? In a book club, out doing some parkour? All three at the same time? From the grottiest punk gig to the, er, soppiest punk gig, it’d be good if someone was there and recording it in some...
Marc Reeves of The Birmingham Post spends a couple of hours talking shop, blogging and council newspapers with Michael Grimes on Sunday Local — the weekly local news show on Rhubarb Radio: It’s intelligent, honest and unafraid — something of media at its best — is it only volunteer-led internet media that has the space and motivation for this?
Please help us, and the Birmingham Music Archive build up a “music map” of Birmingham. We’re looking to map anything; bands, singers, musicians, promoters, managers, venues, record shops, music shops, hangouts, anything that has a “place” and that place in in Brum (or nearby). There are lots of reasons for doing it, mainly that it’s great to have a record of such stuff — we could use it as the basis of research, art, or displays or, well tons of stuff. But there’s something special I want to do with it (’tis a secret) , and I want to be able to do it before the end of the month. June is, as we’ve been going on about, Birmingham Music Month — and it would be great to have a load of this done come July. So, we’ve created a Google map, and started to add stuff to it — and we’d like you to help as much as you can. View Birmingham Music Map in a larger map How to add stuff to the map:
Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! The Mayor has a blog after all, it seems. Cllr Michael Wilkes has been blogging sporadically for almost a year. He’s posted a few bits since he became mayor, and let this little tit-bit slip: “I also propose to continue the use of my personal blog to highlight aspects of my civic role for the City of Birmingham. Clearly, once the Lord Mayor’s official blog is up and running on the City Council’s website, I will maintain that, and not this personal blog.” I wonder when that blog will be. Cllr, we’re here to offer you advice should you need it — see you at a Brum Bloggers meet soon? Hat tip, unbelivably, to Forward.
A packed Big Paws show off of Rhubarb Radio, with special guest Harry Palmer, a visit from Gavin Wray and his northern soul experience and a running visit from Dave Harte (sponsor him here):
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