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Category: music
El Ghost Fest
Saturday 18th August, 6.30pm at The Conservatory, the shiny new venue at Muthers Studio, 14 Rea Street South, Digbeth, B5 6LB. El Burro & Ghosts of Dead Airplanes cordially invite you to EL GHOST FEST, featuring the musical stylings of: SHIRT…
Poppy and the Jezebels: Sign In, Dream On, Drop Out!
Better than most things that are leafleted at you on New Street.
Brummie band release new album—free with fried chicken seasoning
You’ve heard of bands giving away posters or stickers with their albums, and even bands giving their albums away with newspapers. But how about a band releasing it’s own brand of culinary spicitiy and then giving the album away free? Well…
Home of Metal clocks in from tomorrow
Should you be interested in the music known as Heavy Metal, or the history of the West Midlands, then this summer there’s an afternoon at least of your time that needs to be dedicated to the Home of Metal.…
Danny Smith: Skinner in the Underworld
Going Through Hell is Mike Skinner’s first single from his last album as The Streets. It’s an oddly poetic title that has a lot of resonances, including echoes of the Greek myth Orpheus when our titular hero walked through hell…
Covered in ELO
Thought you might enjoy this, I did. In other vaguely ELO-related news: Roy Wood is on Twitter.
Handsworth Evolution
Robin Valk has produced a somewhat epic documentary a three-parter, dealing with the music of Handsworth and beyond, in the 70s and 80s. The documentary was commissioned by Birmingham Music Heritage, and Robin talked to members of Steel Pulse, UB40,…
Birmingham Music Map — new home needed
With the Birmingham Popular Music Archive I’ve been inviting the public to contribute to an online database of music culture in Birmingham, by placing venues, artists, people or anything they feel relates to music on a map. You can see…