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Totally Bone doesn’t enjoy The Editors cursory tour of Brum: “how many musical visionaries have set their sights on obscurity, losing their way in the second city’s suburban maze, unable to find the golden thread for constant mess of backbiting, shit stirring, slander and pub sets. And the few who do make it? They’re often so bad that you wish their waxy appendages would hurry up and melt so they’d plummet off the radar. Nowhere is this clearer than in the case of The Editors the subject of tonight’s 360 session – a typical Channel 4 stab at trendy programming – which sees the band leading us on a entirely token tour of a city they’ve all but disowned.” or maybe just doesn’t enjoy The Editors (or is it just Editors). For what it’s worth the drummer still lives in Selly Park. The programme will do doubt turn up over and over again on E4 should you wish to watch.

Is just one of the Brum-related ephemera to be found in collage on the booklet of the new Lilac Time collection ‘Memory and Desire’. It’s a proper WMPTE Travelcard with him in New Romantic regalia. Other bits include a photo of Washwood Heath, one of the Perry Barr Poly campus, a Kynoch cycles advert, a Library card… see what else you can spot (click through for a bigger pic): And the album is beautiful, even if one track does feature Nigel Kennedy. There’s also news of a film, woo hoo!

Skint Christmas

Vernon off of Skint has released a Christmas single, it’s step up from the X-Factor…just.

You Suffer at Xmas

It’s unlikely to be real, though I wish it is — has a Napalm Death Christmas single leaked onto the web? It’s all over the file sharing sites. Could it beat Rage Against The Machine to yuletide number one?

Listen to the whole show, thanks to Rhubarb Radio: Why did they do it?

It was an absolute pleasure to have the chance to photos of UB40 at their Raise The Roof gig at The Rainbow in Digbeth this week. UB40 came back to their roots gave their support to The Rainbow because it is under threat as it has received a noise abatement order from local residents (or resident). Although the landlord Kent Davis has agreed to build a noise insulating roof, there was still more funding needed. UB40 stepped in, and the sales from the tickets and takings behind the bar will go towards the new roof. Digbeth is a vital part of Birmingham’s cultural scene and the music in and around the area plays an important role. I hope that The Rainbow has managed to raise all the funding needed. As the local saying goes “Keep Digbeth Vibrant!” There are some more photographs from the gig over on my blog. Have a great weekend! See you next Friday :)

Ages ago we asked you to contribute to a Google Map. A Brum music map, of not just musicians or venues or bands, but mangers, personalities, shops, companies, collectives and hang-outs. That map is still open for contributions, but you can now buy an A1 poster of memories: It contains over 200 records, placed on the map by contributors. Zoom in, or see a detail: It’s available to buy on my Zazzle store, with my other map-based artworks. And it’s Christmas soon. Thanks to the Birmingham Music Archive.

I interrupt scheduled snaking to bring a plea from me Dad (Alan): Last Saturday I went to the Barn Social Witton , to see Brum Rocked with Bev Bevan, Trevor Burton, Raymond Froggatt, Danny King, plus three other superb musicians. I saw a similar show last year at Sutton Town Hall ,with Laurie Hornsby, and that was the first time I had really heard of Danny King . During the the show at the Barn, Bev Bevan and Trevor Burton praised Danny, for the part he played in the Birmingham rock scene and how he gave some of our top Brummie stars their chance by having them in his various bands. The show itself was great , lots of rock, Move numbers and also Froggie, but Danny— probably because of his age — took my eye. Here was a man who way back in the late 1950s, was the top man in Brum rock and roll, here in 2009 still rocking, and doing it superbly. I have since gone back to my books to learn more about those times, and reading the Laurie Hornsby books Brum Rocked and Brum Rocked on, both excellent books might I add. Danny is...

Rotunda

Those needing a bit of Brum-rooted punk rock could do nowt better than popping along to one of Rotunda’s upcoming gigs: Sound Bar – Nov 2nd The Adam and Eve – Nov 8th Scruffy Murphys – 13th Nov Subside – 16th nov The asylum – 27th Dec It almost counts as a tour.

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