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What’s above the King’s Head?

What’s above the King’s Head?

On the end of his wristies? In Iraq? Sorry. According to The Hearing Aid - it’s a new music venue above the pub in Bearwood. Good. What is it with these refurbed pubs and ghastly identikit flock logos?

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Don’t Close Me Down

Don’t Close Me Down

I always feel a little sorry for Bearwood (despite its European-style-cafe-bar), it sits a little uneasily between the Black Country and Birmingham, and I definitely feel sorry for Dexy’s Midnight Runners – who seem to slip down the cracks of music history despite being one of the most wonderfully constructed bands ever. Two reasons then, to mourn the closing of ‘The Little Nibble’ – the café on Bearwood High St – which is given a , ahem, ‘shout out’ in “This is What She’s Like” from Don’t Stand Me Down (the name-check even more wonderful when you consider the band were all Wall Street in look by that time). Independent cafés are being squeezed out by development and chains across the country, but it will be a shame if it is replaced by “mobile ‘phone shop, Poundland or ‘Amusement’ Arcade.” Photo snaffled from The Hearing Aid, where we first heard the sad news.

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Who you gonna call?

Who you gonna call?

It’s Halloween next week, so instead of joining the media and other capitalists in their orgy of orange and black consumerism, you could take David Nikel‘s line and just keep an eye out for ghosts around your area. His blog post today pointed us to the Birmingham Ghosts and Hauntings website, where they take things a little more seriously than the woman off of Blue Peter – and even if the ‘supernatural’ is a load of unfounded nonsense, there’s still interest in the historical and the reasons these legends grow up. And on the 31st if any children knock at your door, tell them the traditional British day for legalised begging is November 5th – and they’ll have to stuff some old clothes with newspaper and put it in a pram if they want anything out of me.

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