A superbitch famous for wide-shouldered dresses, those are the qualities that made Leo Morgado the idea person to meet Joan Collins. She’s staring the Hippodrome’s panto this year, y’see: As Birmingham waits to see whether or not it will receive the title of being UK City of Culture 2013, we have already received a...
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Sarah Jane Lynch (on twitter) is s putting together a project on Moseley, its history and community over the last 100 years — she started by interviewing Pete the Feet… Pete Mckenzie, better known as Pete the Feet, aged 64 has been propping up the bars of Moseley, Birmingham since the hedonistic days of...
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Got a chance yesterday to pop into the mac (still a week or so before the opening, and work being done all over the building) and taste the catering. Yum. The building re-opens to the public on May 1st, with loads of events, a very much refurbed bar and café and free wifi streaming...
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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,...
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Vernon off of Skint has released a Christmas single, it’s step up from the X-Factor…just.
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Doom, Tighe, Mitton, Malik, Furnell, Babu — who’s next? Nominations are now open for Brummie Of The Year 2009 — and you’re welcome to nominate any Brummie or Brum resident that has been great or just very very Birmingham this year. How about Brian Travers of UB40 for sterling efforts to save Brummie music culture?...
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American cartoonist and underground comix artist Gilbert Shelton is going to be in Brum on Friday November 13th at Nostalgia & Comics. He’s the bloke who did The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (which is being made into a stop motion film), and the spin off series Fat Freddy’s Cat. He has also contributed to...
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What do you think? Worth getting these set up on the BiNS shop? R2D2 is of course a Brummie, played as he was by Kenny Baker — Star Trek Tastic. Thanks to Michael for the idea.
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Birmingham-based wonder Harry Palmer announces the launch of the third (issue k/3) Eccentric City newspaper. The paper — the World’s First Eccentric Tabloid — will “preview, present and promote the nuances of personal and creative pursuits, interests and fascinations”. “18 months in the making. 40 pages never-before-read-or-seen articles in tabloid hardcopy. Global eccentric perspectives...
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