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Beside the B-side: The Lilac Time: ‘Street Corner’

Pete Paphides on a record that "is what it was like to grow up in the West Midlands in the 70s". mmmmmm

Stirchley Community Market Song

Newton Chambers is "a part-time musician and full-time human." He has written "a rather nice little song all about the increasingly wonderful Stirchley Community Market." "Creatively, the important things to know are that: 1) all instruments featured on the track are from Stirchley and 2) the word “cauliflower” features heavily in the lyrics." It also features the word "nan", which is nice, and has a sort of New Vaudeville Band vibe… it's a charity single to raise funds for—I think—a gazebo. So buy before you try.

Bob Cooney, folksinger, tool-slinger, anti-facist

Great oral biography of a conributor to Birmingham's cultural and music history I wasn't aware of.

UB40 to play Hare and Hounds in Birmingham - Counteract

UB40 have sensationally announced details of a live performance at the Hare & Hounds in Kings Heath. (Yes – you read that correctly, the Hare & Hounds!)

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, The Beat, plus Apache Indian, Ruby Turner, Muff Winwood and Andy Hamilton, among others. Robin says: “It’s all there – the story of how the children of those early post-war immigrants came up with a vital new approach to reggae, mixed, matched and mashed up… and invented whole new styles of music along the way. And right now, there’s even a third generation doing new and vital stuff. Now, with the blessing of Birmingham Music Heritage, whose commission it was, I am making it available via Sound Cloud, after the jump. Know what? I love internet publishing.” The programme is in three parts – I built it so it would allow for a news bulletin and breaks for promos and/or ads. It’s also on offer to local community stations for rebroadcast, gratis – email me, using the link at the botton of this post, and I’ll send you a DropBox invite. In the meantime, tag away to your hearts’...

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 and add your memories to the map, here. An editioning of the results so far were commissioned in the form of the Birmingham Music Map as part of ‘plug in’ an exhibition at mac curated by Simon Poulter. The exhibition has now finished, and the artwork (printed on toughened glass and around a metre wide by 1.4m high) is looking for a new home. I’m happy for it to be displayed in any public place as long as they will display an artist’s card next to it and look after it — it would be brilliant if it was mounted somewhere appropriate, but if you’re interested please drop me a line at jon@jonbounds.co.uk. If you’ve not got the room or worry about your walls’ durability for such a monster, poster/print copies are available, screenprinted on gorgeous white archival paper at B1 (707 × 1000mm /27.8 × 39.4in) in a signed and numbered limited edition of 100 copies. Go buy one (£25 plus £5 postage...

New Gurdan Thomas EP

Brum folkers Gurdan Thomas have new EP out this week, produced we’re told by legendary Birmingham producer Bob Lamb (The Lilac Time, UB40). It’s out on a “pay what you like” deal on bandcamp: "Todd" – Gurdan Thomas by Commercially Inviable Records And a limited (100) edition CD release. Also for sale on iTunes, eMusic, and 7Digital.

J.B’s to close down, suicide watch organised for members of Guns’n’Roses tribute bands – Russ L

Black news for Black Country fans of Black metal, and other sorts of music, I guess.

Destroy Capitalism, maybe

Where Has the Money Gone? New video by The Destroyers. From Sparkbrook dole office, to the roofs of the Square Mile…

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