Posts Tagged ‘ music ’

Network News

Network News

Another day, another new Brum site – this one Birminghammusicnetwork.com is for the Birmingham Music Network who are: “a music networking organisation, leading the way by working with the local community to stimulate growth, inspire, and share knowledge. We offer practical based industry experience and are not genre specific…” If you’re in the Brum music scene and you don’t know of these guys then you really should go and check it out – and go along to one of their meetings. If not then you still might find out something interesting. Theme looks mighty familiar…

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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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A night with the Woods, in the Heath

From Friends of the Stars… In the late 1990s in California Dorian Wood decided to track down his worldwide namesakes using the interweb and eventually got in touch with Birmingham-based Dorian Wood. Finding someone who shares your slightly out-of-the-ordinary name on the other side of the globe would be one thing, but to find out that you are both involved in the creation of strange and beautiful music is something quite altogether different. On Good Friday 21st March 2008 (Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath)we are bringing together these unique two talents to play on the same bill for the very first time. More and sounds on the FotS blog. “free entry if your name is also Dorian Wood”

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