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• Brummie of the Decade?

  
  Birmingham: It's Not Shit — Authority: 431
  Just a little bit of festive fun, I’ve taken the winner of every Brummie of the Year award and popped them into a poll so you can vote for your Brummie of the Decade. Since there was no Brummie of the Year prior to 2003 I’ve allowed you to write another option in if there’s someone you feel would have won if ...
  6 days ago

• Review: Sleeping Beauty at the Hippodrome

  
  Birmingham: It's Not Shit — Authority: 431
  I love panto, I love its traditions, its history, its very Englishness and its tendency to throw up hairy men in backless dresses and tights. So much that I’ve spend way too much time dragging the medium into the 21st Century on Twitter, but last night I went to see my first actual in-the-flesh ...
  1 week ago

• Russ’s pic of the week: 21-12-09

  
  thejazzbreakfast — Authority: 129
  Each week photographer Russ Escritt sends me his favourite picture of the week, or perhaps one from his extensive archive. Here are the Gannets from their Hare & Hounds gig last Wednesday. Russ has been shooting (in the nicest possible way) local and visiting jazz musicians for a good few years now. In fact, he ...
  1 week ago

• Sub Ensemble in a Meccano world

  
  thejazzbreakfast — Authority: 129
  Looking like toys in a futuristic mechanical universe, the Sub Ensemble captured in this fab pic by Garry Corbett during the final Free Jazz session in the Symphony Hall foyer on Friday evening. It was a gig of old favourites (tunes like  22 21 , the welcome return of alto saxophonist Mike Fletcher) and new surprises ...
  1 week ago

• Concert review: New York Voices & BBC Big Band

  
  thejazzbreakfast — Authority: 129
  Town Hall, Birmingham UK 18-12-09 Now, I am aware that for a lot of British people, Christmas music is either that horrendous stuff they pump out in discount shops from, it seems like, late October (puerile pop stuff whether from Slade or John Lennon, though no longer, thanks to his fall from grace, Gary Glitter, and ...
  1 week ago

• Sub Ensemble – Mike’s back!

  
  thejazzbreakfast — Authority: 129
  Quick reminder that the Sub Ensemble play the last of this year’s Rush Hour Blues sets in the Symphony Hall foyer bar from 5.30pm this evening, and that alto saxophonist/flautist Mike Fletcher will be not only in the house but on the stand. Excellent news. And why not follow this early evening free gig from ...
  1 week ago

• Former drag queen accuses boss of homophobia

  
  PinkNews.co.uk — Authority: 694
  A gay man who once worked as a drag queen is suing his boss for unfair dismissal and sexual orientation discrimination. Dean Awford claims David Gray was homophobic and referred to him as "she" in front of customers.
  1 week ago

• Seabird flavour? Of course… it’s a seabird

  
  thejazzbreakfast — Authority: 129
  While he is best known now as Fyfe Dangerfield, popmeister of Guillemots, this man of many musical hats is also Fyfe Hutchins, composer of choral and classical music. But he pops on his jazz headgear tonight at The Hare & Hounds in Kings Heath as leader of The Gannets (yes, we get the seabird connection – ha ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nicholls and Hyderabad tonight

  
  thejazzbreakfast — Authority: 129
  Good gig by the sounds of things at the Cross in Moseley this evening. Dan Nicholls, keyboard master and Birmingham Conservatoire grad recently returned from a spell in Denmark, is full of new music and brought some new friends back with him to play it. Hear what it sounds like as Dan on keyboards/sampler, James ...
  2 weeks ago

• Clothes Show Live 2009 – Saturday Final Show Video

  
  Fashionista.vg — Authority: 122
  Here we have a video of the final show @ Clothes Show Live from Saturday 5th December 2009. This event took place at the NEC in Birmingham UK.We were not there this time around, but the show looks to have been yet another musical performance!
  2 weeks ago

• Skint Christmas

  
  Birmingham: It's Not Shit — Authority: 431
  Vernon off of Skint has released a Christmas single, it’s step up from the X-Factor…just.
  2 weeks ago

• New Young Pony Club / March 2010 UK Tour

  
  There Goes The Fear Music Blog — Authority: 137
  New Young Pony Club have announced a string of tour dates for March 2010 following the release of their second album, ‘The Optimist’, on March 1st. Tickets for some dates are on sale now, others go on sale on Saturday (12th December 2010) at 9am. Catch the guys at: Monday 15th March 2010 – Portsmouth, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Friday Photo by Karen Strunks

  
  Birmingham: It's Not Shit — Authority: 431
  It’s all happening at Digbeth Coach Station. This photograph, taken in March 08, shows the old station, part demolished and all boarded up. But, no longer! It’s going to look something like this:   The brand spanking new station will be opening on 14th December, boasting a Starbucks, WH Smith and an ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rihanna / May 2010 UK Tour

  
  There Goes The Fear Music Blog — Authority: 137
  Rihanna has announced a string of 2010 UK Tour dates playing some pretty big arenas. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday morning (11th December). Friday 7th May 2010 – Birmingham LG Arena Saturday 8th May 2010 – Liverpool Echo Arena Monday 10th May 2010 – London O2 Arena Thursday 13th May 2010 – ...
  3 weeks ago

• Glynn Purnell – Brummie of the Year?

  
  Birmingham: It's Not Shit — Authority: 431
  With voting now open for Brummie of the Year , we’re going to take a look at all the candidates.  It’s chef fella Glynn Purnell: We’ve no idea if he’s got as hearty a laugh a Rustie Lee, but he’s certainly popular. Nick Drew: “How many other Brummies won the AA National Restaurant of the Year ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gurcharan Mall – Brummie of the Year?

  
  Birmingham: It's Not Shit — Authority: 431
  With voting now open for Brummie of the Year , we’re going to take a look at all the candidates. This time king of dhols Gurcharan Mall. The Destroyers vs The Dhol Blasters , originally uploaded by jjbullock . Nominated by Julia Gilbert: “organiser of the World 501 Dholis world recording breaking ...
  3 weeks ago

• Capsule – Brummie of the Year?

  
  Birmingham: It's Not Shit — Authority: 431
  With voting now open for Brummie of the Year , we’re going to take a look at all the candidates. This time multi-headed metal machine, Lisa and Jenny from Capsule: Yin and Yang by pennymcconnell on Flickr (not a great photo, but the only one I can find of them together…) Everyone knows what Capsule do, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Taste the Apple in two venues tonight

  
  thejazzbreakfast — Authority: 129
  When it’s Thanksgiving in the United States, as it was just 10 days ago, then the Maria Schneider Orchestra is in residence at the Jazz Standard, the classy basement jazz club in mid-town Manhattan. On trumpet and flugelhorn was Ingrid Jensen. The band might even have played The Pretty Road , the opening track ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mr Ralph — Brummie of the Year?

  
  Birmingham: It's Not Shit — Authority: 431
  With voting now open for Brummie of the Year , we’re going to take a look at all the candidates. First, the last of the pub-to-pub peddllers — Digbeth’s Mr Ralph. mr ralph by getgood on flickr Let’s let Nicky Getgood explain: “Mr Ralph is something of a Digbeth institution, invariably found in one ...
  3 weeks ago

• Russ’s pic of the week: 07-12-09

  
  thejazzbreakfast — Authority: 129
  Each week photographer Russ Escritt sends me his favourite picture of the week, or perhaps one from his extensive archive. As his mind was on Dave Holland and the fact that he was unable to catch him at Birmingham Conservatoire this week, here’s Russ’s view of the master bassist at his Adrian Boult Hall gig in ...
  3 weeks ago

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