Blue Grass
From Aeioux Photos are posted here from the Birmingham Flickr community. Click on the image for more details.
Author: Pete Ashton
Paul Murphy on c21Vox
You probably know Paul Murphy as the poet in the hat who joins The Destroyers on stage to rant about a fascist regime and have an awareness that he’s also a singer / songwriter of some repute and well respected within the city. Or at least that’s where I was regarding him. So it was … [Read more…]
From the Dawn of Brummie Hip hop
Continuing our trip down memory lane, and potentially starting a new series (“Nostalgia Thursday”?) here’s a video from 1985 just posted on the Surely? blog by Mark Murphy who’s not afraid to show his age. I used to spend my Sunday afternoons in the dance studios at Birmingham’s (soon to be refurbished) mac. Hip Hop … [Read more…]
Roger Shannon sent in a photo…
No, it’s not the after gig drinks of a Culture Club Tribute Band. It’s the post premiere toasting of the film Handsworth Songs, now universally acclaimed as a documentary classic, after its world premiering in the Birmingham Film Festival in 1986 at The Triangle Media Centre (R.I.P.). Yes, that’s the director, John Akomfrah, grinning madly, … [Read more…]
Readers World
From Dr King Bertt Photos are posted here from the Birmingham Flickr community. Click on the image for more details.
links for 2008-02-14
Smut Shorts A timely site where you are requested to write 500 word literary classics on the subject of love. Coded in Birmingham, apparently. (tags: literarture website notpornhonest) Altered Perceptions – A Snapshot of a Real Place An exhibition of photography by Rita Fletcher with selected images from local residents showing aspects of the Hawksey, … [Read more…]
Singlescreen: Performance
Grabbed from the VIVID site because they don’t have a linkable archive for this stuff yet. Singlescreen: Performance On 27 February 2008 VIVID opens Singlescreen: Performance, the pilot programme towards a new strand which focuses on presenting contemporary moving image work for screen. Performance is a changing programme of single screen installations which features seminal … [Read more…]
Grimley on the Mac
If you pop into the Mac today and look on the counter you’ll see a stack of tabloid supplements put together by the Birmingham Post to mark the inemant closure and rebuilding of the centre. And since the two main articles were written by the mighty Terry Grimley, who’s knowledge of the history of Birmingham’s … [Read more…]