I hadn’t been paying much attention, but there’s now a website for the Birmingham Ballroom and a growing line-up of events. It seems, and I don’t know whether it’s just because it’s early days, that a few people are taking the chance to delve into the venue’s history. A case in point being Hummingbird Reunion:
If you can’t read it, the flyer says:
For many people in Birmingham and the Midlance, The Hummingbird was their first taste of House clubbing. The memories (or lack of) have stayed with them to this very day.
Beginning in the summer of 88, a night called hipnosiz had the city rocking in hte small room of the venue every week, to the sound of house music. Following on in 89, The Snapper Club started in that same room with 100 clubbers, that by the end year moved to the main concert room and turned into 3000+ clubbers every single week as house music exploded nationwide!
I have lots of memories of the Hummingbird from Bob Marley’s concerts to St.Kitts-Nevis dances, to PCRL Christmas Parties to Musical Youth funeral. I’ve got a piece of the flooring, i may have walked, slipped, danced, spilt my drink on this piece of wood. Bob Marley and other singers may have done likewise.