Tag: Birmingham
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Beating the Drum for Brum
Fans of music history, Duran Duran or Birmingham should watch this series from Birmingham Music Heritage…the one above is a Duran Duran special extended cut from the longer episode called ‘Untold Stories’ which you can see on YouTube below. Always amazed me the diversity of groups coming out of Birmingham, and the high quality…and that…
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On terrorism
There have been some frankly awful analyses of the attacks in Paris a week ago, and the fallout from them. Either from surprisingly from my side, the left and anarchists seemingly serving our masters by wanting to take freedom of speech away like desperate young Tankies also doing a very good impression of hand-wringing liberals,…
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The Pirate’s Revenge – Democracy in action
DEMOCRACY! This is the desperate cry going out on Twitter and blogs with the recent voting in of the Digital Economy Bill, as if democracy is something you buy down at Tescos, and is always instantaneous and as fast as our broadband connections. The moaning cry seems to suggest this is the end; and that…
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Know Your History part 2: London Booted
Fast forwarding past 2003 and part one of this series, we join our intrepid DJ Heroes in 2004 as they decide to Clash it up and celebrate the 25th anniversary of the classic London Calling LP, mashup style. Richie Deluxe over at Culturedeluxe was the main honcho who put together the MP3-only release, but eventually…
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Mozgate: NME vs Moz part II
You might have heard about the fracas here, I wasn’t going to comment until I’d read the article but I found scans here (and Tim Jonze’s response is interesting if you contrast it from what he apparently told the manager). I remember Mozgate part 1 back in 1992 (?), and felt that the NME was…
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PodcampUK – Sept 1-2nd Brum
Well you know I like a bit of camp, well there’ll be a LOT of camp on the 1st and 2nd September in Birmingham – PodCampUK to be exact! PodCampUK is an unconference, more like Hackercon/Bloggercons in the US apparently, and previous successful Podcamps in the US mean they’re being replicated world-wide…they are more audience…