- I like my limo full of fluoro – It was a close call between this and the one made for the raver kids using Encore Une Fois as the soundtrack. Find them parked on Heath Mill Lane opposite Maverick TV. Johnie Turpie uses the yellow H2 Hummer to nip to the shops.
- How do vegetarians get fat? – By eating like pigs, but not pigs, in the Friends of the Earth Warehouse Cafe on Allison Street, according to Paul Fulford in the Evening Mail.
- Videos from Hello Digital launch last night – Mike Whitby had the most marvelous, rainbow sprite tie but unfortunately people didn’t find his speech as colourful. Does anyone else glaze over like I tend to do when someone gets up at a launch and reads a speech like this? The guy from Advantage West Midlands admitting to ‘losing track’ of a few million pounds’ worth of funding woke me up a bit, mind.
- Digbeth Olympics Ridiculous River Rea Raft Race – John Mostyn, Adam Crossley and some unconvincing-sounding Welsh guy travel down the River Rea in rubber dingies and manage to emerge with all their skin intact.
- Review of Bacardi Custard at the Custard Factory – ‘While by day it’s home to various Nathan Barley-style “meeja” creative outfits, by night it’s one of the best venues in Britain.’
- Gigbeth competition – This competition for free weekend tickets is such a fantastic idea: ‘Gigbeth is looking for entrants to create their own version of The Sugarhill Gang classic ‘Rappers Delight’ and post them on a specially created You Tube page. Entrants are invited to come up with the best and most original alternative music video to the ground breaking hit, or to produce their very own recorded performance of the song.’ If like me, you just fancy giggling at the entries rather than making one, all entries will be posted on Gigbeth’s YouTube.
- Pub Crawl – The Final Leg – Bull Ring and Digbeth – A guy and his camera in the Bull Ring and ‘Digbeth, dusty, dirty, noisy Digbeth’. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, his camera died as soon soon as he hit The Dubliner. This may be a good time to tell you that me and Antonio Gould are planning to do a repeat of last year’s Digbeth pub crawl for our birthdays on Saturday 10th January 2009. We plan to make it bigger, better and bloggier, photographing and twittering our locations and drunkeness levels. All are welcome, especially if you’re wearing a flat cap – stick it in your diaries!
