If you’ve not made plans for seeing in the new decade tomorrow night yet, here’s what’s on offer down Digbeth way:
- Going by the above film The Big Custard Factory Festival looks to be a lively affair. Tickets are £22 in advance for a night of thumping music from the likes of Stupid Underground, Scratch Perverts, Bigger than Barry and Atomic Jam. Have fun, you crazy kids.
- The Adam & Eve are playing host to Cracked Actors supported by Tempting Rosie and the Alcohol Licks – all for free!
- The Rainbow have two options: Full on rockin’ party at The Street, The Warehouse, The Garden with G.L.A.S & TRMNL (tickets £30), or a more intimate affair at the Rainbow Pub & Courtyard with Enid Blight On in the bar and Wobble v Crunch in the Courtyard (tickets £10). Both are followed by the Ultimate New Year’s After Party in the Rainbow Pub & Courtyard from ’5am till whenever’.
- The Rainbow aren’t the only ones offering a choice – at The Irish Centre Frank Dempsey is in the Leinster Suite (tickets £10) whilst Recovered are in the Connaught Bar (tickets £10).
- The Mucksavage (better known as An Craic Editor John McMahon) is DJing in The Spotted Dog, supported by landlord John Tighe’s witticisms.
Of course, I won’t be at any of these because I’ll be too busy talking to people in the new Coach Station on Bradford Street. You can hear me talking about this on BBC Radio WM’s Breakfast Show at about 8.45am tomorrow morning.
Whatever you’re doing tomorrow night, have a Happy New Year!
Shame that Custard Factory entry was so difficult. Many people with pre-paid tickets for CF returned to The Spotted Dog between 11pm and 2am !!! because of difficulty in gaining admission with some sort of double queuing system that extended around the block. Was this a consequence of BCC’s now world-famous Safety Advisory Group (cf Millenium Square Christmas Lights fiasco and Gigbeth) making the system unmanageable – or was it over-selling?