Dirty Bristow – getting to the fete – A brilliant map of Pubs of Digbeth by Jon Bounds to help people get to the Dirty Bristow Summer Fete at The Edge, Cheapside this Saturday 26th August. ‘Cos people navigate by pubs and roundabouts.’ Digbeth has far much more pubs than roundabouts!
There’s a little Filum fun at the Spotted Dog this coming Monday with Irish Destiny – ‘The Great Spectacular Film Of The War In Ireland’. A little clip from the old 1926 film is above. According to the Wikipedia blurb, the film has quite an unusual back-story in once being lost but then found again:
Irish Destiny is a 1926 directed by George Dewhurst and written by Isaac Eppel to mark the tenth anniversary of the Easter rising.
The film was considered lost for many years until in 1991 a single surviving nitrate print was located in the US Library of Congress by the Irish Film Institute’s Irish Film Archive who had the film transferred to safety stock and restored. The Irish Film Institute then commissioned a new score for the film by Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin.
We’ll be watching it at 8pm in the Spotted Dog on Warwick St this Monday 23rd August. Hopefully see you then!
Digbeth Pubwatch tonight. The Fountain 7pm – Digbeth Pubwatch meeting of the Highgate and Digbeth Pubwatch Association is tonight (Tuesday 3rd August) at 7pm in The Fountain, Cheapside. All are welcome, from pub landlords to interested residents! Follow the link to read minutes of last meeting (Tues 6th July 2010).
It seems Adam Crossley, when he’s not busy chairing Digbeth Residents’ Association, is amusing himself creating contemporary art pieces for the Spotted Dog’s garden. And giving them imaginative titles.
I wasn’t the only one to express some surprise at Adam’s new hobby.
A series of pubs built in Birmingham between 1896 and 1904 by James and Lister Lea are truly unique to Birmingham. These pubs are named ‘tile and terracotta’ so-called from the red terracotta facing on the frontage and extensive use of tiles for decoration inside.
Coming up next week is Mirror, a new trio led by pianist Dan Nicholls featuring James Allsopp on saxophones and Dave Smith on drums. This is at the regular Jazz Club session at The Rainbow Pub on Digbeth. This is on Wednesday 28th July at 9pm.
