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Written by Nicky Getgood on Thursday, December 24th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
Tags: birminghamitsnotshit, briantravers, brummieoftheyear, links, mrralph, toblog, UB40
Brummie of the Year 2009 – Brian Travers – Birmingham: It’s Not Shit – Old news for most – UB40’s Brian Travers is crowned Brummie of the Year 2009 with Mr Ralph coming second, closely followed by Capsule’s Jenny and Lisa. Brian was incredibly gracious winner:
I’m incredibly honoured….I’m going to demand a recount. I voted for Mr Ralph. I can’t understand why he didn’t win.
Good man, Brian, you thoroughly deserve your new title.
It also looks like Brian is set to win the new BiNS title Brummie of the Decade – get voting now for your favourite Brummie to get ultimate kudos this festive season!
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Sunday, December 6th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
Tags: birminghamitsnotshit, brummieoftheyear, links, mrralph, toblog
Brummie of the Year 2009 – vote now – Birmingham: It’s Not Shit – Voting for Brummie of the Year 2009 is now open, so get voting. All listed are well worthy of the title, but my personal preference (and nomination) is for the gorgeous Mr Ralph. Mr Ralph for Brummie of the Year! You have the power to Make It Happen! VOTE MR RALPH!
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 ( Start discussion )
Tags: birminghamitsnotshit, childreninneed, jonbounds, links, millenniumpoint, toblog
Bear in front (of Millennium Point) – Birmingham: It’s Not Shit – Can’t stand Children in Need on the tellybox? No, neither can Jon Bounds, which is why he suggests going to the Children in Need live event at Millennium Point instead to watch ‘legendary bhangra artist Malkit Singh and ascending star Jaz Dhami head the star studded line up for the ‘Pudsey Does Bhangra’ appeal show’. It’s on 6pm to 11pm on Friday 20th November at Millennium Point.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Monday, September 21st, 2009 ( One response )
Tags: birminghamitsnotshit, frictionarts, harrypalmer, links, phdshow, theedge, toblog
Harry Palmer: Darknosis scientific think-tank laboratory investigations at the PhD show. – Birmingham: It’s Not Shit – Eccentric Archoeligist Harry Palmer is spending a week inside a cage at The Edge on Cheapside as part of his Darknosis project in the PhD exhibition. He’ll be writing a daily diary of the experience on BiNS:
…the PhD show’s mythological think-tank investigation, conducted by Harry Palmer, seeks to discover the relationship between the banana plantation and lost civilisation concerning the Hawaiian Mauna Loa tribesmen and women. Mythological hoaxes have been reported suggesting that banana worship and ecological disaster were aligned to the Indian rope trick in which the Darknosis Scientific team sought to define and clarify on their 1917 expedition to this Pacific Ocean Island.
I went to the opening of the exhibition and it was bizarre, great fun and strange. Harry and his colleagues sorted bananas within the cage whilst waitresses mixed with audience, handing out crisps and trying to bag a husband. A little tip – if you offer the workers inside the cage a little something, you might just get a banana in return.
The PhD show is on at The Edge until 25th Sept.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
Tags: birminghamitsnotshit, frictionarts, harrypalmer, links, theedge, toblog
Harry Palmer: Oneself, a bedroom and a pulsating unit – Birmingham: It’s Not Shit – Harry Palmer reveals ‘a little slice of installation’ of the forthcoming PhD exhibition at The Edge:
A live webcam relay across the electronic data field (aka the internet) will hopefully pulsate personal mythological investigations from inside my purpose built metal cage. This metal cage will house my bedroom (and myself for one week 24/7), relocated for the purposes of in-situ discovery. Those familiar with my eccentric archaeological approach to date will recognise the trait – to investigate the world on location, in locations. This PhD show is therefore housing myself and my bedroom as a portal of gestating stories – fact and fiction. The Transformative Darknosis Psychic Centre of Research (myself and my metal cage and bedroom) within the PhD show has been designed to alter my consciousness once more – perhaps presenting more misrepresentation and new understanding from previous identifiable traits that have attempted to describe me and my world amongst us. You are invited!
The opening is this Friday 18 Sept from 7pm.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Thursday, August 13th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
Tags: birminghamitsnotshit, jonbounds, links, toblog
Bull in the Bull Ring, almost – Birmingham: It’s Not Shit – Jon Bounds finds a film of a bull on the rampage in Digbeth via MACE — the Media Archive for Central England.
‘Sadly even then, Digbeth didn’t have any china shops for it’.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Saturday, July 25th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
Tags: birminghamitsnotshit, jonbounds, links, theguardian, toblog
Jon Bounds on Digbeth, Birmingham’s vibrant heart | Enjoy England | The Guardian – When The Guardian asked Jon Bounds to write about Birmingham, he chose to write about Digbeth ‘as it needs all the support it can’.
Jon covers all the best of Digbeth’s places to shop, eat and drink like The Custard Factory, Fiends of The Earth Warehouse, The Spotted and The Rainbow, outlining the recent Noise Abatement problems the latter two have faced. A grand article that encourages visitors to ‘Bypass the Bullring and head for dynamic Digbeth, Birmingham’s vibrant heart’.
I’m not long off the phone to my parents to tell them I had a name check in a proper big broadsheet paper and that.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Monday, July 20th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
Tags: behindcloseddoors, birminghamitsnotshit, links, morecanalsthanvenice, pixiesixer, projectpigeon, reagarden, toblog
morecanalsthanvenice > project pigeon – I found out that PixieSixer took a special trip to Project Pigeon in Rea Garden over the weekend (via Jon Bounds at BiNS). If you’re unsure where Rea Garden is on Floodgate St, hopefully the above photo from their website will make things a bit clearer.
Things are busy at Rea Garden – the loft is having open Sundays 11-3pm until September, a range of pigeon themed events and the forthcoming Unnatural Selection exhibition in the garden:
If you’re interersted in being an artist in residence at The Rea Garden, Behind Closed Doors are looking for one to start in September 2009. The selected artist will receive a bursary of £1000 plus up to £500 for materials. The application deadline is 10th August.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 ( Start discussion )
Tags: area, birminghamitsnotshit, fusedmagazine, jonbounds, links, toblog
Area July/August 09 – page 18 – Via Jon Bounds at Birmingham it’s Not Shit:
Area is the new “pocket sized” (or A6 in grown-up terms) “pocket guide” to what’s going on in and around Brum. It’s going to be monthly, although the first issue is a July/August double issue as “everyone’s on holiday and not much goes on”. It looks lovely. It’s got listings and writerly things from top people such a Danny Smith (whose new “wordcast” you should check out). It looks like this:
Jon links directly to page 18 of the online version ‘because I wrote it, and I’m vain’. A very pertinent piece about sunbathing it is, too. However, I’d urge you to flick forward to page 36 for the in-depth, 3 page feature all about Digbeth, ‘the epitome of the diamond in the rough’.
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