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The Nightingales Sing on Digbeth High St*.

It’s been a while but seminal Brum Punk/Art rockers The Nightingales are doing a rare Halloween gig at The Old Wharf on Sunday night . Being a Curate’s Egg gig  4/4 beats are usually verboten so support comes from my … Continue reading

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Have You Zine This?*

As Nicky pointed out in an earlier post last Friday saw the launch of the  Birmingham Zine Festival, hopefully the first of many.  This weekend is the ‘main event’ with lots of stuff  going on in town but Digbethcentric is … Continue reading

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Lovely Weekend For A Picnic.

Aah, the year it flies by so quickly,once again it’s that time when the weak Autumn sunshine sets behind the coach station casting long shadows down Digbeth High street and the annual  Brum Punx Picnic studded leather Ciderfest rolls into … Continue reading

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It’s Fish on Friday.

Well it’s been a tad quiet gigwise recently but this Weekend brings a couple of doozies to the Digbeth back streets. On Friday at the Adam & Eve Birmingham Punk/Ska promotions have managed to land Citizen Fish (ft’ Subhuman’s Dick … Continue reading

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Old Wharf Weekend Retort

After last weekends allday jollities at  The Wagon & Horses The Old Wharf didn’t want to feel left out so is hosting it’s own stop outs charter this Saturday. A joint venture by Black Scorpion Promotions and Midlands Music Maniacs … Continue reading

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Covered Wagon

I haven’t been to The Wagon & Horses for a while to see any gigs so on my last wander down there i was pleasantly suprised to see they’ve erected a funky new covered stage for the bands in the … Continue reading

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Wharf & Wagon Wingdings.

Two gigs of  noisy noteworthiness coming up this weekend, Punks Alive put together another fine line-up of  Crust and Grind on Friday at The Old Wharf ft. Grind the Enemy, Discarded and others, £4:00 entry Meanwhile on Saturday at The … Continue reading

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Of Alldayers and Dogs On Strings.

Just in time for what may well be the hottest day of the year so far the Punks Alive Collective are putting on a fundraising alldayer at the Old Wharf. Ft The Varukers, Dun2Def, Dragster, Meat Hook,Last Under The Sun,etc..with … Continue reading

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Digbeth Has It Covered*.

I’m not totally sold on covers bands (usually because they’re formed by middle aged bank clerks harbouring  failed dreams of Rock n’ Roll infamy)  but Too Drunk To Punk bring their excellent take on the classics… “Playing the best of … Continue reading

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Viva Las Vegan at The Wagon

True to their old school Punk ideals The Wagon promoters like to put on various benefit gigs for good and worthy causes, so this weekend see’s the superbly named Viva Las Vegan festival (not sure if the name or the … Continue reading

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