Legendary recording studio set up and run by Phil Savage, up by Five Ways, Outlaw played host to the great and the good of Birmingham music from the late 70’s and 80’s: Duran Duran, The Killjoys, Fashion, Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Blue Ox Babes, Fine Young Cannibals, Eclipse, Black Sabbath, you name it, they were here.… Read More »Outlaw Sound Studio
Birmingham has played a central role in the history of Rock Against Racism albeit not a role it may wanted to be associated with. In 1968, the Conservative MP Enoch Powell made his “Birmingham speech’ more widely referred to as the ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech in which he spoke about immigration in the UK. In… Read More »Rock Against Racism
You know the feeling you get when you stand on the edge of a cliff, or take a teetering peek over the balustrades of a tall tower? Summon up that breathlessness, that weakness in the knees, relish it, and roll the acid taste of adrenalin around your tongue. Feeling giddy? Feeling alive? If so, read… Read More »Mama Matrix
Formed in 1976 by Andy Wickett, Eamon Duffy and Dave Kusworth (later of The Jacobites) who left Moseley Art School in Birmingham and formed TV Eye, a band named after an Iggy and the Stooges song.
Reggae/Dub/Electro group featuring Aleem Panwar and Andy Wicketts, TV Eye, Duran Duran and World Service.
The Androids were an exuberant bunch of teenagers from Birmingham inspired by the punky-ska sound and spikey political awareness of the Two Tone movement that swept the West Midlands between 1979-1980. They played a number of shows at venues such as the Golden Eagle in Hurst Street, Digbeth Civic Hall and Aston University where they… Read More »The Androids