Jez Collins
Hard To Find Records
Huge record shop specialising in mainly vinyl aimed towards the DJ culture located at Vinyl House, 10 Upper Gough St,
Andy Cash Records
Andy Cash started work at Inferno Records, which would later become Tempest record shop, in Birmingham before moving to EMI as a rep in 1978. Andy then opened his first shop in 1980 at 596 Kingsbury Rd, Erdington and went on to open two more shops at 677 Kingstanding Rd, Kingstanding and 115 Harborne High Street, Harborne.
Aquarius
Run by Junior Bradley and situated at 79 Soho Rd, Handsworth, one of the city’s many Reggae, Funk and Soul specialists that have sadly disappeared. Junior also ran a label imprint called Junior.
Birmingham Polytechnic
Gigs at Student Unions up and down the country were an integral part of the tour circuit for bands, and more importantly their record labels. They really reached their pen in the late seventies and early eighties. Stephen Homer form Birmingham City University has sent in a list of some of the gigs that took… Read More »Birmingham Polytechnic
Peter York
hi. i was the first dj at the top rank suite in 1967, i moved to bham after a stint on pirate radio, radio city, i was at the rank till 1968, when i joined radio one untill i moved to radio birmingham 1974 to 1982, then to radio oxford till 1990, i still dj… Read More »Peter York
Au Pairs
Au Pairs were an 80’s punk band formed in Birmingham in 1979 during the ‘second wave’ of punk. The band was fronted by Lesley, who at the time was one of very few lesbians in the punk scene that had actually ‘come out’ and was an outspoken feminist. Members: *Paul Foad (guitarist) *Lesley Woods (vocalist)… Read More »Au Pairs