Nightingales are a British punk/alternative rock band formed in 1979 in Birmingham, England. The original members were Robert Lloyd on vocals, Joe Crow on guitar, Eamonn Duffy on bass and Paul Apperley on drums, all formerly of The Prefects. The band, before splitting up, played more sessions on John Peel’s BBC Radio 1 show than… Read More »The Nightingales
BMA Poll To help us launch the Birmingham Music Archive and to get the debates and discussions flowing we’re running a poll to find out who and what are your favourite musicians, songs, venues, gigs and record shops. We’re not asking who is the best, merely your favourite in each category and we’ll see who… Read More »BMA Poll
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Reggae DJ, Steven Kapur AKA Apache Indian was born 11 May 1967 in Handsworth, Birmingham. In collaboration with his cousins, Simon and Diamond Duggal, he introduced the new hybrid sound of bhangra raggamuffin – also known as bhangramuffin – to the world with his first album ‘No Reservations’ (1993) becoming the first true International Asian… Read More »Apache Indian
John Peel live on Air from the Medicine Bar in 2001. The Medicine Bar in Birmingham, England started as a collaboration in the 1990s between the London Medicine bar and local hip hop DJ ‘Simon Fat Head’, who began his career at the legendary ‘Brothers and Sisters’ at the ‘Coast to Coast’ club on Broad Street. The bar is in the Custard Factory in Digbeth, and has hosted… Read More »The Medicine Bar