Fantastic Soul/Funk band from the 70s with Geoff Brown, Richard Ford , Steve James, Stuart Scott. Discography Album Muscles – Big Bear Records 1976 Singles & EPs Make Me Happy – Big Bear Records 1975 Space Party – Big Bear Records 1975 Music Is Our Message – Big Bear Records 1976 Jungle Strut / Muscle Hustle – Big Bear… Read More »Muscles
Delegation was a British soul musical group with a lengthy career, and an amount of international success. They are generally viewed in the U.S. as a one-hit wonder, based on the crossover hit, “Oh Honey” (1978). Their biggest UK success came in 1977, with the Top 30 hit single, “Where Is The Love (We Used to Know)”. Delegation was formed in the United Kingdom in 1975 by Ricky Bailey,… Read More »Delegation
Another great venue recently demolished. The West End Bar was situated on St Chads Island, just across the road from Snow Hill Station and around the corner from the Thistle Hotel. This was a much vaunted place back in the 1980s and 1990s serving the soul, rare groove, funk and hip hop crowd downstairs while… Read More »West End Bar
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