Is There Anyone Out There? Documenting Birmingham’s Alternative Music Scene 1986-1996 is a new exhibition co-curated by the Centre for Media & Cultural Research at Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Music Archive. It’s running from 4th-28th May, Monday to Saturday 9am – 7pm and its free entrance. Here is the exhibition blurb, it’s going… Read More »Is There Anyone Out There?
[The Pixies at Burberries] Burberries was the indie place in Birmingham in the mid 80s to late 90s. Home to The Click Club run by Dave Travis it was to be home to Pop Will Eat Itself, Mighty Mighty, Felt, Terry & Gerry and other great Brum indie bands. Visiting bands included Orange Juice,… Read More »Burberries-on-the-Street
There are a number of albums kicking around that highlight Birmingham music at different points in time and across different genres. A Night At The Flicks is one such album. Released in 1985 on N.R.O. Records this 16 track lp covers synth driven indie, post punk, reggae, C86, psychobilly and hard rock. There are some… Read More »A Night At The Flicks
Mighty Mighty were an indie band formed in Birmingham, England in the mid-1980s. Showing influences from Postcard Records bands such as Orange Juice, they came to prominence when featured on the NME’s C86 compilation, at around the same time that they released their debut single “Everybody Knows The Monkey”. This was soon followed by a… Read More »Mighty Mighty