Just thought I’d say a quick Merry Christmas before the yuletide activities kick off here in the Dubber house. A quiet one this time: friends over for dinner tonight, and then since Jake’s away in India and we Skyped today (he’ll have no internet for the next day or so), we’re probably going to eat [...]
Tagged: Christmas
[Video link] Last week, Brian from UB40 came along to the Hare and Hounds to look over my shoulder and get a few jazz DJ-ing tips so that he can fill in for me while I’m away in May. This week, he came back armed with some music of his own, and gave me a [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Food,Music
I did my usual weekly DJ gig at the Hare and Hounds today – playing polite, laid back jazz records while people eat their roast dinners. But this time, I had a surprise visitor. Brian Travers, who you’ll know as the sax player from UB40, had been asked if he’d be interested in maybe coming [...]
Tagged: Hare and Hounds, Sunday, UB40
Okay, so I don’t normally post my breakfast on my blog, but I spent so long looking for a recipe for this that I figured it might help someone that was after the same sort of thing. I had barley porridge at a hotel in Helsinki a little while back and I really loved it, [...]
Categories: Food
Tagged: Porridge
It was cold outside – almost a foot of snow on the ground and a good bit of traffic chaos as a result. I carried a pile of records (including a whole bunch I’d picked up on my trip to Brazil last week) to the Hare and Hounds, and played a set of Bossa Nova, [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Food,Music
I did my Soul Food Sunday Roast DJ thing today at the Hare and Hounds. It was bitterly cold outside (down to minus 9 at one point!) but the food was warming and delicious – and the music got a little bit tropical at times. The place was pretty full the whole way through, and [...]
I did my the first of my new weekly DJ slots at the Hare and Hounds pub down the road this afternoon. They’ve turned the back room into a rather nice restaurant space, and they’re serving leisurely Sunday roast dinners. And as the people eat their meals and read the newspapers, I’m playing records – [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Food,Music
Soul Food Sunday by Dubber on Mixcloud I had a meeting today at my local pub (which also happens to be Birmingham’s best music venue, if you ask me…). They’ve recently started doing food on site: some guys I met before, when they were at Island Bar in town, are running ‘Soul Food’ at the [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Food,Music
Tagged: Funk, Hare and Hounds, jazz, Soul Food
Real Chinese Food Jake and I went to see Best Worst Movie at the Flatpack film festival this evening (which was really great, by the way). Beforehand, we thought we’d get a bite to eat – and since we were in the Chinese Quarter, we thought we’d have Chinese food. We tried a couple of [...]
Dinner at our friend Jo’s – always a very serious affair We don’t have too many New Zealand friends in Britain – so it’s nice to sometimes just hang out and just be kiwis. It was a very sensible and polite dinner party, and in no way were there any foodfights, communal icecream, musical beer [...]
