I had a wonderful time at #brumsanta this evening. It was very simple idea: a Christmas get-together with some people from Birmingham who are on Twitter, with a (somewhat) secret Santa element to it – but the twist being that the maximum spend on gifts was £0. About 35 people came along – lots of [...]
Categories: Birmingham
Tagged: Christmas, Hare and Hounds, Twitter
Some friends in New Zealand are involved in a massive 700-strong Twitter secret Santa. I think it’s a great idea, and thought it was the kind of thing the people I know from around here might be interested in doing. Reluctant as I am to organise anything (and as much as I should not ever [...]
Categories: Birmingham
Tagged: Christmas, Hare and Hounds, Santa, Twitter
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
I went for a walk into the Kings Heath High Street to do a few errands and pop into the local record shop – and I bumped into my friend Jez and Brian from UB40 outside the Hare & Hounds. It turns out Jez and Sam Coley were making a radio documentary about the 30th [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Music
Tagged: Hare and Hounds, kings heath, Music, New Zealand, UB40
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
Clutch and I went and saw Canadian band The Besnard Lakes play live at the Hare and Hounds in Kings Heath. I’d heard a few of their songs, and Clutch is a bit of a fan, so we went along. They were superb. Really tight band – really great music. They had some technical difficulties [...]
Tagged: Bands, Hare and Hounds, live, Photo
