My friend Brian – you know, Brian out of UB40 (namedrop, namedrop) – just popped over to give me an original piece of his artwork that I’d admired at an exhibition of his but could not possibly have afforded. It’s based on Concierto de Aranjuez from Miles Davis’s Sketches of Spain album. Unbelievably generous of [...]
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One week later, Brian shows me how it’s done 0
[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
Teaching Brian to DJ 2
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
UB40′s Signing Off – 30th anniversary 0
Ub40: The 30th Anniversary Of "Signing Off" Documentary by Sam Coley on Mixcloud This is the sound of where I live – including the people I work with, like Paul Long, Sam Coley, Jez Collins and Robin Valk; the music of Birmingham and specifically Kings Heath; as well as the characters from around here as [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Music
Tagged: documentary, Radio, UB40
UB40 & Ranking Roger talk about New Zealand 1
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
Five minutes with Brian Travers 6
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] [Link to Young Fathers]
Tagged: Brian Travers, UB40
UB40: Live, Loud and Local 1
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a Music As Culture project with the band UB40. They’re going to be playing a gig at the Rainbow pub in Digbeth on Tuesday to raise money to help the venue pay for a new soundproof roof over the courtyard, so that they don’t get [...]
Categories: Birmingham,Music,University
Tagged: Birmingham, culture, Music, research, UB40