[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
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
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
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Tagged: Brian Travers, UB40
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
