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As far as I can tell, Birmingham City Council has never been behind the Birmingham Jazz Festival. I think it used to be run by the Birmingham Jazz Society and now seems to be down to Big Bear Music (at least this year and last). To further rub in their failures, they do have a detailed list of...

Worse than that, if you google Jazz Festival UK Moseley is number 4 (and two of the higher listings aren't individual listings) but Birmingham isn't on the first page - it's at the bottom of page 2.

I don't think the problem here was a lack of funding as something that the organisers did wrong. The printed programme didn't show up until a week or two before the start date. The programme gives times of events, names of venues, details of the acts, and prices where appropriate but it doesn't...

The idea was to tell people it was there and that they could find out for themselves. I know my tastes aren't everyone's so I mention it anyway. Surprised this thread hasn't mentioned the Jazz Festival yet. https://www.bigbearmusic.com/festival-2015/ It starts on Friday. Oddly they don't seem...

How recent are the "as now" photos. Last time I saw the restaurant next door (last Wednesday) it still had scaffolding and I thought the sign was in a worse state than that. Some of the plans that seem to be current as per the article seem ill thought out. Why would someone want to build a...

I'd not heard of Talking Pictures as a separate channel, it used to be a show on Sky Arts (which ran on Virgin). Renown Films seems to have a lot of old movies but although they list 273 items on their site, most are listed 2 or 3 times and some are BFI and other labels. Then again, some have...

After failing to get into the Vaults at the old Municipal Bank on Saturday, I went across the road to the ICC. There I discovered that they had a band in the bar playing a 2 hour set. Apparently they've got this as a regular gig one Saturday in the month (or at least they're back next month on...

For those intending to go and wanting to visit the vaults. As you go in, you're given a numbered ticket and (probably) will see a line of people headed for the vault tour. The ticket is to be handed in as you get to the start of the tour. The number doesn't have any significance. If there's a...

I didn't come to Birmingham until '63 and I think my first official GP was Dr Mason but since it was a surgery with several doctors I could wind up with Dr Maher (I'm sure that's how it was spelt) or Dr Wand. I'm still with the same surgery but I rarely use it. I'm told it takes two weeks to get...

Most tablet operating systems are smaller than Windows. Android is cut down from a mix of two old versions of Linux. This means two things. 1. The operating system actually does less things. 2. It takes less time to load. This doesn't always mean that tablets load up instantly. My old tablet...

There are lots of reasons for regular upgrades that don't involve what you see. There were supposed to be serious changes in the security system in some of the OS changes. I get the feeling the new version will push toward online rather than internal storage as everything seems to be going that...

When were these pictures taken? The lighting is a lot better on them than it was on Saturday. It would have been nice to see what the rest of the place looks like but there is a lot of space roped off as unsafe. There's supposed to be a film for the cinema event but it wasn't available at the...

It's usually said that alternate versions of Windows aren't worth the bother of the upgrade although you have to decide which you think are the good and bad. The example usually given is Win 98 good, Win Me bad, Win XP good, Win Vista bad, Win 7 good, Win 8 bad. Windows 9 was supposed to be the...

At some point I remember going to gigs at the ACAFESS on Moseley Road. Almost entirely a Black audience (except for me and some of the people who were with the band. The smoke was so bad that I couldn't breathe in there past midnight. The nights I went, Steve Ajao played but Andy Hamilton was a...

Since you didn't mention support gigs, I tried looking up their actual shows at the time and their own web site has a much longer list for 1980 including a tour supporting Hazel O'Connor (I have the programme for that tour at home somewhere) and a lot of local gigs at the end of 1980...

I only ever saw Duran Duran play once. They were support act at the Odeon at the time and Planet Earth was in the charts or had just been there. I don't remember a stage show or costume but then they were the support act. The only thing that stuck was the thought that they must have used some...

Only two years ago, I would have been surprised to see any public building open on a Sunday. Most of them don't open on Saturday. Of course, as a public resource, you'd expect it to open out of usual business hours but Sundays...? As to the suggestion that they would have done better to separate...

When was this? Lee Bank has been called that since the 60s at least and Highgate is a lot bigger than just Gooch St. At one point there was a large part of Edgbaston called Calthorpe Park Estate that used to be part of the old Calthorpe Estate but the name seems to have fallen in to disuse.

The Sunday opening hours were new for this new library and I can't see that many will miss them that much. I'm surprised that they're losing 9-11 a.m. but it could have been worse. As I understand it the 180 staff jobs were never completely filled (more like 100-120). There was a suggestion that...

The dresses look like 20s/30s rather than the more austere/formal wear of the 40s. The event is probably a dance of some sort which might mean people are in costume which might change the date. I say this is a dance because of the wide wooden floor and the sign at the right of frame that says...