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SABBATH, BLOODY SABBATH
The singer bit the head off a bat. The guitarist is missing some fingertips. If you play their records backwards you hear satanic messages. Much has been said about Birmingham’s very own Black Sabbath, but myths aside, the most startling thing is their longevity, stonking success and feverish fanbase. Oh, and that they pretty much invented Heavy Metal. Celebrating their big 5-0, Home of Metal opened on Wednesday and brings together original pics, stage outfits and bling, borrowed straight from Ozzy and co. Plus, Tony Iommi's home studio has been recreated, there’s DIY fan merch aplenty, a full-size motorbike, loads of tuneage and electric guitars you can actually play. Until September 29, tickets are £12. There's also a full programme of Metal-related events and exhibitions taking place at venues across the West Mids. Take that, K-Pop.
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RIBMAN COMETH
Street food royalty, Mark Gevaux, is a one-legged former butcher with a passion for ribs and West Ham. Known to most Londoners simply as The Ribman, he's been wooed by Digbeth Dining Club for seven years as they've tried, and failed, to tempt him up the M40. Well, hold onto your hickory because they've finally cracked it, and Mark is bringing his world-renowned (and we mean "world-renowned") rib meat, bottled sauces and dry rubs to DDC, June 27 to 30. You'd be mad to miss this. Mad or vegetarian. More
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GATECRASHER GETS CLASSICAL
Faithless, Paul Oakenfold and Robert Miles. Probably not the sort of names you thought you'd be hearing remixes by in Birmingham's world renowned Symphony Hall, care of a 40-piece orchestra and live vocalists. Covering a tracklist of 25 years of the clubbing institution, Gatecrasher Classical is doing Brum for one night only and that night is this Saturday. We know! From 8pm, the few tickets that remain start from £39.95.
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PUB?
Through this arch is our office. Yaaay! Through this arch there is no pub. Booo! However, in an act of charitable brilliance that could rock the very foundations of this e-magazine, local brewery Craddock's want to open what they reckon is the UK's first not-for-profit pub, in the middle of the Great Western Arcade — a worrying nine metre tumble from where we sit. All profits after costs go to good causes and some of the Crowdfunder rewards are dead tempting. Like, give them £25 and they'll give you £40 worth of beer. That just makes mathematical sense.
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