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The Dears @ Birmingham Carling Academy 9th Feb 2005
Gigs // Jim // 12th February 2005
They came from Canada, they were all sick, the gig was nearly called off. But The Dears battled on to provide an alternative to tha dire England v Holland game…
Pink Grease, Coventry Colosseum
Gigs // Steve // 11th November 2004
Sleaze-aholics Pink Grease bring their sweaty glam racket to the ever-lovely Coventry Colosseum. We want to love it. But…
Kaito + Radio 4 - Brum Academy - 21st June 2004
Gigs // Steve // 5th July 2004
We forego the pleasure/pain of watching England play to go and watch tipped angular guitarpop types Kaito and discoguitar people Radio 4 shake their funky stuff in a shithole in Birmingham. Two weeks later, and our hearing has just about returned…
NME Awards Tour - January 27th 2004
Gigs // James // 31st January 2004
Jim W just about gets to the Birmingham Academy in time to see Franz Ferdinand, The Von Bondies, The Rapture, and Funeral For A Friend
Broadcast - Birmingham Sanctuary - 12th Dec 2003
Gigs // Steve // 21st December 2003
Ultra-cool waltz-time space-pop heroes return to Birmingham for their final gig of the year.
Electric Six, Coventry Colosseum, Aug 20th
Gigs // Steve // 21st August 2003
Carrying the distinct whiff of novelty about them, can Detroit discorockers Electric Six satisfy a really dodgy looking Coventry crowd?
Har Mar Superstar, Notts Rescue Rooms, 8th Aug
Gigs // Steve // 10th August 2003
A breakdancing, lo-fi mixture of Tom Jones and Ron Jeremy with the moves of a portly Justin Timberlake, pocket sized sex dynamo Har Mar gyrates in front of a sweaty and up for it Nottingham crowd.
Home Taping Is Killing Music / Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
Gigs // Steve // 20th June 2003
Bored, and in need of some disco dancing, we travel to Nottingham for some electro-punk-trash action.
Har Mar Superstar - Godiva Festival, Coventry
Gigs // Steve // 13th June 2003
Sexed-up, sweaty, self-aggrandising electro-R&B man with a moustache Har Mar Superstar came to Coventry recently, leaving us all feeling just a bit unclean. As though we’d been tampered with. And there’s pictures, too…
Broadcast - London ULU - 30th May
Gigs // Steve // 3rd June 2003
They weren’t playing anywhere near us, so Birmingham-based soundtrack/60s French pop-inspired Broadcast force us to travel to London to see them…