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Celebrating Birmingham’s rich & diverse music history, heritage & culture with community archiving & creative projects @brummusicpics Museum coming 2025!
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Music:Birmingham October 2025. 165 brilliant new releases from Birmingham and the wider region ft @JdotKdotB @KatherinePriddy @FriendlyFireBan @ColonelRed_ @KofiStone_ @MrCaseyBailey @iamleadley @YASeeN_ROSaY & @lovechelji @theindiecountry and loads more! https://t.co/emGg2KdCwf
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Plaque Sabbath! Resistance ✊ Until the birthplace of Black Sabbath & Heavy Metal is free of Toyoko Inns neglect Brummies will continue to protest and find ways to embarrass the owners & authorities who fail to act Birmingham & Ozzy Osbourne deserve better. Bravo @DionKitson🦇
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This weekend we host the film & directors q&a In Search of Bengali Harlem in our space. This is for anyone exploring heritage & our place in society. Live music & food available post-screening. https://t.co/HlVxODppch
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On July 5th we warned the Mayor & Council leaders via email that Toyoko Inns would lose interest in The Crown (Again) as soon as the Summer of Sabbath passed Now nobody can get answers from @ToyokoINN_JP and they’re operating their carpark illegally Hate to say we told you so…
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Birmingham never shouts loudly enough about its success stories! But next week an exhibition celebrating bestselling author Lee Child & his @JackReacher series opens in his home city https://t.co/MejR1ACRRo
birminghamwire.co.uk
A free exhibition celebrating Birmingham-raised, world-renowned author Lee Child and his legendary creation, Jack Reacher, comes to the city.
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Hats off to whoever has done this at The Crown! Love it @BlackSabbath @tonyiommi @OzzyOsbourne @MrsSOsbourne @geezerbutler @billwarddrums
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So depressing, but not surprising, to see the level and geographical spread of inequality across Birmingham. And we wonder why people are angry when 43% of our neighbourhoods are highly deprived.
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We are screening ‘In Search of Bengali Harlem’ with directors from the US present for Q&A in a Birmingham https://t.co/VpfTjX5pb7
As anti-immigrant rhetoric rises in the UK & USA, we screen a powerful story of unity -1920s Bengali migrants who built family with Black & Puerto Rican communities in Harlem. Birmingham premiere + directors Q&A • Sun 9 Nov, 4pm • Soul City Arts 🎟️ https://t.co/HlVxODoRmJ
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'Au Pairs agreed to split everything equally. Now their frontwoman wants it all' h/t @pennycenturyy @brumdispatch @PeteHammond20 @Post_Punk @PostPunkzine @emilypostpunk @ScotsPostPunk @Birmingham_81 @PunkRockStory @jezc @WeAreTheMU @PRSforMusic #AuPairs
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Birmingham's post-punk auteurs were the poster band for equality, but 42-years later they're embroiled in a bitter row
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Film screening: We're working with @RichMixLondon to bring 'In Search of Bengali Harlem' to the UK for the first time. Our Birmingham screening on Nov 9th includes a Q&A with the documentary's creators. Birmingham Tix: https://t.co/atVKgkAfCG London Tix: https://t.co/DHtZibgXMD
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Looking forward to the performance and screening of The Many Lives of Stewart Johnson on the 14th November at The Station. Tickets are still available here: https://t.co/0ctEcjVfHY
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I am Dutch and I think that it’s shameful that the @BBC and other large media outlets are framing the banning of Macabi football fans as antisemitism. When they were in Amsterdam, they were behaving like hooligans, assaulting people and chanting death to Arabs. Thats why we
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Alan McCormick, GB News chairman, went further. ‘Britain has been infected by a mind virus that sees no value in place, in family, in community, in love of country & these views have [been] reinforced by an establishment media who have suppressed any alternative viewpoints’ LOL
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Robert Jenrick’s comments are disgraceful. It shows a complete lack of respect for the people of our region. Handsworth is a community where people of different backgrounds all live and work side by side. Birmingham is a proud, diverse city built by generations from every
EXCL: Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in @rowenamason reveals
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This week sees the opening of Music Leeds Us exhibition at Leeds City Museum, on Fri 10 Oct to 28June 2026. This isn’t just about history — it’s about feeling. That song that takes you back. That gig that changed your life. Find out more: https://t.co/M7jsKSBhgr
@LeedsMuseums
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This is great news. H’s photo’s are a vital documentation of Brum (and beyond)
#PowerAndPride2025
https://t.co/Spf1wTLIaE Local photographer Herbert Walters’ collection - Portraits of Black Britain (MS 5183/3) has recently become available on https://t.co/eecEWsWMav. Photographs mostly taken in Birmingham and London between 2008–2022 @LibraryofBham @bhmuk
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Direct action works!
Just getting incredibly, unbelievably dangerous. This is what happens when you have armed, masked, anonymous dudes rolling around in unmarked cars trying to pick off people they suspect are illegal immigrants. Many Americans aren't gonna sit idly by.
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Fantastic words from @GNev2 💛
"The division that's been created is absolutely disgusting. Mainly created by angry middle-aged white men who know exactly what they're doing." - Gary Neville.
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Still no response or word from my friend Tadhg Hickey who was aboard the flotilla. A selfless and compassionate friend of the Palestinians, kidnapped by the genocidal Israeli regime. @TadhgHickey
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