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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 39m

Exciting news that Friends Again are reforming to play the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow in January. Here they are on Switch in 1983
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Friends Again 1983 04 08 Live 3 tracks @ Switch

YouTube video by jeyem archives

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 10h

Now playing. A brilliant and groundbreaking LP. RIP D’Angelo
▶️🎧 spotify.link/DQSDmZr8sXb

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 10h

Definitely. Just digging that out

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 10h

Good point!

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 10h

Oh no. Just seen the very sad news about D’Angelo. RIP - gone way too soon
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D'Angelo - Brown Sugar (Later Archive 1995)

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 11h

Now playing A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory, which has an important role in the film
▶️ spotify.link/l35dQuI5sXb

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 12h

Wow - very cool - I'd missed that. Looking forward to seeing Whitelands again at Rockaway Beach if not before

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Sonic Cathedral @soniccathedral.bsky.social · 13h

Great film - and David Jonsson is amazing in the new @whitelands.bsky.social video too: youtu.be/PhR5rNu0R_4?...

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 13h

In case you haven't seen it yet, the 2023 film Rye Lane is on the BBC iPlayer and is a total delight
▶️📺 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 14h

I remember walking through that same hole in the wall to reach Gas Street Basin, which was like leaving the city behind and entering another world. My photo from the early 1980s

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 14h

Here's another clip to celebrate Cliff's 85th birthday. This one features him walking around Birmingham in his 1973 film Take Me High. Look out for brutalist landmarks like the Central Library (RIP), Alpha Tower and New Street Signal Box
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Cliff Richard - Winning - Take Me High - 1973 - 4K - Stereo Retro Remix 2005 Remaster

YouTube video by Cliff, The Shadows | And Other Great Music

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 14h

It's the first thing I thought when I heard Wrapped and I love it. I think B&S agreed to give Cliff a 25% share of the royalties without him even asking

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 14h

Ha! I've got something lined up on that

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 1d

Which leads us to this
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Belle and Sebastian - Wrapped Up In Books

YouTube video by Rough Trade Records

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 1d

Happy 85th birthday to Cliff
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Cliff Richard & The Shadows - In The Country (Live in London, 1966)

YouTube video by Cliff Richard

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering Robert Parker on his birthday
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Robert Parker : Barefootin'

YouTube video by Mr Kleeg

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like they got the message. Spotted at a South London station. Still a misguided ad to put anywhere in London

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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 11d

Here's my favourite version of one of my favourite songs by The Lilac Time, which given that Stephen Duffy is my favourite songwriter, must make it one of my favourite songs ever. It's featured on The Lilac Time's first ever live album which you can pre-order here: burningshed.com/the-lilac-ti...

The Lilac Time LIVE : The Lost Girl in The Midnight Sun

YouTube video by The Lilac Time

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 2d

The Earlies performing Lows as part of their amazing show at Hackney Church on Saturday. It's in this YouTube playlist along with Morning Wonder and Bring It Back Again
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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 2d

Happy birthday to Paul Simon
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Paul Simon performing Homeward Bound on Parkinson in December 1975

YouTube video by Salvage Operation

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry we missed you. First one we’ve been too but it won’t be the last.

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 2d

Love the Hammond organ on this by Chris Madden from The Earlies. Just found out that he actually played with Daniel Johnston on the @marcrileydj.bsky.social show
▶️ youtu.be/xOtqXXXQmUk.
He's also been touring with Oasis this year and has 2 LPs here christianmaddentheenemychorus.bandcamp.com/music

Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 2d

Alela Diane performing a beautiful version of Daniel Johnston's True Love Will Find You in the End with members of The Earlies at Hackney Church last night. HiDef video at youtu.be/jV0s-4ZG8VY

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 2d

Both sides of that single are great - the UK's answer to Talking Heads

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks. I stuck to one track per artist to keep it manageable

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nicola @gleanniucha.bsky.social · 2d

So Brummies aren’t left out.

Some great footage of #Birmingham 50 years ago.

Six days a week Fred Davis travels the eerily empty streets to run his business in the Vegetable Market.

This edition of Look Stranger was originally broadcast on BBC2, 28th November 1976.

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1976: A Morning With the Fruit and Veg Men | Look Stranger | World of Work | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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