Birmingham Academy
Welcome to Wayne’s World
As a delicate, dreamy soundscape filled both tiers of a new and extremely packed Birmingham Academy last Tuesday night, a silhouetted dancing girl drenched in phosphorescent hues performed a saucy routine on a massive crescent video screen behind the stage. It looked like she had no clothes on, but silhouettes often give people that impression. [...]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Birmingham Carling Academy, 5th May 2008
There’s cool, there’s uber-cool and then there’s Nick Cave. Australia’s finest export – the Black Crow King himself – was on particularly fine form as he performed in front of a sell-out crowd at the apparently soon-to-be demolished Academy on Monday night. He certainly looked the part. Dressed in a black, open-top silk shirt and [...]
Slight return
“We met a crazed speed garage afficianado from Northampton, who advised us not to buy a double gin and Red Bull (and not because of the taste), and told the most uninteresting interesting anecdote about the Astoria. It’s a bit scary to get stuck talking to somebody like that, but looking back it means that [...]
The Breeders, Birmingham Academy, 13th April 2008
So here I am, and there I was – enjoying a sticky-floored Sunday evening at Birmingham’s bijou Academy 2. I was there to see The Breeders and it was all thanks to my friend – macaroon chomping Friend-of-Garfield Jez Higgins – who generously gave me the ticket that he bought just seconds before he realised [...]
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