Fantastic Beasts of Birmingham
Tom LennonPainstakingly-researched analysis of Birmingham-based mythological beasts (also includes Yampires, West Brombies and Werewolverhamptons)
Pancake DazeTom Lennon
John Dillinger’s John Thomas
Tom LennonThe strange and lurid urban myth about Prohibition-era outlaw John Dillinger and his unfeasibly large old chap
James Joyce’s Birmingham: Confessions of the Artist as a Young Man (1974)
Tom LennonCert X, Dir. Alan Smithee. Stockland Green Plaza from 16th June, 1974. Showtimes vary.
James Joyce’s Birmingham: Ulysses on the Buses
Tom LennonStateless, scrawny James Joyce and his mistressmusewife, Nora Barnacle, were waiting for a number eleven omnibus in the Perry Barr district of Birmingham. It was […]
James Joyce’s Digbethers
Tom LennonThe great Irish writer James Joyce and his lover Nora Barnacle briefly lived in Birmingham's Digbeth area, apparently.
Mervyn King’s Northern Soul Bail-Out
Tom LennonMervyn King's plan to bail-out struggling musical fad Northern Soul has provoked fierce criticism from Britpop, Disco & Skiffle.