• Birmingham Zine Festival @ THE VICTORIA
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    Birmingham Zine Festival!

    http://www.birminghamzinefestival.com 

     

    10th - 12th September

     

    Friday - Film night with Q&A from Pete Ashton and Nic Bullen

     

    Saturday - Zine Fair! At the Victoria! - 12-6pm Free Entry

    Stalls, animations, workshops, Live Music from Bom & His Magic Drumstick + Winston Echo + Simon Fox

    More workshops including screen printing and exhibition at VAAD, Custard Factory

    Official After Party ATTA girl at Island Bar 8:30pm, £1 

    http://www.attagrrl.co.uk 

     

     

    Sunday - Picnic at Canon Hill Park, meet at the Mac at 1pm 

     

• ATTA girl - Official After Party @ Island Bar
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    ATTA girl. 
    8:30pm, still only £1!
    
    And we're proud to announce that ATTA Zine 4 is being released this day! 32 pages of cartoons, empowerment, music, puzzles, recipes, feminism discussions and roller derby explained! The zines are just £1 (covering the print cost). Hip hip hooray!
    
    
    ATTA girl - Bringing you the finest in girl tunes!
    A disco-party-indie-pop-post-punk predominantly female lead vocalist, revolution! We're now a collective of D.Js covering indie-pop, riot grrl, brit-pop, post-punk, and basically anything we're addicted to. 
    
    There's now a whole bunch of us who run ATTA girl so expect quite an eclectic night of all female tunes.
    
    Wanna Disco, WANNA SEE ME DISCO!!!
    
    http://www.attagrrl.co.uk/
• LIVE BOX WITH ZARA MCFARLANE @ The Public

  • Zara McFarlane is a sassy, sensual jazz vocalist who brings a Caribbean flavour to traditional jazz music and original tracks. She draws influences from several styles including soul, reggae and R&B. She has performed and/or recorded with Denys Baptiste, Gary Crosby, Soweto Kinch, Omar Puente, Hugh Masekela, Abram Wilson, Orphy Robinson, Ernest Ranglin and Guy Barker. With her refreshing take on the classics and terrific original songs, Zara is bound to impress at the Public on the 12th September.

• MESSENGER DOUGLAS @ Friendly Fire Sessions @ Hare & Hounds
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     Friendly Fire Sessions is the only regular live reggae event in Birmingham, every third friday of the month.
    
    This Month:
    
    MESSENGER DOUGLAS AND THE ALPHAMIX DUB BAND
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    Messenger Douglas is an acclaimed roots singer and producer and has toured the world with Overproof Soundsystem, from Germany to New Zealand, Croatia to the USA. His most recent singles such as Share With Me (alphamix), Perilous Time (Mighty Tree) or Kingstep (Elephant House) are played regularly by some of the tuffest roots sounds across the world, and established him as a a solid reference for UK Roots.

     

    This is the first time Messenger Douglas will be performing at the Hare and Hounds backed by his own Alphamix Dub Band for a show not to be missed.
    
    Support by Jam Jah Family.
    
    THIS EVENT WILL START AT 11PM until 3AM
    
    Vinyl / CDs / Merch available on the night.
    
    Streamed live on www.rhubarbradio.com
    
    www.myspace.com/messengerdouglas
    www.friendlyfiremusic.com
    
    £5 advance and before 12am / MOTD thereafter
    
    https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/buy_tickets/events/?id=10012658 

     

     

     

    

    

• LIVE BOX WITH DIANA BRAITHWAITE & CHRIS WHITELEY @ The Drum
  • Canadian blues singer Diana Braithwaite and guitarist Chris Whiteley come to perform at Live Box with the highest acclaim from critics and with multiple awards, including several Maple Blues Awards. Diana has an incredible blues voice, taking audiences back in time to blues' heyday with her wonderful performances and Chris is a multi-talented instrumentalist, being able to play the guitar, trumpet, harmonica and pedal steel and who has appeared in over 200 recordings both as a leader and session musician. Together, they form an excellent partnership that brings the highest quality blues to the Drum on the 18th September.
• Expression @ Chi
  • Remember the days of Real Quality Oldschool 'Soul'&'House' Vibes in the mid/late 90s? No-nonsense, no-attitude party people getting down to those timeless classic tunes! With an added touch of 'nu' school flavour, 'Strictly Connoisseur' duly invites you to come enjoy those nostalgic party vibes Monthly at 'Expression'
• Moving Pictures - Film Club @ THE VICTORIA
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    MOVING PICTURES RETURNS!

    5th September marks the return of our free movie night at The Victoria, Birmingham.

    7pm every Sunday we're showing recent box office hits.

     

    September:

    5th : AVATAR

    12th : SHERLOCK HOLMES

    l9th : SINGLE MAN

    26th : WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

     FREE POPCORN . 2FOR1 COCKTAILS . FOOD SERVED UNTIL 8PM

    More info:

    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=110110192510&ref=ts