It's Blue Monday Like a stopped clock PR companies are sometimes right. Also like a stopped clock, they need two AA batteries shoved up them and the knob twisted until their hands point in the right direction. Birmingham: It’s Not Shit, Reason No 12: Mr Blue Sky paradisecircus.com/2024/11/19/b...

It's Blue Monday Like a stopped clock PR companies are sometimes right. Also like a stopped clock, they need two AA batteries shoved up them and the knob twisted until their hands point in the right direction. Birmingham: It’s Not Shit, Reason No 12: Mr Blue Sky paradisecircus.com/2024/11/19/b...

Jeff Lynne meme format just dropped.

This Christmas you don’t have to ask “when is BiNS?”. You can buy it Birmingham: It’s Not Shit: 50 Things That Delight About Brum Foreword by Adrian Chiles amzn.to/3OANhlX Makes a perfect gift for someone you’d like to take up The Ackers.

We found some copies of 101 Things Birmingham Gave The World at the back of a cupboard full of Ozzy the Bull baubles and Roy Wood Christmas wigs. We are posting paperbacks for £7, or treat yourself and add an ebook for an extra £3. paradisecircus.com/2025/11/25/s...

We found some copies of 101 Things Birmingham Gave The World at the back of a cupboard full of Ozzy the Bull baubles and Roy Wood Christmas wigs. We are posting paperbacks for £7, or treat yourself and add an ebook for an extra £3. paradisecircus.com/2025/11/25/s...

Was it Sutton?

Only ID scheme I'll accept

#ITV70 (Series 1-3 only)

Lovely www.youtube.com/watch?v=ennS...

🚯Don't Bin Off Brum this Saturday Join the march and demo 👇 🚐London transport: bit.ly/LDNBrumCoach20Sep 🚐E.Mids transport: bit.ly/EMidsBrumCoach20Sep 🚐Sheffield tranport: [email protected] 🚐Manchester transport: bit.ly/MCRBrumCoach20Sep #StrikeMap

Danny Smith of this parish heads to London in inappropriate footwear.

Ahead of this year's Supersonic, we catch up with founder Lisa Meyer to discuss the intensifying challenges facing independent festivals, the picks from a brilliant lineup they've put together in spite of them, and more #Supersonic’s Lisa Meyer on the Festival’s 2025 Edition buff.ly/8kYebiv

From Rushall with Love

Night sweet prince of darkness. Left half a pint of Caffreys at the quiz machine, took Paddington’s hand and strolled off to the great 11 stop in the sky

You won't remember this – or maybe we hung around different Internets before this app – but this is a follow-on from a post I wrote on @paradisecircus.com 9 years ago. hellosteadman.substack.com/p/why-im-hid...

When Dr Who was axed by the BBC in 1969, no one expected Verity Lambert and former Crossroads writers Letts and Dicks to bring it back for ITV. Cliff Richard was grounded on earth with his faithful hovercraft, Bessie and UNIT headquarters were based under Birmingham's Spaghetti Junction. #DoctorWho

Nearly 10 years since Pier Review was published. (You can still buy it amzn.to/40NmadU). As we drove round all 55 of England and Wales’s bloody pleasure piers in 10’days @probablydrunk.bsky.social and i often talked of getting marching pier tattoos. Last week we did.

Toksvig?? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We used all of Wales’s water to make this satirical cartoon about the Bin Strike on Chat GPT, we hope it helps move things forward.

Hot enough for you? Bins emptied?

Just in time for their Xmas tip. :)

Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

Wow! This bin man has has all the kept promises from the council tattooed on his arm

Wow! This bin man has has all the kept promises from the council tattooed on his arm

This is fun wbholland.github.io/trainspose/

Your pope name is Albert Bore and Jude Bellingham’s retired squad number at Blues.

Google's AI is super.

Google's AI is super.

She thought it was the dress code.

So here it is, happy Easter.

You can show your support for striking workers with proceeds of sales going to Brum bin strike fund. Workers facing pay cut, some up to £8g a year, support the strike. Get ‘em here tufac.bigcartel.com

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Ironic vole.wtf/comic-sans-m...

The World needed* an acoustic version of Keep Right On To The End Of The Road to play after an emotional Wembley appearance or promotion securing victory for the Blues. So I made one as best I could. #BCFC Here with some old video. And on Spotify now: open.spotify.com/track/2evH3H... *maybe

Lovely vid.

Just over week til Blues at Wembley. Are you nervous yet? Let your heart beat strong. Keep Right On - available on Spotify, etc push.fm/fl/kro #BCFC #Blues #KRO

I’m releasing a cup final single, as teams don’t seem to do that any more. #BCFC Out today push.fm/fl/kro

Neil Morrissey, David Daker and Michael Elphick - it would be a huge Boon for the country.

I’m refusing to listen back to this now, out of embarrassment. But essentially I wanted to listen to a ‘grown up’ version of the remarkable song in the run up to #BCFC’s cup final. There wasn’t one, so I’m releasing a single Made to accompany an emotional Cup Final montage. push.fm/ps/keeprighton

Boon production moving to Nottingham after series 3.

Time to dig out the old classics. open.spotify.com/track/6mopgA...

For World Book Day, we have come dressed as this web page. paradisecircus.com/books/

Everyone from Birmingham is a Brummie, everyone in Birmingham can be a Brummie, as can anyone else who (for some reason or none) regards themselves as a Brummie. It is non-exclusive, and all are welcome. Ditto, for far even larger imagined communities.

Gary Sambrook eats big dinners

The curse of Central Library claims another victim as Hooters goes tits up.