University News Last updated 31 May 2013
The city that gave birth to The Prefects, Spizz, Steel Pulse, The Au Pairs and Dexys has tended to be overlooked in most received histories of the era.
Vivid Projects and Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, part of Birmingham City University, welcome Moseley-born music historian and legendary Hacienda DJ Dave Haslam on Friday 7 June, for a talk exploring and celebrating music activity in Birmingham from 1976 to 1982, drawing on interviews with Lesley Woods, Kevin Rowland, and Duran Duran’s John Taylor among others.
Vivid Projects is a collaborative agency based in Birmingham, dedicated to exploring the convergence of film, video, performance and interdisciplinary practice.
The talk will be followed by a conversation with Jez Collins, founder of the Birmingham Popular Music archive, and discussion with the audience on collective and personal memories of Kahn & Bell, Barbarellas, Fashion, Ranking Roger and other elements of a very creative era in the city’s cultural history.
The event runs from 7.30pm until 9.30pm at Vivid Projects, 16 Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street, Birmingham, B5 5RS. Find out more information and book tickets.