Another gig at the Birmingham Institute entailed another trip to the Handmade Burger Company. However, to prove I'm not totally predictable, I veered from my usual order and plumped for a cheese stuffed burger topped with bacon and covered in BBQ sauce, accompanied by their handcut chips covered in pulled pork, cheese and more BBQ sauce, all washed down with an Oreo cookies milkshake. Calorifically scrumptious! Arriving at the Institute, I was delighted to disco...

November is too early for Panto! Oh no it isn't! Oh yes it is! Oh no it isn't! This afternoon I accompanied my Godson (GS) to see Cinderella at The Roses Theatre in the lovely little town of Tewkesbury. The Roses has recently had a facelift, and the new foyer is very swish. The production was a traditional panto where Prince Charming and Dandini were still played by girls. Of course, the two Ugly Sisters well and truly lived up to their moniker. It was great fu...

Tonight I returned to the lovely initimate setting of Cleeve Tithe Barn to enjoy The Blues Band. Formed in 1979 by a group already successful muscians, namely singer and harmonica player Paul Jones (from Manfred Mann) singer and guitarist Dave Kelly (worked with Howlin' Wolf and John Lee Hooker) singer and bassist Gary Fletcher, singer and guitarist Tom McGuinness (Manfred Mann) and drummer Rob Townsend (from Family). As the name suggests, they play blues - bo...

Another day, another gig. This time, it was back to the Wolves Civic Halls for the fantastic New Order. On the way I again popped into the MIller & Carter Steakhouse in Penn. This time, I tried their steak burger, with cheese and bacon, which was extremely tasty, followed by a very lush sticky toffee pudding. I thought I'd actually missed the chance to catch New Order this time round as the gig had been sold out for a while, but last Thursday I received ema...

Tonight was a gig I'd been looking forward to for a long time. For me, Everything Everything are the band of the year and their third outing, Get To Heaven, will prove to be a classic. After popping along to The Stable on the Harbourside for a Portishead Piggy Pizza, consisting of lashings of cheese and bacon, I made my way to the O2 Academy an djoined the queue 30 mins before the doors opened. The support was provided by 18 year old singer / songwriter / guita...