Occasioned by two recent head-scratching web searches:
1) I wanted to check out the Imperial Cinema, Moseley, as we are returning to Birmingham for a little pre-xmas nostalgia trip. We saw several gigs there, early 80s, most notably Orange Juice and also The Fall, supported by Nico (as mentioned in a recent thread. Don't ask me which one). The only image I could find on the web was from the 1920s.
The Birmingham Mail has a popular 'music venues' part of its site, with pics of The Barrel Organ, Digbeth Civic Hall, Barbarella's etc and comments from readers about best/worst gigs there. And not a single mention of the Imperial...
2) The Go Betweens, who I love, have various fan sites supposedly listing where they played and when. This is sometimes called a gigography, but that's a fucking stupid word.
Anyway, there is no mention on any of them of the gig they did at Wolverhampton Poly, mid-to-late 80s, that I was definitely at. In the Upper (Mandela) Bar.
Anyone else wondering if their whole memory bank is a vast tissue of fabrications..?
1) I wanted to check out the Imperial Cinema, Moseley, as we are returning to Birmingham for a little pre-xmas nostalgia trip. We saw several gigs there, early 80s, most notably Orange Juice and also The Fall, supported by Nico (as mentioned in a recent thread. Don't ask me which one). The only image I could find on the web was from the 1920s.
The Birmingham Mail has a popular 'music venues' part of its site, with pics of The Barrel Organ, Digbeth Civic Hall, Barbarella's etc and comments from readers about best/worst gigs there. And not a single mention of the Imperial...
2) The Go Betweens, who I love, have various fan sites supposedly listing where they played and when. This is sometimes called a gigography, but that's a fucking stupid word.
Anyway, there is no mention on any of them of the gig they did at Wolverhampton Poly, mid-to-late 80s, that I was definitely at. In the Upper (Mandela) Bar.
Anyone else wondering if their whole memory bank is a vast tissue of fabrications..?
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