We'll kick off this week with an appeal by occasional Birmingham Post gig reviewer and all-round good egg Marcus Face.
As well as being adroit with a snappy James Taylor put-down, Mr Face is also a rather talented songwriter and producer in the old style. His stock in trade is pithy pop nuggets which connect directly with the English pop psyche underground of the mid-1960s.
Think of The Move, Small Faces or any of the more obscure Paisley-wearing flower children of Carnaby Street 1967 and you're part-way there.
Anyway, Marcus is now stuck into recording his second album and he's asked me to ask if any readers can put their hands on an original Vox AC30 amp. This classic piece of kit has a sound all of its own and Marcus is adamant that he wants it on his album.
If you have one of these amps and can lend it to Marcus, give him a call on 0121 784 9707.
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American rapper Nas clearly knows what Birmingham's like. One of his riders for the gig he performed on Friday was that he had a police escort to and from the venue.
It's not the only demand he made with regard to the journey – he also stated: "under no circumstances is the artist to be delayed arriving or departing the venue due to traffic".
Nas has obviously never spent much time sitting on the Birmingham ring roads or the living hell that is the M6.
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Birmingham jump jive party outfit, Dr Teeth Big Band are shortly heading off to do the seemingly impossible – sell their music to the good people of Chicago.
With TV appearances and some pretty high-profile gigs lined up, you never know what might happen.
Their final UK show before they travel will be at The Jam House in Birmingham on Thursday, May 24, at 9pm, before jetting off to show the USA just how hot a British swing combo can be.
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Remind me to be away on Sunday June 10. That's when Tolga Kashif's Queen Symphony is performed at Symphony Hall. The Orchestra of Opera North and Leeds Philharmonic Choir will be conducted by the composer and will be joined by pianist Ian Buckle.
Mr Kashif says: "It is hard to put into words the compositional factor in this work, but improvisation and visualisation were at the heart of the process. Initial research soon revealed not only that I knew far more Queen lyrics and melodies than I had realised, but also that there were unexplored depths of meaning and lyricism within them."
I'd rather plough the fields with my teeth than listen to it and Freddie Mercury, that Borat lookalike, must be grinning on his little fluffy cloud.
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Nice to see Julian Cope delivering two hours of acoustic music and waffle at the Glee Club on Wednesday. A vintage performance by anybody's standards.
Not the case the night after in Gloucester when he abandoned the stage and refused to return for an encore. Apparently, a couple of punters thought it polite to yak loudly through his intimate show and only shut up after being physically ejected by Cope himself.