Brumcast 163 'Cherry Choke' was broadcast live on http://www.rhubarbradio.com on Monday 24th May 8pm GMT. Featuring more metal from Morgue Orgy who are at the forthcoming Brumstock festival, also the multi talented alt folk out fit Little Sister, Skank out with Mr Shankly, some beautiful piano music too from Rich Batsford. All written and performed by artists from Birmingham and the UK Midlands. Download free and direct from here. Full show details and audio streams at the Brumcast archive.
Here's this show's playlist :-
The Black Acid Band - Spanner & Ratchet (2:04)
The Vehicles - Paris (3:35)
Mr. Shankly - Girl at the bookies (2:39)
We All Need Heroes - Unwanted (3:43)
The Baps - Track 1 (2:18)
Templeton Pek - Barriers (3:25)
Morgue Orgy - Black of Hearts (3:51)
Greg Bird & Flamingo Flame - Cherry Choke (4:33)
Blak Can - The Same (3:57)
IO - Five Ton Man (6:21)
Little Sister - One Monkey (3:28)
Drop The Ball - The Bay Of Whales (3:28)
Rich Batsford - Gudonya (5:12)
Enjoy!
Little Chris
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Most people in the British Film Industry are waiting. Waiting for a phone call, an email, a sign. Anything that says their film will get made.
In my case its been more than five years since winning two short film baftas and the waiting is killing me.
Ok, they told me it would be like this but I thought well, I got me baftas, that's got to make a difference.
Well er no, just get to the back of the queue Mikey Boy. And wait.... and wait and wait some more.

Brumcast 162 'Pure Evil' was broadcast live on http://www.rhubarbradio.com on Monday 17th May 8pm GMT. Featuring plenty of metal from the forthcoming Brumstock festival, also shoe gaze from Iroha, disco post rock from Old School Tie, a beautiful acoustic track from Boat To Row and more. All written and performed by artists from Birmingham and the UK Midlands. Download free and direct from the Brumcast Achive. Full show details and audio streams here
Here's this show's playlist :-
1. Bronze Medals - Escape Routes (4:23)
2. Revenant Dead - Shallow Grave (3:41)
3. The Gruber - Aimless Comet (4:08)
4. Broken Again - The Black And The White (4:33)
5. I Hate You More - Lockdown (4:00)
6. Boat To Row - The Night The Owl Slept (3:50)
7. Iroha. - Something's Got To Give (5:50)
8. Kataleptic - Synapse (4:01)
9. Old School Tie - We Are Machines (3:56)
10. Panacea Dream - Indelible (5:06)
11. Metal Cross - Pure Evil (3:30)
Enjoy!
Little Chris
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Brumcast 161 'Feels Like Home' was broadcast live on http://www.rhubarbradio.com on Monday 10th May 8pm GMT. Featuring a new one from Einstellung unheard elsewhere, Also new tracks from School of Ambience and The Black Acid Band, ska from Mr Shankly, Live indie funk from Youves and more! All written and performed by artists from Birmingham and the UK Midlands. Download free and direct from here. Full show details and audio streams at the Brumcast archive
Here's this show's playlist :-
1. Betty & The Id - Bad Girl, Bad Trip (2:37)
2. Mr. Shankly - Forbidden town (3:43)
3. The Black Acid Band - Wunji The Destroyer (1:20)
4. School of Ambience - Voices from a memory (6:35)
5. Benjamin Blower & The Army of the Broken Hearted - The Darkness Doesnt Love You Baby (2:49)
6. The Low Orders - Fat Lad (4:10)
7. Einstellung - Feels like home (6:53)
8. The Lucky 27s - The Lucky 27s - The Man (3:38)
9. Youves - On Probation (4:04)
10. SixtyFiveMiles - Don't Want you hanging Around (4:04)
11. Moachin - Broken Television From The Future 02 (3:54)
12. Silas Wood - A Kat In Spanish Harlem (3:52)
Enjoy!
Little Chris
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Look at this for a line up of >50% Brum metal bands!! The Brumstock Underground Festival being held at The Old Wharf in Digbeth, Birmingham on 28th, 29th, 30th May 2010 is FREE ENTRY but please be prepared to throw a few quid in the bucket. This event is a fundraiser for Birmingham Childrens Hospital, a very worthwhile cause!

Brumcast 160 'Lights, Camera, Attraction' was broadcast live on http://www.rhubarbradio.com on Monday 3rd March 8pm GMT. Featuring a goodbye to Tempest Records, electro from Distinct Radi0, chaos with Ace Bushy Striptease, Industrial from Wrapped in Plastic, Acoustic from Josh Hunt & more. All written and performed by artists from Birmingham and the UK Midlands. Download free and direct from here or stream the show from RhubarbRadio.com
Here's this show's playlist :-
1. Distinct Radi0 - DMT (4:09)
2. The Tiddlywhips - Needless Alley (0:47)
3. Ace Bushy Striptease - Adam Jackson Spreads Like Wildfire (0:50)
4. Fields of Ypres - A Bird in Hand (4:25)
5. Lazy J - Turn and Distort (3:56)
6. Blak Can - Calls of the stalls (4:32)
7. Drop The Ball - Empires (3:43)
8. Johnny Normal - The Consequence of Loving You (5:15)
9. RASE - No Excuses (3:04)
10. Fayte MC and VisualAudioReplicant - Walk Like Tha Lightning (3:28)
11. Josh Hunt - 6th Song (3:10)
12. Fans Of Faye - Lights, Camera, Attraction (4:36)
13. Wrapped in Plastic - Mother Love (4:04)
14. Kramer Vs. Kramer Vs. Godzilla - Toymaz (2:11)
Enjoy!
Little Chris
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It doesn't matter who we are, every one of us has a motive for staying long-term in Beijing, and it tends to fall into one of two categories; for career or for love.
If you have the best of one of them already, then you count your blessings, but is it really possible to have both the great career and the great relationship?

Ask a majority of the expat women in Beijing about their dating habits and they will tell you the same thing; that there is a distinct lack of nice men in Beijing, and how they all end up dating men whom, if they were in their home country, they would never have given a second glance.

The lucky, lucky expatriate men find that in Beijing they have super powers. Suddenly they're getting all this attention from pretty Chinese girls. The female expat community watch in horror as they see the class nerd strutting down Sanlitun like he's John Travolta, and feel their standards slip even further down their leg as they find themselves thinking, "hmm, he's looking quite hot tonight."

It has become a normality of everyday life to see a foreign guy with a local Chinese girl on his arm, but still a rarity to see foreign girls walking hand in hand with a local Chinese guy.

It has been speculated that this is because a lot of people haven't moved past the traditional perception that Chinese guys are shorter and weaker than their western counterparts, and therefore unable to satisfy the needs of a western woman. Surely this cannot be true?

When I first moved to shanghai, my roommate and I would babywipe our arms and "ew" at the amount of dust we found on our skin after being outdoors.

Shanghai, like Beijing, is one of China's busiest and most integral hubs. Being on the coast, however, has significant advantages to the climate and pollution levels.
I now live in Beijing. What can I say, I LOVE this city. The culture, the history, the Beijing people... But being the Chinese capital and the centre of attraction has it's negatives. The air in Beijing is so dry that I need to slather five or six layers of moisturiser on my face before it feels normal and soft again.

Actually, I hadn't realized how scaly I was becoming with just my single layer of lanolin cream twice a day, until my 11-year-old Korean student touched my face and remarked on how differently my skin felt to his. I now take the liberty of covering my entire body in baby oil bother morning and night - which may sound extreme, but is entirely necessary.

The dryness of the city, which is down to the heavy pollution here, can cause nosebleeds and eczema. A number of my foreign friends have also developed asthma and sometimes have panic attacks when they can't catch their breath.
Health is a heavy price to pay for living in China's capital. So, regardless of how much we adore this place, we all know that sooner or later we need to escape to a place where the air is fresh, the climate soothing, and the grass green.