Brum Music Scene Roudup

I’m getting “friended” by a fair number of Birmingham-based bands on MySpace at the moment which is super-keen though I’m having trouble keeping track of them all in my head, so here’s a brief summary.

Morning View – Acoustic four piece. Playing a gig at the Actress and Bishop on Sunday Feb 5th and have asked me to take some photos of them.

The Arm – starts out sounding like standard post-rock noodling metal but then a vocorder-thingy comes into play and I grin.

Captain Dangerous – This all sounds very familiar and I’ll kick myself when I put my finger on it, possibly tapping the same vein as The Rumble Strips, and it’s all good stuff. They seem to be touring around the country a fair bit and the next Brum gig isn’t until April.

The Graham Parsnip Liquidiser Torture Think-Tank Project – I’m still not sure how much my mileage is varying with this bunch who are playing on that tightrope of comedy rock. I think I’ll need to see them live to be sure. On Feb 4th in fact.

The Magnetic Four have a nice chugga chugga to their indie rock thing and appear to play in Brum every month or so.

The Motive made me sit up and take notice with a blatant Stooges homage but they build upon that nicely and I’m still taking notice.

Devil and Casey Jones describe themselves as “That fight that happened between Neil Finn and Big Black. You know, the one refereed by Frank Black” and for that I’m prepared to like them a lot. As a bonus I also like their music and should be going to see them at the Flapper on Saturday.

Betty and The Id are just downright intriguing. The music is of the dreamy 60′s psychedelic variety but I suspect their live show could be something special. They possibly slip into the Misty’s spectrum of the local scene and that’s a good thing.

And that’s all in the last fortnight. Blimey.