Links
Ace Bushy Striptease - Higly enthusiastic Birmingham band with K Records stickers, pop hits, 30 second songs and shouting. They have genius song titles too and seem to write a song a day. Win!
ATTA Girl - Birmingham night which predominantly plays female vocalists and always play good songs. They have a pretty ace fanzine which you can find round town and at their disco nights.
Bad Astonomy - A blog which kicked off by debunking moon landing conspiracy theories and carried on being lovely. It’s where you can get all the latest astronomy and astophysics news.
Bad Science - for all of your science needs and nerds.
Colour - Wolverhampton promoters who are putting on some of the great bands that they have in Wolves along with touring bands who otherwise wouldn’t end up playing round here.
The Daily Quail - a great parody site of the Mail. The perfect antidote if you ever accidentally stumble across readers comments on the actual Mail website.
David Leach - is a lovely chap who is possibly doomed to an eternity of being described on gig posters as “a Lancastrian with a Ukulele”. Also makes excellent knitwear!
Dinosaur Comics - it’s a web comic with the same pictures every time but always fantastic.
Pete Green - Sheffield acoustic pop man turned frontman for the Pete Green Corporate Juggernaut. He’s also running a blog for The Regulars who were a Birmingham pop band from around the turn of the century, which also featured Falling and Laughing’s bassist - Stu.
The Hearing Aid - is probably the most updated Birmingham music review website, and jolly good it is too.
Horowitz - A two piece from Stoke who have fuzzy guitars and some of the best popsongs in the midlands. They also organise the Sunny Inside nights.
Kidnapper Bell - brilliant Birmingham band. They touch upon musical stepping stones such as emo - when it was a genuinely good and not-at-all over-marketed genre - whilst adding other influences too, such as room filling shoegaze guitars and interesting song structures and dynamics more typical of post-rock bands such as Mono (ooh, who have a song called Kidnapper Bell - coincidence?)
Magnetic Four - Falling and Laughing played our first ever gig with Magnetic Four, who we met over cherry brandy and Hefner and cats. Nick from Magnetic Four now plays as Cast and Crew.
Moscow Olympics - named after the other side of the single that Falling and Laughing are named after, and like us, don’t really sound like Orange Juice. It’s kindof a dream to play a gig with them if anyone fancies putting it on (I must warn you though, they’re based in the Philippines).
Munich Mannequins - If I brought the pop to She Dreams of Faraway Stars, then Chris brought the post rock ideals and there’s no doubt his guitar playing has had a big influence on mine and the Falling and Laughing sound. Munich Mannequins are his latest band.
Oddbox Records - are a London Record label and have a very good blog and release stuff by a range of very good bands.
Pete Ashton - is the man who got Birmingham into blogging.
Robot vs Dinosaur - Birmingham’s electronica night who have done an amazing job in getting some good acts from round the country.
Saint Judes Infirmary - are an Edinburgh band we made friends with in the days of She Dreams of Faraway Stars. Delicate female vocals meet JAMC aesthetics and class.
Sunset Cinema Club - funky noisy melodic band from Birmingham. Dom from this band handily recorded the first two Falling and Laughing ’sessions’.
The Smittens - pop! One of their songs called Sapphire is the perfect bittersweet popsong, and will get you *just there* every time.
Sweeping the Nation - is a music blog, and it’s so prolific at writing and good at coming across music you seriously wonder how they have time to do anything else. Basically, it’s what the mainstream music press should be doing.
xkcd - is the best anything ever, but you aleady knew that