Archive for June, 2011

Well Glasto may be finished …but the festival fun doesn’t stop there… This weekend is the Mostly Jazz Festival and this year we will be hosting the official After Parties! Make sure you don’t miss out, and if that’s not quite your thing, don’t forget we have plenty of live bands and clubnights this week including It’s Just Noise presents: Joan of Arc / Hot Club de Paris / Pandas & People

Visit http://mostlyjazz.co.uk/ to see what the festival is all about.

Don’t forget to subscribe to our mailing list on the website, facebook and twitter feed!

Monday & Wednesday – Back Bar quiz – Lots of prizes to be won!

Tuesday

Stitches and Hos – A little knitting hootenanny – Stitches and Hos are a motley crew of enthusiasts for all things knitted, crocheted and stitched. We can be found creating soft chaos and dropping stitches on the last Tuesday of every month from 7.30pm onwards in the back bar. Everyone welcome – you don’t even have to be good!

Wednesday

Johnny Doom presents: Omina Opera / Stuntdog (Ex Cardiacs) – Kerrang Radio’s Johnny Doom hosts a night of space rock and psychedelia with the triumphant return of space rock legends Omnia Opera, who will be playing tracks from their new double album ‘Nothing is Ordinary’. They will be joined by Stuntdog, a exciting new project featuring ex Cardiacs drummer Dominic Luckman. Johnny will be DJing between bands providing spacey sounds, kraut rock classics and stoner grooves.

Thursday

Emma Scott presents: Pharmatronik / This Burning Age / The Scholars / The Bronze Medal – Comprising of two members David Smith, Paul Saunders this electro indie rock duo released their debut album ‘Elephants & Horses’ at the end of last year to critical acclaim.

Taking their influences from a wide range of seminal artists such as Velvet Underground, Depeche Mode, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Church, David Bowie, many, many more…Too many to list. Phamartronik make music they want, depending on how they feel.

Friday

It’s Just Noise presents: Joan of Arc / Hot Club de Paris / Pandas & People

With a career that stretches all the way back to 1995, and a ‘members of’ list that includes Cap’n Jazz, Owls, Ghosts & Vodka and Make Believe, their influence is undeniably far-reaching. Now with Victor Villarreal and his hyper-meticulous style of guitar playing back in the fold, Joan of Arc are armed with a new Steve Albini-recorded album which marks an outstanding return to form.

Mostly Jazz Festival presents: Mostly Jazz Festival – After Show Party (Gilles Peterson DJ Set)

Music lover, record collector, DJ, and broadcaster, Gilles Peterson is perhaps most famous for his much loved genre-exploding radio shows on BBC Radio 1 (and 17 other stations around the world including Japan’s leading commercial station J-Wave). Gilles’ insatiable appetite for new music undoubtedly lies at the heart of his success.

Saturday

Mostly Jazz Festival presents: Mostly Jazz Festival – After show Party (Matthew Herbert DJ Set)

For someone so uncompromising in his attitude towards music and its making, for someone so unafraid to shun the sort of political engagement other, more timid artists consider a commercial turn-off, Matthew Herbert has been extraordinarily successful in an extraordinary variety of fields.

After bringing the Saturday in Moseley Park to a close, Matthew Herbert will be heading over where he will be DJing at the official after party…

Reverb presents: Beats and Pieces – Free Party

After the madness of our 3rd birthday party with Justin Robertson, we are back on Saturday 2nd July with a free party for all our friends.  This time around we are pleased to be sharing the hare and hounds with the Moseley jazz festival and to top that the party is a freebie to thank everyone for their support…rather than the normal house beats expect indie, soul , funk, electronic 80′s, breaks…in fact anything to make that floor move….

Soul Food Project presents: Soul Food Saturdays! – Every Saturday Soul Food Project will be throwing open the doors to the back lounge at The Hare and Hounds, sprucing up the room  and easing you into the weekend with the sweetest soul music and deepest raw funk soundtrack in B14 and beyond.

Sunday

Soul Food Project presents: Roasts ‘n’ Records – Whilst you tuck into your roasts,  Dubber & Brian Travers will be playing the platters that matter with a smorgasbord of jazz, bossa nova, funk, reggae, dub and anything else that takes  their fancy. Soul Food will be on hand to provide the best Sunday dinners in B14…Think Cajun Beefs, Warming Butternut Squash, Sticky, sweet hams, Crunchy Pork Belly and beyond…..

TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR 2011:

RAMS POCKET RADIO / JOAN OF ARC / HIGH FIDELITY / SEA OF BEES / KILL IT KID / SUSAN CADOGAN / DADDY G / ALTERNTIVE DUBSTEP ORCHESTRA / ROY AYERS & PETE ROCK / ANTI-POP CONSORTIUM  / QUANTIC AND HIS COMBO BARBARO / GOLDIE / EASY STAR ALL-STARS / HIGH FIDELITY / THE REZILLOS / DRY THE RIVER / CULTS

To get cheaper tickets in advance buy online:

https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/buy_tickets/venues/?id=685

Come say Hi!

xH&Hx

Fancy winning a pair of weekend tickets for Mostly Jazz Festival 2011 ?

The first 50 people through the door at Quantic (DJ Set) on saturday will get a raffle ticket…the winner will be drawn at the end of the night.

The Mostly Jazz Festival is back for a second year! Set in the beauty of Moseley Park’s natural amphitheatre, the festival promises three fantastic days of Jazz, Funk & Soul. This year’s headline acts include Booker T, Matthew Herbert Big Band and The Cinematic Orchestra with DJ sets and after-parties from Gilles Peterson and Craig Charles’ Funk & Soul Club. This year MJF are teaming up with Birmingham’s finest promoters Leftfoot, Birmingham Jazz & Yardbird to bring you this stellar line up.

It’s Glastonbury weekend, so if you’re one of the people who haven’t gone to the farm – you can either sit in and watch Bono on the box or you can get yourselves down the Hare & Hounds for some real FUN!  As per usual we have a large selection of live acts this week, and some classic clubnights to keep you entertained. Quantic DJ set is pay on the door only so make sure you turn up early to guarantee your entry!

Don’t forget to subscribe to our mailing list on the website, facebook and twitter feed!

Monday & Wednesday – Back Bar quiz – Lots of prizes to be won!

Tuesday

Soul Food Project presents: Soul Food visits Italy – SOLD OUT

This month’s ‘Soul Food Visits…’ is fully booked, to avoid disappointment in the future make sure you book your tickets in advance or join our mailing list to hear about similar events. To book your place for next month’s ‘Soul Food Visits Brazil!’ call 0121 444 2081

Thursday

Emma Scott presents: Marc Malone / Sevendaze / Go Primitive / Undue – Celtic Rock Artist, Producer and Guitar Virtuoso. The first of a kind, he possesses the zeal to bring genuine and inspiring music back into the mainstream. After nearly a decade of playing Guitar, Marc set his sights on becoming an Artist and songwriter, alongside his guitar playing prowess.

SOUNDkitchen presents: Pleq / James Kelly / Mark Harris – Pleq is the solo project of Bartosz Dziadosz,an experimental musician who combines elements of drone, down tempo, glitch and modern classical. He creates his work by fusing together independently synthesized sounds, often incorporates violin, the unexpectedly melancholic sound of a piano, sometimes female vocals.

Friday

Resistor presents: POINT B – His work is an uncompromisingly experimental take on wonderful melodies and hooks, over precocious time signature rhythms. Heavy use of bass and seriously abusing the realms of 2step, garage and breakbeat, still the poetic intelligence shines through.

His excellent work can be found on labels such as Combat Recordings, SCSI AV and Erratica to name a few…

The Big Ten Inch presents: THE BIG TEN INCH – DJ Scratchy – Red-Hot Rhythm & Blues, Screamin’ Soul, Wild Rockabilly, Swing, Ska, Skiffle & 60s Beat. It’s Glastonbury weekend – you can sit in and watch bloody Bono on the box or you can get yourselves down The Hare & Hounds for some real rock n roll mayhem…The Legendary DJ Scratchy (tour DJ for The Clash, The Pogues, Gogol Bordello), Count Skylarkin (Trojan Records) , Van Mule (The Yardbird / Ronnie Scotts) & more

Saturday

Leftfoot & Jibbering presents: Quantic (DJ Set) – Jazz sensibility with future dance floor orientated grooves, deep funk and tough drums. Will Holland is one of the most talented and prolific artists in the world of alternative dance music today. Recording under various guises, Will first found acclaim as Quantic. As well as Quantic and the Quantic Soul Orchestra Will is one half of The Limp Twins!

FaceBOOT presents: Bar Boot Bazaar – The Bar Boot Bazaar! The event will be weekly and will take place in the 2 upstairs venues at the Hare & Hounds Pub, from 11-3pm. It will be a haven of vintage, bric a brac, books, records, toys, arts, crafts and much much more. (If you are interested in having a stall, then please get in touch.)

Soul Food Project presents: Soul Food Saturdays! – Every Saturday Soul Food Project will be throwing open the doors to the back lounge at The Hare and Hounds, sprucing up the room  and easing you into the weekend with the sweetest soul music and deepest raw funk soundtrack in B14 and beyond.

Sunday

Soul Food Project presents: Roasts ‘n’ Records – Whilst you tuck into your roasts,  Dubber & Brian Travers will be playing the platters that matter with a smorgasbord of jazz, bossa nova, funk, reggae, dub and anything else that takes  their fancy. Soul Food will be on hand to provide the best Sunday dinners in B14…Think Cajun Beefs, Warming Butternut Squash, Sticky, sweet hams, Crunchy Pork Belly and beyond…..

TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR 2011:

PLEQ / RAMS POCKET RADIO / JOAN OF ARC / HIGH FIDELITY / SEA OF BEES / KILL IT KID / SUSAN CADOGAN / DADDY G / ALTERNTIVE DUBSTEP ORCHESTRA / ROY AYERS & PETE ROCK / ANTI-POP CONSORTIUM  / QUANTIC AND HIS COMBO BARBARO / GOLDIE / EASY STAR ALL-STARS / HIGH FIDELITY / THE REZILLOS / DRY THE RIVER / CULTS

To get cheaper tickets in advance buy online:

https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/buy_tickets/venues/?id=685

Come say Hi!

xH&Hx

We have a special week coming up! Martyn Joseph will be playing with his full band for the first time in 15 years this Thursday… and on Wednesday The Moons (ex The On-Offs) will be taking over the big room! Don’t forget to take advantage of our new Soul Food deals kicking off with By one get one free on Jambalaya tomorrow (Tuesday).

We have also just confirmed 2 more shows for your Leftfoot calendars with Quantic and his Combo Barbaro in August as well as the return of Easy Star All-Stars! To get your tickets cheaper in advance click here: https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/buy_tickets/venues/?id=685

Don’t forget to subscribe to our mailing list on the website, facebook and twitter feed!

Monday & Wednesday – Back Bar quiz – Lots of prizes to be won!

Tuesday

8Bit Lounge presents: 8Bit Lounge – We continue with more console over load, and musical mischief. As many of you saw last time we have an impressive array of other consoles for you, including PS2, networked DOOM, MAME arcade simulator with hundreds of games and old skool joy pads, plus tons more. Oh… and its free!

Wednesday

Live Forever & Plus dB presents: The Moons / The Arcadian Kicks – Founded in 2008 by singer, songwriter and guitarist Andy Crofts, former bass player of The On-Offs and today Paul Weller’s keyboard player. Their 2nd album release , ‘Tales Of The Unexpected’ in June, includes a duet with Paul Weller on the co-written ‘Something Soon’. Not to be missed!

Thursday

World Unlimited presents: Martyn Joseph Band – Martyn’s  new album “Under Lemonade Skies” has such a rich and compelling soundscape that a long anticipated string of dates with a band has finally come to fruition. Make sure you grab this rare opportunity to see one of the UK’s finest songwriters and performers at the top of his game, and with US producer Mason Neely on Drums (and lots of other things) and Wal Coughlan on Bass. Not to be missed!

Celebrating Sanctuary presents: Kadialy Kouyate – Birmingham’s Celebrating Sanctuary Festival is a world music festival with a difference. Non profit-making, the festival focuses on the music of refugee-producing countries and showcases and promotes artists-in-exile. Senegalese kora virtuoso/singer Kadialy Kouyate showcases his fleet-fingered skills on this mesmerizing instrument, complementing it with his hauntingly, darkly beautiful voice, to create a Toumani Diabate-meets-Youssou N’Dour sound.

Friday

Endless Nameless presents: 10 Guitars / Cannons & Tanks / Unseen / Tom Peel / Dust Motes / Rich Batsford – His music and style has been described as all sorts of things but with influences from Michael Jackson to Sean Paul along with Daft Punk to Pink Floyd XG would advise that his music would fall into the acquired taste of “niche pop”.

mimic presents: mimic & friends (Elsewhere Djs) B2B Sets – This June 17^th party features a collection of djs who are well established in their own right, all getting together for a night of back to back sets across various styles of house and techno music with one objective, to have fun and have it right f*cking off!

Saturday

Friendly Fire Sessions presents: Dennis Brown Tribute – A LIVE BAND Tribute to the Crown Prince of Reggae Dennis Brown, featuring uk reggae icons Peter Spence and Bonito Star alongside Pablo Rider, Lion Art and Natural Mystique, each bringing their own flavor to D BRown’s extensive catalog of hits, and backed by the Friendly Fire Band.

THC presents: MAKATON/Harvey Lane  - Hailing from Stourbridge, but now firmly lodged in London, MAKATON has been riding the edges of experimental techno since 1999, and has spread to the far corners of the world. Another fine exponent of what is globally known as ‘Birmingham’ techno, this music …can be presented best by MAKATON and THC.

FaceBOOT presents: Bar Boot Bazaar – The Bar Boot Bazaar! The event will be weekly and will take place in the 2 upstairs venues at the Hare & Hounds Pub, from 11-3pm. It will be a haven of vintage, bric a brac, books, records, toys, arts, crafts and much much more. (If you are interested in having a stall, then please get in touch.)

Soul Food Project presents: Soul Food Saturdays! – Every Saturday Soul Food Project will be throwing open the doors to the back lounge at The Hare and Hounds, sprucing up the room  and easing you into the weekend with the sweetest soul music and deepest raw funk soundtrack in B14 and beyond.

Sunday

Ignite Books presents: Gala Night with Joolz / Justin Sullivan / Mik Davis – The Ignite Books Gala Night will be an extravaganza celebrating the publication of our first book, ‘The Curious Mystery…’ by Joolz Denby. As well as readings from Joolz, expect acoustic sets from Justin Sullivan – lead singer of the world-renowned New Model Army – and Mik Davis, of psychedelic-rockers NYAAA.

Soul Food Project presents: Roasts ‘n’ Records – Whilst you tuck into your roasts,  Dubber & Brian Travers will be playing the platters that matter with a smorgasbord of jazz, bossa nova, funk, reggae, dub and anything else that takes  their fancy. Soul Food will be on hand to provide the best Sunday dinners in B14…Think Cajun Beefs, Warming Butternut Squash, Sticky, sweet hams, Crunchy Pork Belly and beyond…..

TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR 2011:

THE MOONS / DENNIS BROWN LIVE TRIBUTE / IGNITE BOOKS GALA / SFP VISITS ITALY / PLEQ / RAMS POCKET RADIO / JOAN OF ARC / HIGH FIDELITY / SEA OF BEES / KILL IT KID / SUSAN CADOGAN / QUANTIC AND HIS COMBO BARBARO / GOLDIE / EASY STAR ALL-STARS / THE REZILLOS / DRY THE RIVER / CULTS

To get cheaper tickets in advance buy online:

https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/buy_tickets/venues/?id=685

Come say Hi!

xH&Hx

Soul Food launches a re-vamped menu tomorrow with a selection of funky burgers to warm you up for some of our great events across the month. Not forgetting some new weekly offers s come and put some soul in yer bowl …

Tuesday – Buy One Get One Free Jambalaya
Wednesdays – B14′s Best Quiz Night
Thursdays – Bowl of Jambalaya and a pint of Purity Mad Goose for a tenner!
Fridays – Two Burgers for a Tenner!

Don’t forget to subscribe to our mailing list on the website, facebook and twitter feed!

Monday & Wednesday – Back Bar quiz – Lots of prizes to be won!

Wednesday

Birmingham Promoters presents: Carina Round / Dan Whitehouse / Vijay Kishore – Performing songs from The First Blood Mystery! Carina has earned tremendous accolades from fans, critics and the artistic community alike for both her distinctive, yet versatile vocal style and gut-wrenchingly honest songwriting. Catch Carina in one of Birmingham’s most intimate venues!

Thursday

Emma Scott presents: Redtrack / Cohere / No Americana / Imogen’s Kiss

Redtrack are five well-dressed roustabouts from Southend-On-Sea who make cuttingly precise alternopop tunes which bring to mind the spiky likes of Costello, Difford and Weller quaffing some New Wavey-flavoured ale.

Friday

Sugarfoot Stomp presents: Sugarfoot Stomp Hawaiian Summer Party

The next Stomp will take place when the summer is fully sizzling away. We invite you to board the Boeing SFS to sunnier climes (aka upstairs at the Hare and Hounds- trust us!) and indulge in a taste of the exotic for the evening. Grass skirts and tropical shirts are advised!

Saturday

Bass Festival, Leftfoot & Elixir presents: BENJI B (BBC RADIO 1) – BASS Festival (British Arts and Street Sounds) is the UK’s only month long celebration of Black Music and Art. Benji B will be entertaining us in True Bass Festival style, playing music from the entire spectrum of soulful music, primarily hip hop, house, soul, electronic, Detroit techno, dubstep, boogie, disco and more.

FaceBOOT presents: Bar Boot Bazaar

The Bar Boot Bazaar! The event will be weekly and will take place in the 2 upstairs venues at the Hare & Hounds Pub, from 11-3pm. It will be a haven of vintage, bric a brac, books, records, toys, arts, crafts and much much more. (If you are interested in having a stall, then please get in touch.)

Soul Food Project presents: Soul Food Saturdays!

Every Saturday Soul Food Project will be throwing open the doors to the back lounge at The Hare and Hounds, sprucing up the room  and easing you into the weekend with the sweetest soul music and deepest raw funk soundtrack in B14 and beyond.

Sunday

Stand-Up Comedy

Comedy returns to the hare and Hounds on Sunday 12th June, this month we have 3 new acts to the circuit who will be bringing their funnies to the H&H stage, also headlining this month is the Edinburgh preview show from sally anne Hayworth. This will be a show not to miss, with sharp new raw material followed by experienced U.K headliner, what more do you need for your sunday night fix of laughter.

Soul Food Project presents: Roasts ‘n’ Records

Whilst you tuck into your roasts,  Dubber & Brian Travers will be playing the platters that matter with a smorgasbord of jazz, bossa nova, funk, reggae, dub and anything else that takes  their fancy. Soul Food will be on hand to provide the best Sunday dinners in B14…Think Cajun Beefs, Warming Butternut Squash, Sticky, sweet hams, Crunchy Pork Belly and beyond…..

TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR 2011:

CARINA ROUND / THE SOURCE / BENJI B / THE MOONS / DENNIS BROWN LIVE TRIBUTE / IGNITE BOOKS GALA / SFP VISITS ITALY / PLEQ / RAMS POCKET RADIO / JOAN OF ARC / HIGH FIDELITY / SEA OF BEES / KILL IT KID / SUSAN CADOGAN / QUANTIC AND HIS COMBO BARBARO / EASY STAR ALL-STARS / THE REZILLOS / DRY THE RIVER / CULTS

To get cheaper tickets in advance buy online:

https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/buy_tickets/venues/?id=685

Come say Hi!

xH&Hx