Birmingham’s very own musical lynchpin Matt Beck is this week’s guest SPOTI-FEWAPY curator. Matt concurrently runs the city’s premier promoters of alternative indie and new wave – This Is Tmrw – whilst being a dab hand in the Soul Food Project Kitchen at the Hare & Hounds cooking up feasts influenced by sounds and smells of Americana.

Los Angeles ‘tropical punk’ group, Abe Vigoda take the This Is Tmrw stage next on Tuesday 16th November at the Hare & Hounds, Birmingham alongside the brilliant Calories and the brilliant Savant.

You can buy tickets for the show here, or check out more details on the Facebook Event Page

He is the bass player in one of Birmingham’s ’so hot right now’ bands – Tantrums, and he has recently turned his hand to a touch of insightful blogging. Ladies and Gents, put your flippers together to welcome Joshua Mooney to the SPOTI-FEWAPY Hall of Fame.

Tantrums are on tour with the Sunshine Underground in November / December in support of their imminently released single, ‘Gimme My Ticket Out’ which is out on Monday 8th November. Here is that tour which includes dates, venues and cities:

27th Nov – HMV Institute, Birmingham
29th Nov – Central Station, Wrexham
1st Dec – Masque, Liverpool
2nd Dec – Fibbers, York
3rd Dec – Tokyo, Huddersfield
7th Dec – Sound Control, Manchester

This week the team at OxjamBrum shared their love for the birrmmzz music scene on SPOTI-FEWAPY by selecting 12 songs made of 100% local meat. The Oxjam Takeover 2010 features no less than 40 artists from the local environs playing across 6 city venues this Saturday 16th October.

Wristbands for the event cost £6 and will enable you to have access to all venues and hence, all artists including Malpas, Tantrums, Bronze Medals, Shana Tova, Hot Monocles, Savant, James Rea and many more. Speech Fewapy Records will be represented by Tom Peel and Greg Bird & Flamingo Flame (appearing with Sunset Cinema Club) both at The Victoria, so we knows where we’re going to be from 4.30pm this Saturday.

Richard Franks of upcoming Birmingham based web-zine Counteract Magazine is this week’s SPOTI-FEWAPY curator. Counteract Magazine presents positive and well balanced coverage of national and local music news and reviews, living up to their slogan “National News with a Local Edge.

Counteract Magazine also run regular clubnights in Birmingham at the newly refurbished HMV Institute in Digbeth as well as the Hare & Hounds, Kings Heath and the Bulls Head, Moseley. Check out the Counteract website for more details.

To celebrate the release of the ‘Tripple Click It ‘ EP, we asked Tom Peel to compile a playlist for this week’s SPOTI-FEWAPY. ‘There Is No There’ consists of Tom’s favourite tracks including those that had an influence on the making of the EP.

Click to go through to the link –> Spoti-Fewapy No.3 – There Is No There (by Tom Peel)

This week’s installment of SPOTI-FEWAPY features some of the best bands from this year’s Bestival. A right fun time and was had watching a bunch of right fun music.

Click to go through to the link:–> Spoti-Fewapy No.2 – Best of all Bestival

Next week, Tom Peel celebrates the release of his Speech Fewapy Records debut EP ‘Tripple Click It’ with a SPOTI-FEWAPY playlist featuring some of his favourite tracks that influenced the record.

Spoti-Fewapy is a new weekly feature whereby us here at Speech Fewapy Records create a playlist using popular online music catalogue, Spotify (TM). We’ll delegate this task to our artists, friends, community members and anyone else who wants to give it a whirl.

Spoti-Fewapy playlists are compiled with no boundaries in mind, as long as there is a running theme implied by a catchy title and explained with a brief introduction, anything is welcome.

This week, my (Daniel, Speech Fewapy Records & The Traps) playlist is entitled ‘2010 out of 10′, where I have included some of my favourite songs from what I think are a few of 2010’s best records so far.