BRUMTASIA

'Strictly Toyah'
https://alangbrooksartandillustration.blogspot.com/2026/10/brumtasia.html
Dreams of being a dancer
And More . . .

Birmingham Heavy Metal Sigil
'Coat of many colours'

Tornado approaching Kings Heath.
The Ritz story

Tornado hits Kings Heath
The Ritz story

Birmingham Broad Street 1

'On Reflection.'

The Only Way Is Up.

. . .Toyah . . . [inexplicable]

The Visitor - 1967 - We had a stranger in Kings Heath that year.
A stranger back then,
but not for long.
https://alangbrooksartandillustration.blogspot.com/2023/10/kings-heath-reimagined-part-two.html

top right - Toyah.
bottom right - Trevor Burton - Jimi Hendrix.
bottom left - Ozzy Osbourne. top left Jimi Hendrix playing in York Rd Kings Heath

Rainbow. Water. Protection.
Emissary

New Street Station Birmingham U.K.
https://alangbrooksartandillustration.blogspot.com/2026/09/train-times.html

Rotunda.
Birmingham City Centre.
6.

Roy Wood.
New Street Station.

Top left. By the Mill. Top right. Dove is 'lost pigeon'
in Choctaw language. Bottom right. Rush hour.
Bottom left. Bournemouth beach with cloud formations - [or
heavenly apparition]

Bograts work on 'things' - and apply themselves -
Undercover, and ahead of their time.
Above is a bodyguard,
assistant and friend - built by the Bograts.
'KLANG'

A Bograt with another robot artificial companion and friend.
His companion and protector.
'Bog Rats' live a night shift all of their own..
They go out when it's dark. Come home when it's light.
Bog Rats meet on the first floor of a Birmingham pub in New Street - namely Bogarts.
There is no official membership. If you fit, gravity will simply place you there.

'Steveye' - v A.I. -
Private Veye
An enigmatic figure, guitarist, team member,
investigator, sleuth, can't easily be labelled.

Canal 'Choctaw' Operations Narrowboat

Stealth Mission?
from Gas Street Basin in Birmingham
[the Heart of the Midlands]
the narrowboat winds its way through Droitwich and
down towards the South of England.
Relaxing and unassuming . .
Or is there more to this than meets the eye?

Operations room
narrowboat fleet

Can you hear it . . . ?
. . . . . . . in the mountains

A.I. Nowhere
Now - Here.

Hare and Hounds Pub
Kings Heath.
Steampunk Night

Guitarmageddon

'Imagine No John Lennon'. . .
Silver Street Kings Heath. Findings 1.

Bob - Portal, Birmingham.
City Centre

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Description

Epic Showcase novel of the times, people and places in on and around the City of Birmingham and the Midlands.
Featuring the artists musicians and creatives of the time who helped make the City of Birmingham and beyond be more than the ‘second city’ and more like a second to none city. This was all as it appeared as I grew up and experienced everything from the fifties through the eighties in an exciting world of music and art. The birth of Heavy Metal and all that went with it. The magical village of Kings Heath and the people that lived there.
Stay tuned and see why as it unfolds here piece by piece . . . . .

Role

Artists Photographers Painters Creators Authors Digital Artists Traditional Artists

For

Brookswave – Alan G Brooks – Jay M Brooks

Date

Type

artworks are combinations of traditional painting and drawing, collage, photography, digital manipulation and photoshop painting.