Birmingham, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 is the second largest city in Britain 🇬🇧.

It is also broke.

This declaration of municipal bankruptcy has occurred despite Birmingham currently being the the scene of significant construction and other economic development activity?

[Ed. Note- This appears so different from when Detroit, Michigan went under. There was little or no economic activity going on.]

How did this occur? Can’t answer that because we only source the music sometimes arising from various geo-political situations.

Kimberly read about this devastating news in the Globe this week and let me know.

As is often the case, the news immediately reminded me of a song from my collection.

Here is the “King Of Kaustic”- none other that the late MARK E. SMITH and his prolific band, THE FALL (from Manchester) with their song ‘The Birmingham School Of Business School.”

This track is taken from their 14th (of 31) studio LPs, namely “Code: Selfish” (1992).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7mqH8lsubdo&list=RD7mqH8lsubdo&start_radio=1

SPOTIFY-

https://spotify.link/rM7tWKpOvDb

(SONG 636)

Play Loud and You Will Not Go Bankrupt

9/30/2023