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The Medicine Bar was a bar in
Birmingham
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,
England
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. Located in the
Custard Factory
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in
Digbeth
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, it has hosted many
techno
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funk
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and hip hop events. It started as a collaboration in the 1990s between the
London
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Medicine bar and local hip hopDJ 'Simon Fat Head', who began his career at the Brothers and Sisters at the Coast to Coast club on Broad Street.
''Substance'' (which evolved out of ''Amplified'') is the longest running hip hop night in the bar, with DJs Roc1, Magoo, Chris Reid (also from Scratch in London) and MC Mad Flow. It has brought hip hop acts including
Afrika Bambaata
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,
De La Soul
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soul
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night which is part run by ex
Rockers Hi-Fi
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DJ Dick and Adam Regan (who now owns the Bull's Head bar in the birmingham suburb of Moseley). Leftfoot hosts many large acid Jazz type events with appearances from
Gilles Peterson
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to Mr Scruff. Both nights feature live acts.
Other events to take place at the bar include
breakdance
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and
graffiti
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art shows. For a short period in 2006/07, the Medicine Bar hosted the Birmingham leg of Club NME.
Medicine Bar had a Martin Audio modular system installed by Ace Vintage Systems.