Pop goes Kings Heath
Line up for music festival finalised.
Birmingham Cabaret Festival launches this week
City centre theatre to host inaugural event.
Oh yeh
Simon Hale watches jazz veteran Georgie Fame at the Jam House.
Walking down Sparkle Lane
Dave Woodhall talks to a Birmingham musical export with a tale or two to tell.
Review : Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Terry Wills watches a musical adaptation of a smash cinema hit.
No more crying, Ken Boothe is here
Ska legend to play Birmingham.
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group seeks new Chair
Retiring head pays tribute to group’s work.
You’d be barking to miss Police Dog Hogan in Kings Heath
Here at last to satisfy the clamour of their Brummie fans, come Police Dog Hogan.
Coming up at Artrix
Comedy, music and theatre.
Free student event to be held in city
Bands, DJs and bouncy castles.
Brum’s King Of Swing in Ritz charity fundraiser
Sunday afternoon event to mark legendary venue.
Polar bear around the corner from polar bear
Oh maan, how Polar Bear have grown over the years, mists Martin Longley.
Clinton for President
The mastermind behind Funkadelic and Parliament gave one of his very best performances in Birmingham, shouts Martin Longley.
Stripped bare
Rachel Watts looks forward to a basic evening with Status Quo.
Raver’s return
Madchester comes to Birmingham.
Vienna roll
Martin Longley reels to the Fizzle free jazz improvisatory permutations, quaffing Equinox beer at the same time.
Blue Robin
There’s some prime blues happening at the Robin in the next few days.
Masters of the airwaves
University to hold urban radio discussion.
Apex trim
Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Slim Gaillard lived again in Solihull. Martin Longley tapped his pedal extremities.
Coventry (vibra)cathedral
Saturday nite’s alright for droning and throttling, says Martin Longley.
Contemporary musicians end on a high
BCMG end their 2014-2015 season with Fantasmagoria.
Locked neset monster
A Norwegian living in Denmark landed in Birmingham, bearing his fearsome two-horned prong-of-attack. Martin Longley diced with death on the front row.
Hill’s treat
Birmingham Jazz return for adopted son of the city.
Hare & Hounds debut for acclaimed duo
Drever and Hewerdine to stop off in Kings Heath
New markets for Birmingham tourist spot
Regular Sunday markets come to JRR Tolkien’s historic Sarehole Mill.
Coming to Artrix
There’s a mixed bag coming up at at the Artrix Arts Centre.
Seven clowns in search of a plot
Sir Howard Elston, political correspondent to the stars, recaps the seven headed beast called the election debate.
Sweden comes to Kings Heath
Benjamin Folke Thomas to play the Hare & Hounds.
Nomination for Birmingham musicians
BCMG nominated for prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Millennium Point performance.
The Sunday sets
Link-up to present city centre jazz on Sunday afternoons.