What’s on

Follow the latest what’s on in Birmingham news. Supplied by our guest writers, and press release contributors. From food & drink to live music, arts and culture to reviews and events.

Hoopla Blue to play Beyond The Tracks Festival!

Hoopla Blue will be performing at Birmingham’s Beyond The Tracks 17th Sept alongside Editors, Wild Beasts, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Slowdive and more. Poster attached. They’ve… Read more »

Craft Market, Street Food & Free Circus Fun at Custard Factory

The Custard Factory have another fantastic family event with a craft market, delicious street food, & FREE circus fun coming up on Saturday 23rd September. The event… Read more »

New craft graduates transform Birmingham Cathedral Square

New craft graduates transform Birmingham Cathedral Square

In:Site Festival returns to Birmingham City Centre for a seventh year this September with recent graduates transforming the outdoor space around the cathedral with unusual craft ‘interventions’ . In:Site,… Read more »

Seasonal Markets Solihull Boundary Feast, 24th September!

For the first time, we are bringing Seasonal Markets to Solihull. On Sunday 24th of September, we will transform Catherine de Barnes Cricket Club into a family… Read more »

Stone Roses DJ Dave Booth to play 1000 Trades + Q&A

Legendary Mancunian and Stone Roses’ tour DJ Dave Booth returns to the decks for our monthly night full of proper music from the most underrated decade since… Read more »

Athletico presents Greg Wilson at Hare & Hounds

After the success of their re-launch event with James Lavelle, Chicken Lips and Renegade Soundwave, Athletico are back with their 2nd instalment. This time it features the… Read more »

August Bank Holiday Weekend with Bitters N Twisted

August Bank Holiday Weekend with Bitters N Twisted

New Inn, Harborne – A long weekend of live music and outdoor cinema From 2pm on Saturday, 4 acts will take to the stage in their lovely beer garden,… Read more »

Independent Birmingham Festival at Aston Hall

Independent Birmingham Festival at Aston Hall

After the storming success of our inaugural (sold out) Independent Birmingham Festival, we’ve decided that you folks deserve another great event in your lives. On Sunday 17… Read more »

Help Mr Jerk’s Reggae and Jamaican Cookout celebrate first birthday

Mr Jerk’s Reggae and Jamaican Foodie event is celebrating its first birthday. Join the party for a all-dayer on Bank Holiday Monday 28 August from 1200-2230 at… Read more »

National Burger Day at Buffalo & Rye and The Rose Villa Tavern

National Burger Day at Buffalo & Rye and The Rose Villa Tavern

National Burger Day is the prefect excuse to try new flavours whist indulging in everyone’s favourite food, the humble burger! Join the teams at Buffalo & Rye or The Rose… Read more »

All Years Leaving Festival at Hare and Hounds

Now in its jubilant fifth year, All Years Leaving Festival returns this Autumn with its most eclectic line up yet which should establish it as one of… Read more »

Get Set For An Indian Summer This August

The Electric Cinema, award-winning bartender Robert Wood, Paul John Whisky and The Birmingham Whisky Club have teamed up to turn up the heat in Birmingham this August…. Read more »

Acoustic and Indie Night in support of Macmillan

Eventcover Promotions are proud to present an acoustic and Indie night in support of Macmillan. We’re offering good music a friendly atmosphere and the opportunity to support… Read more »

Charity starts in The Old Crown, Digbeth

Charity starts in The Old Crown, Digbeth

The Old Crown in Digbeth turns 649 years old and to celebrate it’s raising money for St. Basils by holding a raffle giving away birthday presents from… Read more »

Satisfaction Guaranteed for Rolling Stones Fans at King’s Heath Festival on 24 September

Rolling Stones fans are being urged to Come On down to Fletchers Bar on King’s Heath’s York Road on Sunday 24 September where Satisfaction is guaranteed as… Read more »

Savour the New Afternoon Tea at The Lost & Found Birmingham

Afternoon Tea Week startes on 14th August and Victorian hideaway The Lost & Found Birmingham launches its new Afternoon Tea and Gentleman’s Tea menus, perfect for a daytime get-together and holding court with… Read more »

Fierce Festival Full Line Up for 2017

HELD ACROSS BIRMINGHAM, FIERCE WILL PRESENT A PROGRAMME OF LIVE ART, THEATRE, DANCE AND MUSIC FROM 16 – 22 OCTOBER THE FIRST FESTIVAL UNDER THE ARTISTIC DIRECTION… Read more »

Open Air Cinema at Rum Runner Yard

Dates – Films – Food Friday 4th August – The Goonies – DDC Street Food Trader – The Middle Feast Saturday 5th August – Pulp Fiction –… Read more »

Leftfoot & Shadow City Present Jeremy Undergound

Leftfoot and Shadow City Present Jeremy Undergound, MCDE, Gilles Peterson and more. Leftoot & Shadow City are delighted to announce the full line up for the first of… Read more »

Summer Offers at Bitters N Twisted Venues

Bodega Birmingham – Kids Eat Free Why not take the kids straight to South America without the cost of a plane ticket? This Summer, kids can enjoy… Read more »

Jane Eyre at Birmingham Rep September 2017

Jane Eyre at Birmingham Rep September 2017

Monday 4 – Saturday 16 September 2017 “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” The… Read more »

Live Music Birmingham August 2017

Our Brumbeat live music guide for Birmingham offers more original and alternative nightlife, gigs, parties and music listings than anywhere else online. We work with local promoters… Read more »

Discover the Secrets of Gin in Nicholsons GinFest2017

Attention gin fanatics! This summer, Nicholson’s 78 pubs across the UK – including the Bacchus Bar, The Old Comtemptibles, The Shakespeare Inn and The Shakespeare in Birmingham… Read more »

Palestine Jazz UK Tour Nai Barghouti and Mohamed Najem

Palestine Jazz: A unique double bill tours the UK Moving seamlessly between Arabic music and Jazz, two of the most exciting musicians to emerge from the cultural… Read more »

Leftfoot Present Mr Scruff at Hare And Hounds

Leftfoot Presents as part of the H&H 10th Anniversary Series Mr Scruff A lot of things have happened since a young Andy Carthy started answering to the… Read more »

The Comedy Get Down – Live In The UK for First Time!

Following their massively successful US tour, pioneers of comedy, Cedric ‘The Entertainer’, DL Hughley and George Lopez will be heading to the UK for the first time for The Comedy Get Down.  An… Read more »

Q&A with Pete Jordan, founder of MADE Festival

The UK is well into the swing of festival season, with this year’s Glastonbury having been a huge success yet again, and other favourites like Boomtown and… Read more »

MeMe Detroit The New Single

Midlands artist MeMe Detroit releases new single; ‘How She Runs’ on July 28th via her own founded label SoulRock Central  Records. The indie grunge girl draws inspiration from a reservoir of influences to produce… Read more »

Reggae Caribbean Cookout returns to Hawker Yard

On Sunday 30 July 2017, 876 Street Food’s Reggae Caribbean Cookout will be back at Hawker Yard for another all-dayer. The Hawker Yard will be filled with… Read more »

The Custard Factory’s Summer Jam

The Custard Factory’s Summer Jam

On Saturday 12th August, the Custard Factory is really excited to be hosting the Summer Jam; a day of live music, classic vinyl records, scrumptious street food and family fun…. Read more »

Summer Screenings at Rum Runner Yard

Summer Screenings at Rum Runner Yard

6 Weekends of Summer Screenings at Regency Wharf’s Pop-Up Open Air Cinema, Rum Runner Yard. Rum Runner Yard (hidden away in the middle of Regency Wharf) will be… Read more »

ACM Birmingham opens its doors for first Open Day

Further to the recent announcement of their new Birmingham campus, the Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) is pleased to invite prospective students, parents and the local community… Read more »

Leftfoot & Dark Corner Disco present Andrew Weatherall

Leftfoot & Dark Corner Disco Present Andrew Weatherall Plus Support from Sunshine & Smith Doors: 9pm Tickets:1st Release – £10 / 2nd Release – £12 ARTIST INFORMATION Andrew… Read more »

Breakfast of Champions at Two Cats Kitchen

A year on from After Dark, chef Chris Hughes and artist Kaye Winwood have joined forces once again in taking over Birmingham’s favourite restaurant – Two Cats… Read more »

Leoe & Hyde’s Marriage of Kim K UK Tour Begins

LEOE & HYDE’S THE MARRIAGE OF KIM K TOUR STARTS THIS SATURDAY AS LONDON TICKETS GO ON SALE New production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro satirises Kim Kardashian’s… Read more »

Byron Hamburgers celebrates 10 years!

Book a table and help Byron Hamburgers celebrate 10 years of making delicious Hamburgers! It’s almost impossible to believe a decade has passed since Byron served its… Read more »

New botanical gin garden in Digbeth

New botanical gin garden in Digbeth

Good news for gin lovers, The Old Crown in Digbeth is launching a new botanical gin garden on the 23rd and 24th June. Birmingham’s oldest pub, situated… Read more »

The Shock & Gore Festival 2017

Friday 28th July to Sunday 6th August Somebody alert society’s moral guardians, because the Midlands’ finest horror and fantasy festival returns to Birmingham’s  Electric Cinema this summer with another mix of… Read more »

Listening Sessions TAKEOVER

We are excited to welcome Birmingham based music community, Listening Sessions, to Kings Heath on Saturday 8th July, as they take over the sound at the monthly… Read more »

UK-Based Illustrator Designs Exclusive Phone Case for HSBC Birmingham Roadshow

HSBC is teaming up with some of the UK’s best up-and-coming regional designers to design exclusive mobile phone cases for roadshows across the UK, including Birmingham. UK-based… Read more »

Brumbeat Guide July 2017

Our Brumbeat live music guide for Birmingham offers more original and alternative nightlife, gigs, parties and music listings than anywhere else online. We work with local promoters… Read more »

Celebrate Independence Day with Buffalo & Rye

This Independence Day, Tuesday 4th July, Bitters ‘n Twisted’s American inspired smoke house and diner Buffalo & Rye will be celebrating this day in the best way… Read more »

Marco Pierre’s ace of an afternoon tea

To coincide with the start of the world’s most famous tennis tournament, Birmingham’s Marco Pierre White Steakhouse Bar and Grill is serving up a brand new afternoon… Read more »

Mat Collishaw: ‘Thresholds’ at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

‘Thresholds’ is a new virtual reality artwork by the renowned British artist Mat Collishaw, which is currently, and significantly, on show at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery…. Read more »

Rap Superstar Nelly to play O2 Academy Nov 15th!

Diamond Selling, multi-platinum, Grammy award-winning rap superstar, entrepreneur, actor and philanthropist, Nelly, returns to the U.K. for a massive 15-date nationwide tour, presented by AEG Presents.  An… Read more »

Psychedelic Spaghetti Funktion at 1000 Trades

After a beautifully put-together debut earlier in the year rising stars of the Birmingham DJ scene James Hollingworth and Tom Owen roll out their instalments of a monthly… Read more »

Introducing The Stable Summer of Love

Summer solstice means everyone’s favourite season is officially underway. WAHOO! This summer at The Stable, we’re reaching out to our fellow humans with a whole lot of… Read more »

Desperados Clubhouse at Night Owl 28th June

9 JUNE 2017 – This summer Desperados is bringing legendary lost UK club nights back to life in a massive house party series across the country. CLUBHOUSE… Read more »

Buggin presents Winston Hazel – Forgemasters & Gez Varley – LFO

Buggin are proud to present two true pioneers of UK dance music. They are responsible to making two of the most iconic dance records ever, Forgemasters –… Read more »

Midlands Fashion Awards call on Local Businesses for support!

Birmingham, June 2017: The 2017 Midlands Fashion Awards is inviting local businesses to sponsor this year’s event in a bid to support the wealth of fresh and… Read more »