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Polish Film Festival to grace the city
One of the country’s longest running and most prominent film festivals dedicated to Polish cinema is set to arrive at the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham next month. Spread just over a four-week period, Play Poland combines weekly screenings of award-winning feature length presentations with in-depth Q&A sessions during the Birmingham leg of its national tour. Organised by Polish Art Europe,…
‘The Wanted’ announce Birmingham show
They went straight in at Number 1 in yesterday’s Official UK Single Chart with their single ‘Glad You Came’ and now The Wanted have confirmed their first UK arena tour, which will see them wowing fans at Birmingham’s LG Arena on 1 March 2012. The cheeky five-piece burst on to the scene last year with…
Second Helpings for Victoria Wood’s ‘Dinnerladies’
Top comedienne Victoria Wood’s smash hit comedy Dinnerladies took to the stage last night at the New Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham. Fans of the hit TV series were not disappointed as some of the funniest comic characters and script written for television were brought to life in a live production. Based on the second television series, the show follows…
Birmingham braced for Zombie invasion
Birmingham’s third annual Zombie Walk is set to take place this month with an army of over a thousand of the ‘walking dead’ expected to descend on the city. Following a successful march through the city last year in aid of the Birmingham Children’s Hospital, over two thousand people have already signed up to once…
Birmingham hosts first ever YouTube Gathering
Birmingham’s very first YouTube Gathering is set to take place this weekend with hundreds of UK ‘vloggers’ of the video website descending on the city. Following the event’s inception in Los Angeles in 2007 and a host of successful YouTube Gatherings across the world, England’s second city is adopting the mass social get-together for the…
Panto time already? Oh yes it is!
If there’s anything as predicatble as the title of this article, it’s that there will be without fail, every year at the Birmingham Hippodrome, the staging of the country’s biggest and most eloborate pantomime. Regardless of whether it be in December 2011 or in December 2012 when the world supposedly ends, you can bet your…
Britney’s Birmingham comeback!
Following an almighty seven-year hiatus, Britney Spears is back and she’s heading to Birmingham as part of her worldwide ‘Femme Fatale’ tour. Expected to be her biggest and best show to date, Britney will be performing 21 of her smash hit singles at Birmingham’s LG Arena, one of only three UK dates, and marks her first visit to…
Jessie J to launch fresh UK tour in Birmingham
Having earnt a reputation as one of the fiercest live artists around for her multi-octave voice and sky high heels, Jessie J is bringing her Heartbeat Tour to 12 cities across the country – kicking off her UK dates at the O2 Academy Birmingham. It’s been a whirlwind of a year so far for Jessie…
City Comic Con Goes Prehistoric for 2011!
Birmingham Comic Con 2011 BC, the city’s newly revamped graphic novel convention, will be adopting a Prehistoric theme for it’s inaugural outing on Saturday 27th August. Brought to you by the very same creative folk behind BICS, the British International Comic Show which has also been held in the city in recent years, expect to see sexy cave…
Charlie Simpson to play Birmingham O2 Academy
Following his London solo debut this month, Fightstar frontman Charlie Simpson is heading to Birmingham as part of a six-date regional UK tour. The former Busted vocalist and lead guitarist will be bringing his acoustic based solo material to the city’s O2 Academy on Friday 1st July, prior to the release of his debut album ‘Young Pilgrim’ on August 15.