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This year’s St Patrick’s Day parade in Birmingham has been cancelled for the third year in a row but festival organisers say a series of events will take place to celebrate the spirit of the popular annual ceremony. The cancellation of the parade is due to the extensive roadworks currently taking place in Digbeth which…
Organisers have confirmed this Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in Birmingham has been cancelled amid coronavirus concerns. The Birmingham St. Patrick’s Day parade, which was due to take on Sunday 15th March, has been cancelled only two days before the big parade along Digbeth High Street in the city’s Irish quarter.
An annual flagship comic convention due to be held in Birmingham next weekend has been dropped, following the postponement and cancellation of several events due to be held at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC). Following a pattern of large gatherings being shelved across the region in response to the current coronavirus pandemic spreading across the world,…
Sebastian Stan, star of Captain America: The Winter Soldier and other hit movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is making his first appearance at MCM London Comic Con this May. This summer’s MCM London Comic Con has a killer new guest in the shape of Sebastian Stan, famous as the titular HYDRA assassin of 2014…
We’re at the NEC in Birmingham for this year’s first MCM Comic Con in the city, with special guests including Umbrella Academy stars Emmy Raver-Lampman and Tom Hopper, Sex Education star Asa Butterfield, Supernatural talent Felicia Day and Mario voice actor Charles Martinet. But it’s not all about the celebrity and memorabilia guests, paying homage to everything from Star Wars, Star Trek and Disney to…
We’re at the NEC in Birmingham for this year’s second MCM Comic Con in the city, with special guests including The Walking Dead and Doctor Who star David Morrissey, Ash vs Evil Dead favourite Ray Santiago, Major Crimes talent Mary McDonnell and Red Dwarf actor Chris Barrie. But it’s not all about the celebrity and…
MCM Comic Con, the UK’s largest organiser of pop culture events held its first con of the year in March, battling through the snow for its most feature-packed Birmingham event yet. Back with bigger guests and more explosive and interactive content, MCM Birmingham Comic Con saw 32,188 individual pop culture fans, superheroes, gamers, comic collectors,…
It’s MCM Comic Con weekend with celebrities, cosplayers, gamers, animators and comic artists all under one roof at the NEC in Birmingham. We’ll have full coverage during and after the event, and regularly sharing live updates as they happen too. Keep checking back for coverage below and on our Twitter account.
Hot on the heels of news last month that Hollywood stars Michael Rooker and Sean Gunn – of Guardians of the Galaxy fame – are attending this year’s first Comic Con event in Birmingham, a whole host of special guests have seen been announced. MCM Comic Con, the UK’s largest organiser of pop culture events, is kicking off the…
Hollywood stars Michael Rooker and Sean Gunn, of Guardians of the Galaxy fame, have been announced as the first of many stars expected to attend this year’s first Comic Con event in Birmingham. MCM Comic Con, the UK’s largest organiser of pop culture events, is kicking off the year with its first exciting interactive geek-fest in Brum.