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Other acts booked to play the new Creation Festival include Ash, Echo & The Bunnymen, Cast, Black Grape and Glasvegas. Ticket info here.

On Thursday 6th August, your local city poet Mike Skinner proved that ticketed live streams can work, and offered hope for many in the music industry

Rose Glass delivers a blistering debut horror that sees a young nurse struggle to cope with isolation, temptation and salvation.

Dorcha give us an insight into what to expect from new album Honey Badger, out November 6th on Box Records.

Garage rock icons Oh Sees will now play The Crossing in Birmingham this November

Dishoom Birmingham will finally open its doors in April, following a ten-day soft launch with 50% off all food

After a short closure, iconic Birmingham boozer The Old Crown is back in business with a bit of a facelift.

Most readers will recognise Martin Reynolds as the drummer from Tamworth grunge blues outfit, You Dirty Blue. Over lockdown, Reynolds

There’s Always Tomorrow is a brutal trip down memory lane for Jimmy Davis aka T8PES, who is in the best form of his career so far