Francis Smith, Author at Counteract – Music | News | Food

Bombay Bicycle Club are back! They’ll release a new album in January 2020 and tour the UK in support of it.

Aston Hall announces some spooky late-night Halloween events

Aston Hall will host some one-off events to celebrate everyone’s favourite pagan festival, Halloween. Be ready to be scared stiff.

Northern indie-pop quartet Pale Waves deliver a beautiful performance at Birmingham’s O2 Academy

Stirchley is getting a brand new cocktail bar, Couch, and it’ll be overseen by some of the best in the business.

The BFI are putting on preview screenings across the country of the master’s latest crime epic, including the Everyman Cinema in Birmingham.

Ambient classicists A Winged Victory for the Sullen will be visiting the UK’s churches this February for some transcendent performances.

Supergrass add further dates to their 2020 reunion tour, including another night at Birmingham’s O2 Academy

Giant and the Georges, one of the Midlands’ most sensational new bands, show seeing is for the weak on new single ‘Blind Love’.

From a bedsit in Balsall Heath to chart-topping domination in the 80s, Birmingham’s UB40 brought pop reggae to the masses.

Stardom is putting in the hard yards and hard bars and our money is on him to succeed – sooner rather than later.