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Worcestershire psych quintet Plastic Scene headlined the evening of musical discovery at The Victoria on July 20th, where, accompanied by What’s Left, The Creature Appeal, Johnny Kills and M A R C, they each performed their most recent releases.
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The Barr Brothers enlivened the Glee Club stage with their experimental, improvisational, genre-bending rock on the evening of July 16th, with support from Emma Gatrill.
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Plastic Scene are by now habitués of the Birmingham music scene. Having already played many of the notorious local stages over the past few years, they are now set to take over the The Victoria later this summer.
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Every Broken Social Scene live show is inevitably a surprise. Presenting their new album ‘Hug of Thunder’ to British audiences, their first headliner show in Birmingham since 2010 was no exception.
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On a warm and cloudless Sunday night, Peach Pit and Coffee Breath lured the Midlands’ younger generations into Mama Roux’s with their audaciously sweet, quirky tunes
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Almost a year after the release of their third studio album, the Barr Brothers will fly to the UK this summer to play six shows around the country, including one in Birmingham
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Protomartyr, post-punk gems from Detroit, are set to play a series of dates in the UK this spring as part of their 2018 European tour, including their first Birmingham show since the release of their fourth studio album, Relatives in Descent, in September 2017.
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After the release of their first album Being So Normal in early 2017, Canadian darlings Peach Pit have announced the first leg of their 2018 European tour, which includes a date in Birmingham.
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With a music video oriented around recognisable Birmingham hotspots – including the soon to be missed Flapper – the Midlands-based deliver a knock out track
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