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Boat to Row launch crowdfunded album ‘Rivers That Flow in Circles’

October 2, 2019 Sophie Hack Boat To Row, odmansbox, Rosie Tee

The folk quartet release their crowdfunded new album ‘Rivers That Flow In Circles’ with a launch party on October 18th.

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October 2019: 10 gigs in Birmingham for less than a tenner

October 1, 2019October 3, 2019 Sophie Hack cave girl, Centrala, Exhailers, FLARES, fruit tones, homeowner, leather party, Mutes, O2 Academy, only sun, shanghai blues, The Castle and Falcon, The Cosmics, The Night Owl, The Sunflower Lounge, The Victoria, Thyla, Violet

Forget the dreary weather and darker skies, Birmingham is alive and kicking with local and touring bands, and all for less than a tenner.

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Metronomy to tour highly new anticipated album across the UK

September 20, 2019 Sophie Hack Birmingham, Metronomy, O2 Institute, Squid

Metronomy are back with sickly sweet electronic beats, supported by math pop madness Squid this November.

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September 2019: 10 gigs in Birmingham for less than a tenner

September 1, 2019September 11, 2019 Sophie Hack 11 57, Captain Suun, devil and joe joseph, Echo Beach!, Froth, harry jordan, james reidy, lincoln durham, pjj, pretty vile, strange cages, Sunflower Lounge, Tall Stories, Tempesst, The Assist, The Castle and Falcon, The Night Owl, the novus, the pines, the seamonsters, The Victoria, Watermark

Festival season may be over for another year, but there’s still plenty of fun to be had in good old Brum for less than a tenner.

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August 2019: 10 gigs in Birmingham for less than a tenner

August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 Sophie Hack Black Mekon, Brain Food, castle and falcon, cherry pickles, Die Das Der, eliza may, flake, Handwaxx, Hare and Hounds, headshrinkers, high knucks, home of metal, kinda of light, mallorva, odmansbox, Outlander, pjj, Sonic Gun Weekender, SUE, Sugarthief, The Clause, The Dark Horse, The Flapper, The Lizards, the new righteous mood, The Night Owl, the sunflowe rlounge, the velvet tides, truman dinosaur

Satiate those mad music cravings with these ten high tenacity gigs in Birmingham, all for less than a tenner.

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Five songs that sum up craft beer bar The Juke’s first birthday

July 19, 2019July 22, 2019 Sophie Hack kings heath, the juke, york road

One year on from their opening, Thomas Mee from bespoke craft beer bar The Juke tells us his five records that sum up their year.

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July 2019: 10 gigs in Birmingham for less than a tenner

July 2, 2019July 22, 2019 Sophie Hack all seeing eyes, aufbau principle, beholden tangerine, Black Mekon, Bryony Williams, cherry pickles, deaf balloons, deaths door, Die Das Der, Exhailers, flake, George Pannell, ghum, hare and honds, headwired, kendo nagasaki, krook nootz, Mutes, P.E.T., Sam Lambeth, Sunflower Lounge, The Assist, The Victoria

Glaston-who? You can keep your pyramid stages, muddy trenches and overpriced hot dogs, we’ve got a thriving music scene in Birmingham that is bursting at the seams with talent, all for less than a shower token in a field.

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Charli XCX returns with monumental world tour and new album ‘Charli’

June 26, 2019 Sophie Hack Birmingham, Charli XCX, Institute, tour news

The regal pop royalty returns to her throne with debut album ‘Charli’ along with a colossal world tour this October.

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Brooklyn’s Bodega to bring NYC art-rock on UK headline tour

June 24, 2019June 24, 2019 Sophie Hack bodega, Hare and Hounds, preview, working mens club

NYC art-rock five-piece Bodega bring their cynical outlook on modern technology to Birmingham this August.

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Review: Confidence Man bring an unstoppable party to Hare & Hounds

June 20, 2019June 24, 2019 Sophie Hack confidence man, Hare and Hounds, Review

Aussie quartet Confidence Man brought seduction, satire and intrinsic swings and sways to Birmingham’s Hare & Hounds.

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