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Editors, Happy Mondays & Friendly Fires to play new Wolverhampton festival

October 16, 2020November 20, 2020 Richard Franks Ash, Black Grape, Cast, Echo & the Bunnymen, Editors, Friendly Fires, Glasvegas, Happy mondays, Sleeper

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

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The Twang, Jaws and Swim Deep lead new Birmingham music festival lineup

February 4, 2020 Richard Franks Birmingham, Dead Wax, Digbeth, JAWS, Mama Roux's, O2 Institute, Sugarthief, Swim Deep, The Blinders, The Custard Factory, The Twang, Violet

Sonic Wave Festival, a new multi-venue music experience, takes over some of Digbeth’s biggest and brightest music venues this May

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Festival review: SHOUT Festival 2019 celebrates LGBTQ+ arts talent

November 22, 2019November 26, 2019 Sarah Staniforth Birmingham Hippodrome, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, john waters, LGBTQ, shout festival

SHOUT Festival brought an eclectic range of LGBTQ+ arts to Birmingham, including stand-up comedy, documentaries, drag performance, and more.

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BEDLAM Arts & Mental Health Festival set to return to Brum in October

September 27, 2019October 1, 2019 Sarah Staniforth BEDLAM Arts and Mental Health Festival, mac birmingham, The REP

October will see the return of BEDLAM, a 12-day mental health arts festival in Birmingham, including film, spoken word, and theatre.

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Review: The Legitimate Peaky Blinders Festival crashes down on Digbeth

September 20, 2019September 21, 2019 Richard Franks Anna Calvi, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, JAWS, Jaykae, Liam Gallagher, Mike Skinner, Peaky Blinders, Primal Scream, Slaves, The Clause, The Cosmics

Across the weekend of September 14-15, The Legitimate Peaky Blinders Festival transformed the industrial streets of Digbeth into a 1920s immersive experience like no other

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Boudica Festival to return to Coventry’s Herbert next month

September 11, 2019September 12, 2019 Sarah Staniforth Boudica Festival, ghum, The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, TrueMendous, Tusks

Female and non binary-led music festival Boudica is set to return to Coventry’s Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in October

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Review: The spirit of Birmingham comes alive at Moseley Folk

September 4, 2019September 11, 2019 Rhiannon Davies Black Sabbath, Edwyn Collins, Jake Bugg, Joni Mitchell, Lucy Rose, Moseley Folk Festival, public service broadcasting, The Zutons, tunng

Boasting their best line-up to date, Moseley Folk and Arts Festival united the people of Birmingham with a weekend of glorious folk.

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Review: Supersonic Festival is as adventurous as ever in fifteenth year

July 22, 2019August 7, 2019 Emily Doyle AJA, big joanie, big lad, CHW ceramics, daniel higgs, digbrew, Eastside Projects, Godflesh, haress, hey colossus, HHY and the Macumbas, home of metal, kuhle wampe, Matters, miss red, monster chetwynd, moor mother, neurosis, pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs, supersonic festival, the bug, The Crossing

An eclectic line up ft. Neurosis, Anna Von Hausswolff, The Bug ft. Moor Mother and Pigsx7 makes Supersonic Festival 2019 another triumph

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Britpop festival Star Shaped returns to Birmingham this September

July 1, 2019July 10, 2019 Richard Franks Britpop, Cast, dodgy, geneva, O2 Institute, O2 Institute Birmingham, salad, Space, Starshaped Festival

Starshaped Festival comes to Birmingham this September, featuring the likes of Cast, Dodgy, Salad and Space

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Coventry’s Coombe Weekender announces huge initial festival line-up

April 27, 2019June 25, 2019 Danny Thompson coombe weekender, Coventry, The Libertines

Coventry’s Coombe Weekender has been announced with some huge acts set to play the UK City of Culture for 2021

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