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Review: The Flaming Lips bring buoyancy to Birmingham

The O2 Academy was transformed into Innercity Live with The Flaming Lips as headliners back in August.

Sparks raised the roof off the O2 Institute with an impressive set from their mighty back catalogue.

Milk Teeth’s performance at The Flapper demonstrate the band at their brightest and most bombastic yet.

Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam launched their new double album with a night of music and stellar support acts at the Hare & Hounds.

Blink 182 play a career spanning set at the Barclaycard Arena supported by Frank Turner and the Sleeping souls and The Front Bottoms.

L.A’s The Warlocks bring their heady mix of 60’s influences to Mama Roux’s.

Cabbage return from Glastonbury Festival to play a packed out show at Birmingham’s O2 Institute.

Irish folk rock band Flogging Molly play an appropriate location in the middle of Birmingham’s Irish quarter.

Composers for the for-Wards Project, Pram, wow their audience with a magical performance at Martineau Gardens.

Dead Kennedys complete their European tour at the O2 Academy, Birmingham, with support from Otherkin.