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Sophie Hack August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 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

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

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

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Sophie Hack July 2, 2019July 22, 2019 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

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

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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Sophie Hack October 1, 2018July 19, 2019 10 gigs, art school girlfriend, Birmingham, Black Mekon, Boy Azooga, Brain Food, buzzard buzzard buzzard, calva louise, cave girl, Charlotte Carpenter, childcare, cymbeline, jordan mackampa, King Brothers, lazy day, Man of Moon, mothers earth experiment, Our Girl, paul cherry, Spilt Milk Society, tenner, The Blinders, The Cosmics, The Lizards

10 gigs in Birmingham this October for less than a tenner

10 gigs in Birmingham to warm up the autumnul nights, from the melancholic art pop and shoegaze, to rocket fuel punk all the way from Japan.

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Sophie Hack May 1, 2019May 9, 2019 arcade hearts, Black Mekon, Brain Food, Calvin Johnson, cave girl, Centrala, cherry pickles, DAME, George Pannell, hamer, Hare and Hounds, harry jordan, henrik appel, methods, Spilt Milk Society, spinn, stonefield, Sunflower Lounge, Swampmeat Family Band, The Castle and Falcon, The Flapper, The Mighty Young, The Moving Pictures, The Night Owl, the nude party, the pines, weakened friends, whitelights

10 gigs in Birmingham this May for less than a tenner

We’ve rounded up (just a small handful) of the best, super value gigs in Birmingham so you don’t have to. You’re so welcome.

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Sophie Hack March 1, 2019March 1, 2019 bad girls, Black Mekon, castle and falcon, cherry pickles, dollcanoes, Dorcha, Hare and Hounds, Hoopla Blue, killer bob, Liquid Cheeks, Mutes, muthers, Peach Club, Robert Craig Oulton, Scruffy Murphy's, Sofa King, sophie and the giants, Sorry Grace, Spilt Milk Society, studio, Sugarthief, Sunflower Lounge, Swampmeat Family Band, The Cosmics, The Mighty Young, The Night Owl

10 gigs in Birmingham this March for less than a tenner

All of the best gigs in March, all for less than a tenner. Featuring Swampmeat Family Band, Sugarthief, Sophie & The Giants & more.

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Emily Doyle February 24, 2019February 24, 2019 Black Mekon, cherry pickles, fazeley park, Hare and Hounds, sxsw, Table Scraps, The Cosmics

Two local bands to take the best of Birmingham garage rock to SXSW

SXSW 2019, brace yourself. Birmingham’s Table Scraps and Cherry Pickles are on their way to cause some mayhem.

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Emily Doyle October 25, 2018October 29, 2018 Black Mekon, Hare and Hounds, King Brothers

Review: King Brothers and Black Mekon tear up the Hare and Hounds

King Brothers joined their Birmingham counterparts Black Mekon for a night of sweaty garage blues in Kings Heath.

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Emily Doyle October 4, 2018 Black Mekon, Hare and Hounds, Killer Wave, King Brothers

Black Mekon bring hardcore-blues brethren King Brothers to Kings Heath

Black Mekon, Digbeth’s premier garage-blues outfit, are returning to the Hare & Hounds, this time with Japanese touring partners King Brothers.

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Emily Doyle December 10, 2017December 16, 2017 Black Mekon, Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds, Rhino and the Ranters, Sunflower Lounge

Review: Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds keep things spooky at the Sunflower Lounge

Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds play a sold out show at the Sunflower Lounge with support from Black Mekon and Rhino and the Ranters.

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Counteract Reporter June 9, 2016December 7, 2017 Badly Drawn Boy, Bentley Rhythm Ace, Black Mekon, Ibibio Sound Machine, Josefin Ohrn, Matt Berry & The Maypoles, Mercury Rev, Os Mutantes, Paradise Bangkok Mowlam International, Rhino & The Ranters, Sunshine Frisbee Lazerbeam, Super Furry Animals, Television, The Castillians, The Mariarchis, The Swampmeat Family Band, The Zombies, This Is Tmrw

Review: Lunar Festival’s strongest line-up yet doesn’t disappoint

…You’re going to start wishing you were there. Well don’t worry, because we were, and trust us when we say, it did not disappoint.

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