Category: Live Reviews

Glenn 14/08/201731/08/2017 Amber Run, Birmingham, David Bowie, every valley, glenn rossington, Hoopla Blue, Inner City Live, live review, o2 Academy, Oczy Mlody, photographs, photos, public service broadcasting, Race For The Prize, Review, Space Oddity, The Flaming Lips, There Should Be Unicorns, Unicorn, Wayne Coyne, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt.1, Zorbing

2017-08-12 – Flaming Lips – o2 Academy, Birmingham

On a warm Saturday evening, hundreds of music lovers were packed in to the o2 Academy in Birmingham for one

Live Reviews

Glenn 09/07/201711/07/2017 182, Alkaline Trio, All The Small Things, Barclaycard Arena, Birmingham, Blink, blink-182, California, Landon Barker, Mark Hoppus, Matt Skiba, Miss You, photography, Review, Ryan Lowry, Take Off Your Pants And Jacket, The Rock Show, Tom DeLonge, Travis Barker, What's My Age Again?

2017-07-07 – Blink 182 – Barclaycard Arena, Birmingham

Blink-182 returned to Birmingham with new addition ‘Matt Skiba’ (Alkaline Trio), replacing ‘Tom DeLonge’ Most people would expect them to focus

Live Reviews

Glenn 05/07/201711/07/2017 2017, a moon shaped pool, Amnesiac, Colin Greenwood, Creep, Cricket Ground, Ed O'Brien, Emirates, Fake Plastic Trees, Hail To The Thief, I Promise, In Rainbows, johnny greenwood, Karma Police, Kid A, LCCC, Live, Manchester, No Surprises, OK Computer, Pablo Honey, Paranoid Android, Phillip Selway, Radiohead, Review, The Bends, The King of Limbs, There There, Thom Yorke

2017-07-04 – Radiohead – Emirates Cricket Ground, Manchester

Having recently slayed the Main Stage at Glastonbury and hot on the heels 12 months after the release of their

Live Reviews

Glenn 21/04/201718/05/2017 a song for the lovers, ashcroft, Barclaycard Arena, Birmingham, bittersweet symphony, black grape, break the night with colour, glenn rossington, hold on, kermit, Live, live review, lucky man, music is power, photos, Review, richard ashcroft, shaun ryder, sonnet, the drugs don't work, the verve, these people, they don't own me, this is how it feels, verve

Richard Ashcroft – Barclaycard Arena, Birmingham – 2017/04/20

On a rather cold and wet evening in Birmingham, there was a hive of activity in the city’s Barclaycard Arena

Live Reviews

Glenn 09/04/201710/04/2017 Amsterdam, ancient tribe, as mamas, Birmingham, cato van dijck, daniel johnston, Dutch, electrified, Holland, john fairhurst, joost van dijck, love dance, my baby, prehistoric rhythm, remedy, Review, the sunflower lounge, tribal blues trance band, UK Tour, uprising

2017-04-07 – My Baby – The Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham

My Baby are the self proclaimed “tribal blues trance band” from Amsterdam who took to the stage on Friday night

Live Reviews

Glenn 30/03/201703/04/2017 at most a kiss, babybird, Birmingham, black skinhead, blossoms, blow, cabbage, charlemagne, cold feet, deep grass, dumb and full of…, fourteen, George Michael, getaway, honey sweet, kanye west, o2 Academy, Oasis, Review, rory wynne, texia, The 1975, the coral, tom ogden, Wham!, what would rory do?, young

Blossoms – o2 Academy, Birmingham – 2017-03-29

After a high-octane year having released their debut album, garnering high critical acclaim, playing sold out tours and festival appearances galore, Blossoms last

Live Reviews

Mark Woodward 15/03/201720/03/2017 acoustics, always this way, Birmingham, birmingham institute, cathedral tour, don't ask me why, emma topolski, laura marling, live review, not nearly, nothing, o2 institute, Review, soothing, sophia, street hassle, tamsin topolski, The Voice, UK Tour, wild fire

Laura Marling – o2 Institute – 2017/03/14

Arguably, already the most intimate Midlands venue, the O2 Institute in Digbeth, Birmingham, looked especially exquisite for Laura Marling’s gig,

Live Reviews

Glenn 04/03/201703/04/2017 Birmingham, brum, c duncan, Elbow, grounds for divorce, guy garvey, intimate, lippy kids, Live, magnificent (she says), mirrorball, my sad captains, o2, o2 Academy, one day like this, residency, Review, the birds, two-night

Elbow – o2 Academy, Birmingham – 2017/03/02

Manchester legends Elbow played the second of their two-night residency at Birmingham’s o2 Academy and managed to completely melt the

Live Reviews

Danni Griffiths 20/02/201723/02/2017 13 little dolls, acoustic, Birmingham, birmingham institute, come with us, disco, familia, love is a camera, o2 institute 2, seb, sophie ellis-bextor, take me home, violins, Wanderlust, wild forever, young blood

Sophie Ellis-Bextor – o2 Institute 2, Birmingham – 2017-02-17

Sophie Ellis-Bextor performed at the o2 Institute Library in Digbeth last night and easily reminded people how much of a

Live Reviews New Music

Danni Griffiths 09/02/201723/02/2017 acoustic, Birmingham, chase & status, cuckoolander, Ed Sheeran, George Ezra, Gig, intimate, lounge, plan b, praying, release the brakes, Review, sunflower, the sunflower lounge, tom grennan, when it all goes worng, when it all goes wrong

Tom Grennan – Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham – 2017-02-08

Tom Grennan performed in one of Birmingham’s most intimate venues last night and if you haven’t heard the name Tom