City Centre Archive

  • Video – Artsfest 2011 Highlights

    Video – Artsfest 2011 Highlights

    As ever, we spent our Artsfest weekend wandering around shoving a video camera in performers’ faces. Here are our highlights from both days: Day 1 Performers featured: The Bonfire Radicals Great Imitation Elliot Jack Highly Sprung Performance Co The Cohen Brothers Trinity PKFR Snooty Bobs Rakesh Chauhan Day 2 Performers featured: Someone-at-the-door Samba Band Elfynn [...]

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  • Mr Woodnote and Lil Rhys, live again on New Street

    Mr Woodnote and Lil Rhys, live again on New Street

    It’s always a pleasure to see these guys, with their intelligent hip-hop combined with looperlative saxophony, when they play on New Street, even if it does play havoc with any plans I’ve already made for my lunchtime! You can buy their album on Bandcamp, and also look at their obligatory MySpace and Facebook pages. (Photo [...]

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  • OxjamBrum Takeover – Saturday 16 October, City centre

    OxjamBrum Takeover – Saturday 16 October, City centre

    Thank you to everyone who has already supported OxjamBrum this year. The Takeover Festival 2010 is on Saturday 16th October. This is the big one folks! 12 hours of musical delights from 40 of Birmingham’s best unsigned bands. For just £6 advance you can purchase a wristband which will give you access to every venue [...]

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  • The Big City Plan

    The Big City Plan

    The Big City Plan is the most ambitious, far-reaching development project in the UK, and seeks to define how more than 800 hectares of land in the city centre will be developed and used for generations to come. As well as outlining specific areas where the Council will concentrate its resources in the future, ‘Stage [...]

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  • Walks for Artsfest

    Walks for Artsfest

    With the weekend of 11th & 12th September seeing Birmingham host the annual ArtsFest, Sparks68 thought visitors may want to enjoy another free attraction that requires no booking, has been around for some years but does not get the attention it deserves.  So, if you are going to Birmingham for the ArtsFest weekend, he recommends [...]

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  • Artsfest – 10-12 September 2010

    Artsfest – 10-12 September 2010

    ArtsFest will be returning from 10-12 September 2010 bigger and better than ever before! The festival will once again present around 600 performing, visual and digital artists showcases alongside other festival favourites including Classical Fantasia and KerrangFest. Lots of exciting plans are currently underway so do keep your eye out on the website over the [...]

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