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Comedians Guz Khan and Sara Pascoe to lead 25th anniversary celebrations for Glee Club
Staff Reporter
August 23, 2019
Acclaimed comedian Sara Pascoe and star and creator of the BBC’s Man Like Mobeen, Guz Khan have been revealed as the two starring acts of The Glee Club’s 25th anniversary…
60ft Peaky Blinders mural unveiled in Digbeth ahead of new series launch
Staff Reporter
August 19, 2019
A Midlands artist has had his Peaky Blinders fan art turned into a 60ft mural on display in Digbeth in Birmingham. Local lad James Mundy from Stoke-On-Trent submitted his portrait of…
Black musician Soweto Kinch ejected from London restaurant amid claims of racial profiling
Staff Reporter
August 18, 2019
An Italian pizza restaurant in London has become embroiled in a race row with an award-winning jazz musician from Birmingham over claims he was mistreated and removed from the premises because of…
Zara Sykes to perform at Jamaican Independence Day celebrations in Birmingham
Rangzeb Hussain
July 31, 2019
Birmingham based rapper Zara Sykes will be performing in Victoria Square this Saturday as part of Jamaica Independence Day celebrations in the city. Victoria Square in the city centre will be decked out for…
Simmer Down Festival promises to heat up Birmingham for a day of free music and celebration
Rangzeb Hussain
July 16, 2019
The annual Simmer Down Festival returns this weekend to Handsworth Park in Birmingham with a promise to deliver an exciting programme of music and activities for all the family. The…
Lowkey, Lady Sanity and Foka Wolf to perform at the Festival of Audacity after-party
Vimal Korpal
July 15, 2019
Rapper Lowkey will be headlining a huge afterparty of hip-hop and art activism to mark the end of Free Radical's Festival of Audacity this weekend, taking place at The Mill…
Game of Thrones star Tara Fitzgerald to join actor Robert Lindsay in Birmingham for Prism
Staff Reporter
July 4, 2019
Tara Fitzgerald, star of Game of Thrones and Waking the Dead, will be joining Robert Lindsay in this year's production of Prism, which opens at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre on…
Star-studded red carpet world premiere of Peaky Blinders series 5 is coming to Birmingham
Staff Reporter
July 4, 2019
The hotly anticipated fifth series of Peaky Blinders is returning to BBC One later this year, but for fans who can’t wait that long, BBC Birmingham and BBC One are…
FIRST LOOK: Photos released of new stage production of Alice Walker’s ‘The Colour Purple’
Staff Reporter
July 3, 2019
Birmingham Hippodrome and Leicester’s Curve have released the first production images from The Color Purple which has its official opening night at Curve. Made in the Midlands, this brand new…
The Birmingham Indian Film Festival celebrates fifth anniversary with city launch
Ranjit Dhillon
June 22, 2019
The Birmingham Indian Film Festival (BIFF) is back in town for it's fifth consecutive year and it will show films across a number of Birmingham locations over the next ten days. The…