All Entries Tagged With: "Birmingham"
Artsfest on the hunt for volunteers
Are you feeling selfless and fancy taking part in one of the biggest arts events in the calendar? Well then, artsfest in Birmingham is on the lookout for anyone with an interest in the arts to volunteer at this year’s free festival on 10-12 September 2010. Each year hundreds of people help out at artsfest [...]
A tailor made success
Alex Evans reports on how Benjamin Vaughan, one of Britain’s youngest tailors is rising through the ranks to become the most talked about fashion designer of 2010 A little over a year has passed since 26 year old Benjamin Vaughan, boldly launched a bespoke tailoring business in York Road, Kings Heath at the height of [...]
Birmingham Museum Scoops Top Award
Birmingham’s Museum of the Jewellery Quarter has won a top national tourism award – being named the best small visitor attraction in the Enjoy England Awards for Excellence 2010. Located right in the heart of Birmingham’s world famous Jewellery Quarter, the museum was named Best Small Attraction in last year’s Heart of England Excellence Awards – [...]
Review! Whitney Houston Live
It’s not right, and it’s not ok. When you’re offered review tickets for as legendary a diva as Whitney Houston then you’d be an absolute fool not to take them, even if the reviews of the first Ms Houston’s shows from her world tour have been less than positive. It was with an air of [...]
Flatpack Festival launches today!
Get ready for six days of the best in film creativity across the second city. Bus trips to art deco cinemas, the weird world of puppets, immersive art happenings, F.W. Murnau re scored, optical illusions, idea theft and an interactive live comic strip performance are just some of the inventive offerings that will be brought [...]
CSI Experience: Birmingham
CSI has graced the likes of Las Vegas, Miami and New York in the past and now Birmingham is next on its hit list. Yes you read that right and no your eyes aren’t deceiving you, CSI is coming to Birmingham. The TV phenomenon is coming to Birmingham’s Bullring on Friday 26th February in its very latest [...]
Brand Spanking New Duck and Cover Opens Its Doors
We’re very excited to announce that 69 fave Duck and Cover have opened their first ever store (in the whole world no less) right here in the heart of 69-land – otherwise known as Birmingham. Yep, the Duck has well and truly landed at the Bullring and to celebrate their love of the second city, [...]
NYE @ Propaganda
Propaganda’s New Year’s Eve @ Birmingham O2 Academy The UK’s biggest indie club night presents ‘A Night at the Circus’ NYE Party with a DJ Set from The Cribs’ Ryan Jarman. The O2 Academy Birmingham will be tranformed as if by magic from a normal music venue into an eye-popping Big Top! Ta-Da! If that [...]
New Years Eve at the Big Custard Factory
New Years Eve @ Big Custard Factory Birmingham Don’t pretend you haven’t been thinking about New Years Eve since, well the last New Years Day, because we can see through your thin veil of lies. You’re a filthy party animal aren’t you? You don’t have to lie, we’re cut from the same cloth. Luckily for [...]
Sleeping Beauty
The Birmingham Hippodrome never fails to deliver a good panto and is known for having a star studded cast – my favourite year being when the Power Rangers made a very special appearance, I love you Kimberly. This year it doesn’t disappoint either; Sleeping Beauty is the name of the production and the celebrity’s are [...]
Birmingham’s Frankfurt Christmas Market
Birmingham’s Frankfurt Christmas Market and Craft Fair 2009 Once upon a time Christmas was all about Christmas cake and presents. Now it’s about Christmas cake, alcohol and presents. Happily, Birmingham hosts an annual market in the style of Frankfurt (the two are twinned), which provides me with ample amounts of the above necessities. If like [...]
Win! ABBA Tickets: Closed
We have tickets to give you to see ABBA. Well not the real ABBA clearly, but the equally fabulous ABBA The Show. This is the story of ABBA – from their Eurovision roots to their finale. The show kicks off at the tail end of the 60s when Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha and Frida meet to [...]
High Tea at The Metropole
Now this sounds incredibly snobby, upper class but so so wonderful. Midlanders no longer need to travel all the way to London for high-tea at The Waldorf Hilton, thanks to an exclusive tea time menu launched this month, at the newly refurbished Hilton Birmingham Metropole. For tea connoisseurs the choice is vast with traditional options [...]
Bonfire Night – Birmingham
Having wrapped ourselves in loo roll and claimed to be ancient mummies in the name of Hallowe’en, November is giving our inner child another gift: Bonfire Night! Yes, we all ‘Remember, remember…’ that the event originates from that naughty Guy Fawkes fellow trying to blow up parliament with his gunpowder plot, but to be honest [...]
Win! Harvey Nichols Goodie Bag – Closed
Someone helping us celebrate in style is designer department store Harvey Nichols of Birmingham. Offering ten beauty buffs the chance to get their pedicured paws on a goodie bag worth £150 each, expect these extra special party bags to be overflowing with premium brand products. As the city’s most luxurious store, Harvey Nichols has carved [...]
The Freaks come out to play at Gatecrasher Birmingham
Self proclaimed London icon in hot pink lipstick; DJ Jodie Harsh leads events at this spook spectacular on Saturday 31st October 2009. Reining Queen Supreme of International nightlife takes to the decks in the main room, joined by top DJ’s Bora Bora Resident Oliver Lang and Jimmy Kennedy, while the Mansion hosts guests including Joe Hunt, Tom Forbes [...]
Big Brum Ghostbusters Tour
When there’s something strange in the neighbourhood, don’t bother to call everyone’s favourite parapsychologists-turned-ghost exterminators because Birmingham’s Ghostbusters tour delves deeper into the depths of Britain’s second city than Peter, Egon, Ray or Winston would ever have dared. If you ‘aint afraid of no ghost,’ then jump on board The Big Brum Buz, first stop [...]
