Credit: Jordan Curtis Hughes The 1975 returned to Arena Birmingham last night (Wednesday 23rd January) as part of their world tour. Released in November last year, A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships is The 1975’s third album from the Manchester four-piece. With the tour continuing across the globe and another album on the horizon for later this year, 2019 is arguably one of the biggest years for the band to date. https://open.spotify.com/album/6PWXKiakqhI17mTYM4y6oY?si=t-dHBXCJR5C5VAub8a9UBA Inside the Arena It was almost surprising how early Birmingham’s largest music venue filled up ahead of the band’s set time. Prior to the support act of Pale…
Author: Georgie Deaville
Georgie Deaville
Freelance Journalist / Words for Birmingham Eastside / Editor at Eastside Sounds
The weekly streetfood event, Digbeth Dining Club This evening, Digbeth Dining Club is relaunching for the year following their brief hiatus after their New Years Eve party. The weekly streetfood market that takes place at Spotlight in Digbeth will return for four days a week (as opposed to its previous three), every Thursday to Sunday to host a variety of food stalls and live DJs. Harry Jenkins, the media and marketing director at DDC said: “Thursdays proved hugely popular with the after work crowd, especially locally, but we have been running events on Sundays for years know and we know…
Birmingham’s zero-waste supermarket, The Clean Kilo Birmingham’s waste-free supermarket The Clean Kilo has won the Grocer of the Year Award 2018 for Slow Food UK. The ethical supermarket located in Digbeth, which is the largest completely zero-waste supermarket in the UK, announced on Instagram last night that they had won the award. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs8xlF_j3vJ/ Owners Jeanette and Tom said: “Winning the award has given us real acknowledgement in the food retail industry as Slow Food is an international organisation. We believe this will open more doors and opportunities for us to grow our network and awareness to reduce plastic. We will…
Image via Birmingham Live Birmingham City Council has been criticised this week for the number of homeless people without overnight accommodation. This is despite claiming there is enough space for them in temporary shelters. Councillor Rob Pocock (Lab), speaking about the Health and Social Care Scrutiny Committee meeting that took place earlier this week, said: “At yesterday’s Scrutiny Committee we pressed City Council officers for an absolute assurance that anyone and everyone identified on the streets as a rough sleeper, was offered sheltered overnight accommodation within a day of being identified on the street. We were told this was so…
The 1975 will be performing in Birmingham on 23rd January at Arena Birmingham
Since the release of their sophomore record I Don’t Run earlier this year, it would be rare to find the girls of Hinds anywhere but on tour. The four-piece from Madrid performed the Birmingham leg of their UK/European tour at newly renovated The Mill. Following an electric performance from indie rockers Sports Team (which was enjoyed by Ade Martin (bass) and Amber Grimbergen (drums) of Hinds who joined the audience to watch the performance), Hinds bounded onto the stage with as much energy as ever before – a life on the road has not tired them out. It was a particularly…
Birmingham City Council Cabinet have launched their Brum Budget Consultation by broadcasting an online livestream of the first meeting to discuss the Birmingham Budget 2019. The meeting saw councillors respond to questions sent in by the people of Birmingham. Austerity According to the budget, £86 million worth of cuts need to be made over the next four years. Councillor Ward says that despite Theresa May announcing that austerity is at an end, this continues to be the most challenging period in the history of Birmingham City Council. He opened the meeting by saying: “For Birmingham City Council and local government more generally,…
Birmingham’s Original Patty Men has been recognised in the Observer Monthly Food Awards this month, having been awarded Runner-Up in the Best Cheap Eats category.
A meeting is being held today in order to come to a decision whether or not to grant Revolución de Cuba, Temple Street an extension to their operating hours on proposed weekends throughout November. Birmingham City Council received a Temporary Event Notice from the popular cocktail bar on 12th October 2018. The TEN outlined a request to extend the bar’s operating hours on the payday weekend beginning Thursday 29th November and a number of weekends to follow, meaning instead of closing at 1am, they would lengthen service by two hours and serve alcohol up to 3am. The popular chain opened…