The UK Midlands’ role as the crucible of music phenomenon 2 Tone will be celebrated at a special BBC Radio WM event O2 Institute Birmingham 3 on Thu 2 May

ft The Beat Featuring Ranking Jnr Lobster Horace Panter Pauline Black OBE DL Mazzy Snape, hosted by Adrian Goldberg

Story bit.ly/bbc2tonebirmin…

This is a great document well worth reading for all licensed venues etc

Interesting research out of Bristol

. Home Of Metal has been championing our Heavy Metal heritage since 2007
Our #BlackSabbath 50 years exhibition Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 5 years ago showed then that there is international interest in this musical heritage as we had 24,000 paying visitors from 52 countries!

This is fantastic news for #Birmingham |

“Cities all over the UK are protecting their musical heritage, Birmingham shouldn’t be left behind.” Tony Iommi

#homeofmetal

It’s reported that, in the year of 1965, 291 factory workers were injured in the West Midlands. Many of which lost their fingers, or in Tony Iommi’s case their fingertips, this horrific accident combined with the industrial backdrop of Birmingham birthed Heavy Metal!
#heavymetal

THE CROWN HAS BEEN LISTED 🚨

Led by the fantastic jezc, we’ve got this iconic site Grade II listed 👏🏻

Not only does this protect the building that was home to Black Sabbath’s first gig, but it also has significant ramifications for any planned development of Station Street 💪🏻

The Crown Inn, Birmingham, is now Grade II Listed! 🎉

Regarded as the birthplace of heavy metal music, it's been recognised for the role it played in the development of the genre and for launching the career of famous Birmingham based band BlackSabbath. 🤘

© Elliott Brown

Great news and excellent work from jezc who put so much work behind this

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Under 25? From an underrepresented background?
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The sad reality of the live music ecology
'But the kind of places where you can stand mere feet away from the performers, and catch a band or singer when they are just starting out, are being squeezed as never before.'
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At Thursday's Branch meeting and AGM we counted up the votes for our Branch Pub of the Year competition for 2023/24. So without further ado, the results are...

⚡️Festival Assistant Role for Under 25s⚡️

We are thrilled to announce that we have received funding from Youth Music – which will go towards a new job role of Festival Assistant for someone aged under 25 from an underrepresented background.

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Great book!

If the higher business rates multiplier must increase this April, which will be a damaging cost for many pubs, then it must be based on the actual inflation rate at the time of the increase, or else all this will do is fuel cost rises and damage businesses.

Our next Night Time Economy Meeting is scheduled for 7th March at 5pm. It will be held at the BID offices and we would love to have more of our Night Time Economy venues attend.

If you would like more information or to register your attendance email [email protected].

The Electric in the 1990s, featuring the Thatcher's Children art installation by John Buckley in its windows

LEGACY launched on Link Up TV yesterday, if you haven't checked it out yet what are you doing??

To get into the mood for LEGACY we have curated a playlist featuring some of the best Rap and Grime songs to come out of Birmingham

Listen here and get ready: open.spotify.com/playlist/7DaaI…

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT : PLEASE SHARE THE RELEASE OF NEW NTIA NTE REPORT - Spring Budget Support Vital for Survival, New NTE Report Shows Strong Public Desire to Socialise Amidst Exceptional Inflationary Pressures Says NTIA! NTIA Night Time Economy Report 24 Released Today!…

Sorry to say but the music world is so hilariously bad at any structural analysis sometimes you gotta wonder if anyone actually reads. Look, the notion that talent is some innate ability is ridiculous. It takes time, practice, repetition. These things are external that is why...