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Common Ground: Birmingham’s Most Welcoming Monthly Open Mic Night

Event Poster for Common Ground, a monthly open mic night held at Third Space Cafe

Common Ground is a new monthly creative night bringing Birmingham’s poets, musicians and audiences together at Third Space Café. Hosted by Make Something, Feel Something, each event alternates between music and poetry, creating space to perform, connect and discover new ideas.

Brum Radio’s Christmas Charity 2025 – Lets Feed Brum

This Christmas, Brum Radio is proud to support Lets Feed Brum as our official Christmas charity. Lets Feed Brum is a Birmingham-based charity doing vital work across the city, providing hot meals, food parcels and support to people experiencing homelessness and food poverty. At a time of year that can be especially tough for many, […]

Charlie Bennett at Folklore Hoxton

Below the near life-sized metal horse hanging from the ceiling, draped plants, and smokey LED lighting of the mystical Folklore venue, I spoke to Birmingham-raised bedroom-pop singer Charlie Bennett. Hours before the London show of his Posterboy tour, Bennett was all smiles as we discussed the transition from bedroom livestreams to performing on stage, the […]

Introducing Outer Circle: The 5 Minute Daily Shortcut to Birmingham’s Cultural Life

Birmingham Culture In Under 5 Minutes “Birmingham is a great, confused laboratory of ideas.”— Jane Jacobs, urbanist Outer Circle is our new daily podcast that captures the city’s cultural energy – in under 5 minutes. Birmingham is alive with stories – from theatre stages and gig venues to galleries, cafés and community spaces. There’s always something […]

WIN Tickets to an incredible day of cricket at Edgbaston, as The Hundred returns to Birmingham this Summer.

The countdown is officially on until the exhilarating 100-ball cricket competition – The Hundred – returns to the world-renowned Edgbaston Stadium this summer. Kick-starting the tournament, Birmingham Phoenix’s 2025 campaign gets underway with one of the biggest games in The Hundred fixture schedule – a fiercely fought derby against local rivals Trent Rockets at Edgbaston […]

AMÍKA discusses inspiration and EP Blue Kid one year from release

Birmingham-born and raised, AMÍKA returns to Speakeasy with Susie a year after the release of debut EP Blue Kid. Jesting about how long it has been and how “we should be ashamed of ourselves” to have waited so long, AMÍKA shares that she is “riding high” after headlining The Hare & Hounds in King Heath. […]