Tag Archives: digbeth

Karkosa wave goodbye with their final single and a headline show

Words by Ross Carley After an incredible run from local band Karkosa including big headline shows, a UK tour, reputable support slots and even sold-out shows in South Korea, it’s sadly time to say goodbye to the indie-rock group we’ve all come to know and love since 2013 when they first emerged. This month, the band […]

Shimmer Sounds at The Mill, Digbeth

Shimmer Sounds

  Shimmer Sounds will be making it’s Birmingham debut in 2019 after a successful first event in Cardiff in 2018. The one-day event takes place at The Mill, Digbeth this Sunday the 17th November. A terrific line-up includes, Temples,  Black Honey, The Blinders, Gengahr, Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard and many more. Doors open at 3pm and tickets […]

Impressions of a Birmingham Poet: Matthew Edwards

An audience of fold-out chairs faced a projector screen and stage area. Musical instruments were poised and ready, as a classy, mature, after hours wine bar crowd rolled into the joint; Centrala, a semi industrial, whitewashed, minimalist unit at the back of Digbeth’s Minerva works estate. It had been a Birmingham minute since I’d seen […]

A Hoot at the Night Owl – Down in Digbeth for some Brain Food

I stuck to the multi-levelled chests of draws sandwiched together to make a bar at the back of the room. I was curious for a moment; what interactions lay past the solitary sofa and bongos, up the stairs, to an upper deck of the Night Owl? I guess there are inevitably scenes within scenes one […]