After a year largely out of the public eye, Brummie singer-songwriter Fyfe Dangerfield’s multi-faceted career is poised to burst out in various directions.Read
TRYING to define a typical audience for one of Matthew Bourne’s dance shows is difficult, because it often looks as though a random cross-section of the public has been rounded up from the pavement outside the theatre.Read
THE West Midlands is being urged to get up and dance in a £2.61 million programme being promoted as part of the Cultural Olympiad leading up to London 2012.Read
Birmingham University is to build a new £16 million home for its music department which will complete its original range of buildings, left unfinished when they first opened in 1909.Read
WHETHER it’s campaigning against the Government’s alleged erosion of civil liberties or fighting to save a boatyard in his home town of Oxford from redevelopment, it’s easy to see Philip Pullman as a full-time Mr Angry.Read
IN October 2005, simmering tensions in the Lozells area of Birmingham suddenly flared into riots when rumours about the gang rape of a young Jamaican girl by a group of Asian men were fanned by a local pirate radio station.Read
There’s a rare chance to hear some of America’s most evocative choral music sung by one of its best professional choirs at Birmingham Town Hall on Sunday.Read
