Gig reviews, gigs in Birmingham & West Midlands

Review: Bowling For Soup: An acoustic evening with Jaret & Erik, Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton Apr 07 2011

BOWLING for Soup have become famed for their upbeat, witty, dance-along songs.Read

Katy Perry live at the LG Arena, Birmingham: Review and picture gallery Apr 05 2011

Watching Katy Perry’s show was like getting a sugar rush.Read

Reveiw: Jessie J, at the O2 Academy, Birmingham Apr 04 2011

With a chart-topping single, a new album and a Brit award to her name Jessie Cornish is riding the crest of a wave at the moment.Read

Review: Micky Flanagan, at Symphony Hall, Birmingham Apr 02 2011

MICKY Flanagan is very much the thinking man’s Cockney.Read

McFly can still cut it Mar 31 2011

THEY have swapped some of the pop for rock and have more tattoos these days but McFly can still fill an arena with a deafening army of teenage girls – and their mothers.Read

Last Night of the Spring Proms review, Symphony Hall, Birmingham Mar 30 2011

DO WE love our country? Oh yes we do, judging by the reaction of a packed Symphony Hall bristling with hundreds of Union flags as the London Concert Orchestra played Land of Hope and Glory to close the show.Read

Review: Enrique Iglesias, at the LG Arena, Birmingham NEC Mar 28 2011

A poster with ‘My husband’s away, you wanna play?’ greeted Enrique for the final night of his UK tour. Read

Westlife at Birmingham LG Arena Mar 26 2011

IRELAND flags, pink cowboy hats, ‘I heart’ banners and lots of hysterical ladies can only mean one thing.Read

Mary Wilson and The Chi-Lites at\nAlexandra Theatre Mar 23 2011

THIS event was well staged and sounded great, but you got the feeling that The Chi-Lites – rather than the headliner – could have topped the bill.Read

The Script delivered a huge hit-laden St Patrick's Day performance at the LG Arena Mar 22 2011

THE Script topped their meteoric rise to the top this week with a slick and polished St Patricks Day performance at the LG Arena.Read

Asha Bhosle, Symphony Hall, Birmingham Review Mar 20 2011

BOLLYWOOD singer Asha Bhosle has had quite a career. Spanning six decades and including more than 1,000 Indian films, she is the queen of Hindi playback.Read

The Script delivered a huge hit-laden St Patrick's Day performance at the LG Arena Mar 19 2011

THE Script topped their meteoric rise to the top this week with a slick and polished St Patricks Day performance at the LG Arena.Read

Skepta review Mar 18 2011

SKEPTA showed his loyal grime fans that he will not succumb to producing mainstream chart music with an epic hour-long set at the HMV Institute.Read

Comedian Ed Byrne's bright in crowd pleasing Birmingham gig Mar 18 2011

LAST time comic Ed Byrne came to Birmingham, his new married status was the inspiration for many jokes.Read

Primal Scream review, 02 Academy Mar 17 2011

IT SEEMS the norm nowadays for ageing groups to return to deliver their finest albums live and in their entirety.Read

Bonecrusher Festival review, O2 Academy Birmingham Mar 12 2011

WHOEVER came up with the monicker for this tour certainly knew what was in store.Read

Birmingham first for Frankie and the Heartstrings Mar 10 2011

THERE will have been bigger crowds at more glamorous settings as Frankie and The Heartstrings played a drafty Custard Factory warehouse.Read

10cc review, Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham Mar 10 2011

IT WAS more like 10°C than 10cc, in a less than toasty Alex (had someone left a window open?), but Graham Gouldman and friends warmed hands and hearts with a trip through the back catalogue – both his own pre-10cc days (he wrote the likes of The Hollies’ Bus Stop) and, in the main set, the string of hits he, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme enjoyed in the 1970s.Read