Coming Up ..... Saturday 2nd August
House_Techno_Deep_Underground

Below presents Saturday Night Beach Party - Pre Like Minded (Croatia) Party

Line up: Nick Hoeppner + Subb An + Frenchy + Adam Shelton + Room 2 hosted by Asylum and Further.

Venue: The Rainbow Beach, Digbeth, B9 4ED
Time: 8pm – 4am
Cost: £7 adv, £10 on the door
Links:
www.myspace.com/belowdaytime

Coming Up ..... Saturday 2nd August
Alternative Dancing Music

Faux Real Club present the best Hiphop, Soul, Funk, Rock, Boogie, Disco, House, Techno, Acid, Synthpop, Rock, Grime, Baile-funk, Bootybass, the whole sh*t!!

Venue: The Bulls Head, 23 St Marys Row, Moseley
Links:
http://www.bullsheadmoseley.co.uk/

Coming Up ..... Sunday 3rd August
Underground Music

The Rainbow are throwing monthly summer parties in the Courtyard.

This month: George Kristopher (HYS Australia) + residents DJ’s Paul Henry +
Steve Young

Venue: The Rainbow Courtyard, Digbeth, B12 0LD
Time: 3pm – 12am
Cost: £3 before 6pm, £5 after
Links:www.myspace.com/soulprojectuk

Coming Up On.....Friday 9th May
Indie_Alt_Exp_Electro

444 Club present GRAVENHURST(Warp Records)/51 Breaks/The Heathers/The Amateurs/Windscale + Plastic Noise DJs

Venue: The Rainbow
Time: 8pm - 4pm
Cost: £5 adv, £6 on the door

Links:
http://www.myspace.com/kamikazeevents
http://www.myspace.com/gravenhurst
http://www.myspace.com/51breaks
http://www.myspace.com/theheathersuk
http://www.myspace.com/theamateursuk
http://www.myspace.com/00windscale00

Coming Up On.....Friday 9th May
Indie_Pop_Metal_Garage_Alt_Exp

Freakin Legend Music Co-operatvie present Jazz Thrash Assasin + Betty and the ID + Reverie + The Lime Chalks

‘The Lime Chalk situation is that the group now have a further two members, Dunc and John.
Stoked by this development, they have been preparing a set comprising of almost entirely new material, to be performed by the newfangled five-piece.’

Venue: The Island Bar, Suffolk Street, Queensway
Time: 8pm start
Cost: £3 in

Links:
http://www.myspace.com/freakinlegendpromotions
http://www.myspace.com/jazzthrashass
http://www.myspace.com/bettyandtheid
http://www.myspace.com/reverietheband
http://www.myspace.com/limechalks

Coming Up On.....Sunday 11th May
Indie_New Wave_Electro_Alternative



Chicks Dig Jerks present Hott Date who are celebrating their 1st Birthday this Sunday. Guest DJ’s are Riotous Rockers + plus there’s loads of DJ’s from Birmingham’s Electro, Indie, New Wave & Alternative nights including Adam Adam + Chicks Dig Jerks + Chris & Jonny + Coldrice + Scott Bleepz + Mosco Disco + Naked Lunch + Pizza Static + Death at the Disco + New Scotland Yard + Trashorama + Bang! Bang!

Venue: The Rainbow, Digbeth
Time: Midday - Midnight



Links:
www.myspace.com/hott_date

Coming Up On.....Wednesday 30th April
Beats_Bass_Breaks_Dubs



Marmite Monolopy hold their monthly night at the Rainbow in Digbeth.

Bringing together roots music with modern dance culture, marmite monopoly brings you a night of electric jams from the fringes of popular culture

Beats, Bass, Breaks, Dubs Electronica, Hip Hop, Dark Breaks, Dubstep,
Reggae, Funk, World + plus special guests Hip Hop/punk/folk duo Waler
Also live visuals + live drums + and free toast.

Venue: The Rainbow, Digbeth
Time: 7pm
Cost: FREE ENTRY

Links:
http://www.myspace.com/marmitemonopoly
http://www.myspace.com/walermusic
(Marmite Monolopy)
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=349124295

Coming Up On.....Friday 2nd May
All Kinda Beats

The Drop Beats Not Bombs Anti War Event and support for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Campaign Against Arms Trade - aims to educate the people on these important issues whilst they have a good time. So from the start we have made it our mission to put together an event that comprises of a broad spectrum of sounds and styles. From Drum & Bass to Techno to Indie to Hard House, with the aim to leave you breathless as we relentlessly seek out the cream of up coming talent as well as established acts/artists. That’s not even mentioning the incredible visual displays at every event. This truly is a full on assult on the senses.

For more information use this link:

http://www.dropbeatsnotbombs.co.uk/
http://www.child-soldiers.org/
http://www.cnd.uk.org/
http://www.caat.org.uk/
http://www.amnesty.org/
http://www.controlarms.org/

Drop Beats Not Bombs_3 day Festival_Day 1

At my last count there’s well over 30 artist playing on the opening night ranging from beats, bass and dance to indie, rock and electro. Below are only a few of those, but a full line-up is available at the dropbeatsnotbombs website – link below.

DJ Tigerstyle + Bobby Friction + Riz MC + 360 + Cracked Actors + The Heels + Deluka + Pathaan + Shisha Soundsystem ,Plus Bazaar & Zen (Magic, Poetry, Music, Comedy, Tarot, Massage)

Venue: Rainbow Warehouse + Yard + Bar

Time: 9pm – 6am

Cost: £10 (adv + bf) Friday or £20 (+ bf 3) Day Weekend Ticket

Links:
http://www.dropbeatsnotbombs.co.uk/

Indie_Rockabilly_Rock_Alternative_Blues_Punk

As part of the Drop Beats Not Bombs proceedings 444 Club present Magnificatz +The Dirty Backbeats + Velvet Texas Cannonball + Anyone For Shark + Deluka + Plastic Noise DJ’s

Venue: The Rainbow, Digbeth

Time: 8pm

Links:

http://www.myspace.com/kamikazeevents
http://www.myspace.com/magnificatz
http://www.myspace.com/anyoneforshark
http://www.myspace.com/rainbowevents
http://www.myspace.com/thevelvettexascannonball

Coming Up On.....Saturday 3rd May
All Kinda Beats_
Drop Beats Not Bombs_ 3 day festival_ Day 2

Again below are only a few of those on the line-up of around 70 artists for Saturday. A full line-up is available at the dropbeatsnotbombs website – link below.

Jay Cunning + DJ Quest & Ken Mac + 30HZ + Dan Appleton + Joe Hughes + Strontium Dog + Leeming + Inner City Dwellers + Redstaar + Akira the Don + Schmidt + DJ Rubbish + Boomclick Soundsystem + Pariah Network

Venue: Rainbow Warehouse + Yard + Bar
Time: 9pm – 6am
Cost: £15 (adv + bf) Saturday or £20 (+ bf) 3 Day Weekend Ticket

Links:

http://www.dropbeatsnotbombs.co.uk/

Coming Up On.....Sunday 4th May
All Kinda Beats
Drop Beats Not Bombs_ 3 day festival_ Day 3

Once again below are only a few of those on the line-up of over 35 artists.
A full line-up is available at the dropbeatsnotbombs website – link below.

Twisted Individual + Drumsound + Rolz & Roscoe + Utah Saints + Diverted + Eskmo + Jade One + Simplex + Jon Da Silva

Venue: Rainbow Warehouse + Yard + Bar
Time: 9pm – 6am
Cost: £15 (adv + bf) Sunday or £20 (+ bf) 3 Day Weekend Ticket

Links:

http://www.dropbeatsnotbombs.co.uk/

Coming Up On.....Sunday 4th May
Beats_Techno

BELOW DAYTIME PARTY – MOBILEE RECORDS PARTY
LINE-UP: ANJA SCHNIEDER - RALF KOLMAN - PETE DE MOMME + RESIDENTS

Below welcomes back mobile records bosses Anja Schnieder and Ralf Kolman for an all day bank holiday special. Since Anja’s debut two years ago Mobilee has grown to become one of Berlin’s most closely watched imprints; with a string of records that regularly shot to the top of the charts – and to the front of the crates – of the worlds best DJ’s. The labels mix of pristine minimal, refreshingly unexpected grooves, and deep house manages to push dance music forward while remaining instantly accessible.

The return of Mobilee to Below also coincides with the launch of Anja’s debut artist album ‘Beyond The Valley’. Anja has combined her many abilities – as broadcaster, DJ, and producer – to a stunning album, on which ‘Minimal’ which has given way to a warmer, suppler sound, that embraces the dancefloor.

Venue: The Rainbow, High Street, Digbeth, B9 0LD
Time: 12pm – 12am

Cost: £7 before 3pm, £10 after

Links:
www.myspace.com/belowdaytime
www.myspace.com/anjaschneider
http://www.mobilee-records.de/

Coming Up On.....Friday 18th April
Indie_Post Rock



444 Club presents a night of Rock and Indie with Electric Animals, The Project, Love Hate Logic, Circle 3.

It’s at the Rainbow, starts at 8pm goes onto 4am, £4 in. DJ's play in between and after the bands
Indie, Rock and Blues with Platform Promotions who present The Ganders, Narration, Copious and Jamie Croft. It’s at the Cross, Moseley, starts at 8pm and is £4 in.

LATE ENTRY.......The Brascoes and Blue Jupiters are playing this Friday.
Blue Jupiters supported The Young Knives last month in Tamworth.
Also on the bill are Mayday and Hero Machine.
Bar Academy, starts at 8:30pm, £4 adv or £5 on the door.

Coming Up On.....Saturday 12th April

Electronics_w/ Bass_Basement_Dancehall_2 step_Grime_Electro



This is going to be the last Bigger Than Barry event for a couple of months as they are taking a short break. Aside from the Barry resident dj's, Deadcat +1, Dutty Webslinga & Scott Bleepz, Sheffield's Toddla T will be playing on the night.

The following is taken from the Toddla T Myspace:

'Cut yer boy TODDLA T open and you’ll be vaporized by the pure Sheffield electronics crackling inside him. The Steel City ‘Bleep’ bubbles right through the blood, brains and musical meat of this dirty rascal’s DJ stints, rerubs and original night-time material.

Weaned on the teat of bashment from a young age Mr T rolled through his early years on his hands and knees with ears glued to the speakers of his folks’ hi fi. Making beats, bass, blunts and girls filled his adolescence until he was crowned as inhouse studio boff at Sheffield’s Kenwood Studios at the grand old age of 19. In the home of Dizzee Rascal’s ’Boy in da Corner’ he set to salting aural shit up. Working on material for DJ Cash Money, Roots Manuva and Steve Edwards let him polish his craft until the studio shut, and he dived headfirst into distilling his own bass heavy wonk until it was ripe for dissemination.

Hold onto your pants 2008, 1965 recording artiste, basement bulldozer and all round bobbling bass enthusiast Toddla T is officially bubblin‘ over. This elasticated Yorkshire boy maybe still in short trousers but at present, his wobbly bashment based electronics are becoming larger and even more well tailored for the discerning dancefloor booty… The reverb so far? Well debut 12 ‘Do U Know?’, featuring 7 different riddims including a jackin’ rub from the Count and Sinden and dub from Warp forgemaster Rob G, slapped it to the livewire network of blogs and bass bins of de underground so rudely that the gatekeepers to the big time have just fashioned him a gold set of keys… His Ghettoblaster mix tape got the various hype depots all frothy with many slenging it as the hottest selection of last year.

Recent DJ sets at Fabric for Herve and Sinden’s Get Familiar and Bestival’s Reunion tour as well as Kiss FM and Diplo’s Mad Decent blog also illustrate that if ya get this lad on the x-ray, you’ll be blinded by the hot, dancehall flavoured bassline business buzzing right through him. What you saying about next steps in the deep phat fryer? Well the djing larks just get hotter - not only is Toddla on tour with Sheffield jibber jabberer The Reverend, he’ll be taking the nocturnal shaking as far as Nottingham’s Liars Club, Switzerland, the Big Chill and Glastonbury.

Back in his lab and a string of forthcoming productions and remixes are strutting into view, revealing that while our boy knows how to slip the vibe inside a dance floor as smooth as a catheter on a drunk, he’s also primed his sonic production business to immaculate, rump bouncing perfection. His latest glut of aural ear wagging shows that no one else draws on Sheffield bleep and the city’s penchant for Henderson’s infected dancehall so effectively. Expect a slab of heavy culture clashing with fellow 1965 scamps, the Metros, while one time Sheffield ressie and ex-Moloko chanteuse Roisin Murphy gets her booty firmly slapped on Toddla’s fresh rewiring of ‘You know me better’. On top of further remixing work for Tricky, Lil Draggon, Anzyl Jones & MC Gringo, Toddla’s paired up with Mr Versatile for a mind melting break down of Hot Chip’s ‘One Pure Thought’ which has little of the Londoners‘ specky pop and maxmimus cheeky bleep. Add to that the wonky bassline of his own ‘Sound Tape Killin’’ plus some hefty remixes from Nasti boi and the hype surrounding our hero is sizzling nicely.

His previous career as shoe shop boy is officially over - The world of retail and receipts has been exchanged for red-raw basement jump offs and rewiring dancehalls full time. At present Toddla’s on the brink of inking an album deal with 1965, is again assisting macdaddy Roots Manuva finish his new album and is working as an integral part of the mysterious Machine Don’t Care cartel along with Trevor Loveys, Sinden and Debt Boi. 2008 is moving to the sound of Toddla T’s very own dance, beamed straight out of the girders and gutters of knife and fork vibes in Sheffield. If you u don’t know by now, then you need to reet now…'

It all takes place at The Rainbow, Digbeth, 11pm-4.30am. It's £5 in, but it might be worth getting a ticket in advance as last time it was so popular it they had to stop letting people not even two hours after opening.

Coming Up On.....Sunday 13th April

Birmingham Bands Special!!!

What a line-up Hott Date have got together here, seems like most of the Midlands best indie, new wave, post punk and rock bands are all playing on the same bill. If you need convincing check out 'Our Bipolar Friends' on Johnny Foreigners myspace, 'Rapunzel' on Sunset Cinema Clubs myspace and 'Wolf Gang Bang' on the Mirror! Mirror! myspace. In between the bands are some of Birmingham's DJ's mixing up Indie, Alternative and Electro tunes.

It's only £5, starts a 3pm and is at the Rainbow, Digbeth.

Coming Up On.....Friday 28th March

Punk_New Wave_Post Punk



444 Club presents the Mirror! Mirror! EP Launch Party. The Nuneaton boys who have previously released a 7" split cd with Sheffield's Rolo Tomassi are supported by OK Tokyo (Reading/London), The Vehicles and Your Biggest Fan Club.

Remember '444' stands for 4 Bands for £4 till 4am. It's at the Rainbow in Digbeth and starts at 8pm.

Coming Up On.....Saturday 29th March

Piano_Acoustic_Folk

Some sweet piano from Anna Palmer a.k.a Little Palm. The flyer above says it's 18+ but it's actually 14+. She is supporting Finding Calcutta. It starts at 8pm at The Rainbow in Digbeth. £4 in. In fact this is a 444 Club event - check flyer below:

Coming Up On.....Saturday 5th April

Dance (crossover)_Old Skool

Duo Shut Up And Dance originally fused hip hop, house and hardcore and are best known for their single "Raving I'm Raving", which reached No. 2 in the UK singles chart in 1992. (Ah - I remember it well, along with the lad at the bottom of my road who had a Dreamscape jacket) Anyway enough reminiscing as these guys are still producing now and released 'The Great British Public', their latest album in 2007. Check out some of their more recent stuff on their myspace.

You can catch them down The Rainbow, Digbeth between 9pm - 4am. It's £5 in.

Coming Up On.....Thursday 20th March 2008



No excuses for not starting the weekend early this week, especially as this is the night before Good Friday. No work, uni, college or unemployment, well still unemployment, but you see what I'm getting at - it's a day off!

Hott Date @ The Rainbow have French electronic duo Kap Bambino performing their energetic dirty edged electro pop live. Guest DJ’s are Discomendments who specialize in re-editing and making the familiar seem unfamiliar, while making you dance. Quite a skill. It all starts at 8pm.