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The article reviews Girls Aloud's performance at Resorts World Arena, Birmingham, England will be held on August 1, 2024, highlighting their well-executed nostalgic show, impressive stage presence, and poignant tribute to their late member Sarah Harding.

The article reviews the performance of English singer-songwriter and musician Tom Bailey with band The Thompson Twins' Into The Gap UK Tour, in the Town Hall in Birmingham, England.

The article reviews the performance of musician Johnny Marr with Gaz Coombes, at the University of Wolverhampton at The Halls in Wolverhampton, England.

Steve Gibbons Band 1/5/14 Bilston Robin 2 View: close Over 50 years on from Brumbeat heroes, The Uglys, Gibbons is still on the road. Sharply-dressed with his red guitar, the [...]

Neil Finn Birmingham Symphony Hall 28/4/14 View: rear stalls Touring his third solo album, Dizzy Heights, the Kiwi tunesmith's set-list dipped into 35 years' worth of material. Opening at the [...]

Tom Paxton & Janis Ian 17/3/14 Birmingham Town Hall View: stalls Together At Last, the pairing may seem strange: He's a cornerstone of the US 60s folk revival, she's part [...]

The Selecter Birmingham O2 Academy 2 13/3/14 View: by the bar Fronted by original vocalists Pauline Black and Arthur 'Gaps' Hendrickson, Coventry's second-biggest ska export marked 35 years of 2-Tone. [...]

The English Beat Birmingham O2 Academy 2 9/3/14 View: centre Not to be confused with Ranking Roger's The Beat, Dave Wakeling's crew have been flying the ska flag in the [...]

Suzanne Vega Birmingham Town Hall 3/2/14 View: stalls Suzanne's first set of original material in seven years, Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles, finds the New Yorker [...]

Ultravox Birmingham NIA 29/11/13 View: stage-left Ignoring their 2012 comeback Brilliant (certainly, it's very good), the classic Mark II Ultravox opened for 80s stadium-rockers Simple Minds with a jaunt through [...]

The Damned 6/12/13 Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall View: middle Afflicted with winter colds, the beret-wearing Captain Sensible reckoned he and his cohorts are a bunch of 'old farts', yet the punk [...]

Editors Birmingham O2 Academy 16/10/15 View: stalls Editors earned their stripes in Brum, so this was the nearest thing to a hometown gig for the band. It fittingly opened and [...]

The B-52s Birmingham O2 Academy 15/8/13 View: towards the back They might not be able to party like they did in their heyday, but The B-52s can still throw a [...]

Visage Birmingham Glee Club 23/7/13 View: stage-right Vintage Visage never toured, instead packing frontman Steve Strange off to TV promos and interviews. But 29 years since their last album, Strange [...]

Lucinda Williams Birmingham Town Hall 26/6/13 View: circle Billed as An Intimate Evening With, this grand venue is hardly cosy, but neither are Williams' songs. Jaunty pop-country opener Passionate Kisses [...]

Peter Murphy Birmingham O2 Academy 17/6/13 View: near bar, behind Miles Hunt With Bauhaus defunct following the release of 2008's Go Away White, frontman Peter Murphy marked the Northants post-punks' [...]

Edwyn Collins Birmingham Glee Club 21/4/13 View: seated, stage-right From the opening salvo of Orange Juice's 1980 debut, Falling And Laughing title track, to the closing, beefed-up blast of early [...]

World Party Birmingham Glee Club 23/4/13 View: seated, stage-right After serious illness, Karl Wallinger's first proper UK tour in over a decade saw an understated, tentative step forward, backed by [...]

New Order Wolverhampton Civic Hall 24/11715 View: balcony The return of keyboardist Gillian Gilbert, coupled with the bedding-in of 'new boys' Phil Cunningham and bassist Tom Chapman has given New [...]

Killing Joke Birmingham [O.sub.2] Institute 31/10/15 View: stalls Opening tracks The Wait and Autonomous Zone underlined just how singular KJ's vision has remained, separated by 35-plus years but sitting side-by-side [...]

McAlmont & Butler Birmingham [O.sub.2] Institute 5/11/15 View: on the mezzanine Another surprising return on the back of a deluxe The Sound Of ... saw the duo channelling their influences. [...]

The Will Gregory Moog Ensemble Birmingham Town Hall 11/6/15 View: left-side, circle Marking the 10th anniversary of Moog's death, Goldfrapp's Will Gregory fronted an intriguing celebration of pre-digital tech. The [...]

Placebo Birmingham [O.sub.2] Academy 18/3/15 View: on the left Kick-starting a period of activity leading to the anniversary of their eponymous 1996 debut next year, the band of outsiders' entire [...]

Hawkwind, Focus Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall 6/3/15 View: towards the middle Fronted by their founder, yodelling flute-player Thijs Van Leer, Dutch prog-rockers Focus failed to ignite, the mighty Hocus Pocus never [...]

The Jesus & Mary Chain Birmingham Institute 25/2/15 View: left-side The Reid brothers' marking of the 30th anniversary of their debut long-player continues, but not before a mini-set of non-album [...]

John Renbourn Wizz Jones Birmingham Kitchen arden Cafe 4/3/15 View: at front All eyes were on the fingers as the legendary acoustic guitarists ran through a series of folk, blues [...]

Martin Carthy Birmingham Kitchen Garden Cafe 20/2/15 View: to Martin's left Beginning with Her Servant Man, Carthy's split-set recounted tales of daring adventures, deadly love, the idiocy of keeping secrets, [...]

Jefferson Starship Bilston Robin 2 2/2/15 View: stage-left After last year's hit-and-miss 40 Years In Space shows, the band returned to celebrate a half-century of their predecessor, Jefferson Airplane. Helmed [...]

The Wailers Birmingham 02 Academy 8/11/14 View: left-side The Wallers marked the 30th anniversary of the world's best-selling reggae long-player, Bob Marley's Legend, helmed by bassist Aston 'Family Man' Barrett, [...]

Neil Sedaka Birmingham Symphony Hall 3/11/14 View: stalls Greeted by a standing ovation before he'd played a note or uttered a word, there was a lot of love for Neil [...]

Lamb Birmingham Institute 30/10/14 View: left-side, standing With her career as an acoustic singer-songwriter temporarily paused, solo artist and children's book author Lou Rhodes' reunion with Andy Barlow continues to [...]

Burt Bacharach Birmingham Symphony Hall 28/7/14 View: front stalls When it comes to penning a great tune, Bacharach's up there with the American Songbook greats. Few other pop composers can [...]

Donovan Tanworth-in-Arden Lunar Festival 7/6/14 View: front, centre Performing solo with an acoustic guitar, Donovan reeled off a string of era-defining singles that traced the troubadour's career. From the mid-60s [...]

The article reviews the exhibition "Notice Nature Feel Joy (NNFC)" which opened in March 2015 at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery in England.

The article reviews the permanent exhibition the "Staffordshire Hoard Gallery," which displays a hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold, at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in Birmingham, England.

A review is offered for the Wilson art gallery and museum located at Cheltenham, Great Britain.

The article reviews a concert by singer Steve Gibbons at Bilston Robin 2 near Birmingham, England on May 1, 2014.

The article reviews a concert by musician Neil Finn at Birmingham Symphony Hall in England on April 28, 2014.