“IT’S been a while,” admitted frontman Billy Graziadei, in reference to Biohazard’s long-overdue return to Birmingham, as he surveyed the sweaty crowd.Read
The bright-eyed, bushy-tailed hopefulness with which amateur orchestras spring up is touching, but not all of them survive beyond the fledgling stage.Read
The CBSO must be the most-recorded orchestra in the country at the moment, with the microphones out in force again for the Orfeo label to set down the latest instalment in a complete cycle of Tchaikovsky symphonies.Read
It is good to be present at history-in-the-making as we were for the first performance of the String Quartet No.3 by the acclaimed Birmingham–based composer Ivor McGregor,Read
Okko Kamu, well known to Birmingham audiences for his performances with the CBSO, brought his new orchestra, the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, from Finland for this all-Sibelius concert.Read
A special Jazz Club Friday at the Bartons Arms, in Aston, Birmingham, this week will be a memorial gig to mark the first anniversary of the death of drummer Tony Levin.Read
A remarkable retrospective of Bob Dylan's songwriting career is released next week - but only one of the 75 tracks is sung by Dylan himself. Conrad Cox delves deeper.Read
As its final season approaches its close after a proud 60 years, Birmingham Chamber Music Society continues in what has always been its mission: to facilitate small-ensemble music-making in the heart of the city.Read
