BIRMINGHAM · GRASS-ROOTS DIRECTORY
Live Gigs in Birmingham
641 upcoming grass-roots gigs at indie venues, basement bars and community stages in Birmingham. Browse, filter, submit your own.
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Grass-Roots Gigs in Birmingham
Birmingham has a busy grass-roots circuit — small-venue shows, basement bars, residencies and one-off promoter nights, and you can see what’s on in Birmingham over the next four weeks. The directory below pulls every upcoming bill published on GigXchange for Birmingham: dates, doors, ticket links and venue details, sorted by date.
Looking for related Birmingham pages? Browse the Birmingham live music hub, Birmingham open mic nights for recurring weekly nights, the how to get gigs in Birmingham guide, or find a band in Birmingham. Or jump to nearby UK cities: London, Manchester and Glasgow.
What’s on in Birmingham this week — or see what’s on across the UK.
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641 upcoming gigs in Birmingham · sorted by date · page 1 of 27.
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OCT
7
We Are Scientists
O2 Institute2 Birmingham·Bordesley & Highgate, Birmingham
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OCT
7
Baest
Birmingham Flapper, Birmingham
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- GenreMetal
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OCT
7
We Are Scientists
O2 Institute Birmingham·Bordesley & Highgate, Birmingham
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OCT
7
A Certain Ratio
The Castle And Falcon·Balsall Heath West, Birmingham
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OCT
7
Ibibio Sound Machine + Ziyad Al-Samman
Hare And Hounds Kings Heath·Brandwood & King's Heath, Birmingham
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- GenrePunk Rock, DJ / Electronic
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OCT
7
Joe and the Shitboys at The Victoria, Birmingham
The Victoria Birmingham·Ladywood, Birmingham
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OCT
7
Joe & The Shitboys
The Victoria Birmingham·Ladywood, Birmingham
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OCT
7
Ibibio Sound Machine
Hare And Hounds Kings Heath·Brandwood & King's Heath, Birmingham
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OCT
7
Pixie McCann
The Sunflower Lounge·Ladywood, Birmingham
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OCT
7
Coltrane 100: Alex Astbury Sextet + DJ TONi
Hare And Hounds Kings Heath·Brandwood & King's Heath, Birmingham
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OCT
8
911
The Jam House Birmingham, Birmingham
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- GenrePop
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OCT
8
Open Union - Experimental Music & Dumplings
Blow Water Cafe·Brandwood & King's Heath, Birmingham
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OCT
8
Taba Chake
The Castle And Falcon·Balsall Heath West, Birmingham
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OCT
8
Sam Tompkins
O2 Institute2 Birmingham·Bordesley & Highgate, Birmingham
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OCT
8
Oslo Twins
Hare And Hounds Kings Heath·Brandwood & King's Heath, Birmingham
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- GenreIndie Rock, Pop, Synth Pop
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OCT
8
Emma Harner
Hare And Hounds Kings Heath·Brandwood & King's Heath, Birmingham
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OCT
9
Live music, Dinner
The Jam House Birmingham·Soho & Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham
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OCT
9
Humanity's Last Breath, Vildhjarta, Enterprise Earth
Asylum Bar and Venue, Birmingham
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OCT
9
Ben Ellis
O2 Institute2 Birmingham·Bordesley & Highgate, Birmingham
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OCT
9
Ben Ellis, Millichamp
O2 Institute2 Birmingham·Bordesley & Highgate, Birmingham
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OCT
9
Garage Flower
Birmingham Dead Wax·Bordesley & Highgate, Birmingham
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OCT
9
Bridge City Sinners
The Castle And Falcon·Balsall Heath West, Birmingham
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OCT
9
Midnight Til Morning, Ryan Mack
O2 Institute Birmingham·Bordesley & Highgate, Birmingham
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OCT
9
Frontrow
The Rhodehouse·Sutton Trinity, Birmingham
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Birmingham Gig Directory FAQs
Common questions about grass-roots gigs in Birmingham, answered with live data.
The What’s On in Birmingham page narrows this directory to the next four weeks — 72 of them are in the next 7 days — with the same date, entry and ticket filters, plus the Birmingham venues and open mic nights alongside. This page stays the evergreen listing of all 641 upcoming gigs.
641 upcoming gigs listed for Birmingham. 72 are this week. Sorted by date — earliest first.
None of the listed Birmingham gigs have free entry. Most are pay-on-the-door or pre-sold tickets.
A UK gig at an independent venue — typically capped under 600 capacity — by an artist who isn't on a major-label arena tour. In: pubs, basement bars, indie clubs, community halls, arts centres, and small folk / jazz / punk festivals. Out: arenas, stadiums, the O2 chain, Royal Albert Hall, Symphony Hall, the Barbican, premium dining-cabaret rooms (Jazz Cafe, KOKO, Boisdale), and mega-festival sites (Reading, Leeds, Glastonbury, BST Hyde Park). Major-artist 'World Tour' / 'Arena Tour' / 'Greatest Hits' shows are also excluded — this directory is for the early-career bands, local promoter nights and Tuesday-evening residencies the bigger aggregators tend to miss.
Promoters, venues and artists can submit gigs free via the submission form. Submissions are reviewed and verified within 48 hours before going live.
For recurring weekly slots, see the Birmingham open mic directory. For the wider live-music scene, the Birmingham live music hub. For artist booking advice, how to get gigs in Birmingham. Venue looking for a band? find a band in Birmingham shows available acts. Or browse the main UK gig directory.
Listings are compiled from public ticketing-platform APIs and direct submissions by promoters, venues and artists. Each listing carries a verification badge — verified means we've confirmed it independently; unverified means we sourced it from a publicly published event. For UK grassroots-venue context see the Music Venue Trust (industry body), PRS for Music (UK licensing) and Help Musicians UK (independent musicians' charity).
Beyond city pages, browse the UK open mic directory for recurring weekly nights, the UK city hub index for every covered city, the genre directory, the booking guides, or the GX Index for live UK gig rates and percentiles.
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