Birmingham?

gucci

Hello, I'v moved over to Birmingham for the foreseeable future and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for stuff to do?
I've went to the footy already

Anyone know of any nice bars with good live music?

hot4teacher

Sort of depends what music you like.
Broad street has a load of cafes and bars, and the city centre is ok for bars, but not too many for live music.
There is a free magazine (can't remember the name) that has gig listings and guides of things to do

pow wow

Depending on your age there are some good uni type bars out in Aston, near enough the industrial estates so you get some grown ups in there too

Lots of shopping to be had also, but I'm sure you know that already. I can't really remember what I got up to in my spare time when I lived there

gucci

Thanks for the info.

Broad Street has lots of bars etc, but they are all more or less cast in the lager lout/disco bar mode, not really my cup of tea, but i can tolerate it for an hour or 2 every once in a while. The mailbox is a newish area close by and its quite nice, and i stumbled across a few nice small bars in between.

Someone recommended to me doing a tour of the jewelery quarter.......all i say is DONT GO! myself and my girlfriend felt ourselves getting older by the second and thought we were in a live version of Little Britain! So we snuck out as soon as we could.

pow wow

lol I always found the JQ tours quite interesting, but I am a history student lol.

gucci

ellscurr wrote: »

lol I always found the JQ tours quite interesting, but I am a history student lol.

Think it was more the womans voice who was giving the tour, it was really irritating!

bills

Have you tried brindley place, from what i can remember a bit better than broad street.
I know its more cafe bars there anyway. We went to stratford upon avon & warwick castle separatey on day trips & enjoyed both of them