I’m just getting my act together to send off details about The Deirdres gig to online places round Brum, so I just thought I’d list the ones I use for you.

Firstly, JDTraynor’s Birmingham and West Midlands gigs myspace group is usually very well researched and collated but if you’re starting up it’s probably worth dropping him a note. He has a nice list of local promoters too along with how often they promote and where. I sometimes quite like to just click through all the bands linked to make sure I’m not missing something amazing.

There’s a few blogs, all with a slightly different take on things -

Birmingham Gig Guide (myspace or myspace) has been running for a while now and covers mainly indie, big and small.

Birmingham Music (myspace) who also seem to have a bit of a news thing running, venues list, and other bits and bobs.

Coming Up Birmingham (myspace) added me on myspace yesterday and promises to cover all styles of music with a focus on smaller events and venues.

Have I missed any? Let me know in the comments and I’ll update the list. Likewise if I come across anything then I’ll update this post.

I quite like it when people do stuff like Pete’s Gig Guide or Russ L’s monthly roundup and put together a more personal list - which makes it exceptionally useful if you click with someone’s musical bubble. I should be doing more of this with this blog to be honest. It’s no good you reading a review on here and thinking “I’d have liked to have gone to that if you’d have told me dunc, you git.”.

I promise to use the Upcoming Gigs tag more…

Edit 27/03/08 - Additions
Birmingham:INS have rightly pointed out that Birmingham Alive and feeltheheat also have listings, and Upcoming is also a good site to use. Anymore for the online listings listings?

Edit 09/04/08 - Additions
One more called Live Brum. They have a twitter.

Edit 06/05/08 - Additions
Just come across What’s On In Brum?. Oooh, it’s got a promoter’s area you say…

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