Midlands Business News

More jobs are being created at one of the country’s biggest gay nightclubs thanks to this year’s Birmingham Pride.

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Nottingham’s leading nightspot will be glamming up for another Bollywood spectacular that is set to wow fans of the popular Hindi film genre. Taking place at Alea on Sunday 19 May the ‘Bollywood Night’ will feature professional dancers, a top DJ and authentic Indian cuisine and is the second time the popular entertainment venue will [...]

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A Shropshire staging of one of the Broadway’s best-loved musicals has received a big boost.

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Birmingham’s Southside district has a host of activities taking place across its bustling venues this May.

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Music promoter DHP has made several key appointments to its 300 plus team behind its live music venues, metropolitan festivals and the 1200 shows it promotes each year. Joining the team in Nottingham is Mark Dennis in the role of marketing manager. Mark brings a wealth of experience from his previous role as marketing manager [...]

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Sports fans from across the East Midlands will be able to enjoy a feast of top international sport while rubbing shoulders with one of football’s true greats. Taking place on 25 May, those who pop along to Alea on Upper Parliament Street will firstly be able to take in the Champions league final from Wembley. [...]

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The boss of Nottingham’s leading entertainment venue is to be cuffed and put behind bars on 16 May.

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Two members of staff from Nottingham’s top entertainment venue were given the trip of a lifetime having smashed their sales targets.

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From monochrome to matching bags and pastel shades to floral patterns, models will be pulling on the latest fashion and strutting their stuff down The Cornerhouse catwalk at the annual charity fashion show.

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Having arrived just over 12 months ago to take the reins of Nottingham’s leading entertainment venue Mark Hands, venue director at Alea, is looking forward to what he perceives as being a hugely exciting time in the leisure and entertainment sector.

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An exciting new live music and special events venue is being launched in Birmingham aiming to bring big-name acts to the city and a broad mix of great entertainment.

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An estimated 19,000 people descended on Birmingham’s Southside district to celebrate Chinese New Year on Sunday 10 February, increasing footfall to local businesses by up to 200%.

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A flagship Dudley bowling centre is hoping to take indoor entertainment to a whole new level following a £250,000 refurbishment which has added a raft of innovative new features, including the largest soft play area in the West Midlands, and created six new jobs.

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Nottingham’s leading entertainment venue picked up a brace of awards at the regional round of the National Training Awards ceremony held at the East Midlands conference centre.

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People from across Nottingham will be stepping their way to a healthy and confident 2013 thanks to the launch of Salsa dance classes at one of the city’s leading entertainment venues.

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A popular Cannock venue is set to host the biggest Scottish party in the Midlands to celebrate the birthday of national poet Robert Burns.

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Top international house DJs Matt Mckillop and Owen Taylor bring their unique Deep City Soul sound to Birmingham’s Fumo this weekend. The duo, who are recognised worldwide through a vast number of productions and remixes, will play late lounge sessions at the cocktail bar and cicchetti restaurant in Waterloo Street this Friday 11th January and [...]

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Staff from Nottingham’s leading entertainment venue raised over a thousand pounds for the When You Wish Upon a Star charity.

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Nottingham based music promoter DHP has won yet another award, this time for the Thekla, its live music venue in Bristol. The latest has come from the readers of the city’s music magazine Fear of Fiction. It comes at the end of a fantastic year for the boat venue that also saw it being named [...]

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Nottingham’s leading entertainment venue has appointed Nigel Jemson as its new business development manager.

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Owners of Birmingham’s biggest gay nightclub the Nightingale are celebrating their first anniversary since rescuing the iconic city venue.

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Audiences have been wowed with the opening of the new IMAX screen at The Cornerhouse in Nottingham.

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Coventry University performing arts students are offering up some alternative festive entertainment in the shape of two satirical plays from Russia. The students, in the second year of the University’s BA (Hons) Theatre and Professional Practice course, are presenting new productions of Nikolai Gogol’s comedy of errors, The Government Inspector, and Nikolai Erdman’s darkly absurd [...]

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Loughborough’s newest night spot is due to open next month with the launch of The Kelso. The bar and club in Ward’s End (next to The Orange Tree) opens its doors to the public on Monday December 17th. The 240-capacity venue features a ground-floor bar and dance floor, and a more intimate first-floor bar with [...]

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On Thursday 22 November The Electric Cinema picked up two prestigious Royal Television Society Midlands Awards 2012 for its work on Southside Stories.

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Nottingham’s leading entertainment venue is celebrating its fifth anniversary. Opened in November 2007, Alea on Upper Parliament Street redefined what people from across the East Midlands could expect from an entertainment venue following an investment of £15 million. With its parent company owning Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Alea regularly puts on events and shows [...]

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A charity event to celebrate dancing in Lincolnshire has seen more than 300 people trying different dance styles, performing on stage and toasting Lincolnshire Dance with a glass of fizz.

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Santa is quite used to making his annual trip to West Midland Safari Park – but when he reached his destination this year he seemed to be very confused.

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The Cornerhouse is preparing to launch Christmas in style with a packed evening of events on Wednesday 21 November.

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Pies, peas and performances from the Hathersage Brass Band are set to combine once more as the legendary Pie and Peas Carol evenings return once more to The Maynard in Grindleford, with three dates in December to get this Christmas season off to a suitably feel-good, festive start.

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Cineworld, the UK’s leading cinema chain, is delighted to announce that it will be opening an IMAX® at Cineworld Nottingham on 14th December 2012.

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A Walsall boxer who sparred with the legendary World Champion Barry McGuigan is to make a comeback at a boxing show and will raise money in memory of his father.

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The International Convention Centre (ICC) Birmingham has won nine new Association conferences which are expected to boost the local economy in excess of £8 million over the next five years.

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Connoisseurs at Nottingham’s leading nightspot Alea are being treated to the first taste of a brand new Pan-Asian beer being launched locally.

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Nottingham licensees showed off their night-time safety credentials as they welcomed Paddy Tipping, candidate in the forthcoming Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner elections, on a tour of Nottingham city centre.

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The Cornerhouse in Nottingham is on course for a record-breaking year after one of the busiest trading weeks of 2012.

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Frightening fun is proving to be more popular than ever at a leading Midlands entertainment venue. Spooktacular 2012, CarnEvil, is the ninth successive Halloween party at the Heart of England Conference and Events Centre in Meriden Road, Fillongley. As Halloween becomes a more recognised season event in the UK year after year bookings are increasing. [...]

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Football fans from across the East Midlands can get a real insight into what it was like to play for ‘Old Big Ead’ at an event featuring one of the game’s true legends. John McGovern, formerly of Derby County, Leeds United and Nottingham Forest, is hosting a question and answer session on Sunday November 10 [...]

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The NEC Group has restructured its Arenas senior management team, with the introduction of four senior roles to assist the business with its ambitious plans for growth and market development.

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A Midland lawyer has played a starring role in the revival of an historic Coventry theatre.

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The former Chief Executive of Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Julie Acred, has been appointed as Chair of East Midlands orchestra Sinfonia Viva. Julie, who takes over at the helm from former Rolls-Royce plc Human Resources Director John Rivers who retired this summer, will lead a Board consisting of representatives from the local community, partners, [...]

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Midland rock musicians and the photographers who snap them are launching a unique exhibition celebrating the best of live music photography. Wolverhampton-based bands The Lines and up-and-coming Jump the Shark are playing one-off sets when images in the Midlands Music Photography Exhibition are launched at a private view on Friday (October 26). The exhibition, at [...]

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The annual Firework Festival at West Midland Safari Park is being held on Saturday, 3rd November 2012 and for the first time ever, this African themed event will include performances by the internationally acclaimed ‘Pearl of Africa Children’s Choir’ that are currently on tour in the UK.

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Animal fans were recently treated to a dining guest they least expected – Guests at Twycross zoo were ‘All Shook Up’, when they were treated to an impromptu performance by ‘Chinese Elvis’ who was warming up for his forthcoming appearance at their forthcoming December Christmas Special Tribute Night.

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This week, Birmingham’s LG Arena brought home the Live Music Business Award for ‘The Best Venue Teamwork – Arena’.

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Spooky Spectacular at West Midland Safari Park takes on a new look for 2012 with the addition of giant sized scarecrows, along with witches and roaming characters telling all kinds of creepy tales for the Halloween season.

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Nottingham’s leading entertainment venue has signed a major sponsorship deal with Nottingham Forest Football Club for the 2012/2013 season.

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The future is looking very exciting for Lincolnshire, as two music industry professionals have joined forces to provide the county with the very best jazz music around. And it is a move which has been warmly welcomed by Lincoln BIG. Lincoln Jazz has been designed to provide a touch of class for corporate events, conferences, [...]

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These may be difficult times in the arts world but Orchestra of the Swan – OOTS – is flying high at the moment.

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An Evesham fireworks company is competing against six other finalists from across the UK as it bids to be named the best in the business. Rob Lewis, from G-Force Fireworks – which operates from the Celebrations Fireworks shop in Evesham – is taking part in the British Musical Fireworks Championships in Southport on Friday night [...]

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