Aston University, Birmingham

Birmingham

Music scene in Aston n Birmingham

Am hopefully going aston this year (if i get da grades, :s-smilie:

). Woz jus wonderin wot da music scene n culture iz like in general.

Iz it more rock or urban???

Iz peopz more into grime/ garage kind of music or rock/metal???

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Reply 1

lodzinski

it birmingham - its huge and caters for all music tastes - if its music, there's a club for it. (btw please use good english in future posts as its the forum rules) good luck with getting into aston btw, what course did you apply for?

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Reply 2

SouthPaw

yeh i were thinkin the same spudzy, im into nearly most music ie.hip hop, metal, rap but no r'n'b please :p:

heard alot about the night scene in birm, hoping for good things!

Reply 3

lodzinski

alot of big names come to brum to do gigs - some big clubs draw big names, not to mention NEC/NIA close by. Personally im looking forward to some top trance DJs, as well as some dnb and hiphop clubs, and a little rock too.

Reply 4

mikec2007

lodzinski

I'm from Brum and have been to most places. I'm more into indie and there are some brill clubs for that, mid-week and weekend. But its true, if you like loads of music, you can easily find a club to go to every night thats cheap, and nearly every club has a student night. Then there's the after'parties that go on til 7am, but ive only done that a couple of times!

Also the Carling academy has some really good bands, i tend to steer clear of the NEC/NIA, as it's pretty expensive for a ticket (justin Timberlake just played here and it was like £80 a ticket!).

But yer overall you'll have no problem finding a night out that you'll enjoy.

Any questions/queries about where to go just ask...

Reply 5

sunday

Yeah I'm more into rock/indie as well but any cheap student night is good with me :biggrin:

Reply 6

Lil Lee Lee

I don't like the Academy that much, the acoustics are horrible! And I think the most I've paid for an NIA ticket was £20 odd for Snow Patrol!

Reply 7

SPuDzY!!!

Cheers for the replys peoples, and sos about the language, lol, bad habit.

Ummmm, yeah it sounds good, the fact that birmingham is a big city with a lot of night life really influenced my uni choice. Am hopin for a really underground grime or dnb club that hasn;t been commercialised at all. :smile:

Am doin psychology and business administartion, anyone else???

Reply 8

becca2477

Bit of everything, loads of gig options and different club night options, whether you like dance, indie, rock, rnb, garage, whatever... it's all good!

Reply 9

Chiba_Revolution

Psssh am into metal ...only

Reply 10

lodzinski

pfft. Metal's good, but get some variety chiba. trance is awesome party music.

Reply 11

Chiba_Revolution

lol I do have a bit of variety as many of my mates are very different! for some reason I like dance music a lot but I hate indie -dodges rotten tomates- Pssh metal is more than good its great!
What bands do you guys like?

Reply 12

SouthPaw

pshhh lol. hey Chibs i like metal too :p:

and same here cant stand indie really

Reply 13

lodzinski

well, eclectic to say the least - QOTSA, Tiesto, Faithless, Basement Jaxx, Noisettes, foos, yeah yeah yeahs, I'm not really a big indie fan - Arctic Monkeys are about the only i really class myself as a fan of. you guys?

Reply 14

SouthPaw

The main stuff im into is underground pure hip-hop, nu- metal and the occasional decent trance material that comes my way. Bands/Groups like Linkin Park, Fort Minor, Jedi Mind Tricks, Gym Class Heroes, Enter Shikari, Daddee Yankee, Jay Z and Scooter etc etc.

Reply 15

Chiba_Revolution

Hey I love QOTSA and LP. Main bands are like are Nightish, sontata arctica children of bodom, tarot, dragonforce, evanscene lacuna coil after forever etc.... distured (also a big fan of nu metal)
Word of warning I hate emo bands :mad:

Reply 16

lodzinski

lacuna coil! Fantastic band - still think they did enjoy the silence better than the 'mode. LP are good, but I think they can be a little hitnmiss - hybrid theory is seminal, but meteora fell a little short - not made my mind up on the new album.
Scooter! scooter! - that's not music, it's squeaking.

Reply 17

sunday

'Hello to the man in the icecream van!' *raves*
I thought scooter was dead?

Reply 18

lodzinski

I hoped they were. apparently they released albums in 2004,5+7 (good old wiki)

Reply 19

DimiTheBrave

lodzinski

I hoped they were. apparently they released albums in 2004,5+7 (good old wiki)

When I visited the uni, it seemed to have alot of asian/bhangra nights advertised, which kinda turned me off of the place. I hope this isn't like the big thing there, as that would be such a waste.
However I am into most music styles.