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The latest live music, comedy, and pop-up events in Birmingham
1000 Trades Presents: Pitch Control
A night of deep, deeper and deepest from the world of upfront new electronic music
Broadbill Life Drawing Presents: Alternative Life Drawing
Alternative life drawing.
Broadbill Presents: Drink and Draw Life Drawing
Come and join Broadbills life drawing class ran by Ginger Dan.
Birmingham Jazz Presents: Josh Bailey
Rising local talent Josh Bailey presents a special free performance for Birmingham Jazz supporters following this year’s Annual General Meeting, which is open to all. The trio will perform an unmissable mix of original compositions and jazz standards. Free Entry.
Birmingham Entrepreneurs Meetup
Monthly opportunity to meet fellow entrepreneurs at different stages of business
Birmingham Improv Presents: Box Of Frogs
Enjoy and evening with Birmingham’s premiere improv group, Box Of Frogs!
Birmingham Jazz Presents: Still Waters
Two Men, 50 Years of Friendship, and the music they’ve always wanted to play
Birmingham Jazz Presents: Art Theman
Saxophone, Hammons Organ, Drums – and a room full of grooves
Political Therapy: It’s the Stupid, Economy with Duncan Weldon
Renowned economist, commentator and scribe Duncan Weldon joins us to dissect the elementary drivers of most of what happens (or not) in the world.
Birmingham Improv Presents: Midlands Improv Night
Birmingham Improv brings you all the best improv from the Midlands!
Good Things Comedy Club
Inclusive and welcoming to all, we aim to add to Birmingham’s incredible comedy scene and bring some fun to increasingly dark times…
Birmingham Jazz Presents: Jon Lloyd
Cool, Melodic, ECM Style Jazz, spacious and emotionally direct
Birmingham Jazz Presents : Nikki Illes
One of Britain’s most loved Pianists, playing with old friends
Birmingham Jazz Presents: Fabienne Ambuehl
Piano, voice , and poetry. Lyrical Jazz that feels like fresh air
Birmingham Improv Presents: Comedy Jam
Enjoy and evening with Birmingham’s premiere improv group, Box Of Frogs!
Birmingham Jazz Presents: Lockheart/Parricelli/Batchelor
Tubers- Three founders of a legendary band, back together in the same room
Birmingham Jazz Presents: 52nd Street (Alex Webb & Tony Kofi)
The beginning of Modern Jazz, brought roaring back to life
Birmingham Jazz Presents: Christine Tobin – The Unforeseen
A voice like no other and a song- cycle about coming home.
Birmingham Jazz Presents : AMPHITRIO
This is a co-promotion with the 1000 Trades, supporting this Romanian first tour of the UK AMPHITRIO is an award-winning contemporary jazz project based in Bucharest, Romania, initiated in 2023, featuring pianist and composer Andrei Petrache, bassist Mike Alex and percussionist Philip Goron, all of them having a solid background in classical and alternative music. […]
Birmingham Jazz Presents: Xhosa Cole
Free Monk
Birmingham Jazz Presents: Deirdre Cartwright’s Picnic
50th Anniversary
Birmingham Improv presents: Spaghetti Junction
Birmingham’s hottest new night of improvised comedy!
Birmingham Jazz Presents: Birmingham Jazz Orchestra & Student Band Support
This is a co-promotion with the Royal Brimingham Conservatoire presenting three elements performed at the Conservatoire itself. For this performance the Orchestra has been commissioned by Birmingham Jazz to write a new five movement suite for our 2026/2027 celebrations of Black History Month and BJ @ 50. This is the programme for the night: 6.30pm RBC […]
Birmingham Jazz Presents: Ivo Neame
Musical Bridges
Birmingham Jazz Presents: David Austin – Grey
A Holographic Maze
Birmingham Jazz Presents: Kate Williams
On the Wing of a Dragonfly
Birmingham Jazz Presents: Ineza
IBUKA
Birmingham Jazz Presents: Friends
Langston Hughes Tribute
Birmingham Jazz Presents: Mark Cherrie
Any Anxious Colour
Birmingham Jazz Presents: Hans Koller
Playing Monk
Birmingham Jazz Presents: James Allsopp
The Golden Age of Steam
Birmingham Jazz Presents: Basil Hodge
Jazz Africa
Birmingham Jazz Presents: Smiodair
Dave Smith
Birmingham Jazz Presents: Arnie Somogyi
Ellington Piano Project
What's On in Birmingham?
Take a look through our events calendar and listings above and see all the live music, comedy nights, and more we have coming up soon…
Events at 1000 Trades
No need to head into town for Birmingham comedy clubs and shows... We have comedy events right here. With stand-up shows every second Thursday and improv most Wednesdays, you're in for a good night and a chuckle over a beer.
Depending on the night, we're a jazz bar, or a late-night disco... We host all kinds of live music and DJ nights, marching to the beat of our own drum (or that of our live DJs), so if you feel like hitting the dance floor after a pint or two, 1000 Trades can hit you up.
Friday nights at 1000 Trades are all about live jazz, with local, national, and international bands sharing their talents in our upstairs room, known for its intimate atmosphere and stage-worthy acoustics.
Our small, perfectly formed kitchen is host to an ever-changing roster of talented chefs from within Birmingham and beyond. There's always a new menu coming soon...
As a taste of what's been before - our first pop-up kitchen was Matthew Knight's Blu Magic, with a menu of Caribbean fusion dishes so good that he became our first resident chef. Following this, we welcomed Hyeonu Ji's JI-MT pop-up kitchen, dishing up Korean dishes so tasty that the menu is named after the Korean slang for "f*cking delicious." They're not wrong.
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