19/09/2025
It’s a similar story in bigger cities such as Birmingham. David Garside, 51, a musician, recalls a livelier scene in decades past. “The Old Railway in Digbeth was an old-fashioned pub with live music pretty much every night. ‘The live music bedrock has vanished’: gig venue closures from Oxford to Birmingham https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/15/live-music-gig-venue-closures