{"id":103340,"date":"2025-05-15T11:06:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T11:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/103340\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T11:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T11:06:17","slug":"bbc-black-sabbath-special-heading-for-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/103340\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Black Sabbath special heading for Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BBC is planning a special celebration of heavy metal in Birmingham<\/a> ahead of Black Sabbath’s final show at Villa Park Stadium<\/a>.<\/p>\n

BBC<\/a> Radio WM Celebrates Metal in the Midlands will be a gig held at the Town Hall on Wednesday, July 2, days before Ozzy Osbourne’s final bow on Saturday, July 5.<\/p>\n

Fans of alternative music are expected to flood into the city ahead of the all-day gig at Villa Park stadium and the BBC show will offer those visitors the chance to see ‘rising stars’ of the genre in one of Birmingham’s grandest venues.<\/p>\n

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BBC Radio WM Celebrates Metal in the Midlands will feature three bands, Cherrydead, Gans and Meatdripper, all from the West Midlands.<\/p>\n

The event is being presented in conjunction with B: Music and Home Of Metal and it will be a ‘sonic exploration of the Sabbath effect over the years’.<\/p>\n

A Home of Metal film screening is expected, as well as an industry panel discussion and DJ sets.<\/p>\n

Chris Pegg, editor of BBC Radio WM, said: “Birmingham is the birthplace of heavy metal. We wanted to celebrate our rich heritage by presenting this special event as the world’s biggest heavy metal bands descend on Birmingham.<\/p>\n

“To be presenting a new generation of metal acts in such an important venue for music in the region today demonstrates our commitment to supporting the major music stars of tomorrow.”<\/p>\n

Chris Proctor, head of programming at B: Music – the charity which manages the Town Hall as well as the Symphony Hall -said: “We’re delighted to not only be working with BBC in Birmingham and Home of Metal again, and also the future stars of UK metal – this is shaping up to be a phenomenal night marking the return of four Birmingham musicians.<\/p>\n

“It is particularly timely that we host this event celebrating new music, given the recent launch of our She:Music programme, which aims to promote bold cross-genre collaborations and break down the barriers that women, especially those from the global majority, and B:Music’s ongoing support for local and emerging talent from across the West Midlands and UK.”<\/p>\n

Liv, Meatdripper’s bassist and vocalist, commented: “I am so honoured to be playing this gig and celebrating the Midlands metal scene. I am even prouder to be repping women and non-binary people in music.<\/p>\n

“When I think of Sabbath, I think of the best of Brum. I think of heavy riffs and iconic vocals. It makes me proud to be living in a city with such a legendary music scene.”<\/p>\n

Tickets to the gig will be priced at \u00a35 with no booking fee and they go on sale at bmusic.co.uk<\/a> on Friday, May 16 at 10am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC is planning a special celebration of heavy metal in Birmingham ahead of Black Sabbath’s final show…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[47629,855,748,47631,393,4884,33693,29260,47630,16,15,18874,7858],"class_list":{"0":"post-103340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-bbc-radio-wm","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-chris-proctor","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-heavy-metal","15":"tag-ozzy-osbourne","16":"tag-rising-stars","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-villa-park-stadium","20":"tag-west-midlands"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114511530184685115","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}