There are some voices which are more than just mere voices – kd lang’s is one, former Journey singer Steve Perry’s is another and then there is Paul Rodgers.

Dancing on Ice fans were in skating heaven as the hit TV spectacular arrived in Birmingham. Maria Cusine reports.

For a band that can trace its roots back to 1990, it’s been an uphill struggle to fame and fortune for Elbow — but one that has been well worth the endurance.

Genial pianoman Jools Holland unwrapped his latest bundle of feelgood rythmn, blues and good old fashioned boogie woogie for a belated Christmas party  at Birmingham’s NIA.

Comedian Paddy McGuinness is to play Birmingham NIA in October as part of a UK tour.

Concert review: Kings of Leon at Birmingham NIA, December 16 2010.

Something got them started, eventually, as a lack-lustre Simply Red took to the stage at Birmingham’s NIA last night.

The collective cries of “Marry me Michael” said it all. Buble was back in town. And boy do the ladies love him.

He may now be carving out a career as a film star in Hollywood, but Ricky Gervais showed he was still just as much at home on the stand-up stage as in the movies when he appeared in Birmingham for the fourth time.

It’s just over a year since rising blues rock superstar Joe Bonamassa played the concert of his life at the Royal Albert Hall in London . . . and he barely remembers a moment of it. Bonamassa returns to the Midlands to play Birmingham NIA Academy on May 31.