We can now formally announce we have a new member of the team here at BT, and we are pretty sure you will know him very well! Welcome aboard Regis! Karl will be taking a leading role in curating our 2026 program, inviting friends - old and new - to join us over the course of the year. Discussions are well underway and we can’t wait to start making some announcements early in the new year
Happy New Year to you all and thanks for your amazing support 🖤 Here's to many more memories and quality techno in 2026
Regis Image: 📸 Tom White
2 days of techno, 1 ticket!! 🎫🎟 BARGAIN!! This Bank Holiday @ Arch Festival. @musevents_bham x @suki10c . Strong line up of Birmingham's finest techno DJs & performers (including LIVE performances!) 🎛🎚🎧
SUPPORT LOCAL 🖤🖤
For tickets head to both promoter pages 🎟🎫🖤
It’s fair to say we are all pretty ‘mature’ here at BT, well, we have all been around the block once or twice! We are old enough to remember a time when you would have 2 or 3 options of venues for each genre of music in the city on a Friday and Saturday. Whether techno, funky house, garage / bass, drum and bass, tech house - you would have substantial options to go out all weekend long.
Today, this seems like an unthinkable scenario. To put this into context, there are now only a handful of events venues in the city as a whole. A number of these venues do not even open every weekend. Venue’s are closing up and down the country at a ridiculous rate. The numbers are truly shocking. 37% of nightclubs in the UK have closed over the last 4 years.
It’s hard to identify what the solution is. If you personally attend 3 festivals a year, why not attend 2 and go to 3 or 4 events in your home city instead and support your struggling grassroots venues? Just a thought! If we don’t use it, we will lose it - and we are losing it!
Big love to all the venue operators out there swimming against the tide of operational costs, a change in some social habits and the economic crisis 🖤🖤
The year is 1993, the label is Downwards. Most of the UK was into either happy hardcore or Jungle, but some fellas from the Birmingham area are creating a new style of Techno full of rough solid funk. A style imitated and expanded on all over the world. Most of the stuff from that early rave era now sounds vintage or reminiscent. This shit still nails. People debate whether Techno came from Detroit. This roughness undoubtedly came from Birmingham. THIS FRIDAY Downwards comes home!
🎥 Words and video: @nash_jina
🎫🎟🔗 Ticket links in bio
A week tomorrow we welcome Karl's legendary Downwards Records, a British independent label now in its 33rd glorious year, for the first of our 'Regis Invites' 2026 season. Its felt like a long time coming, we can't wait. Second Release running low 🖤
Link in bio 🎫🎟🔗
3 WEEKS TODAY!! 2026 marks 30 years of Oliver Ho (Raudive, Broken English Club) releasing music, to celebrate this anniversary Downwards Records & ourselves invite him to Brum to kick off our 2026 season. Joining Oliver will be Regis, as well as his project with Russell Haswell, Concrete Fence + more! @skutta_records in room 2.
Second Release on-sale 🎫🎟
Visual Direction: @7.62.34
Our good friends @technobirmingham have invited us to once again host Room 2 10th April @tunnelclubbirmingham
We have a fine selection of the regions best talent playing for us, so grab a ticket and head on down to Livery St for another night to remember.
Skutta Room hosted by Midland Breakz:
Baddesley
Elkie
Headgear
Human Synthetics (Live)
LA Johnson
Red Sky
Main Room - Downwards x Techno Birmingham:
Oliver Ho
Regis
Concrete
Fence (Live A/V)
Rangelove
