Birmingham Comedy Festival!

Birmingham Comedy Festival runs from the 1st until the 10th of October.

Here at The Victoria we have several event planned to bring a smile and split some sides!

SUNDAY 3rd

HILARIOUS COMEDY

presents - THE BRUM PACK, KAREN BAYLEY + FRIENDS, 7:30pm, £3

MONDAY 4th

MEN WITH BANANAS - A double act with sell out Edinburgh Fringe shows and five star reviews under their belts, and after a year long hiatus they return to Birmingham for one night only with their peculiar brand of feel good hilarity and mayhem.

"Really good. Go see 'em" - Noel Fielding, 8pm, £5 (£4 conc.)

TUESDAY 5th

SOUND AND VISION PUB QUIZ - Comedy film and music quiz,

8pm, £1

The Winner Takes It All!

THURSDAY 7th

POPCORN COMEDY - Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Tim Key and BAFTA winner Will Andrews! + Hilarious videos Birmingham Comedy Festival Show, 7:30pm, £8

Also over at The Jekyll & Hyde there will be:

WEDNESDAY 6th

Retro Comedy Film Night:
Arsenic and Old Lace - A rare chance to see the classic 1944 comedy Arsenic and Old Lace, directed by Frank Capra and starring Cary Grant. A honeymooning couple are forced to ditch their plans when the groom discovers that his spinster aunts are killing people in their nice little home, and burying the corpses in the cellar!

- FREE ENTRY | 7:45pm

THURSDAY 7th

Half A Dog Comedy Presents:
Rock 'n Relativity Holiday Conspiracy - An insight into the mind of a man whose life has become ruled by internet conspiracies, join him as he guides you through the world of the internet and the evidence that has proven to him that these conspiracies are true. - £5 | 7:30pm

Lunchtime Offers!

We've just launched our new lunchtime menu with a choice of gourmet sandwiches, wraps and light bites. Served everyday from noon until 2:30pm and all day Saturday and Sunday. Choose any of these plus either a glass of house wine/ bottle of beer/ soft drink for just £4.

Also to celebrate we're offering 2for1 on all our gourmet sandwiches! Just bring the voucher below in with you for a yummy lunch!

Check out our new lunch menu here:

http://www.thevictoriabirmingham.co.uk

Happy eating!

The Vic x

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Cider Festival - Which Cider Are You On?

The Victoria is hosting a two week Cider Festival this Summer from the 12th-25th July.

We have a great range of modern and traditional Ciders and Perrys available throughout the fortnight including: Dunkertons, Thatchers, Addlestones, Brothers, Hogans, Kopparberg, Westons, Aspalls and also barrelled cider from Moles Black Rat & Gwynt y Ddraig

In honour of this the manager, Julian Rose-Gibbs has composed a piece on the changes in cider popularity over the last few decades:

Which Cider you on?

I remember a long time ago I saw cider as a vessel with which to propel my self (and most of my friends) towards inebriation. We would search out the Woodpecker or Strongbow (because those were the only ciders available all that time ago) buy it in 2 litre bottles and mix them with 2 litre bottles of lager making snakebite. Hideous I know but it did the trick.

I am glad to say that 20 years on cider has come a long way and now is the time to celebrate that fact.

Not only has the production of cider increased but countries importing it and the styles of cider have exploded recently. There are still traditional ciders and scrumpy in production but now our market has been infiltrated by the fruit cider and everybody is at it.

Our own producers tend to divide themselves into East verses West of the mid to South parts of the UK such as Aspall, Thatchers, Westons, Gaymers, Bulmers and Brothers the list is endless, not to mention the Swiss invasion of Koppaberg taking over our beer fridges with Rekorderlig hot on it’s heels. The latest one I noticed from further a field is Savanna from South Africa a dry cider to combat all the sweeter fruit varieties around.

Now it is not surprising that with so many people over the bar asking for “cider and black” that the producers eventually cottoned on and decided to add their own berry flavours-these range from your usual pear and apple to ciders with all manner of berries added and lime infusions, blush ciders and I noticed the word ‘premium’ and ‘reserve’ creeping on to cider bottles just like the spirit market did years ago. So far I am just glad no one has produced a blue cider, when that happens we’ve gone too far.

On that note the marketing of cider has become more sophisticated from tradition and heritage of the Magners campaign to the all out music offensive of Gaymers-they even brought the Twang to the Victoria a while back.

One thing is certain, with all the new flavours, styles, packaging and marketing – cider is going places fast and I intend to keep up, responsibly of course.

Julian Rose-Gibbs

The Victoria

The Victoria and The Jekyll & Hyde will be hosting their Summer Cider Festivals 12^th-25^th July.

Glastonbury From Your Sunday Lunch

Just missed out on a ticket to Glastonbury? Fear not! We'll be showing it all day on our big screen downstairs. Far better than trudging through mud clutching a warm flat beer, right... right!?

✿ 2for1 cocktails all day
✿ Sunday Roasts (vegetarian too!) from 1pm-8pm
✿ Refreshing cool beers on tap served in a glass!

But if that's all too creature comforts you're welcome to turn up in your wellies!


Free Entry

The Vic x

Lamb's Spiced Rum Competition

On Thursday the 10th June The Victoria will be hosting the Lamb's Spiced Rum bartender competition.

Starting at 3pm bartenders will be introduced to the rums and then create their own spiced concoctions! There will be first, second and third prizes awarded from the competition, made up of cash prizes - £250; £100 and £50.

The evening event is open to everyone! A free party starting at 7pm. Lamb will be bringing five cases of Lamb’s Spiced Rum and there will be complimentary drinks from 7-8pm!

The presentation of the prizes to the winners will take place at 9pm in the evening. With a professional photographer at both the competition and evening party.

Facebook Event

World Cup @ The Victoria

We'll be showing all England Matches upstairs projected onto our 8ft screen and through our booming PA!

How Do I Get In?

75 tickets will be available for each England game 2 weeks before the game, 25 people will also be able to get in for free for each match without a ticket. People with tickets should get to the game 45 mins before kick-off so they can get a seat, grab some food and make use of the beer promotions. If people with tickets have not arrived with 30 mins to go then people without tickets will be allowed in in their place.

The tickets are available from the bar, only one ticket per person.

A free entry DJ night will then be laid on after the footy.

There will be food available before and after the match. The bar will be open throughout but so you don't have to leave your seat we'll also be offering bottled beer in an ice bucket deals!

Enjoy!

This Is Tomorrow

This is Tomorrow have been running events at The Victoria ever since we opened. With an amazing array of gigs from artists such as:

FOALS, ESSER, HOT CLUB DE PARIS, NEW CASSETTES, CUT OFF YR HANDS, THE RIPPS, LOOK SEE PROOF, WAVE MACHINES, TUBELORD, CALORIES, DINOSAUR PILE UP, FLASHGUNS, JONQUIL, THIS TOWN NEEDS GUNS, THE DRAYTONES, JOHNNY FOREIGNER, TIRED IRIE, MIDDLEMAN, THE RASCALS, ASSEMBLY NOW, 4 OR 5 MAGICIANS, SECONDSMILE, JAMES YUILL, SCARLET HARLOTS, THE LINES, ENVY AND OTHER SINS, UNTITLED MUSIC PROJECT, GRAVITY CRISIS, BOURGEOIS FOUR, SHADY BARD, GREAT ESKIMO HOAX, MAYDAY / TANTRUMS, WILLIAM, WINTERMUTE, MINNAAARS, THE SOLOMONS, RIVERS PRESLEY SET, BLACK MEKON, THE CHANGES, SUNSET CINEMA CLUB, 35 SECONDS, MY PSYCHOANALYST, SHAPES, JOSH WELLER & HONEYTRAP

And recently on Saturday 1st May TIMES NEW VIKING.

And I quote "Crowd Surfing, Moshing and all around craziness in The Vic this evening....Amazing night, thanks to everyone who come down!!!!!!!" (Matt Beck, This Is Tomorrow organiser). We'll post a review shortly of this, but needless to say it was one of the most exciting gigs to date at The Victoria with TAD ALLAGASH, YUCK and SAVANT supporting and only a few days away before Times New Viking play at A.T.P!

On the 5th Feb 2010 This Is Tomorrow put on the CALORIES + WILLIAM + YOUVES. Did you miss out? Worry not! For Blue Whale Studios were there recording the whole event. Check out the wonderful video showing off our new sound system:

You can see more videos of gigs at The Victoria here http://www.youtube.com/bluewhaletv