Hockley Flyover Show

Hockley Flyover Show is a unique event which takes place at the heart of the city’s cultural hub. I’ve been to Hockley Flyover show a couple of times and have always enjoyed my experience. Featuring local, national and international artists the main headline and organising artist for the festival is Soweto Kinch who’s a very well-​known Jazz musician from Birmingham.
The event takes place just outside the main part of the city centre, towards Handsworth, Soho Road area so all the buses such as; 75, 74 go past the venue where the festival takes place each year. It’s an usual place to have a show but it’s managed to attract a lot of people from across the city and beyond attend each year.
I always find the event pleasant and enjoyable, especially for families because it’s an entertaining event to attend. I’ll definitely recommend everyone who loves good music i.e. soul, jazz etc to attend the event because it’s an eye opener.

Now entering its fifth year, the Hockley Flyover Show is a rather lovely thing. Hosted by local saxophonist and rapper, Soweto Kinch, this usually takes part in the first couple of weeks of August and is well worth a visit.
Situated just outside the city centre (on the way towards Handsworth) Hockley Flyover makes a surprisingly fitting music venue — last year saw Goldie (aw, I love Goldie), Akala and Omar (remember him) as well as a load of food stalls offering if not service with a smile — well, it was raining and I was faffing — decent grub.
There’s always a nice atmosphere — with lots of families sitting on the banks surrounding the space — although do be careful when navigating these as I saw quite a few trendsters slipping over in their trainers.

The Hockley Flyover Show is a day long free festival underneath (surprisingly enough) a fly over in Hockley. I attended last years’ event, a week or so after the riots that had such a devastating affect in Birmingham and many other cities in England. You’d of expected such an event to be tense, with a bad atmosphere. However I was pleased to find that the event had a great community feel, with graffiti displays, breakdancing and great food on offer as well as the musical line up being excellent. The head liner (Akala) was a particularly inspired choice, with his hard hitting socially aware hip hop fitting the times perfectly.
The line up for this year’s Flyover Show (booked for Saturday 11^th August) has yet to be announced, but going on the pedigree of previous years (Ms Dynamite, Omar and Goldie, to name but a few) you’ll be in for a treat. If you’re anyway into «urban» music, you’d be a fool not to go, and even if you’re not, why not go and support this brilliant community effort?