Recommended: Brum electronic music champions @Listening0121 and underground newcomers Abstrakt join forces at the @hareandhounds for a night of Acid, Techno, Minimal and Breakbeat tonight. 9pm - 3am

News: SInger-songwriter and producer @RichardHawley visits @o2academybham as part of a UK tour on Thu 10 Oct, following the release of his eighth studio album, 'Further' last month. Tickets are on general sale now. Image: Chris Saunders

Blinding @moseleyfolk show from @wearevillagers at @hareandhounds - great to have Conor O’Brien back in the city with band

Recommended: The third annual @surgeorchestra in Spring Festival takes over the @mac_birmingham between 12pm and 10pm today, with music from across the globe including free and ticketed performances

Recommended: @LeftfootUK presents The Cinematic Orchestra @TCO_Official at @O2InstituteBham tonight, hot off the back of the live electronic ensemble's first new album in 12 years 'To Believe', out on @ninjatune now. Doors 7pm, tickets via bit.ly/2U6apiq

News: Ranking Roger, 2-Tone pioneer + The Beat vocalist, dies “Although we will remember Roger for his contribution to Birmingham and indeed global music culture, he was also an incredible beautiful, genuine and warm human being” bit.ly/2HVATfk Image: @iandaviesphoto

News: The Prodigy vocalist and dancer Keith Flint has died, aged 49. The London-born artist, who featured in the influential electronic act's global hits 'Firestarter', 'Breathe', and 'Smack My B*tch Up', was found dead by police at his Essex home earlier today. Image: Paradoxus

"It’s about creating a party atmosphere, as if everyone’s gone to a really big house party...I’m the ringmaster in the middle, conducting it all." - @FatboySlim talks to BN writer @Gaz_Griff ahead of his @ArenaBirmingham show tonight bit.ly/2NmrBcX

"My role in all of this is to make people forget about some of the other bollocks that’s going on in the world." - DJ, producer + dance music pioneer @FatboySlim spoke to Brum Notes writer @Gaz_Griff ahead of @ArenaBirmingham on Fri 22 Feb ft @hannah_wants bit.ly/2GCpwcm

Birmingham music promoters @LeftfootUK and @thisistmrw bring Berlin polymath @nilsfrahm to the city for the first time with an eagerly anticipated show @o2academybham this evening. @krisbirchhurst previews bit.ly/2NgFfhQ