O2 Institute Birmingham Concerts 2025

The venue is great, but they pack way too many people into the main floor, so you can't even move and then start getting squashed. That's not a lot of fun. Thankfully the management were good enough to find us some room upstairs, but we were lucky they could accommodate us. Drinks are very pricey too. Otherwise it's a beautiful building and Orbital sounded fantastic.

My first time here and first time gig so nothing to compare against. Overall it was a good experience there could have been more than 2 people scanning tickets at the door but the line moved fairly easily. Two acts on at the same night so a bit of a bottleneck with merch in the foyer. The venue itself was good as I was walking in you could feel cool air from vents but either these were not existence nearer to the stage or they just couldn't cope with the amount of people. Staff were handing out glasses of water to help, but it was hot and sweaty. The gig was great would have been nice to have genre specific music before the acts and during switch over. Floor ended up being rather sticky due to glasses being thrown on floor.

Had a great evening at the Miles Kane gig. Support act (The Royston Club) were also fantastic. The venue was good, not too big not too small. Great view of the stage from the balcony. Parking just around the corner. I would definitely go to the venue again.

Went to see Ashley McBryde here. She was amazing, sound and lights were great, but I don't know if this is down to the venue misadvising their numbers or Ashley's team overselling, but it was SO full, that it felt unsafe. It was that full of people you couldn't even get to the bar, we were having to cram past people just to go to the toilet and there were people standing all the way to the back of the doors that they had to move out of the way to open them to go to the loo. Just felt like there was 50-75 more people than there should have been. Even in a large venue, even if people choose to cram to the front, there's still room at the back to freely move, which there wasn't unfortunately and soured the event for us

First time visiting. Our actual concert was amazing but the actual venue was a mess. They charge £7.70 for a pint and made us sit outside for an extra 40 mins. Doors open from 7 and it wasn't until 7:45 that they started letting people in