MADE Festival returns to Birmingham this summer with a surprise venue announcement

In a surprise announcement, MADE Festival has revealed it will return to its original inner-city site in Birmingham this summer. The much-loved event will take place on Saturday, July 29th in The Digbeth Triangle. The hugely popular annual event, now in its 9th year, was last hosted in the second city in 2019, before the 20,000-capacity site, Perry Park, was commandeered for the renovation of Alexander Stadium, the main site of the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Successful events at Sandwell Valley Country Park in 2021, headlined by The Streets, and then at Wolverhampton Racecourse in 2022 (headlined by AJ Tracey), saw the event travel across the West Midlands, cementing the popularity of the festival and drawing thousands of loyal fans. To guarantee tickets, Birmingham festival fans should register their interest now at www.made-festival.co.uk.

Festival Director Pete Jordan said, “The plan was always to return to Birmingham. We had expected to be back at Perry Park this year, but post-Commonwealth Games building work continues across 2023. So, we’ve taken the exciting opportunity to go back to our roots, refocus on the original ethos of the event, and in doing so, I feel we can bring a lot of positivity to Digbeth, where the spirit of the event was created. We will continue to support local musicians, DJs, promoters, creatives, venues and businesses at a time when many face challenges. We aim to be as collaborative as possible and are very much looking forward to coming home.”

Starting in 2014, MADE (Metropolitan Arts & Dance Event) spent four years in the heart of industrial inner city Birmingham in the creative hub of Digbeth. After expanding year-on-year across the multitude of evolving outdoor spaces, car parks, yards and warehouse spaces, the festival outgrew its home and moved across the city to the green field site at Perry Park. Two years of further growth took the event up to 20,000 capacity and the status of a nationally significant festival - the biggest and best in the West Midlands. 

The event was forced to relocate from Birmingham in 2020 when the city’s bid for the Commonwealth Games was successful. The 2020 edition, succumbed to Covid restrictions but, a year later, MADE became one of the few major events in the UK to go ahead, a testament to the tenacity and passion of the team behind the festival.

MADE Festival is a proud supporter of local talent and has consistently provided a platform to showcase up-and-coming artists from across the region. The return to The Digbeth Triangle will see this ethos continue together with the MADE Festival guaranteed mix of unmissable headline acts, friendly atmosphere, an incredible range of multi-genre music, and a guaranteed up-for-it crowd.  

Line up and pre-sale ticket announcements are forthcoming. Keep up with news at www.made-festival.co.uk