Good places to start are the Briar Rose (a Weatherspoon's Lodge above one of their city centre boozers) and the array of IBIS and ETAPs in the city centre. No boutique hotels here, thank you very much

The Chaimberlain also run two quite cheapish hotels - the one on Alcester Street is close to the venue

For the bargain bucket end of the market, there's a Formule 1 by St Andrews (again, not far from the venue) at around £25 a night and the Birmingham Backpackers hostel.

Let us know if you'd like more info!

thanks for the info.

Good to see the Birmingham boys in brown getting a mention on the back of Viva St Pauli (the stadium magazine) for the Oberhausen game.

It says there were 200 fans from all over the world there last year, and they made around 3500 Euros for St Pauli. Keep up the good work.

aliceb wrote:

i fancy it. i also have to go to something in Brum the first w/e Oct, can anyone recommend anywhere cheapish and centralish that might do single rooms?

Birmingham Central Backpackers is very cheap.

Formula One hotel is cheapest 'proper' hotel.

any news about the after party at 11pm Chris ?

What's the score with the tickets? I see you can buy them from the Barfly website now. Are we better getting them direct fron the BBIB?

You are mate. You can buy them from the Barfly (and a couple of online ticket agencies as it's considered a 'proper' venue) but you'll have to pay the normal ridiculous handling fee and p&p.

Just pm me how many tickets you'd like and i'll get them to you!

Chris , thanks for teh article , I was just wondering if it was only me or not who couldn t have access to your website ...

Any news about the post gig / st pauli party from 11 ish ?

The Brummie boys in Brown website is

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and I'm afraid I haven't got an update on the aftershow thing yet. Still waiting for confirmation from a boozer in Digbeth. At the very least we'll all stay in the Barfly or go on a pub crawl round Digbeth!

Hope you can make it

just got a job , so should make it ...

ok , I was trying the other website which is on your profile and stated in each message on the www link.
No wonder I couldn t get on it ,,,

I've stayed in the Britania a few times. Not the best hotel, but great location, and unless it's busy it's normally cheap. Worth a look anyway

Howdo chaps

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- and sorry if you can't always get access. It's a free site so we only have limited bandwidth and it easily gets overloaded if there's too much interest (which isn't normally a problem!) but lately with news of the gig it's getting quite a few hits.

If you can't get on just leave it half an hour or so and it will reset

Ticket and gig info and all the latest news and results from St Pauli, Aston Villa and Birmingham City.

Cheers all
Rocky

Wil there be a place in Brumland that wil broadcast the game at 1pm on the Sunday by any chance?

Disgracefully, we haven't been able to find anywhere that shows German TV. Can anyone say what Channel they normally watch games on - Premier for instance? Is this widely available in pubs with satellite TV?

Chris wrote:

Disgracefully, we haven't been able to find anywhere that shows German TV. Can anyone say what Channel they normally watch games on - Premier for instance? Is this widely available in pubs with satellite TV?

Premiere, but it's pay tv so you would need a decoder and a "smartcard". Ask Blitzkrieg Bob, I think he knows more about that. There are internet services as well, but quality is low and if it's worth the technical difficulties...

the AFM radio stream on the internet is in German only, otherwise that'd be a good alternative.

PS: I could ask one of the Basis guys if they could do the live ticker on the web in English as well that weekend ;)