Birmingham's Forum Digbeth undergoes expansion, doubling capacity to 4,000

Forum Digbeth, one of the latest venues to open in Birmingham, is undergoing an expansion, doubling capacity from 2,000 to 4,000.

The warehouse venue – which comes from the team behind now-shuttered club Forum Birmingham – will reopen on December 20 following expansion developments, according to Resident Advisor.

The venue will make use of its neighbouring warehouse space The Annexe, joining together to double its capacity. Forum Digbeth currently sits inside the former Roller Jam site on Glover Street.

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The venue will reopen next month with a party from Cru2, while DnB Allstars will take over the space on New Year’s Eve with a currently unannounced line-up.

Forum Digbeth opened in May just a month after Forum Birmingham was closed permanently, promising to mark a “new chapter” for the club offering “some of Birmingham's most essential events".

“Following the sad, unexpected and indefinite end of Forum Birmingham in April due to the closure of the Corporation Square building by its landlords, the team behind the acclaimed venue has secured a new home,” the venue said at the time.

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In October 2024, Forum Birmingham was temporarily closed by Birmingham City Council following the death of a 22-year-old man who had attended the venue.

The club later reopened in November 2024, issuing a statement that read: “The welfare of everyone attending Forum Birmingham is at the centre of everything we do”. The 60-year-old venue ultimately closed for good in April 2025 following a scheduled demolition project.

Speaking to Birmingham World, Billy Chauhan of Global Venues said that Forum Digbeth’s expansion meets a “growing demand for bigger shows, stronger production and ambitious programming.”

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