Exit Velocity Festival, Part 2, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham.

Dates: Monday, June 01, 2026 - Friday, June 05, 2026

Featuring: Various Artists

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Information supplied by Dave Fuller of Music Spoken Here, Worcester.

RBC Exit Velocity Festival - Part 2

The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire are hosting the second part of their Exit Velocity Festival this week, showcasing the talents and skills of their third and final year students. The daytime program runs from Monday to Friday, starting at 11:05am with four or five performances each day from bands featuring various students, as follows:

Monday 1 June

11:05 Elizabeth Choyce (sax), Rufus Reader (drums), Harvey Lees (bass), Jamie McLeish (guitar), Jude Bloor (piano), Joe Lawson (trumpet)

12:05-12:55 Marcus Coates (piano), James Owston (bass), Euan Palmer (drums)

14:15-15:05 Freddie Osman Dal (drums), Diego Villarreal (percussion), Angus Sharp (bass), Macy Wright (e. bass), Nathan Thomas (keyboards), Aedan Leng (guitar), Ben Pond (tenor sax), Nat Evans (alto sax), James OJ (violin)

15:25-16:15 Reuben-James Gilbert (sax), Marcus Coates (piano), Macy Wright (bass), Kefan Hu (drums), Lue Shen (guitar)

16:35-17:25 Dom Holyoake (drums), Nathaniel Evans (sax), Nathan Thomas (keyboards), Kyle Welch (bass)

Tuesday 2 June

11:05-12:25 Shijie Han (guitar), Kefan Hu (drums), Tom Robinson (bass), Yiwei Liang (piano)

12:45-14:05 Yifan Jiang (drums), Yiwei Liang (piano), Tom Robinson (bass), Tim Cash (sax)

15:25-16:45 Yiwei Liang (piano), Shijie Han (guitar), Harvey Leeds (bass), Kefan Hu (drums)

17:05-18:25 Yangxin Tan (piano), Tailong Shi (drums), Tom Robinson (bass), Jamie McLeish (guitar)

Wednesday 3 June

11:05-11:55 Macy Wright (e. bass), Rufus Reader (drums), Hazel Greenwood (piano), Sam Franks (trombone), Mark Bonner (trumpet), RJ Gilbert (alto sax)

12:15-13:05 Oliver Talbot (drums), Nick Manz (bass), Steve Saunders (guitar), Vato Klemera (piano)

14:25-15:15 Benjamin Pond (sax), George Farrell (trombone), Ben Shankland (piano), Kyle Welch (bass), Ollie Talbot (drums)

15:35-16:25 Nathan Thomas (piano), Dom Holyoake (drums), Kyle Welch (bass)

16:55-17:45 Charlotte Baker (vocal), Nathan Thomas (piano), Angus Sharp (bass), Isla Hutchins (drums), Vocal Group: Cassie, Yaz and Emma

Thursday 4 June

10:00 Joseph Noble (piano), Josh Rose (drums), Harvey Lees (bass), Timothy Cash (sax), Sam Franks (trombone)

11:05-11:55 Angus Sharpe (bass), Ollie Talbot (drums), Dan Lockheart (sax), Aedan Leng (guitar)

12:15-13:15 Ben Shankland (piano), Jonathan Silk (drums), Dan Casimir (bass)

14:25-15:15 Owen Nugent (drums), Angus Sharp (bass), Aedan Leng (guitar)

15:35-16:25 Corey Robinson (sax), Joe Noble (piano), Kyle Welch (bass), Kefan Hu (drums)

16:45-17:45 Kefan Hu (drums), RJ Gilbert (sax), Lue Shen (guitar), Harvey Lees (e. bass), Nick Manz (piano)

Friday 5 June

10:00 Joshua Rose (drums), David Roberts (piano), Ben Shankland (bass)

11:20-12:40 Jack O’Brien (sax), Isla Hutchins (drums), Pablo Baxter (bass), Luke Holcroft (keyboards)

13:00-14:20 Xiaozhou Yao (drums), Rachel Towner (bass), RJ Gilbert (sax), Nathan Evans (sax), Joe Noble (piano)

15:40-16:30 Kathryn Schultz (sax), Sam Franks (trombone), George Farrell (trombone), Luke Holcroft (piano), Harvey Lees (bass), Rufus Reader (drums)

16:50-17:40 Kyle Welch (e. bass), Nathaniel Evans (sax), Nathan Thomas (keyboards), Dom Holyoake (drums)*

Tickets are just £5 per day, available through the RBC website.
https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Birmingham City University
200 Jennens Road
Birmingham
B4 7XR
+44 (0)121 331 5000

*This lineup (Kyle, the two Nats and Dom) will be opening our Autumn program at The Marr’s Bar as ‘Boomslang’, on Thursday 10th September.
http://www.musicspokenhere.club