Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London with 1,073,000 residents (2011 census), an increase of 96,000 over the previous decade. The city lies within the West Midlands conurbation, the third most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a population of 2,440,986 (2011 census). Its metropolitan area is also the United Kingdom's second most populous with 3,683,000 residents.

Links To Peel
In the late 1960s, John Peel was a regular compere at Mothers club in Erdington, Birmingham, which ran for three years to 1971 and hosted many of the top bands of the era. Peel would often travel to the city for his DJ roadshows and in the 90's mentioned that the city does not associate itself with much except for poor football teams on his 29 December 1990 (BFBS) show and expressing the lack of big artists from the city on the 30 May 1994 (Ö3) and 29 November 1998 (BFBS) programmes. During the late 90's, Peel narrated the Rock Family Trees series which featured one episode focusing on bands from Birmingham called Rock Family Trees: Birmingham Beat.