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As Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena approaches reopening, we take a look at the best acts that have played there in its long history…

Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena reopens in September amid a £26m redevelopment project.

The whole of the venue will be renovated over the coming months, including huge “sky needles” on top of the venue lighting up the Birmingham Skyline at night.

The NIA, due to complete its renovation by December has started The Memory Stage, a social media drive to archive people’s memories of their best experiences at the venue.

With that in mind, we scoured through

It seems like the more shows the revamped 2013-2014 lineup of the Replacements play, the better they get at doing what the old Replacements were best at: messing around. Fortunately, Sunday night’s performance at the Forecastle Festival in downtown Louisville, Ky. – the first in a string of three summer gigs leading up to the St. Paul show on Sept. 13 -- never got too messy, and ultimately proved this version of the Replacements is even better at playing it straight. Despite whatever Paul Westerberg has to say.

“We’re the Cements, the world’s greatest Replacements tribute band,” he announced

in Kentucky playing a show. #thereplacements with #thereplacable #canthardlywait #messagetotheboys #holyshitIminthereplacements #billiejoeandtommystinson

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