Curtis Allen

🔥 Birmingham’s Ultimate Alternative Club Night with DJ Curtis Allen 🎧

If you’re looking for the best Birmingham rock and metal DJ, Subside Bar is where you need to be! Last night, Wednesday, 5th February 2025, I had the absolute pleasure of returning to Birmingham’s go-to alternative bar, bringing a set packed with rock, metal, and alternative anthems.

Even though I wasn’t feeling 100% (shoutout to the chest infection that tried to take me down!), I still had an incredible time behind the decks. By the end of my set, I was back to feeling like myself—nothing lifts my spirits like a killer crowd and some loud, heavy tunes! 🤘🔥

Set Highlights – Rock, Metal, and Alternative Bangers!

💥 Highlight of the night? Dropping Bladed from VUKOVI’s new album, My God Has Got a Gun—this track is pure fire, and I’m STILL obsessed.

Massive shoutout to the legend who told me it made his night to walk in to the bar to hear Polyphia playing followed by Twelve Foot Ninja—two of my faves that don’t always get crowd love. Your appreciation made my night!

🎵 Setlist:
She Sells Sanctuary – The Cult
Sunday Bloody Sunday – U2
Walking In My Shoes – Depeche Mode
Save Me – KMFDM
Blood Red Heart – The Haunt
Still Into You – Paramore
Dead To Me – High Regard (feat. Charlie Rolfe)
Break Angels – AFI
Freeze Me – Death From Above 1979
Self Destructor – Chevelle
Off the Floor – Arcane Roots
G.O.A.T. – Polyphia
Luna – Twelve Foot Ninja
Matoax – Mandroid Echostar
Someone Who Can – Coheed and Cambria
Everything’s Magic – Angels & Airwaves
San Diego – Stay Safe
Pretty Girls – Honeyglaze
beTh aMpHeTamiNe – tiLLie
Ipecac – Cassyette
TIRED OF WINNING – Nothing More
C’est la Vie – Protest The Hero
UNHALLØWED – Machine Head
This Love – Pantera
If Darkness Had a Son – Metallica
Of Prometheus And The Crucifix – Trivium
The Sinner – Memphis May Fire
Manic – Wage War
Smash The Control Machine – Otep
Bad Blood – The Damned Things
Hall Of Mirrors – The Distillers
Dam That River – Alice in Chains
Breed – Nirvana
Sugar Kane – Sonic Youth
BLADED – VUKOVI
WONDERWaLL (Spotify Singles) – Bring Me the Horizon
CULT – Magnolia Park
Perfect Soul – Spiritbox
NOXIOUS – Vana
Just Pretend – Bad Omens
can u see me in the dark? – Halestorm & I Prevail
Vampire – Saint Agnes
The Emperor – YUNGBLUD
Anxiety – Palaye Royale
High At The Sight Of You – Atticus Chimps
Best Of You – Foo Fighters
My Songs Know What You Did In the Dark (Light Em Up) – Fall Out Boy
You Know What They Do To Guys – My Chemical Romance
Disdain – Knuckle Puck
The Taste of Ink – The Used
Bottom Feeder – Motion City Soundtrack
Cult of Personality – Living Colour
Supernaut – Black Sabbath
Smooth Sailing – Queens of the Stone Age
I Hope You Hate Me – Dead Poet Society
Straight To Heart – ALT BLK ERA
A PLACE CALLED EUPHORIA – Tropic Gold
The Remedy – Polaris
True Friends – Bring Me the Horizon
Hey Baby, Here’s That Song You Wanted – blessthefall
Kick Me – Sleeping With Sirens
Bada Bing! Wit’ A Pipe! – Four Year Strong
Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don’t) – All Time Low
Everything Is Alright – Motion City Soundtrack
Emperor’s New Clothes – Panic! At The Disco
So Much (For) Stardust – Fall Out Boy
Situations – Escape The Fate
Win Win – Set It Off & Scene Queen
Top 10 staTues tHat CriEd bloOd – Bring Me the Horizon
RATATATA – BABYMETAL & Electric Callboy
The Dying Song (Time To Sing) – Slipknot
Slaughterhouse – Motionless In White (feat. Bryan Garris of Knocked Loose)
Your Betrayal – Bullet For My Valentine
Metalingus – Alter Bridge
Israel’s Son – Silverchair
Them Bones – Alice in Chains
Porn Star Dancing (feat. Zakk Wylde) – My Darkest Days
Blow – Eva Under Fire (feat. Spencer Charnas of Ice Nine Kills)
Bad Decisions – RedHook
Turns Me On – Cilver
Like A Villain – Bad Omens
AUSLÄNDER – Rammstein
Wanderlust – Every Time I Die
The Good Left Undone – Rise Against
You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid – The Offspring
Wonderlust King – Gogol Bordello
This Girl – Lockdown Project
Calling Out – Breed 77
The Artist In The Ambulance – Thrice
Foxglove – Boston Manor
WITCH – Delilah Bon & ALT BLK ERA
BOMBSHELL.EXE – YukoEXE
Parasite Eve – Bring Me The Horizon
Dead Cell – Papa Roach
Warning – Skindred
Tentative – System Of A Down
Rats – Ghost B.C
My Wave – Soundgarden
Rocket Queen – Guns N’ Roses
Lonely Train – Black Stone Cherry
Can’t Stop – Red Hot Chili Peppers

🔊 Want to hear your favourite bands at the next one? I’m back at Subside on Wednesday, 26th Feb – ready to bring another night of rock, metal, and alternative classics. If you’ve got requests, drop them in the comments or let me know on the night! 🤘🔥

And remember, Subside is open 7 days a week, serving up the best alternative music and the cheapest drinks in town.

📍 Venue: Subside Bar, Birmingham
🎧 DJ: Curtis Allen – Birmingham Rock and Metal DJ
🗓️ Next Set: Wednesday, 26th February 2025

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📍 Subside Bar, Birmingham | The home of rock, metal & alternative anthems!
🎧 Curtis Allen – Birmingham Rock and Metal Event and Wedding DJ