I just stumbled on this on the council’s arts page, having been interviewed for it when I looked after CiB the first time. The Birmingham Arts Survey – The State of the Arts 2005-08 (PDF, right click-save as) is a short document that gives an overview of where Birmingham’s arts are at (or were at the time).

It has lots of quotes from lots of people in it.

Funnily enough, many of the images used have cropped up again in the City of Culture 2013 bid stuff that I’ve seen.