this is probably still true
i don't know of anywhere that's regularily worth going to on a saturday night. Friday nights are pretty shit too. Wednesday however is the night to go out in birmingham.
( asparagus time Is in Brazil., Sat 9 Jul 2005, 23:37, archived)

This explains everything

It also explains why I couldn't get a table anywhere on a Wednesday night some years later when I was in Brum on business
( Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Sat 9 Jul 2005, 23:39, archived)