Perhaps the city is not as forward about bigging itself up as somewhere like Manchester.
“I think people from Birmingham just get on with things to ourselves,” Queeley-Dennis agrees.
“Over the last two years, I’ve had to get a lot better at talking myself up. Yeah, we might need to talk ourselves up more. Honestly, there are so many great artists in the city.”
He’s more comfortable talking with pride about the friends he would hang out with at creative events six or seven years ago, and who are now, like him, making their breakthroughs.
“There is a community of us, and now we’ve all branched out into different mediums of work,” he says.
“There are actors on Netflix shows, writers like myself, artistic directors of long-standing companies, and producers and stuff like that. We were just hanging out back in 2017-18 all together.”
He namechecks actors including Corey Weekes and Keiren Hamilton-Amos, screenwriter Ameir Brown, and Women & Theatre artistic director Adaya Henry.
“There are so many names. I do think there is a mini creative renaissance within the city, and artists from the city that people maybe aren’t aware of yet.
“But I think in a few years’ time, we’ll all be all over the place, and I’m trying to just be a part of that.”
Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz is at Birmingham Hippodrome until Saturday, 5 October, then on tour throughout October and November.
