The Open Exhibition featuring lots of local contemporary art is on and well worth a visit - some excellent stuff. The Francis Bacon series of paintings are on display and the Siena altar pieces have a room to themselves along with a panel by Giotto. A great, eclectic mix. As usual in Hull (iconic City of Culture), free for all to enjoy.
He'll be 78 by then. Buffin and Overend Watts are dead, he's still touring and writing feisty new songs. Too old to be a punk, but he was well ahead of the curve in the mid 70s, and has outlived/outlasted almost all of his peers. Never seen him live, hope it won't be a case of Once Bitten Twice Shy.
I posted on here the other day that the tidal barrier had started flashing visuals on it. Lasted a few minutes, stopped. Earlier in the week it looked like a rocket or something. It's just started again - well, did it for a few more minutes - this time it said '#CitySpeaks' up the side, flashing up and down. Stopped again now. Clues for upcoming stuff I guess? Edit - Should have just looked at the website. It's this https://www.hull2017.co.uk/whatson/events/the-city-speaks/
It converts speech to text, it apparently also uses AI to recognise and add in a Hull accent, though how it does that with the written word is beyond me.
I think someone should tweet that talk sport loser who lambasted Hull and the City of Culture. Point it out to him that in week 1 we had more visitors than 3 of Londons most popular tourist attractions combined. The **** him.
Great ready for someone complaining on Trip Advisor that the art gallery is full of paintings. Someone complained that the National Portrait Gallery was boring as it was full of pictures of people.
Does Fruit ever open during the day? I don't mean if an event is on during the day, I mean just as a place you can go to for a beer? I think it's only for shows, events & club nights if I'm not mistaken, but Hull is crying out for a pub/bar that's open at pub hours, as well as shows, that is cool & music based. I'm thinking along the lines of Belgrave Music Hall in Leeds - good beers, trendy setting, rock 'n' roll on the PA. Think our Old Town is as good as anywhere in the country for a day on the beer, in terms of quality places where you can get a good pint in a nice setting, and we just lack a place with good records playing all day. Recently enjoyed boozy days out in Leeds, York, Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Newcastle & Birmingham - had a fine time at them all, but not all of them can boast as many quality pubs & bars in as close a vicinity as our Old Town and marina, in my honest opinion. We just need that rock 'n' roll bar and we're set I think.
Nothing to do with C.Of.C. I know but a couple of weeks ago I had been looking, and taking pictures of 'the blade' and ambled down to the River Hull, as usual the tide was out and I was on the bridge, the new one that swings round when I saw footprints in the mud. I am totally puzzled, why would anyone walk on the mud to the edge and how come they didn't sink in the mud? The footprints go right back to a ladder fixed on the jetty anb there is mud on the ladder itself, another puzzle how come the incoming tide didn't wash to footprint's away? Fresh footprints that morning, who knows because I don't.
It's slowly coming together Party, but its a slow project, Humber Street paving is finished and there are refurbished bars on the way, been watching the developement for what seems like eternity but the place certainly comes alive in the summer, winter is bleak down there. Castle St is a real bugbear but I'm pleased with some of the renovations, it shows what can be done with old brickword when tidied up, pitty the council couldn't have saved many other buildings in the same ways rather than demolish. All pictures are my own work.
