Off Topic Hull: City of Culture

Good to see tickets flying off the shelf - disappointed that Grayson Perry lecture has sold out so quickly as we fancied a trip out to that one. Never mind though as the Dan Billany tribute at Kardomah94 still has tickets available. If you haven't heard of him he was a fascinating bloke, largely forgotten, a best selling author who lived in Alliance Avenue and ended up in an Italian POW camp. Along with a couple of pals he got away and managed to walk all the way south through Italy only to die of exposure when just a few miles north of the allied lines.

 

I dived at the Museo Atlantico art instalation yesterday. It is a really sureal experience. The silence and the emotive sculptures really give you something to think about. 15 metres deep and over 300 life sized sculptures, that portray's life in Lanzarote.

 

weren't Swansea one of the ones we were up against...in the semi final or whatever it was?

 

Stoke, Cov and Pompey all good candidates.

 

I think it will be Swansea (or Paisley)

 

Why give it to the jocks? They dont want to be a part of us.

 

I didn't say that was what I wanted...I said it is what I think will happen

I don't want us to get relegated, but I still think we will

 

Sorry den, i was under the impression you had influence!!

 

I do...but I must use it sparingly
How do you think we won it in the first place ?!

 

No but he's always under the influence

 

Mebbe. Stoke have the feller who designed the Spitfire, Stanley Matthews, Arnold Bennett and Josiah Wedgwood. Plus it's a weapons-grade ****hole that needs a leg up, so that will be a big factor too.

Dundee and Swansea both had good credentials last time round. Dunno what Paisley has, Cov had the car industry and was an attractive prosperous city before the Luftwaffe got stuck in. Another place needing a leg up.

 

Wells is a lovely place but smaller than some villages. Already gets amounts of visitors bigger cities can only dream about. Portsmouth is smashing around the docks and shopping centre area but not so elsewhere.

 

By announcing a lot of events (often out of the blue) during the day, midweek a lot miss out. That must be a strategy to slow ticket sales down? I guess however they do it, they cant please everyone. I've been anticipating the announcement of the next seasons, but because Mrs A is confined to bed, it's passed us by (can't possibly make decisions on my own). Also the month before our jollies ain't a good time to blow money on tickets, which I thought they'd have taken into account.
I couldn't get my head around the Flood, but see its in four parts, I'm away for the ticketed event anyway. Shocked Mrs Tash didn't have her finger on the pulse? We were too late for the Zebedee gigs. Actually, I was gonna give the ballet ago (isn't that what CoC is about?), but it says tix aren't available yet? And again, I aren't bothered enough to pay silly prices.
Anyone notice any non headline events?

 

..and is a really bad influence

 

Is Pompey a one horse town though? We've had more variety here: whaling, civil war, trawling, Brian Rix, Tom Courtenay, Ziggy, Joe Longthorne etc

 

Cheers for that. I'll have a plough through tonight. Hopefully it's the sheer volume of events which make it look like heavy reading.

 

..and the Spode/ Mason pottery dynasties. They were actually distant descendants of mine. One of the ****ers was a playboy and blew the family fortune on gambling and drinking. At least he didn't waste it.
Useless Fact of the Day: The Captain of the Titanic, Capt John Smith married into the Spode Mason family