A good piece on Look North about it. The usual vox pop with the 'Hull problem' succinctly encapsulated. A non local chap who was in favour balanced by a local mouthbreather woman of the most charmless, boorish, negative 'It's **** round 'ere. Why would we win it?' type. She's from the twagger, armchair LFC, snide cigs, takeaway, littering element who holds this city back with their stubborn refusal to either put their shoulder to the wheel or **** off and live somewhere else.
Hull already has one of those too. Looking at Dundee, if I was them, I wouldn't base a 'culture' bid on a TATE gallery - almost a 'chain', 'manufactured', supermarket version of culture - As good as their collections are, it's more about being 'flashy' - I'd say Ferens is much better based on what it has to work with and with such a small budget (though if you've been to see the latest Martin Creed exhibition, you'll admit it's probably pushing the boundaries a bit too much for joe public). Hull probably has a lot more culturally to offer, we just need to win this accolade to thrust it all into the limelight and to help take each event up a gear. Events like Freedom and Humber St Sesh could be huge with the added attendances winning this would bring, meaning extra money coming in to make such events bigger and better year on year.
You do realise culture has nothing to do with: how many estates a places has how many chavs a place has how many pot holes a place has how many variations of countries it's university's students come from how many shops are vacant how large the rate of unemployment is how large the roads are which lead to it ...and so on? Real culture is what Hull has in abundance - art, music, theatre, poetry, sport, festivals, museums, traditions, history.
...and that doesn't include the fact Hull's bid is duelled with it's 10 year City Plan, which will add the C4DI complex to the Fruit Market area, along with a David Hockney gallery, a cruise terminal and the HMS Illustrious.
The surrounding countryside is directly connected to Hull's cultural offering, hence the tourism body being called 'Visit Hull & East Yorkshire' - Hull is the epicentre for which tourists use as a base to discover Hull and East Yorkshire's tourist attractions. Hull is unique in that you get the urban city offering, countryside and seaside all in one package. Yes, it's soo dull and boring that David Hockney took it upon himself to paint the dull and boring landscape.
David Attenbrough was born in Leicester ... and without his many documentaries City Agro might never have recognised that true love could be found down by the railway lines ...
shame that east kent could of been helped by the money etc it could of generated. Still hopefully hull will win the bid.
Truth is, there's more history on one stone just outside of Leicester than there is in hull and the entire surrounding area. Trump card. http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-22359896
... fortunately I didn't live in a static caravan so was able to move as life's opportunities came my way ... is Nani still your favourite footballer? .. oops I meant Billy of course ...
If only we had some one willing to increase the size of the KC Stadium and develope the ****ty Walton street car park , maybe build a state of the art sports village and create jobs. I'm sure Hull would piss it then.
