Straight out of FT's book of comebacks. Good to see you keeping the Tickler alive. Excellent, well done.
i'm going to write a song about that and call it "my lovely house". it'll have chords and notes and everything.
Hull city centre to be lit up like this for 2017 launch please log in to view this image The artists who will light up Hull for the launch of the 2017 City Of Culture year have been revealed today. And the international cast list of talent who will transform Hull city centre in a spectacular light and sound show called,Made In Hull, includes acclaimed animation director Zsolt Balogh, who created this spectacular show lighting up Sydney Opera House. Balogh, who also worked on the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony, will be one of 13 artists recruited for the free event which will serve as the launch pad for Hull's year in the national spotlight. Martin Green, director, Hull 2017, said: “Made in Hull will be a thrilling, evocative and thought-provoking start to Hull's year as UK City of Culture. It is inspired by the concept of the son et lumière, but with one of the finest documentary filmmakers working today at the helm it will be a bit different – as you might expect in Hull. “Everyone is invited and we hope that as many of Hull's 260,000 residents as possible will want to experience this ambitious project. It is deeply rooted in the city's culture and heritage and paves the way for a year in which people will look at the city with fresh eyes." The Made In Hull launch week will run from January 1 to 7 when buildings across the city centre and Old Town will be lit up with a dazzling array of illumination, animation and sound. please log in to view this image Beginning at 4pm each evening during the week the local, national and international artists will use “large-scale projection on buildings, soundscapes, art installations, archive footage, animation and interactive live performance" to transform city centre streets and buildings to tell the story of the city and its people over the past 75 years. Locations for the projections include Queen Victoria Square, Zebedee's Yard, Whitefriargate, Silver Street, Scale Lane Staith, High Street, Myton Bridge underpass, The Deep and Humber Street. Over the seven evenings audiences will be able to join the trail from any starting point. They will be able to come for an hour or more, spend the whole evening and make return visits throughout Made in Hull's run. Other artists who will be joining Made In Hull director Sean McAllister to bring the history of the city to life on a grand scale will be interactive arts company Invisible Flock, who who will be recording terrace football chants at the Tigers' KCOM home match against Newcastle next Tuesday; film and photography studio Sodium; makeAMPLIFY, a collaboration between dance artist Jennifer Irons and audio visual artist Zach Walker; Japanese Canadian artist Jesse Kanda, and experimental multimedia artist Urban Projections, whose international clients include Jimmy Choo, Spotify and Coca Cola. please log in to view this image Hull's homegrown talent will also feature prominently in the event with the city's Oscar nominated filmmaker Chris Hees, Hull-born composer Terence Dunn, artist Preston Likely and photographer Quentin Budworth's Hullywood Icons all contributing to the show. Design and production are well underway to transform sites around the city ready for January 1. Hundreds of people from across Hull have played a part in the development of Made in Hull, as a result of being interviewed, filmed and providing archive material to help capture different aspects of the city's story. The story itself includes Hull's role “as place of arrivals and departures, the Second World War, the fishing industry, rising and falling unemployment, nightclubbing and sport, including rugby and football." Cafés, restaurants, bars and shops are due to open in the city centre on Sunday, January 1, with 2017 organisers encouraging visitors to make a day of it. East Yorkshire Motor Services and Stagecoach have also confirmed that they will be running a special bus service on the day. City centre car parks will also be open for the launch event which is expected to bring tens of thousands of tourists into the city. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/hull...9925722-detail/story.html#hpMqWxU5lT0YGiuH.99
Anything specific Fez? I can't listen to The Warmest Room without remembering a flat I had in Cott that was me and the Missus's first home together. It describes our relationship and situation in the early 80s so perfectly that I sometimes struggle to remember that he didn't actually write it about us (probably not anyway).
Ernie, Premier Inn 2-4-1 has just finished and I realised it included spirits!! 'Jane Allen' made him my friend. My mates took the piss out of another lad who liked him, I was curious and listened to him, then properly listened. His words spoke to me, I valued my life differently. Sometimes **** happens, but I'll not jive to much of Billy's music on New Year's Eve - although some of his songs will surprise.
Was that the song that he said he wrote while stalking a young couple in a Northern suburb and recording their bedroom antics with covert CCTV while he watched through a hole in the ceiling?
Seen Billy three times. He was excellent on each occasion. His songwriting is criminally underrated - and to be fair it's the love songs that scale greater heights than the political stuff, broadly speaking (with notable exceptions). And Jesus, listen to "Tank Park Salute" and then tell me Billy Bragg is ****. If you still think that you're already dead! Oh - met him once as well (briefly). Was friendly and approachable, seemed a nice guy.
Nice bloke is Billy Bragg... https://neilchughes.com/2013/03/18/...ark-salute-for-my-little-girl-at-glastonbury/
Saw Billy Bragg years ago in Nottingham supporting the Style Council. First time I ever heard "New England". Not heard this one before but its absolute quality
