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LIVERPOOL is to spend almost £100m delivering "the best-ever European Capital of Culture".
Liverpool City Council is stumping up £53m - just over half of costs - with government,, European and other grants bringing in another £33m. The remaining £10m will come from commercial sponsors.
The Liverpool Culture Company in charge of running the celebrations, has already secured 90% of the cash which it claim puts it in prime position to become the most successful culture winner yet.
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A new book highlights the culture, character and history of Liverpool in the run-up to the city's 800th birthday in 2007. Mike Chapple reports.
THE preparations for Capital of Culture in 2008 have somewhat overshadowed those for another significant milestone in 2007 - the 800th anniversary of Liverpool's foundation.
But the countdown is moving on apace for this particular celebration - a pivotal point for which will be the publication of the book Liverpool 800: Culture Character and History, scheduled to be published in September next year.
A project co-funded by the University of Liverpool and Liverpool City Council, it will tell the tale of the city's sojourn from the granting of letters patent to the Steward of West Derby by King John, the charter that founded the Borough of Liverpool in 1207, right the way through to the present day.
In the run-up to the book's launch, a series of four free public lectures have been organised to raise awareness of the celebration. Hosted by Liverpool's most public champion, the TV presenter and writer Loyd Grossman, their format will focus on subjects crucial in the city's development with talks given by experts in their field. The topics will be entitled Architecture or Development: Learning From The Past, the Culture of Sport on Merseyside and Cosmopolitan Liverpool.
The first takes place at Liverpool's Academy of Performing Arts next Wednesday, October 5, when Grossman, board chairman of the influential Culture Northwest, will present questions to acclaimed locally born rock journalist Paul Du Noyer on the "importance of music to the history identity and future of the city".
Fifty-one-year-old Du Noyer, who grew up in Bootle and Maghull, is the author of Wondrous Place, the definitive history of Merseyside's popular music scene. A former pupil at the now defunct Salesian College, he went on to study at the London School of Economics before joining the New Musical
Express during its widely acknowledged hey days of the late 1970s and early 1980s. This was the time of enfant terribles such as Julie Birchill, Tony Parsons and Paul Morley when, as Paul recalls, "editorial meetings were one long barney every week".
He had his own significant part to play. Besides assignments interviewing rock gods around the world, his brief was to cover the burgeoning Liverpool scene at the legendary Eric's Club in Mathew Street. This was formative in spawning what he feels were some of the most innovative bands of the '80s such as Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Echo and the Bunnymen - something which had a lot to do with Liverpool having its own peculiar musical identity.
"Coming back here from London every weekend, I got to see the very clear difference between Liverpool and the London scene," says Du Noyer. "The Liverpool crowd took themselves a lot less seriously except in the art of posing and being very good at the art of self mythologising."
Paul - who later became instrumental in founding the influential music magazines, Q and Mojo, and who is now associate editor of Word, also believes that although the contribution of the Beatles should never be undervalued there have been others who deserve more recognition.
"Personally, I think the Bunnymen were as important as say Joy Division in the '80s. Before that and The Beatles, there was Billy Fury who was Britain's first real rock 'n' roller. Then there were The Searchers whose guitar sound made an enormous impression on '60s bands such as The Byrds. There are others, people outside Liverpool have never even heard of, like Jimmy Campbell who was with the Merseybeat band the Kirkbys. I look on him as a sort of Scouse Nick Drake. And in terms of what's happening today Shack are unsung heroes."
The Liverpool audiences have their part to play, too, he feels.
"When I interviewed people such as Phil Lynott from Thin Lizzy and Ian Hunter, of Mott the Hoople, they always said that they liked playing Liverpool the most. My thought is that audiences here help create the music."
Paul believes Liverpool "deserves to be known as a musical city that has produced far more than The Beatles", reflected in the record-breaking number of diverse chart-toppers produced by Liverpool artistes. This diversity can be accountable to its musicians not being solely interested in current sounds and whose influences are tailored by an "openness to both the past and present".
He emphasises: "The city's musical story is still going on."
Boston-born Loyd Grossman - who in a previous existence was a rock journalist (with Rolling Stone) and even a member of a punk rock band (Jet Bronx and the Forbidden) - agrees..
"People like to have a clichéd view of Liverpool being just about The Beatles but there's an awful lot more than that going on," says Loyd, who first visited the city in 1974 and has been in love with the place ever since.
He adds: "The difference between Liverpool and other regional cities is that it's truly a global city, where there is not one single thing that can identify it because there are so many different things to choose from."
* THE Importance of Music will be held at LIPA on Mount Street, on October 5, at 6pm, and is expected to last until 8pm. Admission is free.
mikechapple@dailypost.co.uk
THE Liverpool 800 book project is in some respects a way of history repeating itself.
In 1907 the university and the then city corporation commissioned a tome to celebrate the city's 700th anniversary.
A History of Liverpool was written by John Ramsay Bryce Muir and is widely accepted as classic work on the city. Those behind the new work say it will chronicle Liverpool's history but from a wholly different perspective.
"Muir's work was very much of its time, listing kings and queens, dates, population figures and other sorts of general information whereas in Liverpool 800 the emphasis will be more on Liverpool's social history," explains the university's Dr John Murden, senior researcher on the book, whose compilation is being overseen by his colleague Professor John Belchem.
The work will consist of 10 chapters broken down into separate aspects of the city's development.
For instance Graeme Milne has focussed on its maritime past, Professor Melchem has written the chapter on Cosmopolitan Liverpool while Dr Murden has tackled its post war post history.
All the chapters have now been completed and all that remains is to find the appropriate illustrations and photographs before being sent off to the printers.
The University of Liverpool's Business Manager of Arts and Cultural Industries Dave Wibberley says that he hopes that the book will be "scholarly but accessible" to the general public.
He believes that the four talks scheduled in the coming months to promote the book - and especially next week's debut on the city's musical history - will reflect this accessibility.
"Liverpool has always had a strong cultural connection with music and it's no surprise that the city has produced an unparalleled number of successful musicians and entertainers.
"I'm particularly hoping that the evening's conversation will contribute to a wider discussion about what role music and musicians will have in how Liverpool develops and how the city is perceived internationally over the next decade."
He also hopes that they will help break down the traditional perceptions of what the city is all about.
"Pop music and football is what the city is known for across the world. We what need to understand is how to use these assets and utilise them the best.
"It is important to look below the surface and as the pamphlet advertising the musical talk reflects, discovering that there's more to this city than the Beatles, the Liver Buildings, Liverpool and Everton."
A Wondrous Place
PAUL DU NOYER'S Wondrous Place - Music from Cavern to Cream is a comprehensive source for anyone interested in Liverpool's pop music history.
The scene is set by an evocative foreword about his birthplace from Sir Paul McCartney before Du Noyer sets his stall out with a witty and poetic first chapter. Appropriately entitled Happy Hour in the Sad House, it perfectly captures the spirit of the city and its relationship with music.
Here's a small sample: "The port of Liverpool was made to supply Jack Tars' every need whether it be for tarts or tarpaulin. Naturally the town was prepared to offer entertainment too. And that readiness became a civic tradition of the town an acquired characteristic of its people that shaped their very nature ... In Liverpool, even conversation must work as entertainment: it isn't twinkling or gentle but hard, competitive and cruel.
"But Liverpool is always trying to turn rage into beauty. Periodically the place erupts with Vesuvian force. Creative individuals don't trickle out from Liverpool's edges: they explode from its very core. The ones the world knows are only the famous ones. In Liverpool there are plenty of stars who don't need guitars.
The Liverpool music story is as much about the audience as the performers they are but two sides of the equation. "From the Beatles to Cream, its successful exports owe their success to the Liverpool people's love of a good night out and their highly evolved capacity for telling s--- from shinola."
IT WILL take years to complete and be based on thousands of miniature drawings and it will span 170 acres of Liverpool.
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The most detailed ever painting of the city's skyline, which will be 128 sq ft, has just been started by internationally renowned artist Ben Johnson.
Commissioned by National Museums Liverpool, the ambitious project will be finished to mark the city's Capital of Culture Year in 2008.
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A.D.Williams
10-20-2005, 12:54 AM
Sounds an interesting project, Kev.
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CAINS Brewery is to be unveiled as a key backer of Liverpool's reign as Capital of Culture in a £1m deal, the Daily Post can reveal.
Brothers Ajmail and Sudaghara Dusanj are to become the seventh sponsors of the 2008 celebrations after two years of negotiations.
The firm will also be the first to be named as an official supplier, which means their beers will be at all culture company events over the next four years, including the Mathew Street festival.
Every can and bottle produced at the Stanhope Street brewery will be stamped with the 08 logo and all promotions as well as the Cains pubs will market culture events.
The high profile pair have become major players on the Liverpool business scene since taking over the failing brewery and turning it into a thriving company with a £35m annual turnover.
Sudaghara Dusanj said: "We have been negotiating this deal since the day Liverpool was announced as Capital of Culture.
"There are a lot of beer companies with much deeper pockets than us who wanted to be involved but we are the local brewery and we believe that is our selling point.
"We will be the official beer at every event and the 08 logo will be on all our products, which will market it across the country.
"The deal will be a mixture of cash and kind, through marketing. We believe it will raise the profile of the city and Cains.
"We moved to Liverpool a year before the announcement and it has been such an amazing time. We really wanted to be involved in Capital of Culture, to us it's the equivalent of being sponsors of the Olympics."
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THE former press chief for the Football Association is the new head of media relations for Liverpool's Capital of Culture.
Paul Newman, 47, was well-known as a BBC and ITV television presenter during the 80s and 90s. He takes up his new £70,000-a-year post on Monday.
As communications director for the 2007/8 celebrations, his role will be to sell Liverpool to the world's media.
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I wonder how long that will last :rolleyes:. *Note to Culture Company - I'll do it next time. My qualifications? Scouse and Proud :PDT1
AN ACADEMIC research team is being set up to analyse the impact Capital of Culture will have on the city.
When Liverpool bid for the title, experts predicted it would create 14,000 jobs and attract £2bn of investment.
Now the University of Liverpool will carry out a four-year study to find out if that actually happens.
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I wonder how many of those 14,000 jobs will go to a Liverpool resident? :rolleyes:
About barely 700 of them probably.:rolleyes:
About barely 700 of them probably.:rolleyes:
:rolleyes:
Will these jobs exist after the celebrations ? :rolleyes:
Scousemouse
11-15-2005, 06:10 PM
Now the University of Liverpool will carry out a four-year study to find out if that actually happens.
Here's a 'niggling question'... What will they do with the 'information', and why will it take FOUR YEARS to collect? :confused:
Here's a 'niggling question'... What will they do with the 'information', and why will it take FOUR YEARS to collect? :confused:
You have me paranoid now SM :)
Scousemouse
11-15-2005, 06:40 PM
You have me paranoid now SM :)
Niggling question No 2: How many of those 14,000 jobs will be paying anywhere near £41,000 a year? :eek: :tear:
(er, what does £5.05 ph equate to?)
Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeam.:sad:
Scousemouse
11-15-2005, 06:44 PM
You have me paranoid now SM :)
Anyway, what d'you mean by 'now'? :lol::)
(er, what does £5.05 ph equate to?)
Now your baffling me with maffamatics :unibrow:
Ridiculous eh? :PDT_Armat
Anyway, what d'you mean by 'now'? :lol::)
Erm!!!!, in the present context :)
Here's a 'niggling question'... What will they do with the 'information', and why will it take FOUR YEARS to collect? :confused:
cause theyve emplyed 4yr olds to collect the data
Howie
11-17-2005, 12:24 AM
Cains named official supplier to Liverpool 2008
Published 16th November 2005
Cains Brewery has become the official beer supplier for the European Capital of Culture 2008.
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The Liverpool family brewer was signed up by the Liverpool Culture Company after two years of negotiations.
Cains joint managing director, Sudarghara Dusanj said: “There are a lot of beer companies with deeper pockets than us who wanted to be involved but we are the local brewery and we believe that this played a big part in the selection.
“We will be the official beer at every event and the ‘08 logo will be on all our products, which we will market nationally. Being the official beer to ‘08 is the equivalent to being the sponsors for the 2012 Olympics, it is a fantastic deal for the whole of the North West.”
Liverpool will benefit from the Capital of Culture Award by bringing an estimated £2billion of investment, create 14,000 new jobs and attract an extra 1.7 million visitors to the city. Cains Beers will be exclusively available at all Culture Company events over the next three years.
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Howie
11-17-2005, 12:31 AM
Robert Cain Brewery
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Liverpool's plans for the European Capital of Culture celebrations in 2008 are being showcased in Brussels.
Lloyd Grossman, deputy chair of the city's Culture Company, and artistic director Robyn Archer were hosting a reception in the city on Wednesday.
They were revealing the city's business plan to European officials, who were also being entertained with music from the city's South Asian Arts Festival.
Councillor Warren Bradley said it was a chance to boost the city's economy.
"We've got to sell our wares to encourage people to come to Liverpool, not only in 2008 but in the build up and beyond," Mr Bradley said.
"The more people from across Europe we can get to the city to show what a fabulous city it is and what fabulous people live here, hopefully that will encourage them to come and spend their wares in the city."
Liverpool beat other UK cities including Birmingham and Newcastle to win the culture prize, which is expected to boost tourism, increase investment and create jobs.
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Boris Johnson, the Tory MP rapped for saying Liverpool wallowed in victim status, is to join a cross-party lobby group supporting the city.
Mr Johnson made the comments in an editorial for The Spectator, saying the city's outpouring of grief for Ken Bigley was "disproportionate".
But now he and the "friends at Westminster" will support the city as Capital of Culture.
The Liverpool Culture Company confirmed Mr Johnson will be in the group.
Michael Howard and Gerald Kaufman are also rumoured to be joining the group, which will be launched next Thursday with the aim of supporting Merseyside in national debates at the House of Commons.
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victorialush
11-29-2005, 10:15 PM
Michael Howard and Gerald Kaufman are also rumoured to be joining the group, which will be launched next Thursday with the aim of supporting Merseyside in national debates at the House of Commons.
Wasn't it Michael Howard that made Mr Johnson apoligise to Liverpool. Boris best do some serious ass licking now! Ha!
garstonlad75
12-22-2005, 09:05 AM
The Government wants work to begin on upgrading Junction 6 of the M62 motorway in summer 2007, meaning that visitors to the city for the European Capital Of Culture in 2008 will have to endure some total road closures as well as disruption and road works.
Why are we as a city, left to look like idiots and morons, with tourists probably wondering why we couldn't have planned this better.
It is beyond belief the mentality of some people not to realise that 2008 is our chance to stand on the world stage and represent not just the UK but Europe. Now we are going to look like right chumps as THE major entrance & exit route to this city is ripped up.
Thanks a lot
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Isnt it silly? Why in 2007? Its mad I tell u - mad!
lindylou
12-22-2005, 11:35 AM
:doubt: :angry:
FORMER Leader of Liverpool City Council Cllr Mike Storey led the city to victory in the battle for the title of European Capital of Culture 2008. In those glorious moments after Liverpool won, Cllr Storey jubilantly said: “This is like Liverpool winning the Champions League, Everton winning the double and the Beatles reforming all in the same day - and then Steven Spielberg coming to the city to make a Hollywood-blockbuster about it.” But, two years on, instead of looking back on his finest hour with satisfaction, Cllr Storey has expressed doubt about whether the city is ready for the big event.
I have concerns on two levels. Firstly, it’s about the legacy of Capital of Culture. I don’t think we have thought through what our legacy will be from this. Secondly, I am not sure it’s by the people for the people. A lot of highly paid people have been brought in from outside along with advertising and marketing agencies.
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Howie
01-03-2006, 11:53 AM
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines culture as:
1 the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
2 a refined understanding or appreciation of this.
3 the customs, institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or group.
:nod:
Perhaps somebody ought to buy a copy of the OED for the organisers of our Culture of Capital celebration.
:rolleyes:
Why wasn't Story shouting about this when he was leader?
Howie
01-04-2006, 12:28 PM
Calls to end culture of secrecy threat to 2008
Jan 4 2006
By Sam Lister Daily Post Staff
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A KEY player in Liverpool's Capital of Culture team was at the centre of a contract riddle last night amid rumours that she has failed to get a visa allowing her to work in the country.
Australian Robyn Archer was brought in as artistic director two years ago, responsible for producing the programme of celebrations for 2008, and is due to begin working in Liverpool full time this year.
But former council leader Mike Storey yesterday said he was planning to lodge questions with the council over her position, following claims that her contract has not yet been finalised and she has not been granted permission to work in the UK.
The Capital of Culture Company last night refused to clear up the mystery, insisting that Ms Archer's employment status was a private matter.
But Cllr Storey said: "Robyn Archer was a high-level appointment. She has a proven track record as an artistic director and is very highly thought of and I would not be critical of her.
"In terms of her position, however, there have been all sorts of rumours that her visa has not been granted and her contract has not been signed.
"When I was involved, there were lawyers still poring over the contracts.
"I do know she wants to have time off built into her contract so she can continue to perform, which might be one of the reasons.
"The Culture Company needs to be up-front about this. They can't just say this is a personal matter. The people of Liverpool are paying her salary.
"Until we know exactly what the problem is, we do not know if it can be resolved. If it is a problem with the visa, then it is potentially serious.
"It is a key position and we have a right to know what is happening. I will be asking the question at the next council meeting."
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Ms Archer has more than a decade's experience in organising large-scale international events.
She is a performer, writer and director and in 2000 was made an Officer of the Order of Australia and the Chevalier du l'Odre des Arts at des Lettres in Canberra.
Her CV also includes prestigious positions such as artistic director of the National Festival of Australian Theatre, and of the Adelaide Festival in 1998, as well as chairwoman of the Australian Council's Community Development Board.
She has been "distance working" since her appointment in 2004, using the internet and email to keep in contact with the culture team as well as making occasional trips to Liverpool.
There was concern at the time of her appointment that it would be difficult to do justice to the role, which is one of the most important in the organisation, from such a distance.
On Saturday, the Daily Post revealed the Culture Company has come under fire for not releasing information about how the programme for the city's reign is developing and for failing to involve local people enough.
But the organisation last night refused to be drawn over any potential problems with Ms Archer's contract.
A spokesman for the Culture Company said: "Liverpool Culture Company and Liverpool City Council do not comment on individual human resources issues."
But he did explain the delay in releasing details for the Cultural Programme for this year. The spokesman said: "The official launch of Liverpool Performs 2006 will take place on January 30 at a joint event which will also combine LIPA's 10th anniversary celebrations.
"This significant milestone in LIPA's history presents a fantastic opportunity to launch what will be a 12-month celebration of Liverpool's outstanding track record in performance. The decision to hold a joint launch was made several months ago by the Liverpool Culture Company's management team.
"This is the second time that we have launched a themed year in conjunction with a major cultural institution in Liverpool. Last year's themed year, Sea Liverpool, was launched on January 27, 2005, with a major event at National Museum Liverpool's Maritime Museum, attended by Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott.
"By the end of January, each home in Liverpool will be sent a copy of the Liverpool Performs brochure, which will include an overview of the plans for 2006."
Ms Archer was not available for comment last night, and the Home Office refused to discuss the visa issue.
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:rolleyes:
Looks like Mike Story has issues since leaving. The ructions continue... :rolleyes:
What exactly will 2008's cultural events consist of? Sam Lister and Jessica Shaughnessy hear the concerns.
CULTURAL and political leaders last night piled pressure on 2008 officials to reveal their plans for the next three years.
They demanded reassurance that work on a full programme of events was being carried out effectively after it emerged yesterday artistic director Robyn Archer, an Australian, does not yet hold a visa to work full-time in this country.
The revelations sparked fears that the showpiece celebrations could fall into disarray.
Last night, key players in the city's arts community, as well as members of the Liverpool Culture Company's own board, demanded a policy of openness and transparency be adopted immediately to prevent the city's prestigious win becoming a flop.
Mark Featherstone-Witty, founding principal and chief executive of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, called for officials to set out a clear plan of how the next three years will shape up.
He said: "There's no real idea of what is actually happening or what the aims are.
"The communication has not been explicit or open enough. I don't see why they should hide anything.
"The problem is that we do not get told anything that is concrete, it is all aspirational stuff.
"I went to a presentation by Robyn Archer a while back and afterwards I felt I knew little more than when I had gone in.
"A part of me thinks they need to be careful about who they are employing, and where they are from.
"There is nothing wrong in employing someone from Australia but are there not enough talented people in Liverpool, or even the rest of the country, to fill the position?
"If not, should we not have recruited from Europe, as it is the European Capital of Culture?
"We are paying the wages." Liverpool poet Roger McGough, a Freeman of the city, backed the calls, adding: "People have to have confidence in what is going on.
"I am disappointed that people are not being informed and involved in what is going on."
Robyn Archer is vital to the success of the city's reign as she is in charge of developing the programme of events.
Culture executives yesterday insisted there would not be any problem with her taking up her post here full-time in March, despite initially refusing to comment. But the company's failure to alleviate fears over the matter, as well as how plans are progressing, has been widely criticised.
Louise Ellman, MP for Liverpool Riverside and a key campaigner in helping the city to win the title, as well as a board member of the Culture Company, said: "I will be calling for an urgent meeting with the chairman of the Culture Company, Drummond Bone, to raise these issues.
"I do think the onus should be on the people running the company to make the public aware of what is happening.
"The concerns raised are all legitimate ones and I have already brought some of them up with the board myself.
"They must be dealt with and this impression of public squabbling put an end to, so we can get on with running what should be our proudest achievement.
"A number of people have contacted me with concerns and anyone else, whether it is individually or in a group, who wants to do so can contact me and I will raise their issues with the Culture Company on their behalf.
"The onus is on the Culture Company to change the way it communicates.
"Capital of Culture should be bringing people together, not causing divisions."
The Culture Company insists that its 85-strong team is busily working behind the scenes to come up with the strongest plans of any city to win the title since it began.
But no major events, attractions or big name stars for the 2008 programme have been publicly revealed.
Cllr Steve Foulkes, leader of Wirral council and a member of the culture board, said: "The communication at the moment is probably not as good as it should be.
"I think there are plans in place to work on that. The appointment of a new chief executive should also help."
Last night, there were also calls for stronger leadership of the culture team.
Leading city lawyer Rex Makin, an advisory member of the city council's arts and leisure committee, said: "There has been a constipatory effect on progress at the Culture Company.
"The way it is being run is chaotic. What it needs is people from the commercial sector who can get things done.
"There are too many cooks and not enough bottle-washers and something needs to change."
Liam Fogarty, chairman of amayorforliverpool.org, said: "There is a lack of clarity and a lack of leadership, which leads to confusion and concern.
"The problem is accountability.
"Because no-one will come out and say this is what we want to do, and then if it doesn't work out then say sorry, then nothing seems to be done.
"There is a huge appetite in Liverpool to make this work but there needs to be transparency and the people in the culture team need to come out of their ivory towers.
"They need to go into partnership not just with the creative people in the city but ordinary Liverpudlians who desperately want to be part of this but just do not feel included at the moment.
"There needs to be some authority to steer this."
Sir Bob Scott, the Liverpool Culture Company's international director, who led the city's winning bid, said: "I don't know anything about Robyn Archer's contract. That's nothing to do with my role.
"However, I can't believe people are saying she's not in Liverpool enough. That is completely unjustified.
"When you get somebody as great as Robyn, they are not available immediately. They have to finish other commitments. She is actually in Liverpool a great deal."
The former Liverpool Culture Company chief executive added that recent criticism of the organisation for keeping progress made on the programme for 2008 closely under wraps was unjustified.
He said: "It is really much too early for people to be drawing these conclusions. Some people think we're getting ready for Capital of Culture 2006 rather than 2008.
"It was about this moment before 1990 that Glasgow was actually appointed to the title and its year was a great success.
"Getting ready for 2008 is like constructing a building. There is a lot going on underground to create the foundations."
A spokesman for the Culture Company said: "The plans for 2006 will be announced at the end of January when Robyn Archer will unveil the programme.
"Plans for future years will be announced in due course."
samlister@dailypost.co.uk
New wave of organisers to revive River Festival
THIS year's cancelled River Festival is set to be revived in a smaller guise in Wirral.
A breakaway group of organisers has begun to organise a one-day version after culture officials dramatically cut the programme of events.
They revealed it was so they can prepare for a world-beating festival in 2007 - Liverpool's 800th birthday - and also claimed regeneration work at the Pier Head, Albert Dock and on the Paradise Project means space will be restricted in 2006 for maritime events.
But a handful of organisations involved in festival have decided to go it alone and are in talks with venues across the peninsula.
Lorraine Mackarel, who is leading the mini-festival, said: "I am not prepared to let it die.
"This festival was set up 25 years ago by volunteers.
"It is a big attraction and brings in visitors from across the country but it has been cancelled and we fear that it will be the end of it if we do not do something.
The tall ships, music and street theatre, will still go ahead in Liverpool this year.
But performers such as Liverpool Metropolitan Opera will cross the River Mersey to put on their annual show for the festival.
Chairman Vivienne Sharp said: "We are part of the community and want the opportunity to take what we do to them. "Concerts like these are a great chance for people who have not watched opera to see what we do."
Europe's biggest and most diverse celebration of culture
WHAT'S in store for 2008, the year the Culture Company promises Liverpool will host "the greatest show on earth"?
According to the Liverpool 08 website, the programme for the year will be "Europe's biggest and most diverse celebration of culture with more than 50 international festivals".
It says 2008 will involve one billion people, from more than 60 countries, across five continents.
But so far, only a handful of events have been confirmed, and some of them are bumper versions of attractions already on the city's cultural calendar.
The Liverpool Culture Company promises that the Mathew Street Music Festival, the Mersey River Festival, the Grand National, the Brouhaha festival, the Lantern Parade and Chinese New Year will be bigger and better than ever before.
Doubt has been cast on whether the Mersey River Festival will be held in 2008 after this year's event has been cancelled.
Among the highlights promoted by the Liverpool Culture Company are:
* The return of Sir Simon Rattle to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and his home town of Liverpool.
* The finish of the 2007/2008 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.
* The start of the 2008 Tall Ships' Race.
Southport will host the Open Championship, the world's most prestigious golf tournament.
The plans that came and went
A WEALTH of new buildings and attractions will be built in Liverpool by 2008, but some grand plans will never make it.
The Fourth Grace, the controversial cloud building, which was one of the centrepieces for Liverpool's bid to become Capital of Culture, is one of the key projects to have collapsed.
Plans for a big wheel, which would have been Liverpool's version of the London Eye, never saw the light of day.
The cruise liner facility on the Pier Head was originally planned to be ready for 2008, but only preliminary work on the project has been started.
Developer Maro's plans for one of the UK's tallest skyscrapers, Brunswick Quay, which was to enhance Liverpool's skyline by Capital of Culture Year, was twice rejected by planners.
The company plans to appeal against the decision in June.
Another major vote-puller for the culture bid, the 9,000 seater stadium and conference centre on the the King's Dock, is however on schedule.
Plans for an X-shaped museum on Mann Island have replaced the Fourth Grace.
Though much of the construction work will be done, the building will not be ready for use in 2008 and officials have said a temporary exhibition will be set up on another site.
The £920m Paradise Street development, which will enhance the Liverpool shopping experience in 2008, is expected to be completed on time, though work will continue throughout the year.
Work has also begun on a canal link between Stanley Dock and Albert Dock.
Source (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=16548757%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=bring%2dus%2dtogether%2d%2dtell%2dus%2d the%2dplans-name_page.html)
THREE leading figures behind Liverpool's European Capital of Culture plans last night came out fighting and vowed: "We will not let the city down." more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=16553149%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=culture%2dchiefs%2dpledge%2d%2dwe%2dwon %2dt%2dlet%2dyou%2ddown-name_page.html)
garstonlad75
01-06-2006, 04:33 PM
Kev Posted: Are we doing enough to prepare for 2008?
In a word...................No :disgust:
lindylou
01-06-2006, 05:31 PM
Ditto :disgust:
Have a look at how Patras - European Capital of Culture 2006 - begun its celebrations.....here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2006/01/04/patras_capital_culture_feature.shtml)
Howie
01-06-2006, 07:05 PM
The idea behind the Institution of the European Capital of Culture is to provide a platform for the rebirth of a city with art and culture as the driving force.
Then why did I think it was all about designer stores and luxury apartments? :rolleyes:
Then why did I think it was all about designer stores and luxury apartments? :rolleyes:
Is right Howie :PDT11 I'm all for 'bigging up' the name of Liverpool and the city as a whole and love seeing development wether it be city centre appartments/ renovations etc but being online now since 2003, my eyes have been opened to the lack of recognistion of Liverpool's own residents that make this city what it is and what it will always be.
Scouser Heaven Since 1207
A PRICELESS treasure trove of Chinese art will give a silver lining to Liverpool's Capital of Culture celebrations in 2008, it has emerged.
Hundreds of glittering exhibits from the legendary Forbidden City will provide a direct link between Liverpool and Beijing, which is hosting the Olympic Games the same year.
The revelation comes after a week which has seen wide public criticism at the lack of detail so far released about the 2008 celebrations.
The show is described as the best display of Chinese art ever seen in the UK and also celebrates Liverpool as home to Europe's oldest Chinese community.
The exhibition marks a great coup for Liverpool's year as Europe's artistic hub.
TV presenter Loyd Grossman, chairman of National Museums Liverpool, said: "Liverpool is a global city, and here we mark the deep connections it has with China."
The Culture Company is part-funding the exhibition, which is costing £1m, together with a major private sponsor. It is understood the Culture Company and National Museums Liverpool are finalising financial details.
The six-month show will reveal life behind the scenes in China's historic imperial palace.
The exhibits include Buddhas, temple hangings, armour, weapons, clothing, personal jewellery, ornaments and musical instruments.
Some of the works are unique Chinese art forms, using jade and ceramics, and all will be backed up with videos and scale models.
A spokesman for National Museums Liverpool said: "It will be awe-inspiring, capturing the magnificence of the Imperial Court, and the world's greatest and wealthiest empire."
The exhibition, to be housed in the newly-opened wing of World Museum Liverpool, will centre on the reign of China's most famous emperor, Quianlong, who ruled from 1736-1795.
Joanna Rowlands, of NML, said: "Visitors can experience first hand what life was like at the Imperial Court."
Living With The Emperor - the working title of the exhibition - will also examine how one man met the challenges of running such a vast and multi-ethnic empire.
NML staff are working with counterparts at the Imperial Palace Museum in Beijing and Chinese scholars in Chicago to prepare the exhibition.
Source (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=16563279%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=heritage%2dof%2dchina%2dshow%2dis%2d200 8%2dcoup-name_page.html)
Nice, I can nick me some armour.:ninja:
Nice, I can nick me some armour.:ninja:
Eh! behave :p
Their armours not as heavy as ours though.:ninja:
Bejing the forbidden city?
Their armours not as heavy as ours though.:ninja:
Bejing the forbidden city?
With Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/) you can zoom in on The Forbidden City :unibrow:
lindylou
01-10-2006, 02:32 PM
Well said Kev, Liverpool's own residents are not seeing much benefit are they ! ?
Well said Kev, Liverpool's own residents are not seeing much benefit are they ! ?
I think everyone has forgotten why Liverpool has been given the title in the first place. Without the trams, the new arena, the Paraidise street development, Liverpool was still awarded Capital of Cuture because of just that, its culture and heritage, me and you, our mums and dads, nans and grandads, children, our achievements in all areas of life, sport, music, medicine, the list goes on. Everything that has gone before us, good and bad that have made the city and its residents what we are today.
I care about how this is shared with the world in 2008. I want everyone involved in the good stuff because before we awere awarded it, the powers that be did everything they could to get into our schools to drum up support for why we should be capital of culture. Where are they now? Are we all going to get an invite to the big celebration when they kick off 2008?
I dont want a half hearted attempt to 'be seen' to celebrate the real culture and people of Liverpool either.
Lets open a scouse cafe in town that only serves proper scouse :p
TAXIS proudly bearing Liverpool's Capital of Culture brand are spreading the word of the 2008 extravaganza round the city's streets.
The two hackney cabs have been painted as part of the £ 2m sponsorship deal with Warrington water and electricity group United Utilities.
Both taxis are emblazoned with the Capital of Culture branding and United Utilities logos.
Julie Gaskell, sponsorship manager, said: "With Capital of Culture cabs buzzing around, visitors and residents will be in no doubt excitement is building for 2008."
Scousemouse
01-10-2006, 08:04 PM
What, TWO? ...a whole TWO? Wow! Now that is thinking BIG!
Forgive me, I'm just getting over the shock...give me air.... :lol:
What happened to the idea of putting the Beatles on the back of a £20 note?
What are these people on? ...Monetarily speaking, of course. :)
I think Liverpool has more black cabs per head of population than any other city apart from London :unibrow:
2 is a bit poo though :rolleyes: should be loads! I mean David Lloyd liesure can get every cab with their logo on, why not the capital of culture?
lindylou
01-10-2006, 11:35 PM
:thumbsup: yes, that's right Kev. It's all true what you say. All that has gone before us, and all the generations of Liverpudlians have made the city what it is today, and as you say - that's before we get the Paradise project etc.
lindylou
01-10-2006, 11:38 PM
TWO !
That's pathetic ! :shock:
I'll add to your reputation (http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42) the first person that can find a pic of one :unibrow:
Nah the free one is a waste of time, can't even see my street properly.
Can see Picton park though which is on the otherside of the railway track.:unibrow:
I think Liverpool has more black cabs per head of population than any other city apart from London :unibrow:
2 is a bit poo though :rolleyes: should be loads! I mean David Lloyd liesure can get every cab with their logo on, why not the capital of culture?
There probably too much of a cheapskate to pay the cab drivers toput them on.
lindylou
01-11-2006, 03:05 PM
I think the free one is a waste of time too ... I didn't get to see a lot.
Think we saw LFC. Couldn't see much of any local streets.
Tried a few places abroad - but not much luck there either.
lindylou
01-11-2006, 03:06 PM
I'll add to your reputation (http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42) the first person that can find a pic of one :unibrow:
that's a good idea Kev. I bet I'll see one when I don't have a camera on me :rolleyes:
u can download the trail of the pro version, the image are the same
What, TWO? ...a whole TWO? Wow! Now that is thinking BIG!
Forgive me, I'm just getting over the shock...give me air.... :lol:
What happened to the idea of putting the Beatles on the back of a £20 note?
What are these people on? ...Monetarily speaking, of course. :)
Having stood at the Aldephi taxi rank on a Friday / Saturday night for hours upon hours, Im surprised theres actually as many as 2 taxis in Liverpool! :lol: :p
LIVERPOOL is to get a £10m facelift in time for its reign as Capital of Culture.
Council officials hope the culture cash will also make the city a fitting place to receive the Olympic torch when it arrives in Britain in the same year.
The flame will be sent to the UK from Beijing in 2008, and new leader Warren Bradley believes Capital of Culture celebrations would make the city a perfect venue to welcome it.
Historic buildings likely to come under consideration for a clean-up are Liverpool town hall, the Cunard building and the Liver building.
St George's Hall and the Peter Pan statue at Sefton Park are held up as examples of what can be achieved with modern cleaning technology.
Cllr Bradley revealed his ambition for Liverpool to be a "curtain-raiser" for the London games as government ministers were due to sign-off £10m investment in Capital of Culture.
A year ago, the ECHO revealed how ministers had agreed a £5m grant to clean up Liverpool's historic buildings, monuments and statues.
Now we can announce a final figure of £10m, which will go into a pot for the city spruce-up and other events leading up to 2008.
Ministers were initially reluctant to commit cash to Capital of Culture with critics suggesting they were concentrating on London's Olympic bid.
But Cllr Bradley wants to forge links between Liverpool and the capital, rather than turn the two events into rivals for money.
He said: "I have told local government minister David Miliband that we want Capital of Culture to be a curtain-raiser for the Olympics.
"We understand how important the Olympics are to the whole country and we want Liverpool to benefit.
"The Olympic flame has to come to Britain from Beijing in 2008 and we have asked if Liverpool could receive it on the country's behalf."
The £10m funding comes from the arts council and the department for culture, media and sport.
It covers about one-tenth of the £95m cost of Capital of Culture, and will be spent on a variety of projects.
Cllr Bradley said: "We have proved to the government that we have the ability to deliver and they are content to release this money."
Labour opposition leader Joe Anderson added: "The government has shown fantastic support, both financially and by giving Liverpool the 2008 title. Now we must make sure it is spent in the right way so disadvantaged communities are involved and reap the benefits."
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Scousemouse
01-13-2006, 02:00 AM
Jock, I believe there are reputed to be over three hundred black cabs in Liverpool!
Here's a tip...DON'T start walking out of town—they will not pick up until they reach the city centre, so you'll have to walk some considerable distance before you'll get one to stop.
A better bet is to walk to the Gyratory and pick up a late bus, Saturday/Sunday, early morning. They run to the outskirts on main routes, most areas, for a fixed fare (around £3). Just check where they stop though!
Thanks SM. I do actually use the night bus more often than not - and it stops just outside my house! :)
Not wanting to moan at taxi drivers completely, and I've been fairly lucky in my times out in Liverpool over the past 6 years or so, but:
1. Champions League final - started queuing at 1am by the Aldephi taxi rank. A queue of taxis formed outside the Aldephi hotel (not taxi rank) waiting to pick up guests from the hotel. Very few taxis pulled into the taxi rank - me and my girlfriend got back to the B&B at 5.30am.
2. The Derby Game (Everton v Liverpool, 28/12/05). Queued for 1 hour at the taxi rank by HSBC, along from Central station. Taxi drivers were driving around with their lights off, looking for fares. When approaching a couple of them, they asked how much I was willing to pay to get back home. Ended up paying £20 just to get home, normal fare - £12ish.
There are other examples, but I'll leave it there for the sake of the length of post, and to stop depressing everyone!
However, I do find I have more success by walking up towards the Uni (Mount Pleasant) and hailing a cab on its way back into town. Did that New Years Eve and got a taxi in less than 10 minutes. Its also the tactic I'll be employing tonight and tomorrow whilst enjoying a few beers! (unless jumping on the night bus) :)
P.S Sorry for the long post.
silverscouse
01-13-2006, 04:51 PM
If its costing 2m the cabs must be painted in real gold and if so I hope they are well locked up or some one will nick them though they will be from out of town
Scousemouse
01-13-2006, 07:50 PM
:)
2. The Derby Game (Everton v Liverpool, 28/12/05). Queued for 1 hour at the taxi rank by HSBC, along from Central station. Taxi drivers were driving around with their lights off, looking for fares. When approaching a couple of them, they asked how much I was willing to pay to get back home. Ended up paying £20 just to get home, normal fare - £12ish.
I would have thought that was illegal, that is, unless your destination was outside the city boundary then I believe you can negotiate.
I'll ask the next cab driver I see. :rolleyes:
There are other examples, but I'll leave it there for the sake of the length of post, and to stop depressing everyone!
P.S Sorry for the long post.
Make yer posts as long as you like, Jock - they might jerk some response from our non respondent members. :)
Make yer posts as long as you like, Jock - they might jerk some response from our non respondent members. :)
Yes Jock, keep em coming! Thanks to our regular visitors too :p
Scousemouse
01-13-2006, 10:26 PM
Jock, I believe there are reputed to be over three hundred black cabs in Liverpool!
ER, Well...I was right, there are 'over three hundred'...:eek:
Liverpool has adopted a policy of approving only purpose built hackney carriages for use as licensed taxicabs. This policy has resulted in all 1417 taxicabs being wheelchair accessible.
Source (http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmtran/251/251.pdf) Page 18
One Thousand Four Hundred and Seventeen!
and they're wettin' themselves over TWO! :lol:
:)
I would have thought that was illegal, that is, unless your destination was outside the city boundary then I believe you can negotiate.
I'll ask the next cab driver I see. :rolleyes:
Fully agree - highly illegal. Its not the first time its happened though, and I'd bet it won't be the last.
Anyway, just had a cracking weekend, but I'm now on detox for the next 6-7 weeks. No alcohol shall pass my lips! :)
No problems with taxis this weekend - Was walking along Hardman Street in search for one, when one of my mates had managed to blag his way into a private hire cab - no idea what he'd said, but in we got?! (Sorry if it was someones on this board! lol!)
On Saturday night, looked at the taxi ranks, and went for a kebab before grabbing the night bus.
CULTURE bosses have launched the search for someone to head Liverpool's celebrations for 2008.
The new chief executive of the Culture Company will take over from Sir David Henshaw, who has been doing the job on a part-time basis.
The successful candidate will earn £150,000 a year and will be given the task of shaking up the preparations for Capital of Culture year.
They will take control of a £95m budget and 85 staff.
more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=16594917%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=%2dpound%2d150k%2dfor%2dculture%2dsupre mo-name_page.html)
Scouser please :p
Howie
01-17-2006, 11:51 PM
http://www.orsoc.org.uk/conf/previous/or47/images/people/jason-harborow.jpg
Jason Harborow is a likely candidate for the job. He is currently the Chief Operating Officer of the Liverpool Culture Company and is responsible for day to day operations. He takes the lead role with the Commercial Income Generation Programme and ensures that the Company’s Business Plan, Delivery Plans and Objectives are delivered.
Jason aged 35 years has been at the forefront of the cutting edge events and initiatives for the last 15 years. His career has included high profile positions at JJB Leisure, Operation Director of the Rugby League World Cup and Commercial General Manager of the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games – which resulted in the most successful sports ticketing programme ever delivered in the United Kingdom with over 1 million tickets sold.
Jason was recently voted one of the North West 42 entrepreneurs, which is an award that recognises the Regions Top Business People under the age of 42. He is also a member of the Mersey Partnership Tourism Board, North West Tourism Board, North West Vision Board and also a Member of the Culture North West Board.
The successful candidate will earn £150,000 a year
:shock: bloody' ell, we should be able to afford ald loose lips Boris for them wages eh? :$ik:
Howie
01-19-2006, 02:26 AM
City's worldwide quest to find new culture supremo
Jan 18 2006
By Sam Lister Daily Post Staff
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A CULTURE supremo is being recruited to lead Liverpool's 2008 celebrations.
The £150,000 a year role was set up to take over from Sir David Henshaw, who has been doing the job part time since the city began bidding for the title.
The advert has gone up on the city council's website and will appear in national newspapers today.
As well as taking charge of the Liverpool Culture Company's 85-strong team and £95m budget, the successful candidate will be charged with changing the image of the city nationally and internationally.
The front-runner for the position is tipped to be Jason Harborow, the organisation's chief operating officer.
He is already in charge of the day-to-day operations and is believed to have privately said he is interested in the job.
Mr Harborow was the commercial general manager of the Commonwealth Games in Manchester in 2002 and was headhunted for his current role.
But competition will be tough with candidates from across the UK as well as abroad expected to apply.
The advertisement bills the position as a "once in a lifetime opportunity for Liverpool to reposition itself as a world class city".
Candidates must have at least five years' experience in a senior management role at national and international level and knowledge of large scale events is preferable.
They must also be a self motivated strategic thinker with a high level of interpersonal and communication skills and strong leadership.
Recruiting for the role cannot come quickly enough for some cultural figures who hope strong leadership will help improve the public perception of the culture company.
It has come in for criticism over recent weeks for failing to engage local people and refusing to announce any of its plans for the next two years.
Plans for this year's programme of events will be announced at an event which will celebrate LIPA's 10th anniversary on January 30.
samlister@dailypost.co.uk
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The body behind Liverpool’s Capital of Culture 2008 preparations has announced it will sponsor Tranmere Rovers FC (http://www.tranmererovers.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Home). The Liverpool Culture Company (http://www.liverpool08.com/index.asp?Exp=Ibrahim_Ali_Abdi&ID=5) has agreed to sponsor the League One team until the end of the current season. The 2008 logo will appear on the back of players’ shirts and shorts to advertise the event across England. Birkenhead-based Rovers chairman, Lorraine Rogers, said the deal did not mean the club was no longer proud of its Wirral identity.
more (http://www.liverpoolcultureclub.com/?p=25)
http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/design/clear.gifStorey bounces back to run 2008 (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=16620322%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=storey%2dbounces%2dback%2dto%2drun%2d20 08-name_page.html)
FORMER council leader Mike Storey was propelled back into the political limelight last night after being given a top job in the city council cabinet. more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=16620322%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=storey%2dbounces%2dback%2dto%2drun%2d20 08-name_page.html)
Scousemouse
01-24-2006, 05:46 PM
Er, are we supposed to be surprised?
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Now, just to change the subject...
Have you got an itchy back? C'mon tell us about it. :)
Howie
01-24-2006, 10:00 PM
Yeh! Do you think I ought to go to me GP and get it checked out? Gotta couple of moles on me back. Could have malignant melanoma or something. :rolleyes:
gerrydoyle
01-28-2006, 12:02 AM
Well he's done a bang up job so far, just ask Mike Storey what a success capital of culture is. £150k for anyone involved in the project at the moment would be a disgrace and it's probably not enough to attract anyone with enough talent to rescue what is quite clearly a fiasco waiting to happen.
hmmmm
interesting one that
he used to be my old primary school head teacher lol :smoke:
Howie
02-11-2006, 01:43 AM
There's beer in that there spring
Feb 10 2006
By Neil Hodgson, Liverpool Echo
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SOME reckon Liverpool beer Cains tastes perfect - but the brewer has just made it better by tapping into a natural spring beneath the Toxteth site.
Now all its beers are brewed using the spring water which bubbles through the bedrock 175ft beneath the Stanhope Street plant.
The spring was a key reason why the original brewery was established there more than 200 years ago. Founder Robert Cain bought the site and the spring so he could guarantee the purity of his pint.
But a century ago the plant switched to conventional water supplies.
Now, after a £250,000 investment in new technology, current owners Sudarghara and Ajmail Dusanj have re-established the historic link with Cains' natural liquid asset.
The Dusanj brothers had heard rumours of the underground spring and decided to investigate further.
Sudarghara said: "To us it's the equivalent of a vineyard finding a secret cellar full of vintage wine it didn't know existed.
"It's a fantastic asset for a brewery to have its own water source. As soon as we knew about it we began looking into how we could use it again.
"We're very passionate about the quality and authenticity of the ingredients we use and are keen to stick to the original recipes that made Cains famous - and that includes using the same water source.
"A lot of money has been spent putting in sophisticated filtration equipment which allows us to tap into the underground source and we have been trialing the water just to make sure that they tasted as great as we hoped they would.
"The feedback has been excellent. "Our brewing team and staff have been tasting selected beers brewed with the water for the past six months and are delighted with the quality, flavour and consistency."
Liverpool council leader Warren Bradley said: "Liverpool has always been proud of its own brewery, now we have our own water making our own beer in our city."
neilhodgson@liverpoolecho.co.uk
Fine history
1826 Founder Robert Cain born in County Cork.
1858 Acquired old established brewery site in Stanhope Street due to water source.
1887 Rebuilt brewery.
1907 Robert Cain dies - 3,000 attend his funeral and police are called to contain the crowds.
1917 Brewery merges with Walkers of Warrington to become Walker Cains and site sold to Higsons.
1985 Brewery bought by Boddingtons.
1990 Boddingtons and Higson breweries' brands bought by Whitbread.
1991 Brewery bought by The Danish Brewery Group and renamed Robert Cain & Co Ltd.
2002 Brewery bought by the Dusanj family.
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:)
Currently finding it on google eart to aim a laser beam at*:evil:
Don't they have pubs dotted around too?
Howie
02-11-2006, 02:07 AM
Don't they have pubs dotted around too?
See Choice Pub Guide | Cains - Robert Cain Brewery Liverpool (http://www.cains.co.uk/index/articles_view.php?article_id=50&main_cat=1&cat_id=47&first_art=true&logger_name=Pubs).
:thumbsup:
The Gothic bars too far away.:sad:
THE Liverpool Daily Post and its sister title, the Liverpool Echo, today announce a £2m deal to become official partners of the European Capital of Culture 2008. more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=16700725%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=daily%2dpost%2dand%2decho%2dsign%2d%2dp ound%2d2m%2dcapital%2dof%2dculture%2ddeal-name_page.html)
http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/design/spacer.gifWe're official 2008 partners
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We love you yeah! yeah! yeah! (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=16702130%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=we%2dlove%2dyou%2dyeah%2d%2dyeah%2d%2dy eah%2d-name_page.html)
Daily Post and Echo sign £2m Capital of Culture deal (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=16700725%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=daily%2dpost%2dand%2decho%2dsign%2d%2dp ound%2d2m%2dcapital%2dof%2dculture%2ddeal-name_page.html)
BLEH! :mad;
So cheesy.:disgust:
Evil Valentines day.:p
gerrydoyle
02-14-2006, 07:04 PM
Great, just when you thought the Echo couldn't get any more kiss ar*e about the Council. What happens if there's another major cock up? Guess as a 'partner' they won't be too keen on telling the story. Anyone got a cpl of spare million to set up a real newspaper?:angry:
sweetpatooti
02-14-2006, 07:18 PM
The Echo doesn't report anything really withwhile anyway - try getting some publicity for real issues in Liverpool - No chance!:angry: All it is interested in is self-congratulatory rubbish and news of yet another pie in the sky development, pandering to the lowest common denominatory and every so often feigning support of a real campaign to show it is really "in touch with the people" - I stopped buying the rag ages ago - I only got for the deaths anyway.:unibrow:
Urghh two million smackers too!:eek:
Runs from the flying kisses*
always good news :cool:
nice to see the local brewery will be supported even more with this deal, nice timeline howie ;)
lindylou
02-17-2006, 11:59 PM
All the good posts in this thread made me laugh :lol: :thumbsup:
Cherie Booth QC is joining the Merseyside comedian Ken Dodd to promote Liverpool as a cultural destination.
The city council launched an 08 Ambassador Programme to help spread the word about the city being European Capital of Culture in 2008.
The city is expecting two million extra tourists that year, which it is hoped will generate £200m for the economy.
The Prime Minister's wife said "I support Liverpool because it is the best place for culture today."
Ken Dodd, 79, said: "I am proud to be a citizen of Mirthyside. It has a great heritage of comedy performances."
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Cherie Booth QC
Ken Dodd
Paul Heathcote, chef
Brian Jacques, author
Archbishop Patrick Kelly
Gerry Marsden MBE, singer
George Melly, musician
Stephen Parry, swimmer
"So many of my heroes have lived and worked in this wonderful city of colourful characters.''
Jazz musician George Melly and singer Gerry Marsden will also support the campaign, along with Archbishop Patrick Kelly, swimmer Stephen Parry and chef Paul Heathcote.
Ambassadors will receive a welcome pack including a fact sheet about the city's cultural assets, a special ambassador badge and regular updates about Liverpool as the city builds up to the big year.
Councillor Warren Bradley, Leader of Liverpool City Council, said: ''We want everyone who loves Liverpool to tell the world about why Liverpool is a great city to visit and why it will be a brilliant European Capital of Culture in 2008.
''Ambassadors can come from all walks of life but having such famous Liverpudlians who perform all over the world will be a great boost. "By providing up to date news we can ensure people can talk about the city knowledgably and with pride. This army of friends will give Liverpool the best type of recommendation - by word of mouth.''
LIVERPOOL was today being praised as the "best ever prepared" European Capital of Culture at a parliamentary reception. more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=16873774%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=liverpool%2dis%2da%2d%2dcity%2don%2dthe %2drise%2dagain%2d-name_page.html)
LIVERPOOL'S Capital of Culture chiefs have signed a major sponsorship deal to add their name to a restaging of the most famous derby match in Merseyside history. more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=16932194%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=%2dpound%2d35k%2ddeal%2dfor%2d%2d86%2dc up%2dfinal%2dreunion-name_page.html)
A MAJOR research programme to assess the impact of Liverpool's status as Capital of Culture 2008 is launched next week. more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17001909%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=capital%2dof%2dculture%2din%2dspotlight-name_page.html)
THE woman in charge of Liverpool's Capital of Culture celebrations is now working full-time in the city, the Daily Post can reveal. more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17005096%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=capital%2dof%2dculture%2ddirector%2darr ives%2dto%2dtake%2dup%2dher%2dpost-name_page.html)
Paul D
04-28-2006, 01:38 PM
About time too,let's hope that if they get Paul McCartney to play here they choose a venue such as Aintree racecourse so we don't have another ticket fiasco like we did the last time he played here.
08 Ambassador E-blast - 21-27 April 2006 Welcome to your weekly 08 Ambassador E-blast
SUPER VISION - Special Ambassadors rate - buy one get one free (http://www.liverpool08.com/supervision)
Liverpool Culture Company proudly presents the European Premiere of SUPER VISION direct from New York, a spectacular multi-media theatre performance about surveillance and identity theft and how it affects our daily lives. As an Ambassador for Liverpool 08 we would like to offer you a special offer to buy one ticket and get one free for SUPER VISION, the first performance of the Culture Company's 2006 Artistic Programme at the Royal Court Theatre Liverpool on 5 and 6 May. SUPER VISION has been created by world renowned performance ensemble The Builders Association and digital imaging company dbox. There are only three performances of SUPER VISION in Liverpool so early booking is strongly recommended. To qualify for this offer call 0870 787 1866 or visit the box office and quote '08 Ambassadors Offer'.
Replay '86 (http://www.liverpool08.com/News/35kDealFor86CupFinalReunion.asp)
The restaging of the most famous derby match in Merseyside history is set to take place on Monday 1 May. Organised by former Liverpool FC player-manager legend Kenny Dalglish, proceeds from the 20th anniversary of the first all-Merseyside FA Cup Final will go to his wife Marina's breast cancer charity. Dalglish will be joined by the Kop stars such as Rush, Hansen and Grobbelar to take on Howard Kendall's toffee greats such as Reid, Lineker, Ratcliffe and Sharp. Kick off is 2.30pm at Anfield. Admission is £15 for Adults and £5 for under-16s.
08 campaign launch (http://www.liverpool08.com/news/liverpooladagencytocreatenational08campaign.asp)
Liverpool Culture Company is to launch its first local and national ad campaign promoting the city as the European Capital of Culture in 2008. Images of our most iconic attractions such as the architecture and coastline as well as our musical, cultural and sporting heritage and nightlife are being used to transform perceptions of the city in the run-up to 2008. Designed by Liverpool advertising firm Finch, the campaign includes posters placed across London's Underground and at Euston station, as well as other prime locations to capture attention from international tourists and people living and working in the capital. The national campaign will be backed by an extensive local campaign throughout the Merseyside region detailing how the Capital of Culture will benefit the region, now and in the future, and is targeted to galvanise local support for the year.
Welcome to your weekly 08 Ambassador E-blast
St George's Hall - Behind the Scenes Tour - Special Offer
The Heritage Development Team at the Liverpool Culture Company are offering 08 Ambassadors an exclusive tour around St George's Hall - including all the bits not normally open to the public. This is a chance to see progress on the refurbishment of the stunning Small Concert Hall - which once hosted reading by Charles ****ens and other Victorian greats - and hear about plans on the new Interpretation and Education Centre. The tour is scheduled for Tuesday 23 May starting at 1.30pm. The two-hour tour will be given to the first 30 ambassadors to reply to this special offer by e-mailing nancy.rutherford@liverpool.gov.uk (http://uk.f257.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=nancy.rutherford@liverpool.gov.uk).
Artistic Director - Update (http://www.liverpool08.com/supervision/)
Liverpool 08 Artistic Director Robyn Archer recently gave an update on her work on Radio 4's flagship arts programme - Front Row. The interview touched on her thoughts on the current music and artistic scene in Liverpool, this week's European premiere of SUPER VISION, her hopes and challenges and which Mersey superstars we are talking to. If you missed it, then to hear it in full visit www. bbc.co.uk/radio/noscript.shtml?/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/frontrow thu (http://www. bbc.co.uk/radio/noscript.shtml?/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/frontrow thu)
Spreading the word (http://www.liverpool08.com/AboutLiverpool/Postcards/index.asp)
You received them in your welcome pack, you can see them on the tube - now you can e-mail them. What are they? The Liverpool Culture Company has launched its first local and national ad campaign promoting the city as the European Capital of Culture in 2008. Images of our most iconic attractions are being used to transform perceptions of the city in the run-up to 2008. The ads for the national campaign have been transformed into e-postcards for you to send to friends and family around the world. So what are you waiting for?
So Bosis Johnson has become an 08 Ambassador then? Do we forgive him?
victorialush
05-05-2006, 11:36 AM
So Bosis Johnson has become an 08 Ambassador then? Do we forgive him?
Hell no!
Paul D
05-05-2006, 06:11 PM
So Bosis Johnson has become an 08 Ambassador then? Do we forgive him?
I thought you were joking until I heard the local news,it's not a case of forgiving him he never bothered me anyway,I mean just look at him,the man is a total idiot and doesn't have a clue about Liverpool.He thought over 50 died at Hillsborough.:disgust:
A.D.Williams
05-05-2006, 06:32 PM
Nah! Boris is alright after this tackle........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWIUp19bBoA
:celb (23):
Paul D
05-05-2006, 06:38 PM
Nah! Boris is alright after this tackle........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWIUp19bBoA
:celb (23):
That just reinforces my point,I think he forgotten it was football he was playing there.:lol:
We're well on course for a brilliant 2008 (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17046469%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=we%2dre%2dwell%2don%2dcourse%2dfor%2da% 2dbrilliant%2d2008-name_page.html)
Sam Lister speaks to Robyn Archer, who is in charge of Capital of Culture year - and is delighted by the talent of local people more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17046469%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=we%2dre%2dwell%2don%2dcourse%2dfor%2da% 2dbrilliant%2d2008-name_page.html)
Welcome to your weekly 08 Ambassador E-blast
Deacon Blue brings dignity to the Pops (http://www.liverpool08.com/News/DeaconBlueBringsDignityToThePops.asp)
One of the UK's most popular bands of the last 20 years, Deacon Blue have announced a rare live show at this year's Pops on 4 July. They join a line-up already bursting with star names including a double sell-out by rock legends The Who, along with shows from Bryan Adams, Pet Shop Boys, a-ha, James Brown, Westlife, Simple Minds, Simply Red, Whitesnake, Ronan Keating, Oscar Peterson, Jools Holland, New Order, Sugababes, Il Divo, Corinne Bailey Rae, The Australian Pink Floyd Show, Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy.
Clipper Race hots up for Liverpool 08 (http://www.liverpool08.com/News/ClipperRaceHotsUpForLiverpool08.asp)
The Liverpool 08 Clipper gained yet another podium position, taking third place in the gruelling Pacific Ocean race (leg 5) from China to Victoria, Canada. Liverpool 08 finished just minutes after South African rivals, Durban and have closed the gap once again on overall race leaders westernaustralia.com as the race enters its final stages as it heads for its climax on July 29 on the River Mersey.
Launch of unique access guide (http://www.liverpool08.com/News/LaunchOfUniqueAccessGuide.asp)
A unique new guide, designed to empower Liverpool's thousands of disabled residents to get out and do what they want to do has launched. Put together thanks to sponsorship from Liverpool Culture Company and Marks and Spencer, DisabledGo- Liverpool has audited hundreds of shops, pubs, restaurants, cinemas and other public venues to provide access details. By logging on people can check, for example, whether a pub is accessible to a wheelchair user, whether a cinema can offer a hearing loop, whether a hotel offers adapted rooms, and whether a restaurant offers menus in large print or Braille.
St George's Hall offer
Thanks to all those who requested a place on this special behind-the-scenes look at Liverpool's most magnificent building. All 30 places are now taken. The lucky ones will be informed shortly of what to wear and where to meet at 1.30pm on Tuesday 23 May.
victorialush
05-11-2006, 08:47 PM
How Lovely!!
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08 Ambassador E-blast - 17-24 May 2006 Welcome to your weekly 08 Ambassador E-blast
Culture grants (http://www.liverpool08.com/OurCommunities/Funding/index.asp)
The Liverpool Culture Company is offering community groups the chance to bid for grant funding. Last year more than 100 projects received money to kick start their work in all sorts of communities right across the city. This year we're looking for projects that link in to the theme of Liverpool Performs, but which also have a positive impact on real people, plus help the city build up to 2008 when it becomes European Capital of Culture.
Argentinean Calleri to Compete at Calderstones (http://www.liverpool08.com/News/ArgentineanCalleriToCompeteAtCalderstones.asp)
Argentinean ace Augustin Calleri is to compete at the 2006 Liverpool International Tennis Tournament. Tournament organisers Northern Vision have announced the fast rising star as their latest signing for the ATP grass court event at Calderstones Park, which takes place from 13-18 June.
Performance 06 (http://www.liverpool08.com/News/TheatreDirectorToShareExperiencesOfLifeInTheSpotli ght.asp)
The founder of the Liverpool Everyman is to share his experiences of the theatre at a public lecture at the University of Liverpool. Terry Hands is the second guest speaker in the university's Performance 06 lecture series, which was launched by Liverpool football legend, Alan Hansen, last month. The lecture takes place on Monday 22 May at 6.30pm in the university's Sherrington Building, Ashton Street. Tickets are free. For details call 0151 794 2650.
For more news on Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008 visit www.liverpool08.com (http://www.liverpool08.com/) or call 0151 233 2008.
You can subscribe at any time by e-mailing contact@liverpool08.com (http://uk.f257.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=contact@liverpool08.com).
LIVERPOOL'S forgotten underground pool could become the centrepiece of a major attraction to rival Barcelona's Las Ramblas.
Ecological artist Jean Grant says the famous Spanish walkway, which follows a trail of attractions from the medieval town to the port, should be a model for a similar tourist route in Liverpool.
Ms Grant is headlining an exhibition to show how the once famous 'pool' was critical to the growth and emergence of the city.
The exhibition features a shop-window of plastic bags all containing water from different sources - from the Mersey, to streams, the Irish Sea and even tap water.
The water bags will change colour over the weeks it is on display, at the Bluecoat Arts Centre's temporary home in Paradise Street.
It is part of the Pool Project, a scheme set up to "explore, reveal and celebrate" the city's origins.
Ms Grant has traced the city's history back to the days when ships would tie up in a sheltered area at the junction of Dale Street and Manchester Street, close to what is now the main entrance of the Birkenhead tunnel.
The one-time busy inlet followed a route from Byrom Street, along Whitechapel and Paradise Street and into the river Mersey.
Changes in waterflows and the building of the first enclosed dock changed the topography of Liverpool for ever, and the waterway retreated underground.
The tidal pool, credited with forming half of the city's name, still flows beneath the city streets and deserves to be recognised, says Ms Grant, who lives in Princes Park.
She called for city leaders to consider reviving the route the waterway followed.
"I believe that Liverpool could easily create its own version of Barcelona's Las Ramblas, marking the route of the inlet.
"People are amazed when they learn that just a few hundred years ago ships were heading up the sheltered inlet as far as what is now Manchester Street.
"If you look at the line of the inlet it follows what is the current street pattern."
Cllr Warren Bradley, leader of Liverpool City Council, welcomed the efforts of the Pool Project: "The 'Pool Project will get people to celebrate the heritage of Liverpool - while having a lot of fun."
A series of workshops, picnics, and walks are being held in conjunction with the project. Workshops are taking place on Saturday, May 20, Sunday, May 21 and Saturday, May 27, between 11am and 4pm at Out of the Bluecoat, 51-53 Paradise Street (reached by using School Lane).
A free exhibition with a display of photographs, drawings and objects related to the tidal pool, is open to the public during the workshop session times.
There will also be a picnic lunch/walk today, repeated next Friday, between noon and 2pm.
On May 27 between 11am and 4pm there is to be a Beach Party led by Dr Peter Brown, senior lecturer in civic design at the University of Liverpool.
* DETAILS on http://www.poolproject.co.uk
08 Ambassador E-blast - 24-31 May 2006 Welcome to your weekly 08 Ambassador E-blast
Trisha Brown Dance Company Liverpool Playhouse, 7 and 8 June 2006, 7.30pm (http://www.liverpool08.com/Events/Event_Details.asp?DMS_ID=105581)
Liverpool Culture Company proudly presents Trisha Brown, one of the greats of American modern dance. Based in New York, a city close to the hearts and history of Liverpool, Trisha Brown lifts our dance experience to a new level as part of our themed year Liverpool Performs. The Trisha Brown Dance Company has toured worldwide over the last 36 years and this is the first time they have visited Liverpool which is the only UK destination on their current international tour. They will present three works, including the landmark Set and Reset designed by artist Robert Rauschenberg.
Wanted: 08 business champions (http://www.liverpool08.com/News/Wanted_08_Business_Champions.asp)
Do you run a business on Merseyside? Do you want to help drive the 2008 business agenda? Well, an invitation is now open to become a special advisor to the free-to-join business club: 08businessconnect and the Liverpool Culture Company. Fifteen business people will be chosen from a range of large, medium and small businesses. Their main role will be to contribute ideas for 08businessconnect activities to ensure that businesses make the most of 2008.
Watersports for kids (http://www.merseysport.org.uk/)
Liverpool schoolchildren are being offered the opportunity to experience free watersports sessions. One-hour canoeing/kayaking, sailing and windsurfing sessions are available at the Liverpool Watersports Centre on the following dates: 30 May - 2 June; 1 and 2 July (the weekend of All Aboard); 29 and 30 July (the return of the Clipper Race). All sessions have to be booked in advance and participants must be over the age of eight and able to swim. Call 0151 708 9322 to make a booking.
For more news on Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008 visit www.liverpool08.com (http://www.liverpool08.com/) or call 0151 233 2008.
THE pioneer of British pop art, Sir Peter Blake, has agreed to create eight works celebrating Liverpool's Capital of Culture year of 2008. more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17135372%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=pop%2dart%2dpioneer%2dmarks%2d2008-name_page.html)
08 Ambassador E-blast - 31 May - 7 June 2006 Welcome to your weekly 08 Ambassador E-blast
Legendary dance company in Liverpool - Special offer (http://www.liverpool08.com/Events/Event_Details.asp?DMS_ID=105581)
Liverpool Culture Company proudly presents Trisha Brown, one of the greats of American modern dance, as part of our themed year Liverpool Performs. Their first visit to Liverpool is their only UK destination on their current international tour. They will present three works, including the landmark Set and Reset designed by artist Robert Rauschenberg.Trisha Brown Dance Company - Special Offer for Ambassadors: As an 08 Ambassador we would like to offer you a special ticket deal for the opening night of the Trisha Brown Dance Company on Wednesday 7 June at the Liverpool Playhouse. 08 Ambassadors can take advantage of our special 2-for-1 ticket offer by quoting '08 Ambassador Offer' when you book your tickets. Trisha Brown Dance Company, Liverpool Playhouse, 7 and 8 June 2006, 7.30pm. Tickets £12.50/£7.50 conc. To book tickets please call 0151 709 4776.
Lord Mayor's dazzling debut (http://www.liverpool08.com/Events/Event_Details.asp?DMS_ID=105931)
Huge musical insects, clowns, African bands, martial arts displays and a ballroom on wheels will wow thousands of people in Liverpool this weekend. The 2006 Lord Mayor's Parade hits the streets on Saturday 3 June and is set to be one of the biggest parades of its kind in the UK. More than 40 community groups, businesses and organisations are set to take part, bringing the city centre to life with vibrant colours, eye-catching floats and dramatic dance routines. The parade starts at 1pm from Pall Mall. The route then follows Tithebarn Street, Great Crosshall Street, Churchill Way North, Commutation Row, Lime Street, Saint John's Lane, Queens Square Bus Station, Crosshall Street, Victoria Street, North John Street, Lord Street, Castle Street.
Ladies to star at Liverpool International (http://www.liverpool08.com/News/FirstLadiesToStarAtLiverpoolInternational.asp)
The Liverpool International Tennis Tournament - 13-18 June - has announced the line-up for the inaugural WTA event. American Ashley Harkleroad currently ranked 79 on the tour will lead the way for the women. Victoria Azarernka, 16, of Belarus, who has won the Junior Australian and US Open, is hoping the grass court experience at Calderstones Park will aid her chances of getting into the main draw at Wimbledon. Extended to six days to accommodate the new WTA ladies event - the Liverpool International is now the biggest grass court exhibition tournament in England. Supported by Liverpool City Council and Liverpool Culture Company, it is also one of the major events of the city's European Capital of Culture Sports Strategy.
For more news on Liverpool, European Capital of Culture 2008 visit www.liverpool08.com (http://www.liverpool08.com/) or call 0151 233 2008.
You can subscribe at any time by e-mailing contact@liverpool08.com (http://uk.f257.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=contact@liverpool08.com).
Paul D
05-31-2006, 08:28 PM
Revival of city's fortunes heralds new Mersey Beat
By Christine Buckley
An occasional series on Britain's regional powerhouses discovers a revitalised, optimistic Liverpool
LIVERPOOL is a city perhaps like no other in Britain, removed, slightly, from the rest of the country. Different. Independent. Fiercely proud, almost protective of its own. Its look is distinctive, its sounds are unique, from the inimitable Scouse accent to the Beatles and the Mersey Beat that lifted it from relative obscurity to Sixties cultural icon. Anfield, the Cavern Club, the Liver Building. Landmarks that shout “Liverpool”.
The are looking up when we get articles in The Times like this.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5-2202023.html
Revival of city's fortunes heralds new Mersey Beat
By Christine Buckley
An occasional series on Britain's regional powerhouses discovers a revitalised, optimistic Liverpool
LIVERPOOL is a city perhaps like no other in Britain, removed, slightly, from the rest of the country. Different. Independent. Fiercely proud, almost protective of its own. Its look is distinctive, its sounds are unique, from the inimitable Scouse accent to the Beatles and the Mersey Beat that lifted it from relative obscurity to Sixties cultural icon. Anfield, the Cavern Club, the Liver Building. Landmarks that shout “Liverpool”.
The are looking up when we get articles in The Times like this.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5-2202023.html
Great stuff!!!!
FORMER culture rivals Newcastle and Gateshead have praised Liverpool and revealed they will work with the city to stage a number of events during the 08 celebrations, the Daily Post can reveal. more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17177474%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=culture%2drivals%2dplan%2djoint%2devent s%2dwith%2dliverpool-name_page.html) :celb (23):
However.....
Daily Post business editor Bill Gleeson hears the concerns of one of the major backers of Capital of Culture year more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17177472%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=call%2dfor%2dclarity%2das%2d2008%2don%2 d%2drisk%2dradar%2d-name_page.html) :rolleyes:
LIVERPOOL is stepping up its countdown to Capital of Culture year.
To mark the date, the city will hold its fourth annual 20/08 day on August 20.
To launch the drive towards this year's 20/08, when dozens of city organisations lay on special events and offers, the ECHO is offering a fantastic prize.
August 20 is a Sunday this year. But on Monday, August 21, one lucky person will get the chance not just to spend the day at the ECHO's offices, but to edit the paper as well.
That means leading the editorial conference and helping to decide what story should make the front page, watching the day's news unfold and seeing the finished product come off the presses.
Editor Alastair Machray said: "I feel very privilegedtobe editor of the Liverpool Echo, whichhas a long history and a responsibility to hundreds of thousands of readers.
"Whoever wins the chance to sit in the hot seat will definitely have a day to remember."
It was three years ago yesterdaythat Liverpool was announced as European Capital of Culture 2008.
The National Wildflower Centredecided to provide free entrance on August 20 to markthe win, and every year since then, the city has celebrated the 20/08 date.
Today the CultureCompany is throwing down the gauntlet to organisations to makethis year's 20/08 celebrations the best yet.
Last year thousands of people took part in events including free entry to Mersey-side attractions, cut-price sightseeing tours, judo lessons and dance sessions, DJ workshops, ahot air balloon flight and a picnic on a narrowboat.
With 2006 being year of performance, organisers hope arts, sport and business organisations will all get on board.
Council leader Warren Bradley said: "Last year we received more than 150 offers for 20/08 day, allowing thousands of people to sample a whole rangeof activities. I'd like to make this year's celebrations even more spectacular.
"I'm appealing to organisations and businesses across the city, large and small, to think about what they can do to contribute to this year's celebrations. We'd particularly liketo see offers thatreflect the theme for 2006 - Liverpool Performs."
. To be in with the chance of becoming ECHO editor for the day, log onto www.icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk (http://www.icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk) or write to Editor for the Day, Editorial, Liverpool Echo, PO Box48, Old Hall Street, Liverpool L69 3EB, telling us in no more than 50 wordswhy you should be picked for the job.
The closing date is Friday, July 28.
Essentials
GROUPS, businesses, or organisations interested in putting on a special event or offering discounts on 20/08 this year should visit www.liverpool08.com (http://www.liverpool08.com) and complete the 20/08 form by Friday, July 14. For further information call 0151-233 4399. All offers will appear on the website and in a 20/08 day brochure, distributed to venues across the city.
08 Ambassador E-blast - 7-14 June 2006
Welcome to your weekly 08 Ambassador E-blast
FINAL REMINDER - Legendary dance company in Liverpool - special offer
(http://www.liverpool08.com/Events/Event_Details.asp?DMS_ID=105581)
08 Ambassadors can take advantage of our special 2-for-1 ticket offer by quoting '08 Ambassador Offer' when you book your tickets. Trisha Brown Dance Company, Liverpool Playhouse, 7 and 8 June 2006, 7.30pm. Tickets £12.50/£7.50 concessions. To book please call 0151 709 4776.
Celebrate on 20/08 (http://www.liverpool08.com/Events/2008/index.asp)
The Liverpool Culture Company is asking local organisations and businesses to help celebrate the city's European Capital of Culture status by making an 'offer' for the day on 20 August.
LIPA celebrates its number one singer (http://www.liverpool08.com/News/LIPACelebratesItsNumberOneSinger.asp)
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts is celebrating its first number one single by former student Sandi Thom whose debut single 'I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)' climbed to the top position of the singles chart.
Construction team checks into new Beatles-themed hotel (http://www.liverpool08.com/News/ConstructionTeamChecksInToBeatlesThemedHotel.asp)
Construction work has reached the halfway stage on the £17 million Beatles-themed hotel in the heart of Liverpool's Cavern Quarter, it was announced this week.
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LIVERPOOL'S top politicians will today choose the £200,000-a-year chief who will steer the city through its 800th birthday and Capital of Culture years. more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17220587%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=city%2dto%2dchoose%2dits%2dnew%2dchief% 2dtoday-name_page.html)
08 Ambassador E-blast - 15-22 June 2006 Welcome to your weekly 08 Ambassador E-blast
Anyone for tennis? (http://www.liverpool08.com/News/FirstLadiesToStarAtLiverpoolInternational.asp)
The 2006 TFS-ICAP Liverpool International Tennis Tournament is underway - with Wimbledon champions Goran Ivanisevic and Pat Cash topping the bill. Play starts at 11am tomorrow (Friday), with 12 noon starts on semi-final Saturday and finals day on Sunday.
Africa Oye (http://www.liverpool08.com/Events/Event_Details.asp?DMS_ID=105901)
The UK's only African Festival - Africa Oye - reaches its climax this weekend. Sefton Park will be ablaze with the colours and sounds befitting the World in One City with performers from as far as Brazil, Senegal, Mozambique, Angola, Jamaica, Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast.
A month of events across Merseyside for Festival 50 (http://www.liverpool08.com/News/AMonthOfEventsAcrossMerseysideForFestival50.asp)
This annual festival, supported by the Liverpool Culture Company, offers people over 50 years of age an exciting range of events, performances, exhibitions, and workshops at major arts venues across Merseyside.
AND FINALLY.Liverpool 08 writer gets TV spotlight
Liverpool writer Andrew Sherlock, who has worked with the Liverpool Culture Company on many occasions (he devised the 79 bus film for the Creative Communities programme in 2004) - has hit the big time. His play 'The girls who come to stay' has been turned into an ITV prime-time drama which starts on Sunday 18 June, 9.30pm. Featuring an all-star cast, if you want to see Liverpool talent at its best, stay in for the night.
gerrydoyle
06-16-2006, 04:13 PM
Latest newletter from the mayor campaign...
Campaign Update - June 15, 2006
CULTURE – THE WASTED YEARS
We’ve all known it for years but now it’s official. Liverpool’s new Chief Officer has admitted that plans for 2008 have been undermined by a “turf war” between Liverpool City Council and the Culture Company. He also reveals that – unbelievably - lawyers have been called in to sort things out.
Liverpool’s newl Chief Executive, Colin Hilton, told today’s Liverpool Daily Post that “independent legal advice” had been sought to draw up “a memorandum of understanding” so there is greater clarity between the council and the Culture Company, to decide Who (if anybody) Does What.
He also acknowledged there’d been too much secrecy about the city’s plans to celebrate 2007 and 2008.
It seems quite astonishing that THREE YEARS after we were awarded the Capital of Culture title, the duties and responsibilities of those who are supposed to be organising 2008 still haven’t been sorted out.
Too many of Liverpool’s creative people and community groups have been ignored. It may already be too late to harness their energy and enthusiasm in time for 2008.
Real leadership is urgently needed to prevent a fiasco. But the present signs aren’t encouraging.
What have Cllrs Warren Bradley and Mike Storey – both members of the Culture Company Board – been doing to break this deadlock all these years?
MONEY FOR NOTHING?
1. The City’s just hired an expensive external lawyer to sort out the shambles at the Culture Company (see above).
2. The council’s called in high-priced accountants KPMG to examine half-a billion pounds worth of contracts.
3. The city hired expensive “headhunters” to find itself a new Chief Executive, and then appointed an in-house candidate.
4. The council also used a “headhunting” agency to fill the top post at the Liverpool Culture Company, and (eventually) gave it to the guy who was already doing the job.
If our civic leaders don’t trust themselves to take important decisions, why should we trust them? And why are we forking out huge sums in the process?
HILTON STANDARD? OR FAWLTY TOWERS…?
Colin Hilton’s appointment is accompanied by predictable talk of “new brooms” and “fresh starts” at the City Council. Yet Mr Hilton was one of Sir David Henshaw’s inner-circle of senior officers in Liverpool over the last seven years.
He’s promising to address a “bullying culture” said to exist at the Town Hall, and to improve relations with the business community. We shall see.
But whatever Colin Hilton’s goals or personal qualities, it is NOT the job of an unelected officer to provide the dynamic civic leadership Liverpool needs.
That can only be a job for someone enjoying the popular support of Liverpool people at the ballot box.
It’s a job for an Elected Mayor, someone with the vision to inspire, and the mandate to deliver.
Keep supporting our campaign for REAL CHOICE, FOR A CHANGE.
Liam Fogarty
Chair, amayorforliverpool.org
Forward this message to five contacts and let them know things can be better…
LIVERPOOL will host the finish of the Tour of Britain in Capital of Culture year.
It means Britain's biggest and most prestigious bike race will finish outside London for the first time.
The decision to stage the tour's showpiece event in 2008 is part of a three-year deal between the Culture Company and the tour organisers.
It is being backed by Merseyside cycling star Chris Boardman.
The world, Olympic and national champion from Hoylake said today: "An event like this is something that'sgreat for Liverpool. It'sabout awareness and something everyone can get involved in.
"We've always been strong in the north west for cycling, and this is an extra incentive for people to do well."
As partof the deal, the city will stage the end of the north west stage this year on Wednesday, August 30.
In 2007 it will host the start of the regional stage during the week of Liverpool's 800th birthday celebrations.
Thenorth west stage of the tour is sponsored by the Northwest Regional Development Agency. Last year the stage, which ran from Carlisle to Blackpool, attracted 55,000 spectators.
This year it will start in Blackpool and competitors will race a 90 mile route to Liverpool.
Council leader Warren Bradley, said: 'Hosting the finale of the Tour of Britain in 2008 is a huge honour.
"It will give the city great profile and a chance to showcase the renaissance which has been taking place. It's set to be a memorable highlight of our Capital of Culture year.''
08 Ambassador E-blast - 20-27 June 2006 Welcome to your weekly 08 Ambassador E-blast
Jazz Legend at Summer Pops - Special 08 Ambassador Offer
08 Ambassadors are being offered a special 2-for-1 ticket deal to see the Jazz legend Oscar Peterson. The New Orleans-based pianist will be dazzling the 2006 Summer Pops on Saturday 1 July. To see the great man, who's noted for electrifying live shows, call the Summer Pops on 0870 151 4000 from 9am on Wednesday 21 June. All you have to do is ask for Oscar tickets and then quote the word 'Ambassadors' and you'll get two tickets for the price of one.
Midsummer Dreams (http://www.liverpool08.com/Events/Event_Details.asp?DMS_ID=124111)
Magical activities will be the theme of an event taking place on the Summer Solstice (Wednesday 21 June). Activities include a Wild Woman confidence-building workshop, a jazz tea dance and a laughter yoga session, plus visitors will have the chance to take part in drawing, drumming and dancing and much more. And it's ALL FREE!
Pick up cash.to pick up litter (http://www.liverpool08.com/GLitter/)
Individuals and groups are being offered cash to pick up litter as part of the Goodbye-Litter campaign. All you have to do is complete a grant application form which is available online at liverpool08.com or call Christine Pope at Groundwork on 01744 739 396. Supported by environmental organisation, Groundwork, and the Liverpool Culture Company, the first wave of applications is being sifted at the moment but this is a second chance to apply. The deadline is Friday 30 June 2006.
AND FINALLY
The Tall Ship Tenacious is visiting Liverpool this weekend. Tenacious is one of only two fully accessible Tall Ship sail training vessels in the world. It can take both disabled and able bodied people on board to give them first hand experience of sailing. The vessel will be berthed in the Canning Half Dock/Albert Dock complex. It will arrive at around 11am on Saturday 24 June before leaving on Monday 26 June, for Belfast. Its crew will include two people who won a competition organised by the Liverpool Culture Company.
BUSINESSES are being asked to help celebrate Liverpool's European Capital of Culture status by offering discounts and special offers to customers on August 20. more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17297547%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=firms%2durged%2dto%2dmake%2da%2d%2dspec ial%2doffer%2d%2dfor%2d20%2d08%2d-name_page.html)
I hate the way this capital of Culture is only lasting a day or two for something thats taking 5 years to build.:Smiliz_Kingz_PDT_13
I hate the way this capital of Culture is only lasting a day or two for something thats taking 5 years to build.:Smiliz_Kingz_PDT_13
2008 is capital of culture year. 20/08 is only a day that represnts the 20th August of this year and 2007 to get us in the mood.
THIS YEAR'S celebration of Liverpool's cultural heritage promises to be a real feast of fun.
August 20 - 20/08 - is the day Merseysiders are encouraged to celebrate the city's Capital of Culture success.
And the region's businesses aregetting in on the act by offering hundreds of special offers to everyone who wants to join in.
A host of city centre restaurants are offering discounted eating and drinking on August 20.
There will be cut-price food and drink at a whole range of venues - from trendy celeb-haunt Alma de Cuba to authentic Russian eatery the St Petersburg.
And for the more adventurous diner there's even a competition to win a picnic on a canal.
Councillor Warren Bradley, leader of Liverpool city council said: "With new restaurants opening all the time, Liverpool is fast establishing a reputation as a culinary paradise, so I'm delighted that so many venues are involved."
Jason Harborow, chief executive of the Liverpool Culture Company said: "The preparations for 20/08 have got off to a fantastic start. Now there are just two weeks to go until the deadline so we're appealing for as many organisations as possible to think about how they can get involved too."
St Petersburg Russian Restaurant, York St 20% discount on meals from the a la carte menu on the day, pre booking essential. 0151 709 66A76. Thomas Rigby's, Dale Street Two bottles of Cains lager/Okells bitter for the price of one.
The Panamerican Club, Albert Dock 3 course meal for two from the set menu, including a bottle of house wine for only £20.08. Booking is essential.0151 702 5831 quoting '2008'. Applicants must be 18 or over.
Blue Bar & Grill, Albert Dock 3 course meal for two from the set menu, including a bottle of house wine for only £20.08. Booking is essential. 0151 702 5831 quoting '2008'
* Applicants must be 18 or over.
British Waterways Win a picnic on a canal boat for you and three of your friends on a day that suits you. To enter, visit Mersey Sport, 110 Mariner's Wharf, Queens Dock, Sefton Street on 20/08 and complete the quiz.
Baby Cream, Albert Dock
20% discount on all food and drinks when you quote "20/08". Over 18's only. Alma de Cuba, Seel Street 20% discount on all food and drinks when you quote "20/08". Over 18's only. Korova, Fleet Street 20% discount on all food and drinks when you quote "20/08". Over 18's only.
* Organisations and venues interested in making a 20/08 offer can obtain more information from Catherine O'Brien on (0151) 233 4399.
* 20/08 offers will be posted on the Culture Company's website www.liverpool08.com (http://www.liverpool08.com)
08 Ambassador E-blast - 29 June - 5 July 2006 Welcome to your weekly 08 Ambassador E-blast
Summer Pops - exclusive offer (http://www.liverpool08.com/Events/Event_Details.asp?DMS_ID=106051)
This year's Summer Pops concerts kick off tonight (29 June) at Central Dock. We've got several pairs of tickets to give away exclusively to Ambassadors for the following shows:
Pet shop Boys - 2 July
Corrine Bailey Rae - 11 July
Ronan Keating - 14 July
A-Ha - 16 July
Westlife - 17 July
Simply Red - 18 JulyJust
e-mail ambassadors@liverpool08.com (http://uk.f257.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=ambassadors@liverpool08.com) stating which concert you would like to attend in the subject line. Tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. (http://www.liverpool08.com/Events/Event_Details.asp?DMS_ID=122421)
All Aboard (http://www.liverpool08.com/Events/Event_Details.asp?DMS_ID=122421)
A fleet of Tall Ships sails into Liverpool this weekend. Central Docks, Canada Dock and Albert Dock will host the magficient vessels in a free taster event, ahead of 2008 when the city will host the start of the Tall Ships Race.
Arabic Arts Festival (http://www.liverpool08.com/Events/Event_Details.asp?DMS_ID=105331)
Liverpool's Arabic Arts Festival kicks off its fifth season on Saturday with a family fun day at Sefton Park Palm House. Celebrating many aspects of Arabic arts and culture, this year's festival offers a taster of music, dance, theatre, film, architecture, visual arts, dress, literature, craft and food. The festival runs from July 2 - 16.
Shops Up Front (http://www.liverpool08.com/News/ShopsUpfrontUnveiled.asp)
In 2005 a row of shops on Lodge Lane, Liverpool 8, was selected to take part in a creative, community-focused renovation scheme. Local artists were invited to join exciting community engagement workshops to develop their own unique designs for new shop fronts. The Shops Up Front Exhibition is on at St Bede's Church, 3 Fern Grove, L8 and will be open to the public on Friday 30 June, 12pm to 4pm and Saturday 1 July, 12pm to 4pm.
Paul D
06-30-2006, 03:48 PM
A Tall Ships 2008 taster.
TALL ships are arrivin Liverpool for a two-day visit this weekend.
The Culture Company says it has organised the All Aboard weekend as a taster event for 2008, when Liverpool will host the start of the Tall Ships Race.
Most of the ships will be based at Wellington and Sandon Docks, off Regent Road, while HMS Albion will be at Canada Dock, and Artemis at the Albert Dock.
Council leader Warren Bradley said: "There are few cities in the world with a seafaring history as rich as Liverpool's, and seeing the tall ships arrive on the Mersey is a fantastic sight.
"All Aboard will be a great opportunity for people to have alook around these fascinating ships."
Ships in Wellington/Sandon Dockwill be the Christian Raddich, considered to be Norway's grandest sailing ambassador; Bessie Ellen, Britain's last wooden coasting ketch still under sail; Swan Fan Makkum, one of the world's largest brigantine and two-masted ships; Eye Of The Wind; Iris, and Le Orla, an Irish naval coastal patrol vessel.
Albert Dock will host former whaling ship Artemis, while amphibious assault ship HMS Albion will be at Canada Dock.
Paul D
07-02-2006, 02:41 PM
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Here's a couple of pictures from yesterday's visit of the tall ships,I've got to say if this is a small taster for the 2008 event then I'm more than happy because everyone of us had a great day.If it wasn't for the football we'd have taken the opportunity to take a cruise around the docks on a tall ship but we'll do that next time.The band in the picture brought a smile to everyones face and the Aussie Kangeroos were brilliant and you couldn't help but laugh at them,2008 is going to be great.:PDT_Piratz_26:
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Here's a couple of pictures from yesterday's visit of the tall ships,I've got to say if this is a small taster for the 2008 event then I'm more than happy because everyone of us had a great day.If it wasn't for the football we'd have taken the opportunity to take a cruise around the docks on a tall ship but we'll do that next time.The band in the picture brought a smile to everyones face and the Aussie Kangeroos were brilliant and you couldn't help but laugh at them,2008 is going to be great.:PDT_Piratz_26:
Fantastic pics Paul - where were the scouse mice? :celb (23)::Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:
Paul D
07-03-2006, 08:26 PM
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victorialush
07-03-2006, 08:28 PM
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Sorry, but the gonads on the roo on the left :shock:
Howie
07-03-2006, 08:30 PM
Sorry, but the gonads on the roo on the left :shock:
What about 'em? :rolleyes:
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Thats got naughty bits in it :) :eek: :unibrow:
victorialush
07-03-2006, 08:32 PM
What about 'em? :rolleyes:
http://www.bradmesser.com/images2005a/squirrel_nuts.jpg
Oh don't, Max will be posting his next :unibrow:
Scousemouse
07-04-2006, 02:42 AM
What happened to that Photoshop suggestion?? :rolleyes: :eek: :)
Maxie has them,but we are foolin no-one that he has big un's, even with adobe's photoshop :)
:unibrow: @Max
Terry
07-05-2006, 04:53 PM
Just wondered what you would each contribute to the Capital of Culture if you were given a chance to shine,any idea,s serious or otherwise.:snf (41):
Great post Tony, I'll have a think. Maybe otyher members have their own ideas/agendas! :celb (23):
I'll move it to the c of c section too.
discodan
07-05-2006, 05:59 PM
Deffo a party the likes liverpool has never seen!, free event for all to attend much like the love parade in Leeds
Make sure everyone eats a bowl of scouse on 20/08 this year and 2007 and at least once a week during the whole of 2008. Realistically you would be looking at once a month.
more coming soon..........
Welcome to your weekly 08 Ambassador E-blast
Capital of Street Culture (http://www.liverpool08.com/News/CapitalOfStreetCulture.asp)
The UK's biggest free urban culture festival returns to Liverpool later this month. HUB 2006 is set to be the biggest yet boasting a weekend packed with music and extreme sports, attracting thousands of visitors. This year, HUB moves to a brand new location at Otterspool Promenade. The action gets underway over the weekend of 22 - 23 July, with a packed programme of music and entertainment on both days from noon until 7pm.
£5 million Euro grant for new Museum of Liverpool (http://www.liverpool08.com/News/5MillionEuroGrantForNewMuseumOfLiverpool.asp)
Museum chiefs are celebrating a £5m boost to plans for a new Museum of Liverpool. The shell of the X-shaped three-storey building is to be completed by early 2008. It is expected to attract nearly 1 million visitors to the waterfront world heritage site each year. Exhibits will include a 19th century locomotive that ran on England's first passenger railway line between Liverpool and Manchester, a showcase for the local people who put Liverpool on the map, and tribute to the city's influence on international music and sport.
The final countdown for Clipper 05-06 (http://www.liverpool08.com/News/TheFinalCountdownForClipper05-06.asp)
The Clipper 05-06 Round the World Yacht Race has left New York City for the last leg of this 35,000 mile global adventure. The monsoon-like conditions failed to keep well wishers and the world's media away as the 10 strong Clipper fleet left the dock at North Cove Marina to head out onto the Hudson River, sailing past the magnificent Statue of Liberty before continuing to the start line off Ambrose Light.
I suggest that we have a giant Jam Butty Party, hosted for TV by Ken Dodd but with Sir David Henshaw as the special guest. After all he spent £26,000 a year on sandwiches for his office at council taxpayers expense. We could put him in some stocks and people could throw their own individual sandwiches at his face. Perhaps we could have some suggestions about the kinds of fillings?????
Just wondered what you would each contribute to the Capital of Culture if you were given a chance to shine,any idea,s serious or otherwise.:snf (41):
victorialush
07-07-2006, 01:18 PM
Perhaps we could have some suggestions about the kinds of fillings?????
Hollands steak and kidney pie sandwich! :D
Have a national Scouse day where the whole country has to have a bowl of Scouse!
Terry
07-07-2006, 01:24 PM
Yes well i'm going to try some Scouse tomorrow when i come down for the outing with you all!any recommendations as to where the best place is to try some.
Yes well i'm going to try some Scouse tomorrow when i come down for the outing with you all!any recommendations as to where the best place is to try some.
Oh, erm....help. Liverpool doesnt have its own 'Scouse House. There's another idea!!
Lydia
07-08-2006, 02:11 AM
unfortunately I'm stuck in 'that london' until Monday.
Lydia, my mums pan of scouse, you just cannot beat :celb (23):
victorialush
07-08-2006, 09:38 AM
Yes well i'm going to try some Scouse tomorrow when i come down for the outing with you all!any recommendations as to where the best place is to try some.
Just off Williamson Square, Sayers is on the corner and walk towards Church Street... there is a little cafe on the right hand side, that always has a pan of Scouse on the go! :D
Edit: I just did a search, think this may be it
Ye Olde Patisserie 0151 708 5416
31 Tarleton Street, Liverpool, L1 1DS
victorialush
07-08-2006, 09:39 AM
Oh, erm....help. Liverpool doesnt have its own 'Scouse House. There's another idea!!
Now there is a business idea!!
Lydia
07-08-2006, 10:49 AM
Lydia, my mums pan of scouse, you just cannot beat :celb (23):
maybe there should be an annual scouse cook-off
Howie
07-08-2006, 11:19 AM
Given that a European Capital of Culture is supposed to showcase their culture and bring the citizens of Europe closer together then I can think of nothing better that the two European Capitals of Culture 2008 (Liverpool, England (http://www.liverpool08.com/) and Stavanger, Norway (http://www.stavanger2008.no/)) could celebrate than their common dish of Scouse (English) / Lapskaus (Norwegian).
:nod: :thumbsup:
Tomo-CIL
07-08-2006, 02:03 PM
Firstly free up some cash by sacking off the Culture Company, they've lost more money than Black Wednesday in Wall Street and sack off all them toffs who run it, well try and run it....
I'm with Disco Dan on this one - a nice big Love Parade, have lots of the local bands past and present on a big free festival, like Radio 1 do in Dundee, and have every single TV station worldwide to broadcast it.
Given that a European Capital of Culture is supposed to showcase their culture and bring the citizens of Europe closer together then I can think of nothing better that the two European Capitals of Culture 2008 (Liverpool, England (http://www.liverpool08.com/) and Stavanger, Norway (http://www.stavanger2008.no/)) could celebrate than their common dish of Scouse (English) / Lapskaus (Norwegian).
:nod: :thumbsup:
We must invite Hamburg too .. it has Labskause (IN TINS!!) :D
I suggest we have a week long beer festival, featuring the ales of the world....burp! :D
Tomo-CIL
07-09-2006, 07:04 PM
I'm not advertising, and am not sure where this should be posted, but I thought I'd raise this issue as it's very interesting and wondered what you all thought of it...
My webiste clubsinliverpool is multilingual, most languages it can translate to (depending what language packs you have installed)...
But basically I've been checking the statistics, US Commercial and UK based IP's have hit the site @ 34.75% and 26.70%. 13.35% is Network users (presumably people in work or with shared home connections).
However, CIL is served to Australia (6700 unique hits @ 0.45%) for the month of July so far.
There are 25 recorded countries recorded sharing the top 30:-
- Argentina (Spanish translator)
- Old style Arpanet (arpa) (8157) <---- ????
- Malaysia (1789)
- Norway (5079)
- Finland (3168)
- Mexico (5372)
- Thailand, Czech Republic, Spain
Very popular with the Italian also with 9456 unique IPs recorded.
Canada also ranked high up also with 4590.
I can give you all the full statistics if you want, but basically the whole world is looking at clubsinliverpool.com, which has Chinese & Korean as opposed to the council's visitliverpool.com.
To have a chinese translator is pretty important, especially the links Liverpool has with the country with a population of 1.1 Billion.
Howie
07-09-2006, 07:15 PM
Indeed, there is currently a dispute at Liverpool John Moores University regarding the closure of the School of Languages. In particular, the proposal to drop the teaching of Chinese has been met with calls for an MPs inquiry as it is seen as a language of 'national strategic importance', (see MPs probe loss of Chinese courses (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d9ad929a-0bc2-11db-b97f-0000779e2340.html) - Financial Times, 05 July 2006).
PS: Excellent site! Check out ClubsInLiverpool.com here (http://www.clubsinliverpool.com/). :thumbsup:
PPS: I've just had a look at www.visitliverpool.com and www.liverpool08.com. The former doesn't support Chinese and the latter is English only. :sad:
Tomo-CIL
07-09-2006, 11:36 PM
Thanks for the plug Howie :)
More importantly interesting fact about the languages being dropped. Chinese is of national importance without doubt, it's like a 6th of the world's population or something?
Not to mention the city has the oldest Chinese community in Europe!
Howie
07-10-2006, 12:24 AM
Not to mention the city has the oldest Chinese community in Europe!
See Liverpool's Chinese community thread here (http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1681).
A list of highlights from the 2008 programme is due to be unveiled in November.
Fingers crossed :PDT_Piratz_26:
BROADCASTER Loyd Grossman and historian Professor John Belchem will investigate Liverpool's cultural heritage at an event next week.
Prof Belchem will discuss cosmopolitan Liverpool and its status as Capital of Culture 2008 before an audience at Princes Road Synagogue in Toxteth.
The event will celebrate the launch of the forthcoming book, Liverpool 800: Culture, Character & History - edited by Professor Belchem - detailing how the city has developed over its 800-year history.
Prof Belchem, of Liverpool university, said: "It is important to look back at how the city achieved its status in the first place.
"Having achieved prosperity through the slave trade, Liverpool underwent its first major rebranding exercise following abolition of the trade in 1807.
"Thenceforth, visiting seamen from the black Atlantic and beyond mixed with British sailors, creating new forms of cultural contact and producing many exotic travellers' tales which are still heard today.
"The success of the city's renaissance will depend upon its ability to restore its former cosmopolitan and bohemian complexions."
Cosmopolitan Liverpool - Still the World in One City? is on Wednesday, July 19, at 6pm. Entry is free.
Click on the Amazon ads (below) to view details of this book.
wallasey
07-15-2006, 07:44 PM
We had a pan of scouse last week. Unfortunatly, my dad put too many chillies in and it was very hot to say the least! Are you meant to have chillies in scouse??
Now here's a wierd suggestion. A history of liverpool tour like no other. Use the walls of the Birkenhead tunnel to project images of the city's past onto. The tour would start in Birkenhead and you would walk through the tunnel whilst taking in the history of the place. You could say that the tunnel would become a time tunnel!
After learning about the history of the city, you would then emerge on William Brown Street and take in a fantastic firework display!
This would be for the most athletic though but I am sure a few left over buggies from the Open could be used to transport the people who are attending?
A.D.Williams
07-15-2006, 08:19 PM
We had a pan of scouse last week. Unfortunatly, my dad put too many chillies in and it was very hot to say the least! Are you meant to have chillies in scouse??
Now here's a wierd suggestion. A history of liverpool tour like no other. Use the walls of the Birkenhead tunnel to project images of the city's past onto. The tour would start in Birkenhead and you would walk through the tunnel whilst taking in the history of the place. You could say that the tunnel would become a time tunnel!
After learning about the history of the city, you would then emerge on William Brown Street and take in a fantastic firework display!
This would be for the most athletic though but I am sure a few left over buggies from the Open could be used to transport the people who are attending?
Splendid idea.
:celb (23): :celb (23):
victorialush
07-15-2006, 08:38 PM
Are you meant to have chillies in scouse??
Hell no :)
It sounds a nice idea as I love chillies, but I would be afraid to mar the taste :Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:
wallasey
07-15-2006, 11:20 PM
Hell no :)
It sounds a nice idea as I love chillies, but I would be afraid to mar the taste :Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:
Well, we followed this (http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/recipe2.htm#ian) recipie you see and it clearly states Chillie Peppers. However, my dear dad put a whole teaspoon in rather than half a one. I don't need to tell you what the end result was!
IT MAY have won its Capital of Culture status off the back of its multi-cultural communities - but Liverpool needs to buck up its ideas if it wants to be considered a truly Cosmopolitan city of the 21st century.
That is the view of Professor John Belchem who will be delivering Cosmopolitan Liverpool, the last of the four themed talks hosted by Loyd Grossman to celebrate 2007 as the city's 800th anniversary.
"Liverpool, which was once the world in one city, has become one of the least-ethnically varied cities in the country," said the Professor of History at the University of Liverpool.
"The proportions of Hindus and Sikhs in the city in the 2001 census falls significantly below the national average for England and Wales.
"The success of the city's current cultural and creative renaissance might well depend on its ability to restore and enhance its former cosmopolitan and bohemian complexion and edge, that remarkable Scouse blend that has contributed so much to Liverpool's culture, character and history."
The talk will take place before an audience at Princes Road synagogue on Wednesday, July 19, at 6pm. It is the North-west's oldest active synagogue, established in 1874 and renowned for its gold and marble interior. The talk will also celebrate the launch of the book, Liverpool 800: Culture, Character and History, which has been edited by Prof Belchem and is due to be published in September.
Prof Belchem said the city's initial melting pot status began as a private Celtic Empire with the influx of Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Manx migrants, which separated this port city from the surroundings, to make already the least English of our provincial cities by the 19th century.
It was compounded by the influx of Chinese and the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 in which Liverpool had played a pivotal part. After this, visiting seamen from the Black Atlantic and beyond mixed with returning British sea salts in "sailor town" Liverpool.
As a hub for Britain's trading success, it also meant that Victorian Liverpool became a haven for entrepreneurial Europeans, especially Germans, Italians and Jews fleeing persecution in eastern Europe.
Consequently, Cosmopolitan Victorian Liverpool became known as the New York of Europe; "a world city rather than merely British provincial".
But despite this Liverpool didn't develop into the role model for multi-cultural post war Britain that effectively began on June 28,
1948. That day, the Empire Windrush docked in London, bringing hundreds of people from the West Indies looking for a new life in Britain.
That day can arguably be cited as hailing a new era of mass immigration. But not in Liverpool.
"You would have thought Liverpool would have had a better head start in race relations than everyone else, but the reverse was the case."
There is also the fact that outsiders basically just didn't want to come here any more.
"Economically, Liverpool had a superb 19th century and a terrible 20th in relation. Migrants are very rational people and a town or city that is not going through the best of times is not an attractive magnet for them."
Prof Belchem added that he was expecting a lively debate. Dave Wibberley, who organised the Loyd Grossman In Conversation series on behalf of the University of Liverpool, agreed. Previous topics dealt with the city's relationship with music, sport and architecture, but this one he believed would generate the most interest.
"The subject of Cosmopolitan Liverpool is central to the history, identity and future of the city."
The talk, followed by a Q and A session with the audience, is open to members of the public and is free. No booking is required.
mikechapple@dailypost.co.uk
bazzacat
07-17-2006, 11:02 AM
So what do they suggest? Shipping in loads of minorities so Liverpool is more "multi cultural"???
A bizzare thing to comment about
It is. I suspect he's just trying to create publicity for his book.
victorialush
07-17-2006, 12:06 PM
I don't think we won the Capital of Culture solely due to the ethnic mix we have. We won it because Liverpool in iteslf is the culture.
I would strongly advise against shipping anyone into Liverpool, it will only end up as 'cosmopolitan' London has, a dirty, smog, grime hole full of illegals, beggars, crime and no soul. I would go as far as saying the 'culture' in London is far too varied for it to endevour the name Capital of Culture.
bazzacat
07-17-2006, 12:18 PM
People will have their own reasons for choosing to migrate or not to a city- if they choose not to come, then so be it- it neednt be an issue at all.
Terry
07-17-2006, 01:29 PM
People from whatever cultural background should feel able to move to any part of the UK freely without feeling intimidated or badgered in any way.I've always believed that Liverpool had a good mix of people from Ethnic Backgrounds & that most of them experienced very little trouble.Indeed there are healthy Chinese & West Indian communities amongst others.
I would find his choice of words on this subject to be very unfortunate particularly at this moment in time when tensions are still running high in relation to certain groups within our society.
It could also be seen as very unhelpful in relation to 2008 for him to portray Liverpool in this negative way.
People will settle here naturally & for their own reasons what isn't needed is some form of cohersion (i realise he isn't saying that)but some people will put two & two together with the usual connertations.
Sadly when some hair brained professor opens his trap common sense is usually in short supply.
bazzacat
07-17-2006, 06:11 PM
Ive done a couple of maps of ethnicity by electoral ward, Liverpool does look fairly homogenous when compared to Manchester. Colour codes should be obvious, blue is "other", green is Irish. The data is from the 2001 cencus, what people stated as their ethnicity.
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Brilliant Bazzacat, thanks.
Urban
07-17-2006, 08:22 PM
I'll be honest I don't know what the answer is but Liverpool does need to be more diverse.
Many people from ethnic communities feel very intimidated to visit certain parts of the city such as the North End.
There are no No Go areas.
Waterways
07-17-2006, 11:47 PM
IT MAY have won its Capital of Culture status off the back of its multi-cultural communities - but Liverpool needs to buck up its ideas if it wants to be considered a truly Cosmopolitan city of the 21st century.
That is the view of Professor John Belchem who will be delivering Cosmopolitan Liverpool, the last of the four themed talks hosted by Loyd Grossman to celebrate 2007 as the city's 800th anniversary.
"Liverpool, which was once the world in one city, has become one of the least-ethnically varied cities in the country," said the Professor of History at the University of Liverpool."
This is tosh. The people of Liverpool in origin are more ethnically mixed than any other city.
"The proportions of Hindus and Sikhs in the city in the 2001 census falls significantly below the national average for England and Wales.
He appears to want peopel in the city who were born outside th UK for the sake of it.
Waterways
07-17-2006, 11:55 PM
I don't think we won the Capital of Culture solely due to the ethnic mix we have. We won it because Liverpool in iteslf is the culture.
I would strongly advise against shipping anyone into Liverpool, it will only end up as 'cosmopolitan' London has, a dirty, smog, grime hole full of illegals, beggars, crime and no soul. I would go as far as saying the 'culture' in London is far too varied for it to endevour the name Capital of Culture.
London is full of ethnic ghettos. Jews in Golders Green, Asians ion Southall, etc, proof that the races do not mix. Liverpool only has the black community around Upper Parliament St, that can be classed as a ghetto.
Liverpool has proven that different cultures do mix, which is seen in the current population. Even the Jews melted in, which they rarely do elsewhere. The Liverpool culture is almighty powerful and absorbs the rest - they accept it and blend in. People of Irish decent and born in Liverpool don't regard themselves as Irish. In London they do.
Waterways
07-18-2006, 12:05 AM
Ive done a couple of maps of ethnicity by electoral ward, Liverpool does look fairly homogenous when compared to Manchester. Colour codes should be obvious, blue is "other", green is Irish. The data is from the 2001 cencus, what people stated as their ethnicity.
What is pretty well established is that Liverpool in origin is more mixed than Manchester. What it does show is that people in Liverpool do not hang onto the label of where their decendents come from.
Tomo-CIL
07-19-2006, 07:31 PM
what a load of crap.
Why didn't Birmingham win capital of cukture then?
Howie
07-20-2006, 12:13 AM
Lessons for Liverpool
The Back Half
Brian O'Connell
Monday 24th July 2006
Cork 2005 demonstrated how the Capital of Culture accolade can become a curse, writes Brian O'Connell
Across the road from Kent Station in Cork, last year's European Capital of Culture, a ragged advertising billboard sums it up neatly: "Culture - it's purely a matter of taste."
As you travel through the city barely six months after the cultural year ended, there is little sign that Cork is the new Milan, or even Cologne, for that matter. Two of the main arts venues are promoting reruns; the only cinema in the city centre has been sold for apartments; and an independent art gallery on the city's north side has been forced to close its doors due to lack of business. It seems Cork is suffering from something of a cultural hangover. "The only culture round here is compensation culture," observes a local taxi driver wryly.
Cork's experiences should have been a warning to Liverpool, where the preparations to transform the city into the Capital of Culture 2008 have already become mired in chaos. Following the resignation of their Australian artistic director, Robyn Archer, the Liverpool organisers have been locked in crisis talks. Important projects, such as the plans for a new building at Pier Head, have been scrapped. The whole business has earned the ire of local artists, including the playwright Willy Russell, who said that he had "no sense of Capital of Culture being under any effective control".
Exactly the same problems were abundantly evident in Cork. The Cork School of Music, a major project planned for 2005, has yet to open its doors. The opening of the Capital of Culture information centre was delayed until half the year had already expired. Disaffected residents set up a local pressure group, "Where's Me Culture?".
"The general mood among the people creating culture in this city was one of non-involvement," says the Cork artist John Adams, a vociferous critic of the city's tenure of the title last year. "There was a lack of trust among working artists like myself. I would say to any other country that gets the chance to host the European Capital of Culture: please make it for the people. Let the politicians and administrators take a back seat for once - it is the people themselves who are the culture of a city."
This year's Capital of Culture, Patras in Greece, has fared little better. Barely two days into the year, the director resigned, accusing the organising committee of delays and errors. "Its structure and provisions do not befit a contemporary cultural institution, especially at a European level," he said.
So why does this supposed accolade seem to be less a blessing than a curse? The Capital of Culture project has inherent tensions. The official line from Brussels is that culture consists of "arts, tourism, architecture, the built and natural environment, parks and open spaces, media and sport". Yet any definition of culture is at once nebulous and problematic, raising questions about the role of high and low culture, and about how local culture works in a European context. In fact, the Capital of Culture designation has become less to do with culture itself than with the cash that culture can bring to a city.
It was not always thus. The initial hope of Melina Mercouri, the former Greek minister of culture who instigated the concept in 1985, was to showcase European cities with a long-standing cultural heritage. But this project was transformed in 1990 when it became groggy Glasgow's turn to champion European culture. The run-down city used investment in culture as a tool to revive its flagging economy. It proved, up to a point, that showcasing culture could become a byword for tourism, business ventures and jobs, as well as museums, concert halls and, of course, fireworks.
Since then, similar cities have clamoured for a slice of the cake. And yet, as the independent cultural consultant Robert Palmer has written, "From a distance, the European Capital of Culture programme can appear like a great cruise liner, sailing stately and glamorous into port, surrounded by an unconnected flock of community sailboats, wary of being crushed if they get too close."
Jason Harborow, chief executive of the Liverpool Culture Company, is conscious of the flaws inherent in the overall concept. He is determined, however, that this city will learn from the mistakes of past holders of the title. "I'm aware that there is no set format for hosting the Capital of Culture year," he says. "We set in train a series of themed years in the lead-up to the event. So last year, for instance, the theme was maritime and next year it's heritage. The idea is to build on our experience and get mistakes out of the way in advance of the year."
Harborow nevertheless admits that it can be difficult to manage the expectations that such a project raises in deprived areas. "It is very tough, and one of the challenges of the designation. Although it is the responsibility of the host country to make the most out of the year, I also think there could be more assistance from Brussels. The brand itself could be more easily identifiable and the transfer of knowledge between previous and future cities could be a lot more formal."
If the European Capital of Culture designation is to have any meaningful resonance with the residents of each chosen city, the programme will need to address its multiple tensions - between cash and culture, and between local and European input. If not, the Liverpool experience is likely to differ little from that of Patras or Cork, and the potential of the whole project will, ultimately, remain unfulfilled.
This article first appeared in the New Statesman.
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Source: New Statesman (http://www.newstatesman.com/Arts/200607240036)
Let's learn from these mistakes........:disgust: :neutral:
Honda Power Boats (http://www.liverpool08.com/Events/Event_Details.asp?DMS_ID=129111)
Liverpool is getting ready to host the UK's largest powerboat series. The final of the Honda Formula 4-stroke Powerboats Series takes place on the River Mersey over the weekend of 9 and 10 September.
Heritage Open Days (http://www.liverpool08.com/AboutLiverpool/WorldHeritage/HeritageOpenDays/index.asp)
There's a chance to take a glimpse behind the scenes at some of the region's architectural gems this month. From the Athenaeum to Anfield stadium, West Derby Courthouse to Walton Church - significant sites across Merseyside are offering people a chance to peek behind their famous facades between 7 and 17 September.
Continental Market (http://www.liverpool08.com/events/event_details.asp?dms_id=128301)
The hugely popular continental market returned to Williamson Square this week. More than 30 traders from France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Slovakia, Poland, UK and Spain have set up stalls offering a wide range of continental goods and delicious food. The market will be open from 9am to 5pm Thursday 31 August to Saturday 2 September and from 10am on Sunday 3 September.
Paul D
09-01-2006, 05:21 PM
This book looks brilliant and is available in September and will cost £14.95.:)
http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3694
Louis
09-01-2006, 05:49 PM
i think i will buy that book, and the paul du noyer one is great i have that and its a great read
Paul D
09-02-2006, 11:58 AM
i think i will buy that book, and the paul du noyer one is great i have that and its a great read
I love books like that it's a must have for me and I've read that Paul Du Noyer book as well that's worth buying too.:)
Sloyne
09-03-2006, 01:03 AM
This book looks brilliant and is available in September and will cost £14.95.:)
http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=3694I have already ordered mine through the University of Chicago web site. For those of you living in North America the book cost's US$25.00 + p&p. T order just follow the link on the above web site.
LIVERPOOL needs a famous figurehead to fire enthusiasm for 2008, it was claimed today. more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17694848%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=%2dwe%2dneed%2dfamous%2dname%2dto%2dlea d%2d08%2d-name_page.html)
scoobysnack
09-08-2006, 06:01 PM
we need a fellow scouser but we will probably end up with someone from eastenders
we need a fellow scouser but we will probably end up with someone from eastenders
I like your thinking :PDT_Piratz_26:
How about Tony Blair he will be looking for job next year and I bet he won't be signing on :Colorz_Grey_PDT_24:
How about Tony Blair he will be looking for job next year and I bet he won't be signing on :Colorz_Grey_PDT_24:
lol
A professor and 'honorary Scouser' has written a book to mark Liverpool's 800-year-old past - and its historical significance. Mike Chapple reports.
OUT of the past 800 years, five might seem a very short period indeed. But they have been very important years for the city - because, finally, after five years, the definitive history of Liverpool has been completed in time for its 800th anniversary celebrations in 2007.
However, John Belchem - the man behind the creation of the book Liverpool 800 Culture Character and History - is philosophical about finally seeing his long-awaited, whopper-sized, paper baby delivered in the flesh.
"When I first picked it up, it was an absolutely fabulous moment, because it was the first time I'd had a chance to look at the thing as a whole," said the Professor of History at the University of Liverpool.
"I showed it to my wife Mary and she thought it was fantastic and other people thought it was terrific.
"But because this has been five years in the making, with two years of my time completely devoted to it in terms of every working, waking hour, in the end I was thinking w-e-e-e-lll ... perhaps it's not bad.
"I suppose in some ways I even felt deflated."
He was holding the dummy of the paperback after its arrival from Slovenia where the entire run is about be printed, an irony not lost on him.
"If we could have afforded to have it printed in Liverpool, believe me, we would have done," said Professor Belchem.
The book should be in the shops by the end of the month.
The only thing left to be done is the burnishing of the front cover depicting the ferries and the waterfront.
The book contains the names of hundreds of famous Liverpudlians - everyone from John Lennon, Dixie Dean, Bessie Braddock and Ken Dodd - to the two Williams, Roscoe and Gladstone.
"I suppose that will be one of the most controversial aspects of the book - people complaining that so-and-so's name's been left out!" said the 59-year-old Professor, who was born in the East End of London, but came to the University of Liverpool in 1979 and now considers himself "an honorary Scouser".
At 523 pages, and weighing 1.9 kgms, even the paperback is a hefty tome, but one which, at £14.95, looks set to be the Christmas book bargain of the year.
The £35 hardback edition is heavier still at 2.15 kgms, while the 800 numbered, limited edition copies costing £100 in its bound slip case, will tip the scales at 2.4kgms. Professor Belchem edited and also wrote an introduction to the book, which is split into six chapters.
The first, Small Beginnings, covers the period 1207 to 1680. Prof Belchem said that this was probably the most difficult to complete and required three different people - Jenny Kermode, Janet Hollinshead and Malcolm Gretton, experts in medieval, late medieval and early modernist history, respectively.
"The problem is that there is so little to work with from that period," said Prof Belchem, who referred to the work of an academic predecessor, Ramsay Muir, who wrote the 700th anniversary history of Liverpool 100 years ago.
"We started off talking about Small Beginnings, while Muir began by referring to Long Centuries of Small Things, saying 'don't kid yourself that this is some venerable long romance about ancient Liverpool because that's just rubbish'.
"Really, it was just a bloody boring insignificant place where nothing happened until the late 17th, early 18th century, then, WHAM!!! all hell breaks loose."
Other chapters include:
* Civic Liverpool (1680 to 1800);
* A demographic breakdown entitled Living In the Modern City covering the 19th century to the modern day;
* Maritime Liverpool;
* Cosmopolitan Liverpool, which was also written by Prof Belchem and analyses immigration from the 18th century to the end of World War II;
* City of Change and Challenge, which covers the city's history from war's end to today.
THESE latter two also presented sensitive issues. "In Cosmopolitan, we were trying to cover so much from all the Celtic elements - the Irish, Scots, the Welsh and Manx - never mind all the European and Afro-Caribbean elements, so we tried to find as many imaginative and different ways to be as inclusive as possible," explained Prof Belchem, whose next book will be the history of Irish Liverpool, due out next year.
With the Change and Challenge chapter, he thought it important to include author Jon Murden, who was a great expert on the city - though he was not a Liverpudlian.
"That chapter takes us on a huge rollercoaster ride covering some very controversial topics such as Toxteth in 1981 and the reign of Militant.
"Jon was great for this because he is not a Liverpudlian. He's someone who would not have been too involved and therefore can't be accused of being too partisan.
"Of course, there will always be those who will say 'well, you said that about such-and-such an incident, but my auntie was there and she's told me that's not how it was!'"
Another issue requiring meticulous work was the widespread use of images and sorting out copyright problems. The University of Liverpool and the city council, which jointly funded the book project, proved to be especially helpful in sorting these out, especially the latter's records office.
"It meant we got access to sites not normally open to other people. They must take great credit for that.
"For instance, one of the distinctions about the book is that it will contain illustrations that people will never have seen before. There aren't, for instance, any classic pictures of the Liver Building, because people have already seen all that done a million times before."
What he hopes is that it will be a comprehensive reflection on one of the great individual cities of the world.
"The main thing I really like is that it IS a city but it's NOT provincial and it's NOT English. It's not boring and it's not bland."
He also hopes that the book's appeal will be universal.
"I think we've struck the balance right. We were trying to produce a book which tried to please every kind of audience.
"I wanted my academic peers to ask what is the best piece of research about Liverpool history - and they walk away reading Liverpool 800.
"We also wanted to appeal to the general reader, which is why we've tried to write it in the most accessible style possible.
"But we also wanted to appeal to the people who previously had never been interested in the history of the city. They don't have to read it from cover to cover. Some people might just want to look at the pictures - and the captions in themselves produce quite a good story."
Most important of all, he hopes that the book does justice to the city - and its historical significance.
"We used a narrative framework that looks at Liverpool as a kind of history of human geography," said Prof Belchem.
"Physically, Liverpool once was an isolated place, not very healthily located.
"But then, suddenly, it was realised that you could do things to transform that geography.
"That you could build all these amazing canals and roads, and God knows what else.
"That you could control oceans and then you could build the most incredible docks system - as solid and enduring as the pyramids. That you could control those high, wonderful tidal ranges, so that human intervention transformed the rather unfortunate geography and made this place, what was briefly, I suppose, the centre of the universe.
"That is why," he concluded, almost triumphantly, "this book is so important."
mikechapple@dailypost.co.uk
Howie
09-18-2006, 11:03 PM
Culture projects are falling behind
Sep 18 2006
By Larry Neild, Daily Post
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KEY projects promised as part of Liverpool's bid to become European Capital of Culture will be unfinished or still on the drawing board in 2008, a Daily Post survey reveals today.
Some projects promised as part of the culture package may never see the light of day.
The main public project due to be finished in 2008 will be the waterfront Kings Arena, but even that project has attracted criticism from councillors because some ancillary schemes linked to the Kings Dock site will not be ready in 2008.
Grosvenor, building the biggest public project, the £900m Paradise Street Project, has asked for more time to complete the scheme.
Other projects will still be under way or gathering dust.
Last night, the city council's executive member for special initiatives, Cllr Mike Storey, said: "We should be celebrating what we have managed to achieve in such a few years. Our bid programme for Capital of Culture was drawn up seven years ago. Even so, people coming to Liverpool now are staggered at our progress."
Labour leader Cllr Joe Anderson was scathing at the "spectacular failure" to fulfil the promises made in the run-up to the culture crown.
"Hundreds of thousands of people coming to Liverpool in 2008 don't want to be greeted by cranes and building sites.
"The promises have quite simply not been kept because eyes were not kept on the ball," he said last night.
In its bid document to the Department of Culture, the city council and its backers outlined a number of commitments expected to be finished as the city celebrates its year as European Capital of Culture.
This is what the bid document boldly stated: "By 2008, both football giants (Liverpool and Everton) expect to be in new homes - Liverpool at Anfield in a new stadium and Everton in the new waterfront stadium arena at Kings Dock. The Wavertree multi-sports complex will be completed, the Fourth Grace will be open and a new small-scale arena built for smaller championships. Targets will be set and they will be monitored properly."
The Everton arena plan for Kings Dock was abandoned, Liverpool will not kick a ball in a new arena until August 2009 at the very earliest, assuming the plan goes ahead.
Will Alsop's Fourth Grace, which should now be nearing completion, was abandoned. Even the successor to the Fourth Grace, the so-called X building housing a Museum of Liverpool will not open its doors until 2010 at the earliest.
National Museums Liverpool is due to start work in October on the controversial modern building to house the new Museum of Liverpool, close to Liverpool Pier Head. The building will be finished towards the end of 2008, but fitting out will take until 2010.
There was also the promise of a cruise liner terminal, a tram link and a new stunning Lime Street gateway.
The cruise terminal was demoted to a "cruise facility catering for day-trips to the Mersey by cruise liners, rather than a start or finish point for cruises. The facility, which should have been fully operational by now, is only now under construction in Liverpool's dockland. Even so, the facility which was due to be finished this year, may just be ready in 2007.
The dream of a tram system has been shelved, with doubts it can ever be revived.
The bid document outlined a Museum of Geneology to provide a "roots" trail for 40m Americans who can trace family links to leaving for the New World from Liverpool. Liverpool's bid stated that the new geneology centre would be in use by 2008, either through National Museums Liverpool, or Liverpool City Council Public Records Office.
The new facility will be included as part of the refurbishment of Liverpool Central Library, rather than a stand-alone museum that had been billed as Liverpool's answer to New York's Ellis Island.
The family history centre forms part of a major programme for Central Library, costing £50m. Currently the scheme is awaiting approval from the government's Department of Culture, said to be imminent. If approved, the scheme will not be completed until 2010.
St George's Hall, one of the world's most stunning neo-classical buildings, will re-open on St George's Day next year after a major refurbishment programme.
Cllr Storey, who was leader of the city council when the culture title was won, said: "The transformation of our city is stunning. Things that were just a glint in the eye five or six years ago are happening and we should celebrate that. We have never seen 2008 as the end, and cranes in that year are a sign that the regeneration is continuing beyond culture year. We don't want the city to stop developing in 2008. Will Alsop's Cloud didn't happen but we have replaced it with the Museum of Liverpool.
"Liverpool has become the sixth most visited city in the country, a far cry from the situation just a few years ago. People who visited the city years ago come back and are wowed. We have to look beyond 2008 to the next 10 years."
Cllr Anderson said: "Promises were made and they clearly have not been kept. It is hugely disappointing that some of the key projects will not be ready in time. Remember that 2008 is our showcase year and all of the stops should have been pulled out to get things finished.
"Instead, we were bogged down by spats and fall-outs at the city council. We are not delivering what we promised. Things are running behind all over the place and we are in danger of having too many building sites around the place in our special culture year."
larryneild@dailypost.co.uk
Some of the projects that might not make it in time for Capital of Culture year
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* GROSVENOR Paradise Street: Main retail core to open in the first half of 2008. Grosvenor wants to extend the deadline for some schemes to mid 2009, with work on other schemes due to finish in 2010 or 2011
* Kings Dock Arena is due to open in January 2008 and is to host the opening ceremony for Capital of Culture. The centre is a replacement for the doomed Everton Stadium plan at Kings Dock. Even so, some parts of the development may not be ready in time.
* Lime Street Gateway - restored frontage to Lime Street station expected to be completed in spring of 2008, depending on the result of a CPO inquiry to clear the remaining shops. Eyesore Concourse House will be demolished in the spring of 2007. Even so, a new 27-storey landmark tower will not be ready and the site will be surrounded by hoardings.
* NML Museum of Liverpool. The building to house the museum due to be finished in the autumn of 2008, but fitting out the interior will delay opening until 2010.
* Liverpool Central Library refurbishment, including the family history links unit. The £50m redevelopment of Central Library, which is currently awaiting outline business case approval by the DCMS, which is imminent. Much of the delay has been down to securing funding. An application for Heritage Lottery Funding was withdrawn when the council was advised it wouldn't be successful. More than one million books will be showcased when it is complete and the new-look library will also include a stunning new entrance, an archive centre and space for 250 public computers. The Picton, Hornby and Oak reading rooms will be restored to their former glory, and more of Liverpool's fabulous rare book and archive collection will be put on display. Due to be completed in 2010, a legacy project to benefit the city after 2008.
* Cruise liner terminal. The original aim was to enable cruise companies to start or finish cruises on the Mersey. Now it will be a cruise facility offering a stopping-off point. Should have opened in 2006. Now likely to open May or June of next year. Eight cruise ships booked in for 2007, with a target for 15 in 2008. Original plans envisaged more than 40 cruise ships a year.
* Pier Head canal. British Waterways has already started work on what is the first new canal for more than a century. It will create a new canal link to the Albert Dock from the Leeds and Liverpool Canal which terminates at Stanley Dock. The aim is for the first boats to navigate the new link in March or April 2008. Opening date yet to be confirmed.
* Bluecoat Arts Centre. Major refurbishment, costing £10m, under way and due to be completed in the autumn of next year. Original plan was for completion in 2005.
* Olympic size swimming pool at Picton Leisure Centre in Wavertree currently under way with completion due in autumn 2007 ready for Capital of Culture in 2008.
The schemes that didn't happen
http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/icliverpool/jan2004/2/2/0008B13A-1840-1019-92CB80BFB6FA0000.jpg
* WILL ALSOP'S Fourth Grace, had it not been abandoned, was due to be finished this year. The capital of culture bid document described it as "a focus and a catalyst for the next stage of Liverpool's renaissance.... an eloquent image for a resurgent city."
* Everton's new 55,000-seater football stadium at Kings Dock would have opened this year.
* Liverpool Chinatown Centre. Originally a proposal to the Millennium Commission, this was intended to highlight the history of Europe's oldest Chinatown. This is what the bid document stated: "The Chinatown Centre will provide a regional, national and international focus."
* Merseytram Line One. Abandoned, at least for now. The first trams had been due to run in 2006 or 2007.
Source: icLiverpool (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17767856%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26page=1%26headline=culture%2dprojects%2dare%2dfal ling%2dbehind-name_page.html)
Oh I wish they'd stop whinging.... it'll be right... bonza mate :(
Louis
09-18-2006, 11:16 PM
its an unnecessary focus on 2008, its not a full stop
I think news like this wasn't a suprise, u can see for yourself the state of town at the moment and guess what? It'll look worse before it gets better. It'll never be at a finished stage for the forseable future due to the knock-on effects that regeneration has.
The think that annoys me is when projects are at a standstill with no beginning in site. Lime Street Gateway seems like it'll never get underway :disgust:.
Howie
09-18-2006, 11:19 PM
Oh I wish they'd stop whinging.... it'll be right... bonza mate :(
I agree with Joe Anderson:
"Promises were made and they clearly have not been kept. It is hugely disappointing that some of the key projects will not be ready in time. Remember that 2008 is our showcase year and all of the stops should have been pulled out to get things finished.
Instead, we were bogged down by spats and fall-outs at the city council. We are not delivering what we promised. Things are running behind all over the place and we are in danger of having too many building sites around the place in our special culture year".
Did'nt the Liverpool city Council get praised today at the Libdem conferance ?
Howie
09-18-2006, 11:25 PM
Did'nt the Liverpool city Council get praised today at the Libdem conferance ?
Yes, the LibDem council got praised at the LibDem conference. :rolleyes:
See Lib-Dem pride in Liverpool success (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17767857%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=lib%2ddem%2dpride%2din%2dliverpool%2dsu ccess-name_page.html).
he has a way with the words eh? ;)
If Liverpool was run by Ninjas or especially German Ninjas, then the culture porjects would be completed already.
Any Slackers will be Shurikenised.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Howie
09-19-2006, 12:10 AM
he has a way with the words eh? ;)
So does Max. :D
Plus if builders were Ninjas then they'd wear belts and be in shape so we wouldn't have to put up with their arses hanging out.:Colorz_Grey_PDT_24:
Howie
09-19-2006, 09:30 AM
Is Liverpool delivering on its 2008 promises?
Sep 19 2006
Daily Post
Few of the projects scheduled in the mid-90s will be completed in 2008, says Larry Neild
WILL Liverpool be ready for 2008 when the city celebrates being European Capital of Culture? It depends on what the interpretation of the word "ready" means.
In the mid-1990s, city officials and politicians drew up a shopping list of schemes and projects, scheduled to be finished in 2008 or before.
Few of the promised projects will be completely finished in Culture year, with some trailing several years behind.
Critics of the delays say the failure to complete key schemes will mean that thousands of tourists, attracted by the European crown, will visit a city of cranes and building sites.
More (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17778039%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=is%2dliverpool%2ddelivering%2don%2dits% 2d2008%2dpromises%2d-name_page.html)...
RE: Lib Dems
LIVERPOOL has been saved from "rack and ruin" by its Liberal Democrat leadership, the party's conference will be told today. more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17785274%26method=full%26siteid=50061% 26headline=lib%2ddems%2d%2dsaved%2dthe%2dcity%2d-name_page.html)
macca
09-20-2006, 10:29 PM
Building sites and cranes will look good in 2008, show the world that the city is moving forward, and that it's worth coming back in 2009. Are "promises" binding undertakings? I always thought a promise was something you meant at the time.
Howie
09-20-2006, 11:56 PM
Building sites and cranes will look good in 2008, show the world that the city is moving forward, and that it's worth coming back in 2009. Are "promises" binding undertakings? I always thought a promise was something you meant at the time.
Tell that to Newcastle and Gateshead. :rolleyes:
And what about the tens of millions of pounds of public money that has been squandered on all these failed projects - OUR MONEY!!! :disgust:
Paul D
10-07-2006, 05:44 PM
Has anyone bought this yet? I've been meaning to go out and buy it but I haven't got around to it yet.
Louis
10-07-2006, 09:04 PM
ive bought it, but havent starting reading it yet, ive had a flick through and its looks really interesting
Squirrel
10-07-2006, 09:10 PM
Has anyone bought this yet? I've been meaning to go out and buy it but I haven't got around to it yet.
Yeah, I've got it, Paul. Delivered from Amazon on Friday. It's certainly a handsomely produced book - full colour printing throughout, thick, coated paper. The cover is matt, but the names of famous Liverpudlians are recorded with selective lamination - don't recall having seen done that before.
I hope that the sales will justify the production costs, which must be pretty steep. At only £14.95 in paperback and well over 500 pages long, the book is great value. Most academic monographs - the type of books that Liverpool 800's publisher, Liverpool Uni Press usually publish - cost 50 quid a pop or more. There must have been expectations for pretty healthy sales when the print run was set. The back cover carries the logos of Liverpool Uni and Liverpool CC as well as the publisher's. It's possible that the council and university might have financially assisted the project in some way, maybe by buying bulk orders of the book.
As for its content, I'll get back to you. So far, I've only read part of John Belchem's introduction, which is of a piece with what's in his previous book, "Merseypride": it's knowledgable about Liverpool and very aware of the things that seperate Liverpool now and historically from other towns and cities in "the north" or England generally without being gushy about the place. Unlike, say, Tony Lane, the author of "City of the Sea" (recommended, btw), Belchem is obviously fond of the city but not in love with it. The city's negatives are covered. As opposed to "Merseypride", however, Belchem (and I believe) the book's contributors have aimed to write in an accessible style whilst remaining factually rigorous.
The book is a multi-authored job, with different historians contributing chapters on aspects of the city they're knowledgable about. It might be a bit uneven, therefore.
More from me once I've finished the book. I do think, however, that, partly owing to a lack of good contempory books about Liverpool, it will most probably be the best single volume for undertanding the city and its past.
Paul D
10-08-2006, 01:01 PM
Excellent lads thanks for that it sounds great I'll make an special effort this weekend.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Howie
10-09-2006, 11:33 PM
Yoko's proud to be city 08 ambassador
Oct 9 2006
By Joe Riley Arts Editor, Liverpool Echo
http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/icliverpool/may2006/6/7/602F8283-B535-C656-5AA8EF50F51CBD75.jpg
YOKO Ono has signed up as a Capital of Culture ambassador on what would have been John Lennon's 66th birthday.
The former Beatle's New York-based widow used the occasion to re-state her love for Liverpool and describe how it shaped the man she loved.
She said: ''I am so proud to support the Liverpool 08 ambassador programme.
"Since John's passing, the people of Liverpool have been very kind to me. Now, I feel like I am an adopted Liverpudlian.
"When I'm in the far corner of the world having a hard time for one reason or another, I think of Liverpool and it calms my heart.
"It is the city that shaped the man I love: his poetry, his sense of humour, and his northern resilience to hard life.
"I know that part of John's heart was always with Liverpool, his home town. He was a proud Liverpudlian and when I prayed that Liverpool would be chosen for 2008, I knew that John was with me all the way.''
Yoko Ono is a frequent visitor to the city, recently donating Lennon's childhood home to the National Trust and participating in the 2004 Liverpool Biennial festival of contemporary visual art.
She said: "I fell in love with Liverpool the first time I went there in 1967 as an artist.
"What caught my eye was the elegance of the city by the water.
''The professors at the art school were young, alert and all very hip to my stuff.
"When I performed at the Bluecoat Society, the place was filled with students who welcomed me warmly. I will never forget.''
The leader of Liverpool city council, Cllr Warren Bradley, said: "We're delighted to have the support of Yoko.
"We look forward to many more people around the world taking her lead."
So far 3,000, people from 34 countries have signed up as 08 ambassadors.
Source: icLiverpool (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/liverpoolecho/news/echonews/tm_headline=yoko%2Ds-proud-to-be-city-08-ambassador%26method=full%26objectid=17897978%26sit eid=50061-name_page.html)
I think that has ruffled a few feathers
scouserdave
10-10-2006, 12:01 PM
When I'm in the far corner of the world having a hard time for one reason or another, I think of Liverpool and it calms my heart.
:PDT_Aliboronz_11: :PDT_Aliboronz_11: :PDT_Aliboronz_11: :PDT_Aliboronz_11:
I love this quote.
Paul D
10-15-2006, 08:52 PM
Right I've got my book and it looks fantastic but I'm not allowed to read it until my Birthday.:rolleyes:
Right I've got my book and it looks
fantastic but I'm not allowed to read it until my Birthday.:rolleyes:
How tempting must it be to have a sly look :shock:
Paul D
10-15-2006, 09:06 PM
How tempting must it be
to have a sly look :shock:
I've been looking at the pictures in it and having a sly read.:ninja:
CAPITAL of Culture's flagship education project has set off on a
mission to boldly go where it has never gone before.
more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/liverpoolecho/news/echonews/tm_headline=friend-ship-boldly-going-on-a-mission-for-the-environment-%26method=full%26o
bjectid=17945730%26siteid=50061-name_page.html)
Hilary Burrage
10-19-2006, 11:21 PM
Very unfortunately, the excellent motion put to City Council about the Theatre Museum (see link [1]
below) was apparently voted down yesterday evening. Nobody seems as yet to know why, but I very much hope there will be a re-think.
I really do
want to suggest that this is the sort of progress we in Liverpool should be making as a city, if we seriously want to be 'cultural' in any real sense of
the word. The V&A has said it's interested, the proposal would encourage visitors, it celebrates our civic cultural history, it links us very meaningfully
with London, it would create employment and regeneration opportunities. What
more...?
http://www.hilaryburrage.com/2006/10/will_the_theatre_museum_come_t.php
http://www.hilaryburrage.com/2006/02/look_back
_in_relief.php
http://www.hilaryburrage.com/2006/04/londons_theatre_museum_gets_a.php
http://www.hilaryburrage.com/2006/1
0/londons_theatre_museum_is_clos.php
Look forward to your ideas.
Best as ever, with fingers crossed
Hilary
Just looking at your links now Hilary, many thanks for bringing
this to our attention.
Howie
10-19-2006, 11:36 PM
Hmmm! So the motion was proposed by Labour and voted down by the
LibDems. :rolleyes:
LIVERPOOL’S 800th anniversary history book has not only become an instant best seller locally but is attracting strong interest from ex-pat
Merseysiders around the world.
more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/liverpooldailypost/news/regionalnews/tm_headline=city-anniversary-history-proves-to-be-a-local-best%2Dseller-%26meth
od=full%26objectid=17963989%26siteid=50061-name_page.html)
Paul D
11-03-2006, 12:19 PM
I seem to remember reading
that the programme of events for 2008 will be released on November 6th,that's this Monday.:)
scouserdave
11-03-2006, 12:35 PM
I can't even be bothered to contact the Council and get them to contact the schools who contributed these posters in 2002.
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/clippermurals.htm
**** them. ******s.
Paul D
11-03-2006, 12:43 PM
I can't even be bothered to contact the Council and get them to contact
the schools who contributed these posters in 2002. http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/clippermurals.htm
**** them.
******s.
They'll definitely do things their way you'd be wasting your time.
theninesisters
11-03-2006, 01:32 PM
http://liverpoolsubculture.blogspot.com/
Dedicated to the
Capital of Culture!
Paul D
11-03-2006, 03:31 PM
This was in today's Daily Post,08 Unveiled-Detailed guide to official CoC year plans.A special 12 page
supplement will be in Tuesday's newspaper.:)
scouserdave
11-09-2006, 11:32 AM
Independent online article (http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1961471.ece)
Liverpool's year of culture: Ashkenazy, Rattle, and the WAGs
By Ian Herbert
Published: 07 November 2006
The question of whether Liverpool's Capital of Culture year in 2008 should be high brow or populist has been a source of intense argument in the city since it beat Newcastle to the title three years ago.
Organisers revealed last night that they will attempt to make it both, unveiling a programme of events for the year that could pitch Wayne Rooney's girlfriend Coleen McLoughlin alongside new commissions from the composer Michael Nyman and the artists Richard Wilson and Ben Johnson. There will also be several international art exhibitions and performances by the pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy and the conductor Sir Simon Rattle.
The Liverpool schedule, unveiled to the World Trade Market in London, did not include a commission from one of the city's living legends - the musician Sir Paul McCartney or the playwrights Willy Russell or Alan Bleasdale. But 2008 will provide a better home at last for the city's collection of work by the American artist J J Audubon, some of which will be accommodated in a new Liverpool University gallery.
Liverpool's preparations were in disarray four months ago when the city parted company with the artistic director Robyn Archer, whose tastes many considered too esoteric. But the city seems determined not to dumb down for its culture year. By mid 2007, Wilson will have reshaped a building scheduled for demolition into a project entitled Turning the Place Over. Wilson's appearance will coincide with the Turner Prize at Liverpool's Tate gallery in October.
In its determination to avoid a standing start, the city has also attracted BBC3 in Christmas 2007 to stage a Nativity version of this year's Manchester Passion, in which the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ are re-enacted in a procession through the streets.
Organisers have also persuaded Liverpool-born Sir Simon to return to the city of his birth to perform with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Meanwhile, the actor Pete Postlethwaite, who was born in Warrington, Cheshire, is likely to star in a production of King Lear at the Everyman theatre and the poet Roger McGough joins the authors Doris Lessing and Philip Pullman at a literary festival.
But a determination in some quarters to prevent the event from becoming a shrine to all things Scouse is reflected in one of the artistic highlights - the UK's first comprehensive exhibition of work by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt at Tate Liverpool. In conjunction, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a series of Vienna-themed concerts, and provide music for two Viennese balls at the city's newly restored St George's Hall. A new choral work by Sir John Taverner has also been commissioned as part of a City of Song programme which will run throughout the year.
And then there is the popular culture, with football playing an appropriately central role. The People's Festival, in May 2008, is billed as a weekend celebration of football, fashion and music, featuring images of the greatest moments in European soccer, set to music written by Nyman. This will include a fashion show featuring footballers' wives and girlfriends, dressed by the Liverpool boutique, Cricket.
The names of the WAGs have not yet been confirmed but Coleen McLoughlin is a long-standing patron.
The city's pop music heritage will be celebrated in a riverside concert, where the acts will perform on a floating stage on the Mersey. Names of the acts are yet to be confirmed but many people believe the presence of Sir Paul McCartney to be a racing certainty.
scouserdave
11-09-2006, 11:49 AM
Times article (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1062-2442576.html)
I don't want to spoil the party . . .
Magnus Linklater
. . . but Liverpool needs to know that swanky art projects don’t revitalise Cities of Culture
I am glad Liverpool is putting its money on Gustav Klimt and Anton Chekhov to seal its identity as a City of Culture rather than staging yet another tribute to the Beatles. The programme it announced this week to mark its year as Europe’s cultural epicentre in 2008 includes Shakespeare, Britten, Heaney and Rattle, along with a suitably eclectic mix of raffish exhibitions (I liked the one featuring designer clothing, as worn by footballers’ wives) plus the Turner Prize. It will celebrate the roots of northern culture, but it will be international in outlook.
So far so good. But what matters is not so much the party as the aftermath. By the time it is over, Liverpool will have invested close on £3 billion, not just on the programme, but also on what amounts to a massive facelift for the city. It will have created a new museum, conference centre, retail complex and galleries, refurbished its waterfront, improved its transport system and done its level best to transform its image from gritty, if run-down, Victorian port to cultural icon of the post-industrial age. What, however, will sustain it? Does the sheer accolade of the title inject new life into a city, or could it all collapse on the morning after, when the caravan has moved on, and all that is left are some fancy buildings and a massive hangover?
It has now almost a cliché to say that go-ahead cities need cultural symbols to aid their regeneration. Yesterday’s warehouses and factories are converted into concert halls or galleries. An arts festival takes the place of a manufacturing strategy. A city like Bilbao establishes its credentials by erecting a museum designed by Frank Gehry. Glasgow signals its new image by refurbishing its Kelvingrove Gallery. The East End of London will become Olympic City. But is that a foundation strong enough to sustain a lasting economy? Or is it the equivalent of pyramid selling — a fragile structure built on promises, with layers of apparent activity concealing a hollow emptiness at its heart?
Conscious, perhaps, of the risks ahead, Liverpool is holding a conference at Aintree today on the impact that culture can have on local economies and regeneration. Delegates will doubtless hear stirring examples of how investment in the arts has attracted business by transforming the image of a city, drawing in creative talent and making it a more attractive place to work in. The reality is less clear-cut. A European Commission report which looked at 29 cities that had been designated Cities of Culture, found that, while economic growth had been among their principal aims, it had proved impossible to demonstrate that any definable growth had resulted. “With the exception of tourism, there is no clear evidence that the European Cities of Culture action has been used to create a platform from which to advance ‘investability’,” was its bleak conclusion. Those cities that thrived had been thriving anyway. Those that were failing continue to fail. Some of them had used “the rhetoric of economic success”, but had not managed to provide the evidence to back it up. Others, said the report candidly, “had simply preferred ‘not to know’.” The money had been spent, and that was that.
The most salutary example was Salonika, chosen by the Greek Government in a blatantly political attempt to transform it into “the metropolis of the Balkans”. Museums and galleries were erected with no expense spared, and hundreds of thousands of visitors poured in during its year in the limelight. Nine years on, it is still paying the cost. Unable to attract sufficient numbers of tourists to fill its halls and pay for their maintenance, it spends its time trying to extract money owed to it by the Greek Government, and dealing with litigation arising from its bid.
Other cities have shrugged off the need to demonstrate economic benefits by creating their own definitions of success. Lille, City of Culture in 2004, grandly described itself as “a spaceship changing the fabric of time”, rather than anything as banal as a model for regeneration.
Even Glasgow, which is often cited as a byword for urban reinvention, and which brought the Bolshoi, the Berlin Philharmonic, Pavarotti and Sinatra to the city in 1990, failed to capitalise on its success. Fourteen years on, an academic study concluded that there had been no sustainable economic development as a result of the award, that local politicians had failed to build on it and that their achievements were “opportunistic rather than strategic”. Only now, with a leadership that understands the need to link public investment in the arts with private sector initiatives, have the indicators of economic success — a rising population, the growth of small businesses and the creation of new jobs — begun to suggest that the city is responding to treatment.
Liverpool has set itself the target of becoming a tourist city, changing its image, drawing in visitors, staging big arts events and reversing its population decline by making it a more attractive place to do business in. It deserves to succeed, if only because of the way it has already turned its back on its disastrous political history, and because its people have an unquenchable spirit and a pride in their own identity; I have no doubt that by the end of 2008 Klimt, Chekhov and the rest of them will have become honorary scousers.
It should not, however, forget that only through wealth creation can growth be guaranteed. Or, as John Lennon once said, when asked what he would do after Beatlemania had subsided: “Count the money.”
PhilipG
11-09-2006, 12:57 PM
Independent online article (http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1961471.ece)
Liverpool's year of culture: Ashkenazy, Rattle, and the WAGs
By Ian Herbert
Published: 07 November 2006
Liverpool's preparations were in disarray four months ago when the city parted company with the artistic director Robyn Archer, whose tastes many considered too esoteric. But the city seems determined not to dumb down for its culture year. By mid 2007, Wilson will have reshaped a building scheduled for demolition into a project entitled Turning the Place Over. Wilson's appearance will coincide with the Turner Prize at Liverpool's Tate gallery in October.
Does anybody know which building this is?
I heard that the main reason for the Council turning down plans for the Forum/ABC cinema in Lime Street was that it was going to be used for COC 2008, but demolition was never mentioned.
It is Liverpool's only Listed former cinema building, but of course that alone won't guarantee that it won't be demolished.
Southport has had two Listed cinemas pulled down.
BTW, the Seaforth Palladium is the only other Listed former cinema near Liverpool.
It deserves to succeed, if only because of the way it has already turned its back on its disastrous political history, and because its people have an unquenchable spirit and a pride in their own identity; I have no doubt that by the end of 2008 Klimt, Chekhov and the rest of them will have become honorary scousers.
That's the spirit :)
The Teardrop Explodes
11-09-2006, 01:15 PM
...there's a picture on the icliverpool page. Looks like a great idea, turn a building into a scuplture, so much so that I'll be very disappointed if they get rid. It'll have to stay!!
PhilipG
11-09-2006, 02:05 PM
...there's a picture on the icliverpool page. Looks like a great idea, turn a building into a scuplture, so much so that I'll be very disappointed if they get rid. It'll have to stay!!
It's the Yates Wine Lodge building in Moorfields.
Thank God for that.
Six of the best on 08 stamps
Nov 15 2006
LIVERPOOL architects have called for buildings to be immortalised on stamps during Capital of Culture year. more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/liverpoolecho/news/echonews/tm_headline=six-of-the-best-on-08-stamps-%26method=full%26objectid=18099263%26siteid=50061-name_page.html)
ChrisGeorge
11-15-2006, 07:58 PM
A quick mockup, HRH on the wrong side. I know you guys could do better. . .
The board responsible for Liverpool's Capital of Culture events has lost 10 members in a radical shake-up.
Brookside creator Phil Redmond and BBC Radio Merseyside's Roger Philips are new faces in the group, which has been slimmed down from 24 members to 14.
The restructure follows a review of the way the Liverpool Culture Company board functions and its relationship with the city council and other agencies.
The new committee will focus on the delivery of the 2008 events.
Highlights from the Capital of Culture programme were unveiled to critical praise earlier in November.
Councillor Warren Bradley, leader of Liverpool City Council, said: "Our preparations for 2008 are entering a new phase and the city's relationship with key players locally and nationally will be vital over the next 18 months.
"I think the new board has got the right blend of talent and experience we need to help the city overcome any creative and strategic challenges to deliver an unforgettable programme in 2008."
A key aim of the board will be to develop a strategy for the role of the Liverpool Culture Company, and how it can help the city's cultural development, after 2008.
In addition to new board members, the chief executive of Merseytravel, Neil Scales, has been appointed as a transport advisor.
Liverpool expects to attract up to 20 million visitors during 2008.
Roger Phillips, who presents a daily phone-in programme, said: ''I see my role as being a critical friend - and one who can convey the opinions of the Merseyside public on a wide range of issues.
"I'm very keen that Liverpool's communities are fully involved in the planning and staging of the celebrations and that involvement continues well beyond 2008."
source (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/6173000.stm)....
TOURISM officials are encouraging home owners to rent out their spare rooms to visitors during Liverpool's year as Capital of Culture to help meet a massive shortage in hotel beds. more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/liverpooldailypost/news/regionalnews/tm_headline=%2Dopen-up-your-homes-for-2008%2D-plea%26method=full%26objectid=18141335%26siteid=50 061-name_page.html)
Paul D
11-23-2006, 04:50 PM
This was a good move now maybe they can get Roger McGough and Willie Russell on board.
LIVERPOOL'S plans for its 800th birthday celebrations next year and for European Capital of Culture in 2008 were put under the national spotlight last night. more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/liverpooldailypost/news/regionalnews/tm_headline=blair-%2Dsure%2D-liverpool-08-will-do-uk-proud%26method=full%26objectid=18171285%26siteid=5 0061-name_page.html)
snappel
11-28-2006, 06:02 PM
I dunno... most people I've talked to outside of Liverpool have no idea. And anyway, ask someone in the street who the 2005 or 2006 European City of Culture was and they probably have no idea...
Paul D
11-28-2006, 06:09 PM
It's already done wonders for the city,regeneration was speeded up when we won this title and we're going to be on TV nationally for some events as well as having the concert on the Mersey beamed Worldwide,then there's The British Open Golf in 2008 which showed us in a great light this year even though it was in Wirral,an estimated 400 million watched that and will again in 2008 when it comes to Royal Birkdale,there's nothing to worry about believe me.
THE man who awarded Liverpool its Capital of Culture glory has insisted the city is back on course to deliver an unforgettable celebration in 2008.
Speaking after attending this week's look-ahead event in London, judging panel chairman Sir Jeremy Isaacs declared: "It looks very promising and it smells good."
He added: "Of course, some of the changes that have been made have created problems for the people running Capital of Culture, but it seems to me they have picked themselves up.
"I'm confident they will crack it, no, they will more than crack it, and that 2008 will be a great year to visit Liverpool and to live in Liverpool."
It was the first time Sir Jeremy, the founder of Channel 4, had revealed his thoughts on the hiccups that had struck planning for 2008 in recent months.
Those problems culminated in the resignation in July of Robyn Archer, the Australian festival director hired to run the programme. At Tate Britain this week, Arts Minister David Lammy hinted at government concern at the bad headlines over Capital of Culture when he described the planning as "a bumpy ride".
But Sir Jeremy said: "The idea that the promises made to the judging panel in year X would remain exactly the same in year X-plus-five was always nonsense.
"I have been a bit out of touch recently with the plans for Capital of Culture, but I speak as someone who is now looking afresh at what will happen.
"I'm not someone wholooks at the headlines, but at the substance of the stories behind those headlines. It looks very promising, very enterprising and it smells good."
Sir Jeremy spoke after joining political, cultural, and business leaders from Liverpool at Tate Britain, on the banks of the Thames, to scrutinise the 2008 programme. With the Turner exhibition on display just yards away, there was a particular focus on the coup of bringing the 2008 exhibition to Tate Liverpool to kick-start the celebrations.
Mr Lammy said 2008 was an opportunity to "put on a show for Europe that's a wonderful preparation for London 2012".
But he went further, adding: "As the Arts Minister, for me this is the Olympics, the cultural Olympics.
"It has been a bumpy ride, but you have moved beyond that and I am now confident that you are planning to put on the best Capital of Culture year Europe has seen." source (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/liverpoolecho/news/echonews/tm_headline=liverpool-back-on-course-to-deliver-capital-of-culture-glory%26method=full%26objectid=18176300%26page=2%2 6siteid=50061-name_page.html)........
EVERY coach passenger arriving in the city could be given a warm Liverpool welcome by a team of tourism guides during the Capital of Culture year. more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/liverpoolecho/news/echonews/tm_headline=coach-passengers-to-get-a-warm-liverpool-welcome%26method=full%26objectid=18241048%26siteid =50061-name_page.html)
Paul D
12-11-2006, 03:51 PM
EVERY coach passenger arriving in the city could be given a warm Liverpool welcome by a team of tourism guides during the Capital of Culture year. more (http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/liverpoolecho/news/echonews/tm_headline=coach-passengers-to-get-a-warm-liverpool-welcome%26method=full%26objectid=18241048%26siteid =50061-name_page.html)
It makes sense to me but shouldn't we be doing this anyway,we should be handing out leaflets,explaining things and giving a friendly welcome to all new arrivals whether they arrive by road air and sea.
snappel
03-26-2007, 11:06 AM
I was thinking the other day... who know's what the 2007 Capital of Culture is? And so who will know what the 2008 Capital of Culture is? Which led me on to a little investigation, ending up after about 5 seconds research (waiting) with the Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Capital_of_Culture) for said award.
Two things I hadn't realised before struck me. Firstly, I never realised that from this year forwards the CoC award is shared between two cities, in our case Stavanger in Norway. Secondly, the countries for the years 2013 to 2019 have already been selected, regardless of the actual city. Shouldn't cities be selected according to how much culture they have rather than one per country to keep everyone happy? The more I read about it, the less significance I see in the actual award, although of course there's no denying it'll be very beneficial for the cities involved.
Anyway...
Thanks Snappel, the COC award didn't mean that much to me TBH, it meant more that we had been recognised for something, especially with the celebration of the 800th birthday the year before, almost like a coming of age for Liverpool anyway. Two very important years, on reflection I would say 2007 was more significant.
How many people think Liverpool celebrates its COC year this year eh?! Loads and loads.
You'd think the 08 shop would do more for local authors on their measly book stand. There's room in there for a little mini cinema/seated area showing old Liverpool history films - they have the screens.
You'd think the 08 shop would do more for local authors on their measly book stand. There's room in there for a little mini cinema/seated area showing old Liverpool history films - they have the screens.
The 08 shop is pants, they might as well sell Blackpool rock in there and kiss me quick hats, rather than Liverpool culture and heritage.
I'd buy a kiss me quick hat.:PDT_Aliboronz_24:
I'd put a sign on It though saying Females only.
Shapers
03-26-2007, 06:31 PM
To me, all the CoC is doing is doing away with was once Liverpools heritage and replacing it with outsiders intrests. The knocking down of old buildings, the sufferings of local businesses (owned or run by Scousers) and the outside contractors for the building work to me shows that the only Liverpool people getting any sort of benefit from it is those in charge. I am very negative towards the CoC.
Come 2008 there will be a few more shop floor Scousers making the outside fat cats richer.
To me, all the CoC is doing is doing away with was once Liverpools heritage and replacing it with outsiders intrests. The knocking down of old buildings, the sufferings of local businesses (owned or run by Scousers) and the outside contractors for the building work to me shows that the only Liverpool people getting any sort of benefit from it is those in charge. I am very negative towards the CoC.
Come 2008 there will be a few more shop floor Scousers making the outside fat cats richer.
When I went in the 08 shop there wasn't a single scouse accent to be heard. Lets all pile in there and test their knowledge :PDT11.
RE: The outside contractors, do u mean those employing 'Poles' etc? This is happening all over the UK though.
Gnomie
03-26-2007, 06:37 PM
Im really looking forward to all the price rises, that will keep me out of town.
Shapers
03-26-2007, 06:40 PM
When I went in the 08 shop there wasn't a single scouse accent to be heard. Lets all pile in there and test their knowledge :PDT11.
RE: The outside contractors, do u mean those employing 'Poles' etc? This is happening all over the UK though.
NO i don't mean the Poles. I have family in the building trade and they tell me Manchester gangs are taking up some of the work here. I Knew a man in my road who was labouring down there, hes a scouser, but got laid off. Seems silly considering theres a lot of work to be done, but i am not an expert builder so its possible am barking up the wrong tree.
I have nothing against Polish people or other Europeans working here. Just those in charge not being from Liverpool winning contracts.
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