GreaterBirmingham wrote:
Quite simple - We don't deserve it. Simply wheeling out the same tired old cliches, Jasper Carrott, Duran Duran, Black Sabbath and Ossy Osbourne just won't cut it when you have a City council who's idea of culture is Broad St nightlife and a City centre full of corporate chains with about as much individuality as a Paris Hilton teenyclone.
How on earth a City council who have made it their mission to eradicate all signs of independent culture in this city by bludgeoning it with noise abatement orders till it stops twitching can suggest bloggers support a bid for city of culture is beyond me.
In comparison with or nearest rival and similar city, Manchester, Birmingham is light years behind. What we lack here is a council with real vision and the guts to get behind and support the real innovators in this city, just think what kind of plce the Custard Factory complex could be with some council backing.
Look at the music venes they have demolished (Foundry, Railway), have helped go out of business (Fiddle & Bone) and want to see die (Rainbow, Spotted Dog).
The Council have a perverted & sanitised version of culture that they want to inflict on us all but I say enough is enough!
I call on Birmingham bloggers to oppose this 'City of Culture' bid and show the Council just what ordinary people think of their hatred of real independent Brummie culture.
No! We shall use council elections to tell our councils what we think of them. I don't disagree that at times they have let us down when it comes to culture, but for goodness sake lets not cut our nose off to spite our face when they are actually trying do something positive for once! I fully support their bid.
As for famous Brummies, may I add Murray Walker and Tony Hancock to the list.