Liverpool city of culture..

[n1 gull]

Ringo playing tonight, ffs move on fellas. Is that the best they can do?
Mind you they do have a unique sense of humour, Tarbuck and Boardman are hilarious.

Scousers, you've got to love 'em?

 

[Robot Chicken]

Tarbuck...could do a job for the Albion.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

After all the robberies and gun crime I thought Liverpool would be given the title "city of vultures"

 

[Rangdo]

Wasn't Cilla Black from scouse-land too. They've got to have her there on a rooftop. Maybe Ringo could push her off.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Wasn't Cilla Black from scouse-land too. They've got to have her there on a rooftop. Maybe Ringo could push her off.

SURPRISE SURPRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSE splat !

 

[Questions]

They`ve found culture in Liverpool ?

Yet they couldn`t find WMD`s in Iraq.

Swap the inspectors round I say.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

An absolute joke that Liverpool won, but I guess we would never had heard the end of it if they were overlooked. Not quite as ludicrous as Brighton being in the running. Considering the city (sic) took great pride in destroying much of its heritage. Just realised I am wearing my 'Where else Brighton & Hove City of Culture 2008' T-Shirt

 

[Questions]

An absolute joke that Liverpool won, but I guess we would never had heard the end of it if they were overlooked. Not quite as ludicrous as Brighton being in the running. Considering the city (sic) took great pride in destroying much of its heritage. Just realised I am wearing my 'Where else Brighton & Hove City of Culture 2008' T-Shirt

Unless feethin an injecting heroin is classed as culture.............. a travesty.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Unless feethin an injecting heroin is classed as culture.............. a travesty.

I am sure that heroin would give one a new slant on their surroundings. Perhaps Heroin was included in the gift bags of the adjudicators.

 

[Harty]

So cultured that a young lad was shot in a pub carpark in broad daylight yet several months on no one has had the balls to turn the culprit in.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

No one likes a grass, Harty.

 

[n1 gull]

So cultured that a young lad was shot in a pub carpark in broad daylight yet several months on no one has had the balls to turn the culprit in.

and the police keep telling us they know who did it? What a very strange secret to keep? Maybe they also know the 5 new signings...

 

[Rangdo]

SURPRISE SURPRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSE splat !

We got a lorra lorra blood ere chuck

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Sorry,with Harty on this one. Kids shot in broad daylight.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

You all clearly know nothing about European Capital of Cuture and are talking complete bollocks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool08/

http://www.liverpool08.com/

Better than anything anyone else could offer - so there

Launch of 08
A giant cast of more than 1,300 performers - from schoolchildren to ex-Beatle Ringo Starr - will officially launch Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture this weekend.

A unique double bill of performances on Friday and Saturday, January 11-12, commissioned by the Liverpool Culture Company, will kick start a year-long programme of more than 350 events, many of which will be free and are set to attract an extra two million visitors to the city.

On Friday, The People's Opening will take place in front of St George's Hall in the city centre. At 20:08hrs, the artists and people of the city gather together for an extraordinary performance from the rooftops surrounding Liverpool's cultural heart.

Two songs will also be premiered at the show - one by Ringo Starr and Dave Stewart and one by up and coming Liverpool band - The Wombats. Both will be released as singles on Monday, January 14.

This live outdoor production has required:

Four cranes including a 150 foot and 250 foot crane to form part of the show
Four performing forklifts
50 km of cable
60 tonnes of containers
100 tonnes of staging and structures
80 tonnes of lighting
14 tonnes of speakers
One km of performance space
Four km fibre optic cable
15 cameras
Two 40 by 40 foot projection screens and a 10 metre sq LED screen
Event personnel of 250 doing over 40,000 hours of work to create and build the show
The show includes:

600 local people including 20 guitarists, choirs and schoolchildren
40 aerial performers
The choirs are assembled from Liverpool Philharmonic Community Gospel Choir, One Voice Community Choir, ACCORD Community Gospel Choir, Sound Central Community Singers, Formby High Midnight Voices, One Heart Singers.
Choir Director and vocal arrangement: Tyndale Thomas. Sopranos: Kadria Thomas, Debbie Jones, Lisa Smith. Additional vocals: Yvonne Shelton, Zena Taylor, Mark McKenzie, Stuart Bell.
Pupils from Pleasant St (Toxteth) and St Christopher's (Speke) primary schools.
Running time: 40 minutes

At 20.08hrs on Saturday, January 12, Liverpool - The Musical will be staged at the new Echo Arena Liverpool, Kings Dock.

Integrating live performance and film in a radical new way and vertically stacking performers seven stories into the air, the show features a once-in-a-lifetime cast including: Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in collaboration with; No Fakin DJs, Ringo Starr, Echo and The Bunnymen, The Farm, Riuven, The Wombats, Pete Wylie, Dave Stewart and the people of the city.

This live outdoor production also includes:

A cast of 700, including 100 school children.
Age range of performers from 6 - 78.
200 moving lights.
Four km of cable.
600m of trussing.
90 minutes of film, edited from 480 minutes of footage.
Event personnel of 120 who have put in 15,000 man hours to create and build the show.
Choirs include: Sense of Sound, Formby High Midnight Voices, Sound Central Community Singers, Liverpool Philharmonic Gospel Choir, One Voice Community choir, 1 heart 1, ACCORD community gospel choir, Liverpool Welsh Choral.
Running time: 100 minutes.

Both events have been co-directed by internationally acclaimed director Nigel Jamieson, whose pedigree includes the opening ceremony for the Sydney Olympic Games and closing ceremony for the Manchester Commonwealth Games; and Jayne Casey former lead singer of Big in Japan and co-founder of Liverpool superclub Cream.

Saturday night is also the opening event for the UK's newest music venue, the state-of-the-art 10,600-capacity Echo Arena, which is set to be the most environmentally-friendly venue in the UK.

Visit the 08 site for more information on the year's events.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7182334.stm

City enjoys culture capital party

The event has been described as "a once in a lifetime" show
Tens of thousands of people have joined in a launch party for Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture.
Former Beatle Ringo Starr helped get the party under way by performing on the 100ft-high roof of St George's Hall in the centre of the city.

He was joined by acrobats who dangled on wires from cranes - designed to reflect the building work which has transformed the area.

The opening party kicks off a year-long programme of more than 350 events.

Fireworks exploded from the top of St George's Hall and lights and projections bathed the Neo-Classical masterpiece and other surrounding buildings, including the Empire Theatre and Lime Street station.

As well as suspending the acrobats, some of whom appeared to dash up the side of St George's Hall, the cranes also hoisted shipping containers, which were designed to symbolise the city's shipping heritage.

Organisers hope the Capital of Culture tag will attract an extra two million visitors and boost the economy by £100m.

The ceremony began at 2008 GMT and boasted a list of 600 performers, including Starr, former Eurythmics frontman Dave Stewart and The Wombats.

Restoring city pride

The show's design was drawn up by director Nigel Jamieson, responsible for the opening ceremony for the Sydney Olympic Games.

It took more than 100 tonnes of staging, 2.5 miles (4km) of fibre optic cabling and 250 people more than 40,000 hours to set up.

Two 40ft (12m) screens were erected to help the crowd on Lime Street enjoy the show.

Despite earlier criticism, Phil Redmond, Brookside creator and deputy chairman of the Culture Company said he was sure it would go to plan: "It's like a scouse wedding - a lot of rowing but it gets there in the end."

On Saturday the new Echo Arena will play host to a musical extravaganza which will showcase some of the most famous names in Merseyside music.

Ringo Starr, Echo and The Bunnymen, The Farm, Riuven, The Wombats, Pete Wylie, Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra took centre stage alongside community choirs and gospel groups in the "once in a lifetime show".

At a news conference the former Fab Four drummer said he was proud to be a part of the celebrations.

"I'm from Liverpool, I do feel that - it's in my soul.

"It has changed so much over the years but the atmosphere of the city doesn't change - it's still here."

Liverpool's art galleries and museums will also be open to visitors until 2200 GMT.

Experts at the North West Development Agency have predicted that the year-long title and other planned events could net £50m from tourists.

They also expect the same amount again to be generated on Merseyside.

Peter Mearns, executive director of marketing at the NWDA, said: "As the celebrations get under way for Capital of Culture the eyes of the world will be on England's North West and it is critical that we seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to show the world exactly what we have to offer here."

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Very good,but as Harty says. Who shot the kid ?

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Very good,but as Harty says. Who shot the kid ?

What the f*** has that got to do with it.... If you want to go down that route every place has its own gangsters/scumbags - except for Leek which is clearly paradise on earth like Midsomer without the murders

 

[Leekbrookgull]

It has everything to do with it !!!!

 

[Cheshire Cat]

It has everything to do with it !!!!

Like what.... either you can come up with something relevant or you can't...











and you can't can you.

 

[Nemesis]

What the f*** has that got to do with it.... If you want to go down that route every place has its own gangsters/scumbags - except for Leek which is clearly paradise on earth like Midsomer without the murders

You don't understand-on here anything to do with Liverpool has to be negative and derogatory...apparently, it's the only city in the UK with problems. I'm shocked that someone living so near wasn't aware of that. Meanwhile, down in Brighton (culturally THE best place on the planet) the drug problem has completely disappeared, crime is a thing of the past and nobody has ever been murdered there.