Brighton..UK City of Culture??

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Candidates announced this PM...they include


Aberdeen
Barnsley
Belfast
Birmingham
Bradford
Brighton & Hove
Carlisle
Chester
Cheltenham
Chichester
Chorley
City of Bath
Cornwall
Derby
Derry City
Durham
Hull
Ipswich & Haven Gateway
Leicester City
Manchester,
Norwich
Oxford
Pennine Lancashire
Reading
Sheffield
‘The Countryside’
Urban South Hampshire
Wakefield

Surely Brighton has more culture than that lot put together.

 

[Spun Cuppa]

I think Hull could be a dark horse...

 

[The Goon]

Candidates announced this PM...they include


Aberdeen
Barnsley
Belfast
Birmingham
Bradford
Brighton & Hove
Carlisle
Chester
Cheltenham
Chichester
Chorley
City of Bath
Cornwall
Derby
Derry City
Durham
Hull
Ipswich & Haven Gateway
Leicester City
Manchester,
Norwich
Oxford
Pennine Lancashire
Reading
Sheffield
‘The Countryside’
Urban South Hampshire
Wakefield

Surely Brighton has more culture than that lot put together.

i reckon we stand a chance

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

I think Hull could be a dark horse...

Read the thread title again..its "City of Culture" not "Utter shithole"

 

[Notters]

They always give it to a shithole that needs investment. What year is this for anyway?

 

[The Large One]

'Urban South Hampshire'

Can't even bring themselves to mention... Portsmouth.

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Bit behind the times aren't you.

They announced the four finalists today; Norwich, Derry, Birmingham and Sheffield

Race to become the UK’s first City of Culture hots up as Final Fourteen become Fantastic Four

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

they always give it to a shithole that needs investment. What year is this for anyway?

2013.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Bit behind the times aren't you.

They announced the four finalists today; Norwich, Derry, Birmingham and Sheffield

Race to become the UK’s first City of Culture hots up as Final Fourteen become Fantastic Four

Ah.
I heard on R4 at lunchtime that the finalists were announced today then missed the announcement...the 29 on the 1st post were the first ones listed on google.

 

[skipper734]

The only culture I've seen around here is Hiney Art.

 

[Notters]

Is this different to capital of culture then?!

 

[Nibble]

To be fair we do have a fair few cultural events, festivals etc but our council does f*** ALL for its residents so it wouldn't deserve the title imho.

 

[Spun Cuppa]

To be fair we do have a fair few cultural events, festivals etc but our council does f*** ALL for its residents so it wouldn't deserve the title imho.

Totally agree

'Let's put on a nice show for the tourists' etc., but leave old grannies in twelth floor flats with outside toilets!!!!

 

[Spider]

Isn't think sort of thing for cities with no culture, whereas Brighton is quite well known for being a cosmopolitan city anyway?

 

[Nibble]

Totally agree

'Let's put on a nice show for the tourists' etc., but leave old grannies in twelth floor flats with outside toilets!!!!

exactly, a cultured society looks after it's own. We have hard working people who have saved up to buy a nice property and then the council lets a bunch of students move next door in some shittily maintained multiple occupancy heap that soon has a front garden full of pizza boxes, binbgas and vomit. And an old chair that no-one could possibly want with a sign saying "Free, please take". No you twats it's NOT free. It costs taxpayers to have it f***ing removed.

GGGRRRRRR

 

[DerbyGull]

Totally agree

'Let's put on a nice show for the tourists' etc., but leave old grannies in twelth floor flats with outside toilets!!!!

Totally agree, when down at christmas, i found it shocking at how they provide the residents with such limited resources (lack of bins, for wastage and recycling) and the debarcle that was the gritting fiasco. Brighton and Hove council = ABSOLUTE JOKE

 

[bhaexpress]

Funny how Croydon got missed off that list.

 

[The Spanish]

Isn't think sort of thing for cities with no culture, whereas Brighton is quite well known for being a cosmopolitan city anyway?

all 4 on the shortlist PISS on Brighton for history and/or culture as much as it pains me to admit it. when is this mass self delusion going to stop. Its not milton keynes but its not f***ing Barcelona either. Its a seaside resort that is handily close to london a bit liberal and quite trendy. Thats pretty much it. It is NOT cosmopolitan. Birmingham is. Perhaps thats why its on the shortlist.

I love the town, but this mania and bullshit really is embarrassing.

 

[Nibble]

all 4 on the shortlist PISS on Brighton for history and culture as much as it pains me to admit it. when is this mass self delusion going to stop. Its not milton keynes but its not f***ing Barcelona either. Its a seaside resort that is handily close to london a bit liberal and quite trendy. Thats pretty much it. It is NOT cosmopolitan. Birmingham is. Perhaps thats why its on the shortlist.

I love the town, but this mania and bullshit really is embarrassing.

Totally correct

 

[Simon Morgan]

If by 'culture', you mean the city with the largest number of self-satisfied, irresponsible, drug-taking layabouts who are happy collecting glasses in a nightclub at the seafront and who generally aspire to be like characters on 'Skins' then yes, yes we have a bloody great chance.