| Portsmouth miss out on UK City of Culture 2029 07:52 - Oct 22 with 1068 views | PatfromPoole |
Well, well, well.....
This is a huge turn-up.
Missing out on a place in the final 4, usurped by cultural hotspots Wrexham and Milton Keynes.......
Boooooooo.......
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/art [Post edited 22 Oct 9:34]
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| Portsmouth miss out on UK City of Culture 2029 on 07:56 - Oct 22 with 1036 views | SportRepubic |
Who cares?
Spend more time worrying about where SFC are going than that lot. |  | | |
| Portsmouth miss out on UK City of Culture 2029 on 08:03 - Oct 22 with 997 views | shotters |
I will probably be banned from this forum for heresy but I quite like a night out in Southsea
The Wedgewood Rooms is a great venue, seen some excellent gigs there and the khazis are a great spot for some pro Saints graffiti and stickers. Really easy to get to from my manor too |  |
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| Portsmouth miss out on UK City of Culture 2029 on 08:29 - Oct 22 with 926 views | PatfromPoole |
| Portsmouth miss out on UK City of Culture 2029 on 08:03 - Oct 22 by shotters |
I will probably be banned from this forum for heresy but I quite like a night out in Southsea
The Wedgewood Rooms is a great venue, seen some excellent gigs there and the khazis are a great spot for some pro Saints graffiti and stickers. Really easy to get to from my manor too |
It is a good venue. Seen many a lively gig there.
And Portsmouth Guildhall is one of my favourite gig venues as well, in truth. It's a much better venue than Southampton Guildhall, it pains me to say. | |
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| Portsmouth miss out on UK City of Culture 2029 on 08:31 - Oct 22 with 919 views | PatfromPoole |
| Portsmouth miss out on UK City of Culture 2029 on 07:56 - Oct 22 by SportRepubic |
Who cares?
Spend more time worrying about where SFC are going than that lot. |
There was a fairly long discussion about it on here earlier this year.
Feel free to put me on Ignore. [Post edited 22 Oct 8:31]
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| Portsmouth miss out on UK City of Culture 2029 on 09:25 - Oct 22 with 799 views | yateleysaint |
Blackpool made the shortlist too.
Christ. |  |
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| Portsmouth miss out on UK City of Culture 2029 on 09:34 - Oct 22 with 785 views | PatfromPoole |
| Portsmouth miss out on UK City of Culture 2029 on 09:25 - Oct 22 by yateleysaint |
Blackpool made the shortlist too.
Christ. |
One can imagine that with a £10 million prize at stake for "projects", there is scope for all sorts of brown envelopes to change hands here.
You would have thought Portsmouth City Council would have enlisted the services of a prominent member of the Redknapp family to assist in smoothing things..... | |
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| Portsmouth miss out on UK City of Culture 2029 on 09:44 - Oct 22 with 743 views | SportRepubic |
| Portsmouth miss out on UK City of Culture 2029 on 08:31 - Oct 22 by PatfromPoole |
There was a fairly long discussion about it on here earlier this year.
Feel free to put me on Ignore. [Post edited 22 Oct 8:31]
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Calm down.
I’ve watched on for a long time at your pearls and lively debate with the owner of this forum.
I wouldn’t wanna miss out.
Can we be friends please? X | | | |
| Portsmouth miss out on UK City of Culture 2029 on 12:22 - Oct 22 with 566 views | kingslandstand1 |
But why would anyone actually want it?
Only it seems to me that they award the "title" to places that are shitholes that need the dosh to improve their city, not a place that is currently culturally savvy
Although I enjoyed the chant against the Skates "you live in a fuk in shithole" so maybe they did need it |  |
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| Portsmouth miss out on UK City of Culture 2029 on 15:16 - Oct 22 with 446 views | franniesTache |
There’s a ton of culture there tbf, gonorrhea, chlamydia, herpes… |  | | |
| Portsmouth miss out on UK City of Culture 2029 on 15:20 - Oct 22 with 439 views | shotters |
Most places have areas of that are run down
When Mrs S first went into Woking she described it as being “just like Harlow” she’s from Essex and that’s a pretty big insult
What does it have? A shit statue of a Martian in reference to War Of The Worlds as HG Wells used to live in the town, and that’s it. Nothing to reference The Jam, the diary yard mentioned in Town Called Malice is now flats and The Liberal Club where Paul Weller played his first gig has been derelict for years. There isn’t even an ironic reference to the Andrew formally known as prince’s Pizza Express of choice
Doing up the town centre and making it worse and the redevelopment of the Sheerwater estate has bankrupted the council
Basically, most towns and cities need funding for redevelopment so I’m not surprised so many want to win the award and funding | |
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| Portsmouth miss out on UK City of Culture 2029 on 19:24 - Oct 22 with 314 views | solent_toffee |
| Portsmouth miss out on UK City of Culture 2029 on 08:03 - Oct 22 by shotters |
I will probably be banned from this forum for heresy but I quite like a night out in Southsea
The Wedgewood Rooms is a great venue, seen some excellent gigs there and the khazis are a great spot for some pro Saints graffiti and stickers. Really easy to get to from my manor too |
I don’t think there is any comparison with Wrexham and Portsmouth. It’s staggering how Wrexham have got the media on their side because of their influential owners. There’s no doubt it’s had a resurgence in the past few years, but Pompey knocks spots off ot. Wrexham is barely a City, more a big town. | | | |
| Portsmouth miss out on UK City of Culture 2029 on 19:31 - Oct 22 with 306 views | shotters |
Of the final 4 I'd go for Sheffield and then Blackpool
Milton Keynes or Wrexham, I don't think so unless it's felt that the areas would really benefit from the funding | |
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| Portsmouth miss out on UK City of Culture 2029 on 14:24 - Oct 23 with 43 views | yateleysaint |
| Portsmouth miss out on UK City of Culture 2029 on 19:24 - Oct 22 by solent_toffee |
I don’t think there is any comparison with Wrexham and Portsmouth. It’s staggering how Wrexham have got the media on their side because of their influential owners. There’s no doubt it’s had a resurgence in the past few years, but Pompey knocks spots off ot. Wrexham is barely a City, more a big town. |
Wrexham’s only officially been a city for a few years and that’s a bit of a stretch. I still thought it was only a town as I’d forgotten it had acquired city status.
My Dad grew up near Wrexham and couldn’t wait to get out. He went to uni in Hull and met my Mum, who was up there from Southampton. My Dad had the good sense to go to Liverpool for nights out and saw the Beatles in the Cavern when he was a teen.
I used to go to Wrexham now and then (it’s a bloody long way from Hants) as a kid to see rellies and there wasn’t much doing then. The scenery in North Wales is lovely but I don’t think there’s much else going for it.
I’ve got to go back at some point to inter my Mum’s ashes next to my Dad’s in a local churchyard. I’ll be interested to see if it’s come on any since my last visit, which was to lay my Dad’s ashes to rest back in 2014.
As a place, there’s much more doing in Pompey, although I haven’t been there for a while either. | |
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