Liverpool: European City of Culture - is it April 1st already?
Peter C Glover
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I hear that Europe has made Liverpool its 'City of Culture' for 2008. Is this a joke? Just listen to the BBC here describing how Liverpool intends to kick of its first day in the cultural limelight.
"The show's centrepiece will be a rooftop performance by Ringo Starr who will be premiering a new song." Right then. So the ex-Beatles DRUMMER (ie. the one with no talent) is going to sing (have you heard this guy sing?) a new song. The Beeb carried on with the irony. " Recent chart toppers The Wombats will also be taking centre stage at the proceedings." Oh stop it! I've been trying to sit upright on my chair ever since I heard the announcement. No wonder Europe is in a mess.
Clare McColgan, executive producer for the Liverpool Culture Company said the opening show "will be something the city has never seen". Well Claire, you could say the same about clean streets.
Referring to Liverpool as a 'city of culture' is on a par with praising Baghdad for its safety record or Teheran for its work towards world peace. But then what would I know. I'm from Manchester. For those who remain unaware of the fact: Liverpool, of course, is one of Manchester's poorer suburbs.
Altogether now: "I'd like to be, beside the sea, in an Octopuses Garden with you." Don't you just love these special moments of high culture?
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