[Closed] "What has Hull ever done for us...?"

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Hull Truck/John Godber, the poet Larkin...

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It did beat out the cultural might of Dundee, Swansea and Leicester so it must have something pretty amazing going for it.

It's another way of saying that they got the money for regeneration but the govt wants to make a big deal out of it. 🙄

Housemartins / Beautiful South

EDIT: @loddrick I see Paul Heaton has been taking the P out of Cameron for claiming he likes the Housemartins. I have to say as a confirmed Southener I though all the North v South, Hull 4 London 0 nill stuff quite amusing particularly when I saw Beautiful South at the Royal Albert Hall, quite ironic that I thought. Happy to take the money and prestige for playing at an iconic venue

Glasgow was the European Capital of Culture in 1990.
The Garden Festivals of the 80s were not in traditionally garden places.

Regeneration with a theme.

Look up William Wilberforce, Amy Johnson, Phillip Larkin, John Godber, Mick Ronson.

And everything but the girl. Can't forget them

I lived in Ebbw Vale just before it became a Garden Festival host town.There are worse places it was badly hit by the loss of the coal ans steel industry .I never managed to go back whilst it was the garden festival town though to see what went on

The Deep is awesome!

On holiday many years ago my team (west ham) were playing someone we hooked up with's team (hull).
The deal was we would buy the victor the goal difference in beer.
West Ham won 8 nil.
Thank you Hull.

Humbrol model paints

It rhymes with 'Gull', should you be a songwriter or poet, perhaps writing a song or indeed poem, about a seabird. So that's useful.

(...and 'Mull', but Paul McCartney sort of already did that one.)

Philip Larkin. Still studied in some English GCSE syllabuses rather than Heat magazine.

My understanding is the award is intended to promote tourism and investment rather than reflect the cultural status of the recipient. The importance of the award is up to debate - did quite a lot for L'pool apparently but the current Culture Secretary has yet to visit Derry. Make what you want of that!

it reminds me how great other places are in comparison. 😉 isnt a culture something grown in a petri dish? 😉

jokes aside I figure the investment / regeneration will help them out quite a lot. good for them.

Me.

http://www.spidersnightclub.com/

Best nightclub in the world ever 8)

aah, spiders.... What a confusing place that was. Not helped by the ridiculously cheap drinks! 🙂

Don't forget LA's

Ur nur, yer jerkin'?

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largest Poundland in the UK is in Hull I believe. That's reason enough surely to the accolade.

Don't forget it has one of the great universities, alongside Cambridge.

My understanding is the award is intended to promote tourism and investment rather than reflect the cultural status of the recipient. The importance of the award is up to debate - did quite a lot for L'pool apparently but the current Culture Secretary has yet to visit Derry. Make what you want of that!

When it works best is when the winner is an unlikely recipient but theres a grass roots drive and a momentum to be propelled forward. Glasgow is pretty much the benchmark - it seemed ludicrous to award it to late 80's Glasgow when there was Edinburgh just up the road. Its difficult to grasp now just how much of the change being City of Culture was. Glasgow now has some of the busiest museums and galleries in the UK and is often cited as one of the top 10 visitor destinations in the world- but 80's Glasgow was nothing like that.

I met the guy who wrote the Glasgow culture bid. His previous job - marketing mid 80's Belfast as a holiday destination.

I think Liverpool gained less from its year, but the year of culture was just part of a direction they were already heading in. Derry/L.Derry seems to have a had a very modest impact, it seems to have gained some infrastructure but in terms of the draw of the festival - its stuff you'd get on a bus to go and see but not stuff you'd get on a plane for. But maybe that was their intent.

In cultural terms Hull has never been an obvious destination but perhaps as a benefit of being off the map a bit its been a bit of sandbox for some very left field and experimental arts events and theres a resourcefulness that comes from not having everything easy.

It gave me a degree and 3 years of most excellent student life!

Dude!

What Maccruiskeen said. I live in Hull, have done for the last 9 years or so, and the change in the last few years has been phenomenal. A combination of big council funded things (Freedom Festival) and a burgeoning diverse grass roots scene mean that there's always something going on. Our local music scene is fantastic, we've got two fantastic big theatres showing a range of performances, an absolute ton of fantastic restaurants, literature and comedy festivals (we had Chuck Palahniuk a couple of weeks ago), a great art scene with a lot of local input...

There's tons going on in Hull, it's genuinely a really exciting place to live at the moment. And the great thing is an awful lot of it is homegrown, rather than just relying on touring bands or exhibitions.

We have family who live on the south side of the river, he windsurfs, he has a pizza oven in his garden, he has a garden that looks over the beach and sea..
I like it there. 😉

[quote> http://www.spidersnightclub.com/

Best nightclub in the world ever

Good lord that takes me back 😯

Is that place still going ! Must have been 20 years ago I last went there.

And the great thing is an awful lot of it is homegrown

One of the benefits of being as backwater - 'lets do the show right here in the barn'

beej - Member
Don't forget it has one of the great universities, alongside Cambridge.

Must have been 20 years ago I last went there.

I think I might have been there around about then too - used to go out with a girl at the art school. The only thing I can remember about Spiders though is the name.

It gave me a degree and 3 years of most excellent student life!

Also was home to Roland Gift (Fine Young Cannibals), Maureen Lipman, white telephone boxes and the Land of Green Ginger.

I was a student there when Hull played Hull KR in the RL Challenge Cup Final - the city was looked like it had all its people nuked with just the buildings and empty streets remaining.

IIRC Hull Uni Chemistry Dept won several awards for their role in developing Liquid Crystal Displays.

@McC

Glasgow now has some of the busiest museums and galleries in the UK and is often cited as one of the top 10 visitor destinations in the world- but 80's Glasgow was nothing like that.

I'd question that, I grew up in Glasgow in the 80's and seem to remember that well before then the Museums and Galleries were well respected and equally well attended.The Garden Festival was about regeneration of the docklands.

Hull deserves' it's festival I'm sure. Why? I don't know, but am looking forward to finding out, maybe I'll even go back for the first time in 24yrs, that's the point of it. Well done Hull.

surroundedbyhills - Member

Hull deserves' it's festival I'm sure. Why?

It will turn into zombie city if no funds are going that way as the city is dying a slow death ...

Well, it gave the world my good self. Left in the early 2000s but I have fond memories - not least of Spiders, The Welly, The Room and other zones of debauchery (Romeo and Juliets anyone?). If cool underground music stuff counts as culture (and it certainly does for Brizzle, Manchester, etc.) then Hull has a fair bit going (Blue Lamp, Pork Productions, Bliss, Bulletnuts, etc.) Beyond music, I have memories of an energetic visual arts scene – particularly in theatre and photography.

Does it deserve it? Dunno, but great to see it get some recognition.

The Economist reckons we should just run it down gracefully and move everyone to Leeds...

Governments should not try to rescue failing towns. Instead, they should support the people who live in them. That means helping them to commute or move to places where there are jobs—and giving them the skills to get those jobs.

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21587790-city-sicker

If I recall correctly K.U.H. was totally unique for many years in that the internal telecoms network i.e. within the KUH council administrative area was totally independent of BT therefore being the first totally private independent telecoms network!

Hull Brewery used to make a very morish mild many years ago !

Reckitt Benkiser is in Hull, they make bisodol !

I used to know smudge smith from Hull, did`nt rate the chippies on my last visit !

My personal hull info bank has now been expended.

ps its at the end of the M62.

Romeo and Juliet's, bloody hell that brings back some memories! And Hull brewery mild I was brought up on!
Still live east of Hull and hopefully this award will be good for the city.

I'd question that, I grew up in Glasgow in the 80's and seem to remember that well before then the Museums and Galleries were well respected and equally well attended.The Garden Festival was about regeneration of the docklands.

Except that Goma - the busiest art gallery in Scotland didn't exist in the 1980s, nor did Tramway, which has the one of the largest gallery spaces in Europe.... or Street Level, or the Sculpture Studios or Sharmanka , or The Arches or, or, or.

Many of those are venues that either were opened in the build up for the year of culture or opened soon after.