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Policing By Numbers
Posted by Joe Riley on September 21, 2007 8:44 AM
The government is treating Liverpool's Capital of Culture as some provincial village fete.
Evidence is provided not only by the snub to any further central funding - that's all beingheld back for the 2012 Olympics - but by the refusal to stump up the extra £10m needed to police the 08 calendar.
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Culture Company Power Bypass Operation
Posted by Joe Riley on September 13, 2007 7:02 AM
The appointment of Phil Redmond as artistic chief for 2008 is far more than a gesture to more direct Scouse involvement in 2008. It will revolutionise the process.
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2008? Those In The Know Are Doing It For Themselves
Posted by Joe Riley on September 6, 2007 1:31 PM
Strange economics. The budget for the Mathew Street Festival was overspent by £80,000 (to the tune of £480,000 and rising!) despite the scrapping of outdoor events.
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Culture row: Something's Got To Give
Posted by Joe Riley on August 22, 2007 8:53 AM
Even the best knicker elastic in the world cannot measure up to the challenge of maintaining the decorum of those at the centre of the Capital of Culture row. Something's got to give. And soon.
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Mea Culpa - or Apologies to Meg Williamson
Posted by Joe Riley on August 15, 2007 10:45 AM
In my enthusiasm for the Empire Theatre's recent youth training production of Summer Holiday (the musical based on the Cliff flick) I set out on a very dangerous journey - to name all the principals.
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Hung Out To Dry: an everyday story of cultural folk - and fish
Posted by Joe Riley on August 15, 2007 8:47 AM
How does it feel, one wonders, to stick around heading up a company that has lost the confidence of its directors, is declared to be in need of daily baby minding by the leader of the city council, and is increasingly mocked/and/or loathed by the public at large?
Of course the salary could play a part. Otherwise, you'd be hiding somewhere further away than Osama, wouldn't you?
Am I talking of Jason Harborow, chief executive of the Culture Company, or his ultimate boss, Colin Hilton, chief executive of the council?
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A Resignation Issue - But For Whom Does The Bell Toll?
Posted by Joe Riley on August 2, 2007 1:19 PM
In view of today's extraordinary news - the cancellation of the Mathew Street festival - I have postponed a blog on the subjects flagged up in today's ECHO regarding high court sentencing and theology (will return to those at a later date, no doubt).
Instead, the all-consuming issue is the fiasco of the Mathew Street Festival.
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Penny Lane: But has the penny really dropped?
Posted by Joe Riley on July 25, 2007 2:46 PM
We know to our cost, ever since they filled in the Cavern and replaced it with a pretend one, that it is not in Liverpool's interst to meddle with Beatles history.
The more that is left intact the better - and that include's Ringo's old two-up, two-down.
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The Ring of Incompetence
Posted by Joe Riley on July 25, 2007 2:39 PM
Notice all all departmental heads - ofwhatever company - who think they have cover....
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Were You EVER a tram fan?
Posted by Joe Riley on July 20, 2007 7:59 AM
Hurry, hurry, hurry, while old stocks last. Pilgrims journeying down Watling Street - aka Church Street, which is taking longer to lay than a Roman road - will notice that the excavations incorporate sets of tracks. Yes, you've guessed right. Old tram tracks, buried during the early 60s and now surely part of our industrial heritage?
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