Liverpool Culture Blog | On culture, arts, music, theatre, poetry and media in Liverpool. And other stuff tangentially related to Liverpool.

Most people seem to start a blog to complain about an aspect of their life.
I’m going to be a little more ambitious and complain about Liverpool culture. Occasionally there’ll be some praise. Other people may join in from time to time.

The news that a topiary statue of Ringo Starr in Liverpool has been decapitated will not surprise anyone living in Merseyside

I’ve just returned from a viewing at FACT of Hugh Cornwell’s Blueprint film, which consists of a live performance of the former Strangler’s new album Hooverdam interspersed with Hugh’s take on the album, in conversation with Robert Elms.

Superlambanana started life as some sort of blather from Taro Chiezo about the biotech corridor that runs between Manchester and Liverpool - a corridor I’d suggests 99.9 per cent of Scousers are blissfully unaware of to be honest.

In the absence of a Google Maps mash-up I’ve uploaded some photos of a Superlambanana hunt to a Flickr accont, as I’ve recently become a multimedia node.

Ringo Starr’s birthplace number nine Madryn Street in the Dingle has no cultural significance as should be demolished, according to Liverpool City council and the National Trust

In a year when the city is the European Capital of Culture and there’s a whole host of new music, theatre, art and other media going on around the city, the spectacle of its fading celebrities donning mop-top wigs and singing songs written over 40 years ago was a backward step.

Depending on how you greet news of more bars, hotels, shops and generic retail space in the city, the Lewis’s redevelopment is probably either good or rather indifferent news.