Bradford city of culture 2025

[huwcamden]

So apparently Bradford has won the city of culture award for 2025...I have to say I know very little about this...A small amount of research says that it is given every 4 years...and that Coventry.. Hull and Londonderry were previous recepients!...Anyhow this fine city has produced The Cult...David Hockney...Terrorvision and Emily Brontë!...oh and one New model Army to say but afew so please if there's a shout out for anyone else please post!

[jc]

There is the illusionist Dynamo:-
https://youtu.be/uA7BxSrhjw4

and the lovely Anita Rani:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Rani

It would be interesting to know if the Army are going to be involved with the city of culture or remain fashionably under the radar.

Cheers

jc

[Ghosttrain]

It was heavily featured on Fridays Radio 5 Live Drive show..

[Master Ray]

I only visited Bradford for the second time last year (first time was to that Film and TV museum as a student in the 80s  ) for a two day visit when Paradise Lost were playing at St Georges Hall and Therapy? were playing the next night at some tiny little club called Night Train.  I wasn't sure what to expect, I'd heard so many people tell me Bradford was a total shithole... and it was far from that, I really enjoyed my time there.  Some great pubs, very nice architecture (the Town Hall is a thing of beauty indeed), met some lovely people, had a great time.

Some other musical acts that started out in Bradford were Smokie, My Dying Bride, One Minute Silence, Tasmin Archer, Terrorvision, Kiki Dee, Fun-Da-Mental and Zayn Malik.  I admit, there's varying shades of relevance to a NMA forum in that list but they're all quite well known!    


I would genuinely like to back to Bradford one day, maybe to visit the newly reopened Film and Tv Museum.  I hope the city gets some serious tourist attention seeing as it's the new City Of Culture. 

Anyone else got any opinions / experiences of going to Bradford?

[Shush]

Never been sadly. When I see Bradford on the news / telly, I am always impressed by the fine quality Victorian  architecture, a sign of the wealth the city grew in the industrial revolution from its massive textile industry which I would like to see. Someday. 

[Winterwulf]

Bradford was my home for the majority of the 1990s, and I think I can honestly say I've seen the best and the worst of the place. There is still a lot of great Victorian architecture, though old Bradfordians still lament the loss of original Kirkgate Market and the Swan Arcade. At least one of my favourite pubs from back then is still going, namely the Fighting **** on Preston Street but I was saddened to find that the New Beehive on Westgate is no more, likewise MacRorys on Easby Road.