City of Culture

Well it came as no surprise that Derry/Londonderry was chosen for City of Culture 2013 last Thursday 15 th July 2010. Birmingham always seems to get piped to the post with these competitions. European Capital of Culture, the new Wembley Stadium and whatever else we've gone for. The thing is as much as I love this City its obvious not everyone has that same level of love, why? Well its just easy to knock Birmingham isn't it, the accent, the 60's architecture, the ring road, Spaghetti junction to name but a few. But from my perspective the biggest problem this City seems to have is not the London based journalists or our Northern friends in Manchester who think throwing up a building taller than anything Birmingham has makes it the 2nd City no.....its our own people, the people who bemoan the City, constantly talking it down, constantly criticising. Don't get me wrong even I have a good old moan at the City as you will read in the coming months, but hey come on lets start shouting about the good stuff...the great stuff and the darn right brilliant stuff this City has to offer and then just maybe we will start to make some sort of progress with peoples perceptions of Birmingham.

Lets tell everyone at every opportunity how great Birmingham is, after all that's what our Northern friends do about their City/City's.