In which we promote a good cause
Written by Forest Pines; published at 8:08 pm on July 16th, 2009.
Filed under: Linkery.
The other week I mentioned, in amongst the other things I haven’t blogged about lately, the local football club’s plan to make lots of money knocking their ground down and selling the site to Tesco, disguised as a “let’s bring the World Cup to Bristol” campaign which they seem to be using to blackmail the city planning department. There is, of course, no need to build a Tesco on the site of the football ground. There are two other branches of Tesco within about fifteen minutes’ walk of the new site, two other large supermarkets within the same distance, and a very large Tesco about fifteen minutes’ drive away.
Unsurprisingly, lots of other people have noticed this, so I thought I would put a quick mention of them here. The Bristol Blogger has been looking at the football club and council’s published figures and knocking holes in them: here, here and here. Unsurprisingly, the city council’s marketing figures seem to be vastly overstated. Meanwhile, there’s a local residents campaign to fight against the Tesco plans. They’re called BERATE, and they’ve got a blog up, with links to their petitions; and old-fashioned paper petitions in a lot of the shops in the area. I’d imagine most people from Bedminster and Southville have already seen it, but they deserve as much publicity as possible.
Keyword noise: Bedminster, BERATE, Bristol, Bristol City, Bristol City FC, campaign, football, shop, shopping, Southville, Tesco
In which things get sweaty
Written by Forest Pines; published at 10:27 pm on July 2nd, 2009.
Filed under: Dear Diary.
I had hoped that a thunderstorm would clear the air, get rid of some of the humidity, cool things down a bit. Unfortunately, nothing changed. We had the thunderstorm, and half an hour later the ground was dry and the weather was still hot, muggy, and sticky to the touch. Oh well. Summer isn’t nice when it’s too hot to think.
Things I was going to blog about recently but haven’t: the rather silly “let’s bring the World Cup to Bristol” proposals, which seem like nothing more than a plan to blackmail the council planning department into letting Tesco build a new Ashton store, two minutes down the street from the Sainsbury’s that’s already there. Plus, the Easton Arts Trail, a rather enjoyable wander round which, already, was nearly a fortnight ago. Not to mention pictures of old trains from the weekend before that, and all the other things we’ve been getting up to lately apart from the strange foreign dirty movies. If it’s too hot to leave the sofa, it’s definitely too hot to blog
Keyword noise: art, Ashton, Ashton Gate, Bristol, Bristol City, Easton, Easton Arts Trail, heat, hot, July, planning, summer, temperature, Tesco, weather
In which FP has been busy writing elsewhere
Written by Forest Pines; published at 10:21 am on February 11th, 2008.
Filed under: Artistic, Linkery.
Another quick note, now I’m back from Riga.* Whilst I was away, one of my favourite websites – Nothing To See Here – posted an article by, er, me! It’s about Trinity Square Car Park in Gateshead, the car park which was made famous by the film Get Carter,** and is about to be knocked down to be replaced by another Tesco (even though Tesco already have a store that’s, literally, on the other side of the street). If you might be interested, go read the article. If you might want to see the car park, then run, don’t walk, to Gateshead.
* or Rīga, rather.
** The original, not the remake; although Stallone, who starred in the remake, has been campaigning for the building to be saved.
Keyword noise: architecture, buildings, car park, demolition, Gateshead, Get Carter, Nothing To See Here, Owen Luder, Tesco, Trinity Square
In which we note someone’s spreading fame
Written by Forest Pines; published at 4:49 pm on November 23rd, 2007.
Filed under: Media Addict.
The band Camera Obscura are clearly going up in the world. I noted, a few months ago, that one of their songs had popped up on a Tesco advert. Never mind about that, though: today, they were on the front page of The Guardian, up above the masthead. Admittedly, only because a Guardian reader had written in with: why weren’t Camera Obscura listed in your recent “1000 albums to hear before you die”* list? It’s better than not being there at all, though.
True Camera Obscura fans, of course, will be spending next weeked at the Midland Railway Centre, in Derbyshire. Their bass player, Mr Gav “King of Partick” Dunbar, is doing a DJ set there, in a heated marquee at Butterley railway station. Now, to my mind, that’s how you judge you’re doing well. Never mind the Guardian front page; once you’ve got your marquee heated, you know you’re on the up and up.
* not to be confused with the entirely unrelated book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, of course.
Keyword noise: advert, advertising, Butterley, Camera Obscura, Gavin Dunbar, indie, indiepop, Indietracks, Midland Railway Centre, music, pop, Ripley, Tesco, The Guardian
In which we recognise some music
Written by Forest Pines; published at 6:28 pm on April 29th, 2007.
Filed under: Dear Diary, Media Addict.
I was pleased and slightly surprised the first time I heard the band Camera Obscura on the radio. I was even more surprised the first time I turned on the radio at random and heard a Camera Obscura song playing.*
We were sat, lazing about watching telly, the other night, and the adverts came on. There was an advert for Tesco clothes. With, I was rather amazed to realise, a Camera Obscura song as its backing. “Bloody hell,” I said, fainting slightly. However famous they keep on getting, I’m not sure I’m ever going to get used to it.
* it was on Radio Two, at about 4am on a Sunday morning; I was driving home from a certain Theatrical And Social Club and had just dropped a friend off at her house.
Keyword noise: advert, advertising, BBC, Camera Obscura, indie, indiepop, music, pop, radio, Radio 2, television, telly, Tesco, tv
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