The Bold Street Project Blog; The Street, The Art, The Research, The exhibition, The Community.
Received from Paul Simpson a set of images made by Bob Colwell in 1985 of 77 Bold Street during a Channel 4 special on Cafe Berlin. If anyone knows how to contact Bob, please get in touch. Currently seeking footage of any Cafe Berlin gigs by Smiths, New Order, Bunnymen etc.
“When I first came to Liverpool, nobody had even seen an aubergine and hadn’t heard of things like green chilli or coriander” is perhaps one of the quaintest statements I have read in association with Bold Street since I started working on this project. But sadly, whilst I like the idea that Bold Street introduced aubergines to the diners of Liverpool, the news article this is taken from has a somewhat sadder tone. Asha, Liverpool’s oldest restaurant a Bold Street institution is set to close. You can read Caroline Innes’ article and interview with Asha’s Dipak Choudhury for the Liverpool Daily Post here.
When researching what’s already out there “on Bold Street on Youtube”, we were pleased to find a selection of Bold Street Events already “youtubed”. There’s the good, the bad and the delightful; this is from Maximo Park cutting the ribbon at the opening of the new HMV on Bold Street recently.
Jegsy Dodd visited us at FACT today and read his poem (and song) “3am on Bold Street”, to the thoughtful tenantspin audience. then joined Laura in conversation on the sofa for an ‘edgy’ chat on the contemporary feel of Bold Street.
Today we’re working in the Box at FACT with the tenantspinners; we’re filming a Bold Street conversation. Laura, John, Dolly and Vera are chatting about Bold Street, scrubbing steps, radishes, cleaning, first cups of coffee, and hats bought on Bold Street.
We have developed this blog to offer a growing snapshot of our research into Bold Street, and the creation of our project and exhibition “The Bold Street”, launching June 29th. This week we’ve been getting the whole project team blogging, so watch out for a variety of new posts from Alan, Patrick, Michelle, Laura, Ed and Joan. Having sung the praises of Wordpress for may blog projects we’ll soon see it in action for multi-author blogs.
We (Katie and Michelle) went on a tour of St Luke’s church. Whilst we didn’t get to go inside, we did get some great pictures from the church looking towards Hardman Street and down towards Bold Street. Also, we got quite a history lesson! All our pictures will be added to Flickr, the photo sharing website. You can see the St Luke’s Church ones here.
The Bold Street Project offers many ways in which anyone can contribute to the project. If you have a memory or story about Bold Street, we’d love to hear it, and to include it in our exhibition and Bold Street ‘archive’. So, there are various ways you can get in touch. We’ve even got our own phone number! Call 0151 324 1555 to leave your message.
Bold Street offers inspiration to film makers. For a sneak preview of quite literally “the lowdown” on Bold Street, we’ve added our first tenantspin Bold Street film to YouTube.
We’ll be usng lots of online tools, social media spaces, and web services to spread the word about the Bold Street Project Exhibition. In addition, we’ll also use these spaces to offer an online version of the exhibition. Further more, we’ll be using these spaces to encourage anyone to contribute to the project and to facilitate that contribution. We’ll be discussing how, where and when on this blog. As well as offering an index to a variety of diverse Bold Street related content, we’ll be using the blog to share information on how we’re using Social Media tools. The next step in our project is to work with the content we already have and to share that online.
