Seems like everyone wants a piece of us now that 08 has kicked in, we’re getting more press than you can shake a cat at. We showed some Germans around Liverpool in the pissing rain and went on a bit about how it’s not exactly Berlin but people are still doing cool stuff - but then got all defensive when they started to be a bit underwhelmed and everything. Anyways, it went in the German Financial Times of all things.

Apparently I said to her “Although people here are working class, they can still handle modern art. They don’t view it as conceptional bullshit, but as something that keeps the city alive”, which doesn’t sound like me, but it does sound quite cool, so I’ll take it.

Tomas got his mush in The Observer over Christmas (check the link to read the article). It was especially exciting as we all forgot he did it, then were confronted by his gold-watch-revealing powerful stance as we flicked through the papers over Christmas at home.

It was a half-decent feature on him and some other movers and shakers (not the rest of us though …) who are keeping the flame of independence burning bright in Liverpool. Apparently they were all asked which living Liverpool celebrity they would most like to meet and why. Journalism at it’s most cutting edge.

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2231556,00.html