yea its not hard to be better than glasgow and bradford.
my comment on those two places is that
glasgow has a better irish community than birmingham.
bradford has a better asian community than birmingham.
that was my point. which your aware of. but your best come back was that birmingham is better than glasgow or bradford. which i agree i'd rather live in birmingham than glasgow or bradford because they are more ghetto (glasgow) or overly asian (bradford). but whilst birmingham might not be as bad as them in the bigger picture. they still beat birmingham for their ethnic communities. despite Birmingham's huge asian community they still cant say they beat bradford. despite Birmingham's big irish community they cannot say they beat glasgow. and if it wasnt for the parade i'd be tempted to say they'd be beaten by manchester and liverpool too.
now to answer "all the top acts come to birmingham"no doubt birmingham gets some good acts come to the city. but the city sucks at getting the info out there. Marilyn Manson came to birmingham last year. I only found out THE DAY the concert was and managed to go. when I told people about it the next day people didnt believe me because they thought that if he was coming to birmingham there would of been much better publicity.
hence my comment about communication and birmingham being so bad at it. good people come to birmingham but they just do so little to put it out there.
brummies as audiences suck too. Like Marilyn Manson's mosh pit consisted of me and about 6 other people. maybe at a push 15 at the MAX. the venue was not even half way full either. there just wasnt many people there.
then when i went to see alterbridge in the o2/carlsberg academy and me and my friend thought the rest of the audience was seated because of how still they were. when the lights turned up and we saw they were stood up we couldnt believe it. in fact the band that was on before alterbridge who was good. actually said "come on birmingham don't be so f*cking subdued"
i've never been to a rock concert anywhere outside of Birmingham and seen
that.
also all the top bands go to festivals elsewhere in the country.
for example i'm a big fan of sbtrkt. he is playing in leeds, reading and newport. not birmingham. despite Birmingham's big irish community christy moore has not played in birmingham in yeaaaaars. when Down came to the uk they went to manchester not birmingham. cool bands like gogol bordello are going leeds and reading this year. NOT birmingham. whens the last time valve sound system came to birmingham?
marylin manson and alterbridge also played in manchester as well as birmingham.
the only tour i can remember that was london and birmingham but no other major city was kevin hart.
so thats it. most cool bands go to other places as well or just skip birmingham and rarely exclude manchester over birmingham. but birmingham gets regularly excluded over manchester.
manchester, leeds and bristol have better live events than birmingham.
You say "birmingham has very good transport" I disagreemaybe you can give me some examples of how its good?
I can tell you how its bad.
most cities have a bus station where all the buses eventually go. no matter what bus you get on. you will find your way to the city centre.
not birmingham. birmingham has buses that go literally down one side of the city skipping the centre.
birminghams buses become extremely unreliable after dark.
their tram system is almost invisible with how few people actually use it.
they have no oyster cards.
also many other cities allow for you to get change if you pay for cash on the bus.
NOT birmingham. no with birmingham if you want to pay with coins you have to have the EXACT change for your busfare or they just tax your money. for example if your fare is £1.20 and all you have on you is one £1 coin and one 50p coin you lose 30p cause they dont give change.
also if your in a rush and you have no change and you hop on a bus and want to pay cash. they cannot give you change. so that means if your lost and have no money. you have to get to a cash point and find a shop to get change for the f*cking bus. and good luck with that if its
after 6pm because 90% of the city just goes to sleep.
oh yea and theres no buses after midnight.
wheras places like manchester have late night buses that go on up until 3.am
for a city. birmingham behaves like a town the way it just shuts down on sundays or the way almost everywhere shuts after 6pm. dont get me wrong i know theres places open but they can be very hard to find.
if you compare that to say leeds, manchester or what ever its quite easy to find open places after that time. from when your the "second city" and theres other cities that are more 24/7 than you then you've failed
yes there's lots of choice for food. but the choices largely suck.give me examples of good places to eat and explain to me how the transport in birmingham is GOOD?
I've given good examples. why can't you?
here's a quote from Birmingham food critic and blogger Smoke & Umami.
"Most of the city’s offerings were becoming very generic, especially in the suburbs, there wasn’t any distinction between them." (
http://smokeandumami.com/2013/01/21/mughal-e-azam/)