Capital of Culture 2008

We were in Liverpool on Friday night, for the ‘People’s Opening’ of their Capital of Culture year, ( People’s meaning free). Around 30,000 people congregated on St. George’s Plateau, to join in the celebrations, which included choirs, aerial performers, new Liverpool band The Wombats, and Ringo Starr, who performed a song from his new album, which was amusingly met by jeering from the crowd when it was announced he’d be doing this, and not a crowd pleaser like Yellow Submarine.

Here are a few short movie clips and shots from Friday:

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St. George’s Hall looked really good. It took 80 tonnes of lighting to do this.

Here’s Ringo performing his single on the roof of St. George’s Hall. He’s the one with the sunglasses, the beard, and the hat.

It promises to be a good year for the city of Liverpool, and there are dates in their events calender that we are really looking forward to. So throughout the year, anything we see and like, we’ll be sure to blog it.