We’ve not posted anything on the Union Terrace Gardens thing for a while, I’m sure you’ve all seen results of the consultation by now anyway… Here’s a quick summary though, just in case: They lost. Big time. This however, this, if true, is nothing short of a f***king scandal…Check it out: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/the-tycoon-the-secret-meeting-and-the-battle-for-the-soul-of-aberdeen-city-1.1021429
Read more →Friday. Crunch time. There’s been so much written, especially in the local press, about the City Square Project/ACSEF/Peacock that it’s hard to keep up sometimes: Consultation good. Consultation bad. Consultation irrelevant. Gardens good. Gardens bad. Gardens irrelevant. Bloody artists. Bloody trees. Bloody tree artists. It’s become a bit of a joke to be honest,...
Read more →A quick heads up: The We Heart UTG compilation album in support of the campaign to save Union Terrace Gardens launches as a digital download on Saturday 27 February. Twenty tracks across various genres have been submitted by some of the best local talent (including Fiona Soe Paing, & Alan ‘Kitchen Cynics‘ Davidson) and you...
Read more →Ahead of a public debate on Union Terrace Gardens this Thursday evening, the City Square Project today announced they are ‘phasing out’ their original, undoubtedly expensive glossy PR brochure. It’s nothing to do with Annie Lennox, who spoke out against the scheme, being pictured in it (nor the even more inexplicable image of the London...
Read more →Some local peeps are putting together a compilation CD in support of the I Heart UTG campaign (unless you live on the moon, you’ll be aware of this by now) so, if you’re a local band/singer/songwriter/noisemaker etc upload your fully-tagged mp3s to: http://soundcloud.com/fionasoepaing/dropbox Or email them to: carmichaeljayne@hotmail.com …before Saturday 20th February and they’ll...
Read more →Updated 09/02/10 Worst. Pun. Ever. It is relevant though, read on… It’s been a wee while since we had a Union Terrace Gardens update outside of the Twitter Feed, but there have been some interesting developments today, so here goes: It appears that local politicians have seen through ACSEF’s rather one-sided ‘public consultation’ and...
Read more →So, the day of the City Square Project public consultation launch is here… The good folks at Peacock and I Heart UTG ain’t taking it lying down however, check out the banners which appeared in the gardens this morning below! (Pic by Jaco Justice) There’s also new blog Compare The Square which does a...
Read more →We’re aware that we’re starting to sound a bit broken record-esque when it comes to the Peacock/Union Terrace Gardens/City Square Project debate, but it is incredibly important for the future of the arts in the city, and the future of Aberdeen in general… So, there’s a campaign meeting at Peacock Visual Arts tonight (Wednesday 16...
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