The Takeover Thread - Recon Group - NOW WITH NEW POLL

[cdbearsfan]

I'd settle for making the museum we already have better before adding another one.

Start by bringing back the dinosaur!

[ChicagoLion]

I'd settle for making the museum we already have better before adding another one.

Start by bringing back the dinosaur!

good idea, but I can't see Gold and Sullivan letting her go.

[Yossarian]

I think the plans should include a TV studio and a sauce factory. Oh, and a Heavy Metal Museum for Jimbo.

Fuck that fucker

I'll settle for a Birmingham Music Museum - Mendelssohn, Elgar, Metal, Brum Beat, ELO, Dexy's, The Beat, UB40, Duran Duran, Steel Pulse, CBSO, The Streets, the Melotron... plenty to go in there.

Mendelssohn? I know he visited Birmingham and he liked Scotland, but I am not we can claim him as one of our own. Granville Bantock we can though.

[Jimbo]

I think the plans should include a TV studio and a sauce factory. Oh, and a Heavy Metal Museum for Jimbo.

Fuck that fucker

I'll settle for a Birmingham Music Museum - Mendelssohn, Elgar, Metal, Brum Beat, ELO, Dexy's, The Beat, UB40, Duran Duran, Steel Pulse, CBSO, The Streets, the Melotron... plenty to go in there.

Mendelssohn? I know he visited Birmingham and he liked Scotland, but I am not we can claim him as one of our own. Granville Bantock we can though.

Not one of our own, but certainly a significant part of the Brum music story.

[DeeBoy1]

I think the plans should include a TV studio and a sauce factory. Oh, and a Heavy Metal Museum for Jimbo.

Fuck that fucker

I'll settle for a Birmingham Music Museum - Mendelssohn, Elgar, Metal, Brum Beat, ELO, Dexy's, The Beat, UB40, Duran Duran, Steel Pulse, CBSO, The Streets, the Melotron... plenty to go in there.

Mendelssohn? I know he visited Birmingham and he liked Scotland, but I am not we can claim him as one of our own. Granville Bantock we can though.

Not one of our own, but certainly a significant part of the Brum music story.

How could you leave out the reggae heavyweights Bitty McLean and Pato Banton???

[Des Little]

I want King Kong, repainted claret and blue, stood at the gates of Ellisland.

[Toronto Villa]

I'd want a tent dedicated to Benjamin Zephaniah where for quieter yet inspirational moments we could all gather to recant tales in verse of our latest CL title.

[The Edge]

If it is with a view to developing the area, I'm not sure it would be the specific charms of anything in Aston - even ourselves that is the biggest draw.

It would be more the case that you have so much land so close to the city centre (it practically is the city centre if your benchmark is larger urban sprawls) to work with.

A few years of getting the locals onside might smooth the path re planning for big projects further on down the track.

Indeed. I think a lot of people in Birmingham don't see what's going on. It has been named number one destination of the future for foreign direct investment (Columbia and the Czech Republic were second and third). It has been listed in the top five cities in Europe in eight important industrial sectors (Manchester - centre of the universe - was named in one). It has been named as the most investable city in the UK, sixth in Europe (London was tenth). It is the number one regional city for business start-ups. It is the number one destination of choice for migrating cockneys. A few years ago I mentioned in the Birmingham news thread that I looked forward to the Jewellery Quarter becoming part of the city centre and somebody countered that it would not happen in our lifetimes. Does anybody think that it is not now?

Look at the areas that surround the city centre proper - JQ, Digbeth, Edgbaston, the Gun Quarter, Aston - they're all becoming increasingly part of it. There is huge investment planned at Aston University, Aston Science Park, Aston Advanced Manufacturing Hub, Aston Cross and, everything crossed, Aston Villa. The area already has assets. It is an area of the second biggest city-region in the world's fifth largest economy, a city-region that is about to invest about £8bn in various infrastructure projects in the next ten years. The Chinese are already a part of that, and want to be a bigger part. Hopefully in one project in particular.

You make some great points about Birmingham. I've always thought that the club should make more of the fact that we are indeed part of this booming city. Over at the sty they have images of brums iconic buildings plastered all over ground. It's probably the only thing that we could learn from that lot in Small Heath. I'm hoping that the growing reputation of the city had some bearing on the takeover. This could be the start of something really big.

[The Edge]

I think the plans should include a TV studio and a sauce factory. Oh, and a Heavy Metal Museum for Jimbo.

Fuck that fucker

I'll settle for a Birmingham Music Museum - Mendelssohn, Elgar, Metal, Brum Beat, ELO, Dexy's, The Beat, UB40, Duran Duran, Steel Pulse, CBSO, The Streets, the Melotron... plenty to go in there.

Mendelssohn? I know he visited Birmingham and he liked Scotland, but I am not we can claim him as one of our own. Granville Bantock we can though.

Not one of our own, but certainly a significant part of the Brum music story.

How could you leave out the reggae heavyweights Bitty McLean and Pato Banton???

And let's not forget Nechells finest..... Musical Youth.

[The Edge]

I think the plans should include a TV studio and a sauce factory. Oh, and a Heavy Metal Museum for Jimbo.

Fuck that fucker

I'll settle for a Birmingham Music Museum - Mendelssohn, Elgar, Metal, Brum Beat, ELO, Dexy's, The Beat, UB40, Duran Duran, Steel Pulse, CBSO, The Streets, the Melotron... plenty to go in there.

Mendelssohn? I know he visited Birmingham and he liked Scotland, but I am not we can claim him as one of our own. Granville Bantock we can though.

Not one of our own, but certainly a significant part of the Brum music story.

Mendelsohn had a great affinity for Birmingham Town Hall and famously regarded the organ as one of the best in the known world in the nineteenth century.. We'll call him an adopted Brummie!

[wally58]

Steve Gibbons Band, Prefects, Spizz Energy, GBH, Drongos

[Monty]

I think the plans should include a TV studio and a sauce factory. Oh, and a Heavy Metal Museum for Jimbo.

Fuck that fucker

I'll settle for a Birmingham Music Museum - Mendelssohn, Elgar, Metal, Brum Beat, ELO, Dexy's, The Beat, UB40, Duran Duran, Steel Pulse, CBSO, The Streets, the Melotron... plenty to go in there.

Mendelssohn? I know he visited Birmingham and he liked Scotland, but I am not we can claim him as one of our own. Granville Bantock we can though.

Not one of our own, but certainly a significant part of the Brum music story.

Mendelsohn had a great affinity for Birmingham Town Hall and famously regarded the organ as one of the best in the known world in the late eighteenth century.. We'll call him an adopted Brummie!

***Pedant Alert*** The organ was built in the 1830s, and Mendelssohn lived from 1809 to 1847. So first half nineteenth rather than late eighteenth century.

However, this whole discussion is why I love H&V.

[Mister E]

Steve Gibbons Band, Prefects, Spizz Energy, GBH, Drongos

Spizz is from Knowle.
What about Ozzy?!

[The Edge]

I think the plans should include a TV studio and a sauce factory. Oh, and a Heavy Metal Museum for Jimbo.

Fuck that fucker

I'll settle for a Birmingham Music Museum - Mendelssohn, Elgar, Metal, Brum Beat, ELO, Dexy's, The Beat, UB40, Duran Duran, Steel Pulse, CBSO, The Streets, the Melotron... plenty to go in there.

Mendelssohn? I know he visited Birmingham and he liked Scotland, but I am not we can claim him as one of our own. Granville Bantock we can though.

Not one of our own, but certainly a significant part of the Brum music story.

Mendelsohn had a great affinity for Birmingham Town Hall and famously regarded the organ as one of the best in the known world in the late eighteenth century.. We'll call him an adopted Brummie!

***Pedant Alert*** The organ was built in the 1830s, and Mendelssohn lived from 1809 to 1847. So first half nineteenth rather than late eighteenth century.

However, this whole discussion is why I love H&V.

Earlier post now amended.

[Villafirst]

I think all the doubt over Tony Xia's credentials stems back to our shite PR dept and the mess-up with the statement over the controlling interest in the number of public companies at five when it's currently one; but most likely another 4 in the pipeline. Almost embarrassing, which is par for the course with certain personnel still at the club. Hopefully Tony will sort out this woefully inept department as it's so vital to communicate with your fanbase in the correct manner. Lerner was useless in that respect.