| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Must be doing something right | |
| Posted by: | Anthony Waller | |
| Date/Time: | 23/01/13 19:05:00 |
| Whilst that's quite enlightening it does not really answer the question. If anything it throws up more. True, The Bricklayers Arms did do Jazz but not on the same nights, we went to both. The Red Lion even nearer to Watermans had a really great selection of Live Music. But Watermans thrived with competition on it's doorstep. Those rivals are gone and pretty soon when Brentford FC move away theres a good chance that 5 pubs , MacDonalds, a fish & chip shop, a kebab shop and a chinese take away will also founder and vanish. The Watermans building was never any good, poorly designed and far from versatile. But even with that handicap it did really well. But it has been meddled with by politicians, intelectuals and each time it has turned on those who supported it by using it. The Arts is a loose word. It is obvious that much of the 'Art' aspect of Watermans is self indulgent and not of wide appeal much beyond self satisfaction. For a community, Arts is probably Pottery, drawing and painting, and crafts. Things that people can go and do, learn and explore and enjoy. Exhibitions of wider appeal and so on. But the ever dominant art intellectuals baulk at such a thing. Preferring to fete the sort of off beam art that upsets the Daiiy Mail. Arts councils seem to have a habit of throwing money at exclusive minority expression whilst somehow keeping wider art activity away from the masses. Art is personal and a gift, if it really within you, you find a way to express it and nurture it at sometime in your life. Talent always gets spotted sooner or later. Watermans has on more than a few occasions turned it's back on popular ventures almost like it is ashamed to be mainstream. It has an unbeateable location one of which should not be developed for anything other than public use and certainly there will be a huge outcry if anything higher than exists is proposed. But it should be improved, far better use could be made of the riverside which is public and should remain such. It is hard to see how it will be improved by moving. Nothing is being divulged as the what it will have, how big it will be and where it will be. But it is obvious that if it can't work where it is it will be highly unlikely if it will gain from moving, far more likely it will fade away altogehter |