The arts class war starts here for 'We Are Poets' and Leeds Young Authors
Mick's Leeds Young Authors anti high arts funding rant that stayed in the top 5 Guardian most viewed web articles for a couple of days and (despite what the page says now) had over 350 tweets and over 250 Facebook shares. Read it here #MickMcCann #Guardian #LeedsYoungAuthors #ArtsFunding
How the BBC rewrote history to disrespect Leeds... again
Mick slaps the nut on the BBC, it's disrespect for Leeds and it's re-writing of history. For the Guardian. Read it here #MickMcCann #BBC #Leeds #Guardian #History
'Leedsness' and Our Hidden Writing Heritage
Leeds has had a huge influence on national thinking and writing that it appears to know little about. In this Guardian piece Mick McCann explores 'Leedsness' and asks what makes the city so historically poor at selling itself? Read it here #Leeds #Leedsness #MickMcCann #Guardian
Rise Up Against Our Oppressor: BBC Weather
Mick's BBC slagging rant that got an early The City Talking site throbbing with hits: Read it here #BBC #MickMcCann #Leeds #TheCityTalking
LS13: A New Generation of Leeds Writers
LS13 an anthology of Leeds writers, released to coincide with The Big Bookend, gets reviewed by John Lake, author of the Leeds 6 Trilogy. Read it here #LS13 #Leedswriters #Leeds #JohnLake
Buffy: Vampire Slayer and Queen of My World
This appreciation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was John Lake's first article for online mag Sabotage Times and is still popular and perennial. Not surprising since there's a mighty legion of Buffy fans out there... and John is one of them. Read it here #JohnLake #BuffyTheVampireSlayer #SabotageTimes
Taiwanese lass hunts cool in Leeds and exports it all over the world
Shang Ting Peng's thoughts and pictures about her adopted city have gone viral. Deservedly so, because they spring from a fresh and fascinated mind. Mick McCann celebrates. Read it here #MickMcCann #ShangTingPeng #Leeds
Leeds, The Promised Land - We can Create It, Despite London
Mick reviews the staging of Anthony Clavane's award-winning book The Promised Land and breaks into a pseudo-working -class hero, northern rant about how Britain is set up to enable people from certain socio-economic - and often geographic - backgrounds to achieve, necessarily, at the expense of others. Read it here #MickMcCann #AnthonyClavane #ThePromisedLand
The Leeds 2023 Conversation - Mick McCann
Mr McCann gives The City Talking some of the reasons he thinks Leeds should bid to become the European Capital of Culture. Read it here #MickMcCann #Leeds #EuropeanCapitalofCulture #TheCityTalking
Mick's Trilogy of Culture Vulture Articles
Mick explores the nature if 'Leedsness', Leeds literature past, present and future, based around a Waterstones' event featuring Ian McMillan and Anthony Clavane. Part One: The Leeds Scene. Read it here Part Two: City Of Awe. Read it here Part Three: Liquid Identity. Read it here #Leedsness #MickMcCann #Waterstones #AnthonyClavane #IanMcMillan
