Liverpool Culture Year challenge as city music scene legends reunited

Aug 31 2007 by Caroline Innes, Liverpool Daily Post

Liverpool Culture Year challenge as city music scene legends reunited

LEGENDARY provocateur, artist and musician Bill Drummond was last night reunited with the other key figures from the legendary Liverpool music club Eric’s.

Drummond was joined by Ken Testi and Pete Fulwell, who founded the Mathew Street club and Echo and the Bunnyman guitarist Will Sergeant at the Tate Liverpool for the gallery’s second Late at Tate event.

There, Drummond gave a lecture called Liverpool or “Why Andy Warhol is S**te” in which he explored his own relationship with the city, which he said had inspired much of his work.

Drummond said the main reason he had come to Liverpool was to challenge the city to deliver a noteworthy European Capital of Culture year in 2008.

He said: “I often talk to the city of Liverpool in my head.

“When I heard that it was to be Capital of Culture, I said to it: ‘You’re going to blow it, aren’t you?

“I just hope it succeeds, as if it does we will win nothing but the respect of all those who doubted.

“That is something that only Liverpool could do.”