Simon Rattle and the new London concert hall...

[teamsaint]

I thought Winchester was the ancient capital.

Tamworth.

[Tony Halstead]

Tamworth.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Enough of this nonsense! We are not playing Mornington Crescent.

[teamsaint]

I reckon the Ancient Capital of Mercia would make a great central (England) location for Simon's grand designs.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/feb/26/ten-reasons-tamworth-capital-england

Speaking of Mornington Crescent......good rail links too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamworth_railway_station

[jean]

...and only just down the road (or railway line) from you-know-where...

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Tamworth,+Staffordshire,+UK/Birmingham,+West+Midlands,+UK/@52.5575036,-1.9262637,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x4870a8931830eb41:0xf7e67fb3d4c81cef!2m2!1d-1.691032!2d52.633584!1m5!1m1!1s0x4870942d1b417173:0xca81fef0aeee7998!2m2!1d-1.890401!2d52.486243!3e3

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

IIRC (yes, I know) London was the capital "in Roman times" - when England wasn't in England, if you see what I mean - and Winchester was the capital when we had that spot of bother with the Vikings (coming over here, taking our jobs, pillaging our communities, playing Bruckner excruciatingly slowly). Alfred the Great moved the capital back to London after he'd made them aware that he was very cross with them.

(Perhaps mercia might know more ... ?)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

IIRC (yes, I know) London was the capital "in Roman times" - when England wasn't in England, if you see what I mean - and Winchester was the capital when we had that spot of bother with the Vikings (coming over here, taking our jobs, pillaging our communities, playing Bruckner excruciatingly slowly). Alfred the Great moved the capital back to London after he'd made them aware that he was very cross with them.

(Perhaps mercia might know more ... ?)

[Flosshilde]

They don't just happen to be there. Were they there in Roman times?

I thought they, or their equivelant, were in Rome?

Anyway, what (ahem) did the Romans do for us?

[MrGongGong]

https://acousticengineering.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/what-is-wrong-with-londons-concert-halls/

Worth a read IMV
(though I hear some people don't like links )

[ahinton]

IIRC (yes, I know) London was the capital "in Roman times" - when England wasn't in England, if you see what I mean - and Winchester was the capital when we had that spot of bother with the Vikings (coming over here, taking our jobs, pillaging our communities, playing Bruckner excruciatingly slowly).

!!!

...but Leif's a Finn, not a Viking; I doubt that he's even bought ms. paper from Viking Direct...

[ahinton]

I thought they, or their equivelant, were in Rome?

Anyway, what (ahem) did the Romans do for us?

Well, whatever they may or may not have done for "us" (whoever "us" may be - as elusive and non-specific a descriptor as Sydney Grew's "we", methinks), I don't think that any of their big chiefs ever ended up under a multi-storey in Bath...

[Beef Oven!]

http://lsolive.lso.co.uk/products/schumann-das-paradies

[MrGongGong]

Here we go then

http://www.classicalmusicmagazine.org/2015/10/concert-hall-complex-on-museum-of-london-site-deemed-feasible/

I hope this will be entirely funded by those folks who live inside the M25

[teamsaint]

Here we go then

http://www.classicalmusicmagazine.org/2015/10/concert-hall-complex-on-museum-of-london-site-deemed-feasible/

I hope this will be entirely funded by those folks who live inside the M25

I'm sure we can find a statistic that says that 86% of all UK tax is paid for by rich people who live inside the M25, and that in fact the rest of us are sponging off them and probably living off tax credits and black economy cash payments, and that the sooner cash is abolished the better because we can trust the banks to run it all, oh yes honest as the day is long guv.....

[Beef Oven!]

I'm sure we can find a statistic that says that 86% of all UK tax is paid for by rich people who live inside the M25, and that in fact the rest of us are sponging off them and probably living off tax credits and black economy cash payments, and that the sooner cash is abolished the better because we can trust the banks to run it all, oh yes honest as the day is long guv.....

But not the bit about trusting banks, I can't go with you on that.