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Dissenter said:
By the way; I saw The Selecta in a new bar a couple of weeks ago so :p if you think Cov is shit.
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I supported them at the Coventry festival a couple of years back, sound peeps :p

But yeah, the West Indian Centre was good (not sure if its still open now though....) apart from that theres Careys....which is like a time warp, every time I go in there, even years apart, its exactly the same people, tunes, decor, drinks promos, everything!
 
The windian is still open but its rare for crews to put on nights there now, it's all down graduates which is a shit hole if you ask me.
 
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My crew, come and check us out.
 
A mate of mine runs the usual old school night there as it goes.....did you go to the Top Buzz and Slipmatt nights? I was there :cool:
 
I don't think top buzz or slipmat played at the old skool night i checked out there, my mate nathan (duno if you know him, hes quite invloved I think) was supposed to MC so we got in free.

Two of my almost full pints shuffled of the table there was so much base.
 
Best, at least most interesting football team in the world. As a mad-keen Sky Blue fan who grew up in Notts, Coventry has always been a place of pilgrimage and wonder to me.

Never lived there though, in fairness.

And doom legends Cathedral are from Coventry too.
 
mwgdrwg said:
Why are people "sent to Coventry" as punishment?
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Two possible sources, both of which are connected with soldiers. According to one theory, the town of Coventry was a stronghold of Cromwell's supporters during the English Civil War, and royalist soldiers who were captured in the Midlands were therefore sent to Coventry for imprisonment. To be 'sent to Coventry' then, was to be withdrawn very effectively from circulation. The other theory suggests that the people of Coventry were traditionally very unfriendly towards all soldiers. Women were reproached if they so much as talked to a soldier. Any soldier unfortunate enough to be posted to a garrison in or near Coventry could expect nothing but hostility from the townspeople. Being 'sent to Coventry' was to be sentenced to a lonely life, away from the usual support of a friendly social circle.
 
So who here is from Coventry?

I've been living here since October.

It is an absolute shit hole.

Any thoughts?

:cool:
 
nosos said:
So who here is from Coventry?

I've been living here since October.

It is an absolute shit hole.

Any thoughts?

:cool:
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Used to work in HMV in Cov.

Absolute shit hole.

Aren't they/haven't they knocked down the whole post war city centre concreteness?
 
Me. If you think cov's bad try living out in potters green.

Time was cov used to be the most left_wing, politically active city in england, but now it's just a depressed rust-belt home to the disgruntled.
 
are you at Warick uni nosos? have you thought about living in leamington? i think soul rebel did whilst he was at uni. i lived in coventry for 6 months and have to say i didnt mind it too much. i guess i wasnt going out clubbing or in to the city centre so didnt really mind what the city was like.
 
The best thing I can say about Cov is that you can get out easily to Brum our the countryside. Other than that...
 
gnoriac said:
Me. If you think cov's bad try living out in potters green.

Time was cov used to be the most left_wing, politically active city in england, but now it's just a depressed rust-belt home to the disgruntled.
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Potters Green aint too bad compared to Wood End or Tile Hill, or Ball Hill or Stoke Aldermoor, or Manor Farm or Hillfields or Stoke Heath.....you could be in a lot worse area :D
 
Haven't been there since 1980, but I loved the cathedral (it helped that it was a hot day with the sun shining through the stained glass windows) and the sports centre nearby with its Olympic-sized swimming pool was good too. But I've heard since then it's got rough, lots of skinheads and "bovver boy" types.
 
I wouldn't say there were many skinheads to be honest, therse alot of fights n dodgy chavs but ive hardend to them cause I like drum n bass n their always there.

my part of tille hill is really nice too :p
 
Yetman said:
Potters Green aint too bad compared to Wood End or Tile Hill, or Ball Hill or Stoke Aldermoor, or Manor Farm or Hillfields or Stoke Heath.....you could be in a lot worse area :D
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I'm from Hillfields-cum-Stoke Heath way originally, they certainly aren't as dull as Potters Green. But valid point about Wood End, not to mention Bell Green, Willenhall, parts of Tile Hill, Foleshill, places I certainly wouldn't want to be in after dark.
 
Dissenter said:
I wouldn't say there were many skinheads to be honest, therse alot of fights n dodgy chavs but ive hardend to them cause I like drum n bass n their always there.

my part of tille hill is really nice too :p
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OK, fair enough.
 
Yetman said:
Potters Green aint too bad compared to Wood End or Tile Hill, or Ball Hill or Stoke Aldermoor, or Manor Farm or Hillfields or Stoke Heath.....you could be in a lot worse area :D
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Ball hills a great little shopping street with quiet residential areas having some of the most expensive houses in Coventry not more than 600 meters down the road. and leading on to binley and binley woods, 2 of the most expensive areas in coventry.

Hill fields is currently being massively redeveloped, 9 tower blocks were knocked down, the new multi million pound city academy is currently being built on the site along with executive homes and flats selling for between 120 and 260K. Similarly hillfields hasnt been that bad at all since the mid 90`s.

do your homework :p, Ive been living here for 24 years and whilst there are many many truly shockingly fucking awful places inside Coventry, credit should be given where its due, and given the state hill fields was in in the 80`s compared to now, it definitely deserves some recognition. as for the rest of coventry, if it burned to the ground over night i wouldn't miss most of it. What Hitler didn't destroy the town planners and councillors from 1950 onwards finished off.
 
locutus12 said:
Ball hills a great little shopping street with quiet residential areas having some of the most expensive houses in Coventry not more than 600 meters down the road. and leading on to binley and binley woods, 2 of the most expensive areas in coventry.

Hill fields is currently being massively redeveloped, 9 tower blocks were knocked down, the new multi million pound city academy is currently being built on the site along with executive homes and flats selling for between 120 and 260K. Similarly hillfields hasnt been that bad at all since the mid 90`s.
do your homework :p, Ive been living here for 24 years and whilst there are many many truly shockingly fucking awful places inside Coventry, credit should be given where its due, and given the state hill fields was in in the 80`s compared to now, it definitely deserves some recognition. as for the rest of coventry, if it burned to the ground over night i wouldn't miss most of it. What Hitler didn't destroy the town planners and councillors from 1950 onwards finished off.
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Lol! Fuck off I've lived here longer than you mate :D

Fair point though, it is getting better, although better doesnt necessarily mean good, it'll probably mean 'less shit' in Covs case. It has improved massively since the 80's though, but in the past 5 years its gone downhill again imo. Too many chavs, fighting and Ikon goers.

Ball Hill is a fucking dump, yeah the Avenues are nice but they are well on the other side of the tracks compared to the coronation st slimline housing on Ball Hill....sit on a bus going down it and you'll see at least one dog eating a pile of sick outside a kebab shop, two kids sitting outside the bookies/pub, a man drinking a bottle of vodka, neat. etc....

But yeah the town and Hillfields is improving :)
 
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