If you mean the (sand) sifter jack I dont think he played there, only G.love, matt costa and others.... dunno though if your talking about a different place |
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That’s fine, bootboy. You needn’t infer offence where none is intended. Information is information. Drekkly - Get Real! |
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Team kernow -I am more than happy that I live in the real world - unlike you who seem to live quite clearly in a bygone era. very sad |
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TeamKernow: Cornwall is an administrative and ceremonial county of England! That is fact so get over it. I hope people like you don’t ruin my day tomorrow. And people wonder why this great nation is failing to be so great? maybe it’s becuase the small percentage of people inside it trying to rip it apart. P.S. I’m interested to know how Cornwall would finance itself? |
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thats rubbish, you fly the same flag as us, live with it… |
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We are 2 miles from Watergate Bay & have a hundred campers who want to know the same thing - the wind ( which we believe was the problem yesterday ) seems to have dropped completely this morning. Atlantic FM had Jack Johnson in the studio -perhaps if we all nag them they could find out for everyone |
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I’m wondering the same thing. The weather now is really quite good, so perhaps today’s gig will happen. Slightly off topic - but important to me (!), are we allowed to bring our own drink onto the site????. Does anyone know please. |
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no drink on site. |
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is today’s concert on ?? |
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just been told concert is still on but starts at 5pm insted |
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Drekkly + Goonboy Real World Update (1): http://www.cornishnotenglish.com 100 Interesting Facts: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3712510 Cornwall - Economic Viability: http://thisisnotengland.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1901&sid=ab609d599528bfb740ac9509681b51a7 Fraser - if this is the one you fly then what you say will be true: http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=cornishflag bootboy - as your casual meteorological imperialism sparked this off you may care to be more precise in future. Poor old Jetpowered Jack could have got similarly confused and have gone away not knowing that when he was in Cornwall he was NOT in England. Let’s hope he doesn’t take off from the tarmac to pollute the skies thinking Wales and Scotland are in ‘England’ as well...! |
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Nationality exists in the minds of men, its only conceivable habitat. Outside men’s minds there can be no nationality, because nationality is a manner of looking at oneself not an entity an sich. Common sense is able to detect it, and the only human discipline that can describe and analyse it is psychology. This awareness, this sense of nationality, this national sentiment, is more than a characteristic of a nation. It is nationhood itself. The Cornish are a Celtic ethnic identity and historic nation of the southwest of Great Britain. We have our own lesser used Celtic language, sports, festivals, cuisine, music, dance, history all rapped up in a perception of ourselves as being other than English. The PLASC ethnic data from the 2007 Cornish schools survey showed that 27% of children consider themselves to be Cornish rather than British or English. The results from the 2001 UK population census show over 37,000 people hold a Cornish identity instead of English or British. On this census, to claim to be Cornish, you had to deny being British, by crossing out the British option and then write ‘Cornish’ in the “other” box. This does not represent a mere clerical error or poorly thought through wording. This represents a denial of the right of the Cornish to describe themselves in terms of their identity. It might seem trite to complain about something that happened six years ago, but the 2001 census will remain relevant until the next one (in 2011). How many more people would have described themselves as Cornish if they did not have to deny being British or if there had been a Cornish tick box? How many people knew that writing ‘Cornish’ in the “other” box was an option? (This was extremely poorly publicised). How many ticked British but feel themselves to be Cornish British? Over the last few years various Cornish groups and individuals have been campaigning for the Cornish to be recognised for protection under the Council of Europe’s framework convention for the protection of national minorities. Such recognition would be a powerful tool to ensure correct treatment and protection of the Cornish national minority and its culture. The Commission for Racial Equality in its shadow report on the FCPNM produced on the 30th of March this year advised the government that the treaty could be extended to protect Cornish culture and also raised concerns about the lack of legal equality for minorities in the UK. Recently the Council of Europe has also suggested that the FCPNM could be extended to include the Cornish. Over the last 3 centuries Cornwall has gone from being on the leading edge of the industrial revolution to being one of the poorest regions of Europe receiving objective one funding from the EU as a result. In the October 2001 Business Age Magazine Kevin Cahill, an author and investigative journalist for the Sunday Times, wrote about the economy of Cornwall. In the Killing of Cornwall, he notes that the London Treasury extracts £1.95 billion in taxes out of Cornwall’s GDP of £3.6 billion. The Treasury returns less than £1.65 billion, so there is a net loss to Cornwall of 300 million pounds, where the total earnings figure is 24% below the national average, is this some form of negative Barnet Formula? Low wages, unskilled Mac Jobs, poverty, social problems, and rocketing housing prices are the often hidden face of the optimistically named “English” Rivera. Coupled with this we have seen the centralisation of services, institutions and government (followed by the skilled jobs they entail) out of the Duchy much to the benefit of various undemocratic and faceless ‘South West of England’ quangos. Cornwall Council’s Feb 2003 MORI Poll showed 55% in favor of a democratically-elected, fully-devolved regional assembly for Cornwall, (this was an increase from 46% in favor in a 2002 poll). In 2000 The Cornish Constitutional Convention launched a campaign that resulted in a petition signed by 50,000 people calling for a fully devolved Cornish assembly. The campaign generated support from across the political spectrum in Cornwall and to date has been the largest expression of popular support for devolution in the whole of the United Kingdom. This officially sanctioned silence on the existence of a Cornish identity must stop. Why will the government not ask the Office of National Statistics to include a Cornish tick box on the 2011 census? The ‘Life in the United Kingdom’ handbook, required reading for all who wish to immigrate to the UK, quotes the census heavily when describing the regions and ethnic diversity of the UK. Why are the Cornish not mentioned once? Why has UK government so far blocked all attempts at ensuring the Cornish are recognised under the FCPNM and ignored the advice of the CRE and COE? Why has the government failed to give the people of Cornwall the democratic referendum on greater autonomy and a devolved assembly that they have shown a demand for? In fact whenever Cornish campaigners have asked about the above decisions, even using the Freedom of information act, the government has dragged its feet, ignored requests and even refused to release information, why?! Visit my blog to learn more: http://thecornishdemocrat.blogspot.com/ |
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It was so gutting for the gig to be cancelled. My girlfriend and I had tickets for the saturday as part of my birthday present from my parents and travel down to Cornwall. And then it got canceleld and we had to go back up to Cardiff on the sunday.. Especially as i’m from Cornwall and wish I’d heard about the secret gig.. It’s not Jack’s fault just really hope he can come back soon.. |
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i live in kent...... http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&safe=off&q=kent+flag&revid=527170488&sa=X&oi=revisions_inline&resnum=0&ct=broad-revision&cd=1 means nothing.... whats your national flag my friend? |
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