Seriously?
No-one's mentioned Wolverhampton? Or is that too obvious?

Everything you've heard about it is most likely true. What really gets my goat is the way the council are presenting it as a shiney 21st century city. I don't know who they're presenting it to as that, but for crying out loud...you can't polish shit. The town is rubbish, the nightlife is rubbish, and the sub-human scum is rubbish. And backwards. Like most people, I like having a little natter with complete strangers but if you try it here, you will be given a withering look that either makes you feel 5 years old, or may actually kill you. Pot luck.

But then, it does have its little kooks to keep it interesting. Like the Cowboy Man, who would talk to any young teenage girl about 'those tennis girls and their skirts'. Actually, he stopped being the Cowbow Man a few years ago. Now he's Jesus Man. There was Fred the Tramp who lived on the Ring Road but died a couple of years ago. I miss him. There's Eastern Elvis, who gets a little bit pissed off when you run at him when drunk and yell 'Eastern Elvis!!! I want a photo with you!!' He has a scary scowl. And there's a crazy lady that rides the buses, and either has multiple personalites (I counted 4) or schizphrenia or a mixture of the both. It's actually kinda upsetting to hear what she argues with herself about. There was another Jesus guy who would preach all morning in town, then go home and clean the park at the top of my street. Bless.

Still, it's free entertainment, can't knock it.
(Beacon, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 17:00, 4 replies)

I can think of one redeaming feature for Wolverhampton
That is its train station. If I have to change at Birmingham I will always try to do it instead at Wolverhampton. Its quite nice as well, very easy on the eye. That's it though, Wolverhampton is shit
(stimpy, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 18:06, closed)

shithole
I know two people who have chosen to live in Wolverhampton. I visited one of them and we suggested a walk around the town centre. "Why?" they said, and they had a point. Not one interesting shop OR pub. What a soul destroying arse of a place.
(Mr McKenzie Mr McKenzie, Thu 29 Oct 2009, 21:12, closed)

Gigs
Wolverhampton is great for gigs; the Civic and Wulfrun.
(kitescreech still here, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 20:00, closed)

Yes
I was wondering if anyone posted about Wolves. It is crap. I will never forget my friend saying, post-cowboy man tennis skirt conversation, that he smelled like 'a thousand buckets of piss'. It was true.

There was a guy who worked at the 'Taste of Asia' (read a little portable shack which sold Bhajis) who once approached me in the Little Civic, told me he was the 'JP of crack'(?!) and then said he could play about 20 different instruments after seeing my gig bag in the corner. I saw him a few days later in the street and he asked me for directions 'because I'm blind' (he was clearly NOT blind).

It is great for gigs though, that's very true.
(ConanTroutman thought we would free the vulture, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 12:11, closed)