Red Knowle Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Considering all the opportunities there are to make anti capatalist works about football or pro or anti vale pieces why is there no city work by the man? Seems like this is just a myth made up by city fans if you had his skill and reputation wouldnt you use it to create a bit of a buzz around your club just once? Imagine the publicity for city if one morning banksy had stencil bombed the hell out of BS3 with city pieces about our club? City would instantly have a bit of the cool of st pauli. Reckon he could be less of a a red than russell crowe is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Does it matter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CotswoldRed Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Given his identity isn't widely known I really can't see what the fuss is about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Ferret Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 He is a City fan - I saw a 5 min short on him on Ch4 about 10 years ago He ended the interview by saying "**** Bristol Rovers" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Knowle Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 Does it matter? If banksy works appeared round the ground or BS3 it would boost the club local pubs the spin off are immense and people right round the world would know about bristol city being banksys club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northampton Red Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 There was a piece from the Guardian or Independent done on him, he mentions it in there I think but don't have the link. Is the Jesus piece outside Bar BS3 a genuine Banksy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CotswoldRed Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 If banksy works appeared round the ground or BS3 it would boost the club local pubs the spin off are immense and people right round the world would know about bristol city being banksys club. It really makes no difference in practice. John Cleese, Tony Robinson, Russell Crowe ... They've not had much of a positive impact have they, lets be honest. People knowing who we are won't pay the players wages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Knowle Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 It really makes no difference in practice. John Cleese, Tony Robinson, Russell Crowe ... They've not had much of a positive impact have they, lets be honest. People knowing who we are won't pay the players wages. Not sure anybody would come to look at russell crowes club but hundreds of thousands came to bristol to the banksy exhibition. tourists visit bristol because of its art and banksy spin offs are sold everywhere how many tourists come to look at ashton gate non matchday? so if he really was a fan he would help out in some way like 3d of massive attack has. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CotswoldRed Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Not sure anybody would come to look at russell crowes club but hundreds of thousands came to bristol to the banksy exhibition. tourists visit bristol because of its art and banksy spin offs are sold everywhere how many tourists come to look at ashton gate non matchday? so if he really was a fan he would help out in some way like 3d of massive attack has. I'm not sure I'm understanding this. Are you suggesting any of this has had a serious material (cash) effect on the club? A doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fodbarmyarmy Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 so if he really was a fan he would help out in some way like 3d of massive attack has. Forgive me - but how has 3D helped club out? See him at Games and a true supporter and all that....but cant recall anything he has done for the club or the Ashton vale fight....then again could say same about Jonathan Pearce or the ex FA main dude...(cant remember name) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CotswoldRed Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 ....then again could say same about Jonathan Pearce or the ex FA main dude...(cant remember name) Richard (**** the football league) Scudamore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Knowle Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 Forgive me - but how has 3D helped club out? See him at Games and a true supporter and all that....but cant recall anything he has done for the club or the Ashton vale fight....then again could say same about Jonathan Pearce or the ex FA main dude...(cant remember name) designs stuff for city in the past always pointing out his affection for bristol and bristol city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Knowle Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 I'm not sure I'm understanding this. Are you suggesting any of this has had a serious material (cash) effect on the club? A doubt it. are you suggesting that just one real banksy city piece wouldnt have a value of £££££ one was Sold in park street for £38000 then you have t shirts prints look at st nicks park street let alone the possibilties in BS3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CotswoldRed Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 are you suggesting that just one real banksy city piece wouldnt have a value of £££££ one was Sold in park street for £38000 then you have t shirts prints look at st nicks park street let alone the possibilties in BS3. That may all be true, but I doubt SL is getting at all excited about reducing the clubs debt. I'm not convinced that, so far, it will have made any difference at all - for any of the above celebs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Phantom Posted February 3, 2011 Admin Share Posted February 3, 2011 Do people now actually wonder around the country just to see a painting done by him ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CotswoldRed Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Do people now actually wonder around the country just to see a painting done by him ? Yes they do, as they think they might be spotted by the Points West cameras queueing around the corner at the top of Park Street. 99.9% of them haven't been to an Art Gallery since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frome Valley Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Do people now actually wonder around the country just to see a painting done by him ? Very much so. Bristol is widely known for Brunel, Massive Attack/Portishead/Tricky & Banksy not Bristol City FC sadly. Bristol has a Banksy ecomomy along with other artist it is worth hundreds of thousands of pounds a year maybe a lot more. Old Barton Hill lads will know the answer to red or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCFC_Dan Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Forgive me - but how has 3D helped club out? See him at Games and a true supporter and all that....but cant recall anything he has done for the club or the Ashton vale fight....then again could say same about Jonathan Pearce or the ex FA main dude...(cant remember name) Used to sponsor at least one match a season. Not sure if he still does, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oops Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Give him his own wall at the new stadium Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slave to the rhythm Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Is the Jesus piece outside Bar BS3 a genuine Banksy? Definitely not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frome Valley Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Definitely not. Signmarket scam. Sort of have to admire it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greedo Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 If I had to describe 'Banksy' in one word it would be 'vandal'. Read the Daily Mail by any chance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WellRedPhil Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 If I had to describe 'Banksy' in one word it would be 'vandal'. Whether he's a city fan or not I couldn't give a flying Brilliant. Not a fan of genuine creativity and talent then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Colby-Tit Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Considering all the opportunities there are to make anti capatalist works about football or pro or anti vale pieces why is there no city work by the man? Seems like this is just a myth made up by city fans if you had his skill and reputation wouldnt you use it to create a bit of a buzz around your club just once? Imagine the publicity for city if one morning banksy had stencil bombed the hell out of BS3 with city pieces about our club? City would instantly have a bit of the cool of st pauli. Reckon he could be less of a a red than russell crowe is. He's probably too busy rolling around in big piles of money these days to be anti-capatalist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screech Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Banksy son, if you're reading this, I'll be out all day tomorrow so you can pop round my house and paint the whole outside of the f....g house. This may get my house valued at slightly more than the rest of the street put together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Casual Connoisseur Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 He's a City Fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cider head Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 And here it is ..... The bloke who did this for the Eastend would have known Banksy years ago at the Barton Hill Dug out. It just as easy to buy copies of Banksy work in Bristol than it is to buy things Man Utd related, it can be hard to find anything Bristol City at all. If Banksy is a fan (which i think he is) lets hope one day he does a couple of things featuring City to change that and get City better known abroad as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olé Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Interview he gave The Sunday Times in 2009... I took this to be sarcasm and therefore confirming that he's a red. Banksy goes home to shake-up Bristol Elusive graffiti artist talks on eve of largest project to date, inflitrating the Bristol collections (with permission) By Waldemar Januszczak The Sunday Times | June 14, 2009 (....snip....) Who do you support: Bristol City or Rovers? I want the whole of Bristol to visit the show, so I'm not going to alienate anybody by saying what a pathetic footballing side Bristol Rovers are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Knowle Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 He's probably too busy rolling around in big piles of money these days to be anti-capatalist. I think he might be using subversive imagineery to buy yachts and would paint a gashead a pirate if there was money in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Knowle Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 Interview he gave The Sunday Times in 2009... I took this to be sarcasm and therefore confirming that he's a red. Just means he probably is not gas. He will paint anything with legs as long as its not anything to do with city. Hes been painting for decades and i cant help thinking if he was a fan as people say he is or want to believe a city piece would have popped up by now. Other fans would do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Forgive me - but how has 3D helped club out? See him at Games and a true supporter and all that....but cant recall anything he has done for the club or the Ashton vale fight....then again could say same about Jonathan Pearce or the ex FA main dude...(cant remember name) He certainly helped raise money to kick start the SUpporters trust, I was stood next to Mark Tovey in the Atyeo when he received a call from him offering merchandise for Raffles etc. (He was gigging in Dublin if you are wondering why he wasn't at the Gate). I think thats just one example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tompo Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Forgive me - but how has 3D helped club out? See him at Games and a true supporter and all that....but cant recall anything he has done for the club or the Ashton vale fight....then again could say same about Jonathan Pearce or the ex FA main dude...(cant remember name) All three have provided support to the Supporters Trust over the years and hopefully they will continue to do so in the future. 3D was one of main sponsors of the Ashton Gate 8 25 anniversary year dinner in 2007. Ricahrd Scudamore has provided very generous prizes for raffles at a number of events. Anyone who went to the ST launch night in 2005 will know what a great job he did in hosting the event in tandem with Angus Scott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frome Valley Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Interview he gave The Sunday Times in 2009... I took this to be sarcasm and therefore confirming that he's a red. Ironic statement for Rovers mates or Banksy revealing the truth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Bristol Red Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 Interview he gave The Sunday Times in 2009... I took this to be sarcasm and therefore confirming that he's a red. did some saggy fans get revenge and attacked his artwork on park street with blue paint?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olé Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 did some saggy fans get revenge and attacked his artwork on park street with blue paint?? That was the rumour at the time but it was dismissed as being a Rovers attack because it was clearly on target. Boom boom. (joke copyright the 1990s, some fanzine; joke technical notes: whoever it was who attacked the artwork, was on target at least four times. In the season and a half since the attack, the following teams have been on target four or more times against our Blue and White friends: Norwich 5-1, Leeds 4-0, Charlton 4-2, Leyton Orient 5-0, Southampton 5-1, Oxford 6-1, Southampton 4-0, Sheff Wed 6-2, Carlisle 4-0, Walsall 6-1) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralphindevon Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Not that it does us much good but I don't know of any other team with so many celebrity fans, a few have been mentioned here, Russell Crowe, John Cleese, Richard Scudamore, Banksy, Tony Robinson, 3D. Others off the top of my head include Marcus Trescothic, Jonathan Pearce, Dominic Mohan (the Sun editor), Mark Thomas. I remember when my wife's team, Stoke, got promoted to the Premier league, the local paper wanted to get some celebrity fan reaction. All they got was Nick Hancock and Robbie Williams mum, Robbie himself of course is a Port Vale fan. If there was a celebrity fan league, surely we would be in the top flight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanatopia Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Very much so. Bristol is widely known for Brunel, Massive Attack/Portishead/Tricky & Banksy not Bristol City FC sadly. Bristol has a Banksy ecomomy. perhaps Steve should commission a piece of art by Banky at the main entrance to Ashton vale depicting heads of famous city players down the years... That would attract a little extra publicity and he could throw in a badger drawing on the side facing the village greeners for good measure. It's a win win! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralphindevon Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 perhaps Steve should commission a piece of art by Banky at the main entrance to Ashton vale depicting heads of famous city players down the years... That would attract a little extra publicity and he could throw in a badger drawing on the side facing the village greeners for good measure. It's a win win! Ha Ha! great idea. Trouble is knowing Banksy's dark humour he would add a farmer trying to gas the poor old TB ridden badger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanatopia Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 I am glad I have one vote in the bag!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frome Valley Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 perhaps Steve should commission a piece of art by Banky at the main entrance to Ashton vale depicting heads of famous city players down the years... That would attract a little extra publicity and he could throw in a badger drawing on the side facing the village greeners for good measure. It's a win win! As other "fans" have "donated" things to the supporters trust Banksy should have already painted Gerry Gow putting Frankie Prince into orbit. The thousands of pounds raised would have paid for the Atyeo statue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Red Knowle Posted February 8, 2011 Author Share Posted February 8, 2011 All three have provided support to the Supporters Trust over the years and hopefully they will continue to do so in the future. 3D was one of main sponsors of the Ashton Gate 8 25 anniversary year dinner in 2007. Ricahrd Scudamore has provided very generous prizes for raffles at a number of events. Anyone who went to the ST launch night in 2005 will know what a great job he did in hosting the event in tandem with Angus Scott. Exactly fans doing a bit for their club even though they have moved away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCFC_Dan Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 Worth pointing out here also that celebrity fan Mark Watson is putting on a gig at Ashton Gate later this month in aid of Bristol City Community Trust. I'd say that's pretty supportive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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