I know what Cardiff meant to me. In my late teens and twenties and most of it was summed up in Cardiff boy Justin Kerigans film Human Traffic, could it have been any City? nah it was Cardiff through and through but that was in the 1990s and things have changed allot since then. What does Cardiff mean to people now? and how does the City compare culturally to the rest of the rest of the UK ? these are two questions that cross my mind continually. I always ask lots of questions to the visiting bands, artists and DJ’s who play at CAI. Some great work has been done over the past 5 years by certain groups and individuals but we have also lost a lot of our culture too. I would like to think that the vast development of the bay, shopping districts etc will be met by a movement of Cardiff counter culture. I would love to here about what other people think about where our City is at as we enter a new decade, it will be us that will be able to create changes through mass collaboration as never before have we been able to use the internet to create social change on such a vast scale like we can today.
A little piece of history…
Culture and the city is changing, that's for sure…
I beg to differ though, this video represents a whole movement that has been going on in the UK for time and is still going strong today (thankfully). There's still plenty of gaps to be filled, tried and tested in Cardiff but then that's what has always made it unique – if you want to make something happen, there's plenty of opportunity to make it happen yourself…
Good paragraph and questions. Cardiff's back in the zone of needing to be represented more but its foundation is a bedrock of high quality talent and people that I totally love. Basically we all need to think and act bigger – not to try and be a big city and seek fame but to make our endeavours satisfying enough to know we do things properly. Respect to everyone using themselves in creative ways.