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Liverpool A-Z - 2006

Adam

Born in Melbourne, Australia. Artist and curator of MuseumMan in Liverpool.

"Liverpool has got a bad rep. And its amazing the people I’ve spoken to in England find it a no go area. But interestingly enough, to me, it’s the most unabashedly English city in the whole of England. Its not the rural pastoral England, this is unabashedly English, and I love it for it. It’s totally honest and that’s really seductive. Liverpool had to grasp at the economy that was kind of offered to them and I think that during the 70’s and 80’s it kind of made Liverpool withdrawal and become very tribal with a fear or anger towards the outsider. They’d been raped so essentially over a great period of time… 50 years. The outsider only gets accepted if they find you sincere, and the sincerity to them is very important.”