WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT WILLIAM KENT?

[william_kent]

oh come on @version, I know it's your birthday and all that, but

really?

 

[william_kent]

my SENSEI / SIFU may have his faults but ZHAO? please

 

[dilbert1]

oh come on @version, I know it's your birthday and all that, but

really?

 

[william_kent]

I AM WILLIAM KENT: AMA

 

[dilbert1]

Are you from Kent?

 

[william_kent]

and as is typical in AMA situations I will ignore any questions and wander off to bed

 

[version]

Are you from Kent?

Great question.

 

[william_kent]

Are you from Kent?

no

it's a fake name based on a block in a squatted housing estate in Manchester that the Guardian once wrote an article about

 

[luka]

William Kent (1685 – 1748) was the leading architect and designer of early Georgian Britain. Credited as having introduced the Palladian style of architecture into England and originating the 'natural' style of gardening known as the English landscape garden, Kent was a polymath, who also turned his hand to designing sculpture, furniture, metalwork, book illustration, theatrical design and costume.

 

[version]

Are you, or are you not, the inventor of the microphone?

 

[luka]

PROBABLY WILLIAM KENT

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw03610/Probably-William-Kent?LinkID=mp02517&role=sit&rNo=2

 

[william_kent]

IT WAS LIKE BLADE RUNNER MEETS BERLIN RAVE

lol, so wrong

 

[william_kent]

Mick Hucknell was my next door neighbour

edit: or he would have been if he hadn't moved out five years before I moved in

 

[william_kent]

Fuck'nell!

check my edit above, I was playing with the truth

 

[william_kent]

I like this guy's backstory, so much more interesting

William Saville-Kent was a pioneering coral photographer. Was he also hiding a grisly secret?

 

[william_kent]

my SIFU does have some Mick Hucknell stories though, maybe if you @version turn up at the Sandbar in Manchester on the 17th of this month, MAYBE I will share...

 

[william_kent]

my SIFU does have some Mick Hucknell stories though, maybe if you @version turn up at the Sandbar in Manchester on the 17th of this month, MAYBE I will share...

long story short: the guy is a wanker

 

[william_kent]

moral of the story: never offer to buy Mick Hucknell a drink

 

[william_kent]

Hulme Crescents was Europe’s biggest housing estate, and soon deemed its worst. But a vibrant squatter community moved in – along with Mick Hucknall – to make a countercultural mecca

I love the way the Guardian make a distinction between 'vibrant' and Mick Hucknell

 

[dilbert1]

The Hulme Crescents are beautiful. Gerald Simpson lived there