Summary
Radio ga-ga
FIRST minister Jack McConnell today visits Kilbirnie's revamped Radio City centre, which offers various social and educational facilities - gym, cafe, recording studio - within the town's old Radio cinema. Built in 1937, the cinema chose the miracle of electronic communication as its theme, its daringly modernistic frontage featuring a tall fake radio beacon, plus flashing purple neon zig-zags. In so doing, the Ayrshire building echoed New York's slightly better-known Radio City Music Hall, after which it has now been re-named to signal Kilbirnie's emergence on the global stage.See the full content of this document
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The Diary
Locals aren't getting carried away, however. As one Kevin Kennedy states in the centre's internet guestbook: "Radio City makes Kilbirnie better than Beith and Dalry."
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