NEWHAVEN CORMORANT!
Street (and harbour!) theatre comes to town - 16/7/2011
By Andy Gilbert
The driving rain of earlier in the day disappeared and even the wind dropped a bit, all ready for Newhaven's street spectacular, put on jointly by Brighton's Zap Art and French street art company Generik Vapeur.
What can you say about Newhaven Cormorant? Blue people in suits, Newhaven Youth Marching Band, a giant photo, a band on a truck, lots of oil drums, a fire-breathing dog, drummers and fire on the river, corn and feathers (I haven't a clue what that was about!), MAD wanting the sandy beach back, some flying cardboard boxes, people 'flying' from the cliffs, a pyramid and some fireworks! There was lots more too......
You had to have been there to really appreciate it - and an awful of of people were!
Here's 30 of my favourite photos from the event.
They lined the High Street
The 'Photo Communale' unveiled
Newhaven Youth Marching Band
They rolled and banged the oil drums
They climbed on people's balconies!
You tell me what this is about!
Pirates and a plastic seagull
Drummers in fishing boats
MAD singing 'I do like to be beside the seaside'!
Dozens of boxes were in the air - I got hit fair and square!
The ferry hooted as the armada passed!
The band played non-stop!
Revelry at the Harbourside
More revelry at the Hope Inn
The band still played on!
They jumped on buildings too!
Blue people on the march again
Flying from the clifftops!
The oil drum pyramid is released
The ferry leaves and the lifeboat shoots up a flare
All photos © Andy Gilbert