First off, I'm proud to join the many headed beast of Flickr Bloggers who have photographed Banksy's latest coup in Bristol. The Council have decided it is art and not vandalism, as we all know, of course had it been done by anybody else they would not have wasted any time in condemning it. Cue thousands more artists to rush out and daub buildings...
Tall ships. Flags. Crowds. Blues Brothers / Commitments-type soul bands. Juggling and acrobalance. The Matthew.
A ferry trip. Someone dressed like Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Children playing with machine guns on the navy minesweeper. Lots of photos. Cups of Tea.
Canteloop play in Queen's square. They use other people's jazz to make hip-acidjazz-hop. I remember when this was popular. It begins to drizzle so we leg it into an empty café for proper tea and toilet. It's just off Queen's square, yet the queue for the portaloos is a mile long and people are still buying overpriced drinks from the bar tent. I shake my head sadly. Still, shouldn't worry too much, at least we get nice coffee and seats and dryness.
We nearly go home when it begins to rain proper.
Finding some friends and more importantly an umbrella, we wait in the damp for Shri, whilst munching on newly purchased French Sausage from the French market. He is amazing. That is all.
The rest of my photos are on flickr:
Bristol Harbour Festival 2006
"Someone dressed like Isambard Kingdom Brunel"
That was my old school friend, Martin, btw.