We have been accepted onto the parade again. We are: me (sofeetee) and 'M' (artist/director extraordinaire), and an assortment of our kids, their friends, and families.
Last years triumphant 'RECYCLOPS' is to be followed by an even more ambitious work... watch this space for things as they develop....
To whet your appetite, here's what we put in our application for the parade which is this year titled 'The Sky's the Limit':
'The Sky's the Limit immediately brings to mind Manchester once being known as 'the town of tall chimney's'. We wish to create a visual feast of Cotton Kings, and towering chimneys with billowing serpents of smoke. We plan to reference Charles Dickens in celebration of the bicentenary of his birth, and have been inspired by his description of 'Coketown' based on his experiences of manchester at the height of the industrial revolution. This spectacle will involve gigants, a junk band, serpents and an elephant!
'....it was a town of unnatural red and balck, like the painted face of a savage..a town of machinery and tall chimney's out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed..where the piston steam engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholiy madness....' Charles Dickens, 'Hard Times'.'
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