Carnival
June 23rd, 2009 — listenhearThe area of Manchester, where I live when I’m working up here, isn’t famed as being the party capital of the north, it’s pretty damn dull…sorry that should read quiet. So imagine my surprise when, on a normal, grey Sunday afternoon, I looked out of my window and saw a Scottish Pipe Band loitering, with a great deal of intent, outside my flat. Anyway it isn’t quite Mardi Gras but it seems that this sleepy suburb has an annual carnival and parade, consisting of a few floats, local scout bands and such…they’d begun congregating outside my flat before processing around the quiet leafy streets.
So here’s a recording made out of my kitchen window….Pipes, drums, some bugles, and children……
Sunday 21st June 2009
2.30pm.
…Thousands lined the streets!…
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