Restore the Rec
| September 13, 2008 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
“Restore the Rec”. On the 13th of September, various activities will be happening all around Lordship Recreation Ground (map) and the Broadwater Farm Community Centre. The food co-op will be at the centre and the community kitchen will be serving some tasty delicacies. There will be a farm produce show, green show, a visit from the Hackney City Farm’s fury and hairy creatures AND of course some pedal powered music. If you fancy pedal powering some bands in the midst of giant pumpkins, English cheese wheels and geese, than this must be you chance. We’ll be down there from 12 onwards till about 6pm. Restore the Rec can be accessed from Lordship Lane and Adam’s Road.
Climate Change March After Party
Another week and another trip to the synergy center this time for the climate change march after party. This time we needed 10 bikes as we planned to power some films. After setting up the projector and the 3 bikes we had brought with us it was time for he party to begin, so we powered up some tunes while we hunted for some more bikes.
It proved more difficult to get hold the bikes than we had hoped, so we powered some live music, picked our favourate films and some classic festival footage provided by the big green gathering crew and muddled through with the power we had.
We learnt some hard lessons about bike availability and met some amazing people and a few some hard cyclists at this unique event. We’ll be having a rest from late night trips to London for a while however (oh, except for next week when we have two more gigs!)
Decompression
As night fell on the mill road winter fair we were off to our second gig of the day powering The Jelly Royale at the decompression party in London!
We arrived just in time to set up our kit before the party began at which point the crew had a rest and a beer and the jellies got themselves into some modified magnificent usherette outfits.
Setting Up - The Madness Unfolds!
We had some hard acts to follow! A fancy dress competition, some naked sushi (yes, naked people covered in sushi which is apparently very popular in Japan!) and a man swinging around near the ceiling attached by great meat hooks through his skin! As we found some willing cyclists and checked the kit was ready for action we wondered whether we could match all this madness.
Hungry?
The Jellies Discuss the Song Order for the Night
As the Jellies were sound checking some speakers, too energy hungry for us to power started to feedback. The sound booth had switched them on not really realising that we were off grid and making our own energy, barbora put them straight using her bike powered mike and directed the sound crew to “have a break and get yourselves a drink”.
Everyone got down had a dance and a cycle. We did it again!
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