Another ride to add to the 'Killer Rides At Walt Disney World' tour. We were wary of riding this last year but I loved it and had two goes. Darren only rode once as he found the whole experience extremely nauseating. The closest thing to blasting off into space (allegedly).

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1979, Newcastle City Hall. Devo, Are We Not Men? tour. Scary movie before the band came on which showed a mutant having his head squished by a record pressing machine. The new-wave had finally arrived oop north (and it dressed so much better than those noisy punkers). Later that year Blondie, Tubeway Army, PiL and The Rocky Horror Show (stage version) made going out at night menacing, sexy and exhilarating.

In other news, I was mighty pleased to discover that we shall be in New York when the Mermaid Parade takes place. I’ve been reading about this beach-front-day-out in Coney Island ever since I started looking at NYC blogs years and years and years ago. The parade marks the unofficial start of the NYC summer and is followed the next day by the even more 'colorful' (NYC spelling) Pride festivities in Manhattan (gays + summer + misplaced pride = a parade! Actually, that was harsh of me. Where better to celebrate a bit of pride than in the home city of the Gay Liberation Front? We should never forget that night in 1969 at the Stonewall Bar when 'enough is enough' became the battle-cry that started a war that we are still fighting.
*heads off to sewing room to construct suitable outfits*