Cold Weather Speakers Corner Meet 24th January

[irv_b]

Let me add my voice to say a big thanks to Andrew for setting this up a good day was had (even if it was blooming cold ) Nice to meet Jonathon for the first time (I see he has a picture he can scare the kids he photographs into sitting still  ) and Sandy again and of course Alan
Fantastic to see so many pics up already I'll get some posted soon

[minky_monkey]

Oi! What about me!!

[irv_b]

Oops!!! Sorry is this you by any chance?

[minky_monkey]

 

[Oldboy]

Looks like you all had a great day and returned with lots of great shots. 

[Mick]

Hope you all had a great day out, looks like you did.  Some lovely pics uploaded already.

As some of you have noticed, I've added a "Cold weather speakers meet" album to the gallery as with the last meets.   

One day I might be able to attend one of these meets. 

[picsfor]

That would be good Mick - and i did notice the gallery section for the pictures - once again , thank you. I did go and have alook just in case 
However - i do have plans to turn one of my many trips back to Suffolk into a meet, as it seems there are sufficient numbers around that area to make up a meet!
So watch this space!  

[irv_b]

A work friend told me today that he heard that Billy Bragg was at speakers corner yesterday just wondering if Alan went there again
* I am led to believe that Billy Bragg is a socialist pop singer - power to the people and all that!

[greypoint]

I've got lots of Billy Bragg stuff - he did a great album with Wilco and Natalie Merchant of Woody Guthrie stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4t3DDbZL7o&feature=PlayList&p=FAF70476FE65A7FE&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=5

[ABERS]

A work friend told me today that he heard that Billy Bragg was at speakers corner yesterday just wondering if Alan went there again
* I am led to believe that Billy Bragg is a socialist pop singer - power to the people and all that!

Blimey Irv. I've only just thawed out from Sunday!

Not too sure if there is any activity other than on a Sunday, but I've read somewhere that B Bragg is making a stand about paying his income tax, so it might be part of his publicity machine using the corner to make a noise.

[ABERS]

Sound familiar?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8657184.stm

[anglefire]

The link is broken Abers

[Mick]

The link is broken Abers

Link works fine for me Mark. 

[Oldboy]

The link is broken Abers

It works for me. 

[Eileen]

Works for me too.  coincidentally Nick Clegg was in my area today so I went along to take a few snaps. I was curious, really, to see what it would be like and wanted to practice my social documentary skills. Very interesting. Humumgous scary press pack (small children could be lost forever in that melee) including Dan Chung (http://theguardiantheobserver.newsprints.co.uk/c/33605/dan_chung_photographer). A good few characters with their own axes to grind, like a mini Speakers' Corner. Lots of young party hacks waving banners, joined by some labour hacks waving theirs, and a Tory posted van passing by regularly just to annoy everyone. It was all quite good fun and I'd highly recommend it for anyone wanting to practice their camera skills. I've got a few snaps of local characters but nothing special. Will post in a day or so.

It does make you realise quite how hard it is to come up with a really good image in the middle of all that mayhem. It also made me wonder what it must do to the personality of the individual at the centre of that kind of storm day after day. Given that you'd need a healthy ego to try for that job in the first place, how difficult must it be to keep any sense of reality? And what must it be like when the fanfare dies down and you're just you again?