Our work is part-funding this festival, which started with a giant light and acrobatic show on the quayside. Was wierd and wonderful in equal measure but with the arctic conditions I was convinced there would be an accident.
Basically troops of acrobats were jumping off a ring about 60-odd foot up.
It had all the ingredients for a July festival in the North East:
Driving rain....check.
Freezing temperatures....check.
Locals trying to jump the fence.....check.
There was also a healthy disregard for safety with the giant 60 foot puppet lurching into the audience at one point.
It made for an amazing specticle although the performers from Barcellona must have been cursing the name Newcastle as they headed for another 60 foot drop into the driving wind and rain.
