Waterlitz spectacular draws thousands (From Daily Echo)
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Waterlitz spectacular draws thousands into Southampton
11:00pm Sunday 17th June 2012 in Southampton
By Matt Smith, Politics and business reporter
Waterlitz at Mayflower Park in Southampton
FRENCH performance art show Waterlitz went ahead in Southampton tonight after it was postponed yesterday due to high winds.
A 60ft high totem, made of eight shipping containers in a nod to Southampton’s world famous port heritage, was brought alive in Mayflower Park with aerial acrobats, loud music and pyrotechnics.
The free extravaganza, by a French theatre company, lit up the skies over Southampton Water after sunset - but the audience of thousands that braved the rain was left divided.
Some hailed it as a great show, if a little bizarre. Many were left baffled, and others went home early deriding it as rubbish.
The show was due to go ahead last night but became the latest event to fall victim to the weather, just weeks after the Red Arrows flypast over Cunard’s three Queens in Southampton docks had to be cancelled due to torrential rain during the Jubilee weekend celebrations.
The event was a cross-Channel collaboration between The Nuffield and French street theatre experts Generik Vapeur.
Waterlitz was the finale in a spectacular series of EU-funded events that have been brought to the city by the council, Nuffield Theatre, Art at the Heart and the ZEPA partnership.
Midsummer Dreams, Alive and Ablaze and Barricade, which all took place in Guildhall Square, were hugely successful and Waterlitz was set to be the grandest of them all.
The council's leisure boss Cllr Warwick Payne had promised a “night to remember”.
Comments(28)
dango
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6:56pm Sun 17 Jun 12
Linesman
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7:03pm Sun 17 Jun 12
'The Angel of the South' it ain't!
BillyTheKid
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7:35pm Sun 17 Jun 12
IronLady2010
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8:47pm Sun 17 Jun 12
Enjoy yourselves with yet another event in Southampton, bring on more events!
BillyTheKid
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9:33pm Sun 17 Jun 12
IronLady2010 wrote:Iron Lady, the lone voice of optimism and goodwill on this desolate forum !
I'm guessing it's started and the weather is being nice for once! Long may it last and hope everyone has a fantastic time.
Enjoy yourselves with yet another event in Southampton, bring on more events!
I feel ashamed. I will try to be more positive.......but honestly.....a pile of rusty containers......but, yes I do, I too hope they all enjoy themselves.
Are you a nun, Iron Lady ? Iron Lady....Our Lady.......? I'm not being facetious. Nuns have a fantastic ability to turn negative into positive with just a few well-chosen words.
IronLady2010
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9:35pm Sun 17 Jun 12
BillyTheKid wrote:Enjoy life Billy, no more to say! x
IronLady2010 wrote:Iron Lady, the lone voice of optimism and goodwill on this desolate forum !
I'm guessing it's started and the weather is being nice for once! Long may it last and hope everyone has a fantastic time.
Enjoy yourselves with yet another event in Southampton, bring on more events!
I feel ashamed. I will try to be more positive.......but honestly.....a pile of rusty containers......but, yes I do, I too hope they all enjoy themselves.
Are you a nun, Iron Lady ? Iron Lady....Our Lady.......? I'm not being facetious. Nuns have a fantastic ability to turn negative into positive with just a few well-chosen words.
IronLady2010
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9:50pm Sun 17 Jun 12
georgetheseventh
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11:01pm Sun 17 Jun 12
IronLady2010 wrote:And the bin men are on strike tomorrow..shucks !!!!
Just put my bins out and it's raining, typical! Hope the show is a success despite the rain!
georgetheseventh
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11:03pm Sun 17 Jun 12
IronLady2010
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11:08pm Sun 17 Jun 12
georgetheseventh wrote:Maybe you wish? I think the Bin men have learned their lesson that striking gets you no-where ;-) It took them a while but it sank in eventually!
IronLady2010 wrote:And the bin men are on strike tomorrow..shucks !!!!
Just put my bins out and it's raining, typical! Hope the show is a success despite the rain!
localnews
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11:41pm Sun 17 Jun 12
georgetheseventh wrote:must be time for your bottle and nappy change
EU funded..thats not fair...?????
BenjiWinsor
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12:14am Mon 18 Jun 12
The Music Man
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12:16am Mon 18 Jun 12
OSPREYSAINT
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12:54am Mon 18 Jun 12
BenjiWinsor wrote:Yes, but this is Southampton, it is a job to find anyone with anything good to say about anything, especially on this site. Welcome to Southampton, the Moaning Capital of the World.
My twitter newsfeed is clogged with people tweeting how rubbish this event is. Not one person was anything other than disappointed and glad to leave!
Dan Soton
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4:32am Mon 18 Jun 12
The Music Man wrote:best freebie ever.. should be annual event.
that was probably the most spectacular event that Southampton has ever seen. Whoever said it was rubbish is an idiot.
vag
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5:56am Mon 18 Jun 12
Woolston woman Jane
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7:26am Mon 18 Jun 12
BenjiWinsor
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8:00am Mon 18 Jun 12
George4th
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10:06am Mon 18 Jun 12
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Amen!
BenjiWinsor wrote:Yes, but this is Southampton, it is a job to find anyone with anything good to say about anything, especially on this site. Welcome to Southampton, the Moaning Capital of the World.
My twitter newsfeed is clogged with people tweeting how rubbish this event is. Not one person was anything other than disappointed and glad to leave!
BenjiWinsor
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10:34am Mon 18 Jun 12
George4th wrote:Amen literally means "God's will be done". Used in that context, that is actually quite funny!
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Amen!
BenjiWinsor wrote:Yes, but this is Southampton, it is a job to find anyone with anything good to say about anything, especially on this site. Welcome to Southampton, the Moaning Capital of the World.
My twitter newsfeed is clogged with people tweeting how rubbish this event is. Not one person was anything other than disappointed and glad to leave!
George4th
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10:53am Mon 18 Jun 12
BenjiWinsor wrote:I don't know where you get your information from but the definition of "Amen" is: "to express strong approval of or support for"
George4th wrote:Amen literally means "God's will be done". Used in that context, that is actually quite funny!
OSPREYSAINT wrote:Amen!
BenjiWinsor wrote:Yes, but this is Southampton, it is a job to find anyone with anything good to say about anything, especially on this site. Welcome to Southampton, the Moaning Capital of the World.
My twitter newsfeed is clogged with people tweeting how rubbish this event is. Not one person was anything other than disappointed and glad to leave!
chrismatthewsj
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11:07am Mon 18 Jun 12
The program advertised "World Food"... all there was was a burger van with a 30 minute queue, a doughnut van and a sweet van. Inflatable entertainment was a joke too!
My highlight was the talent gazebo with some talented singers.
Even the on-lookers from the Holiday Inn disappeared from the windows half way through the performance and they were in the dry!!
BenjiWinsor
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11:10am Mon 18 Jun 12
George4th
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11:41am Mon 18 Jun 12
BenjiWinsor wrote:I think either your memory is incorrect or your Bible College was preaching incorrectly!
Bible college, can't dig out the exact stuff (in boxes) but Amen comes from a Hebrew word. Obviously the world may use the word differently now and it may be commonly used as you say, but the literal meaning is God's will be done.
Upon further exploration I give you the following:
"The word derives from a Semitic root meaning fixed or sure. The Greek Old Testament usually translates it as so be it; in the English Bible it is often translated as verily or truly"
bazzeroz
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3:00pm Mon 18 Jun 12
IronLady2010 wrote:They haven't finished yet!
georgetheseventh wrote:Maybe you wish? I think the Bin men have learned their lesson that striking gets you no-where ;-) It took them a while but it sank in eventually!
IronLady2010 wrote:And the bin men are on strike tomorrow..shucks !!!!
Just put my bins out and it's raining, typical! Hope the show is a success despite the rain!
OSPREYSAINT
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12:15am Tue 19 Jun 12
George4th wrote:To be politically correct we should be saying aperson these days?
BenjiWinsor wrote:I think either your memory is incorrect or your Bible College was preaching incorrectly!
Bible college, can't dig out the exact stuff (in boxes) but Amen comes from a Hebrew word. Obviously the world may use the word differently now and it may be commonly used as you say, but the literal meaning is God's will be done.
Upon further exploration I give you the following:
"The word derives from a Semitic root meaning fixed or sure. The Greek Old Testament usually translates it as so be it; in the English Bible it is often translated as verily or truly"
Dan Soton
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5:52am Tue 19 Jun 12
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Mayflower Park Waterlitz spectacular Vs Woolston/Weston shore Millennium fireworks display.
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P.S. for those unaware don't hold your breath for the next thousand years
IronLady2010 says...
5:25pm Sun 17 Jun 12