Alton Towers Street Entertainers Convention

A review by Brian Milner


Mr Aardvark and I will duke it out to see who can reply to this one first. Alton Towers was *great*. The resident street entertainers are among the best in the country. You get to park by the heliport, so you're only a short walk from your car. The facilities are really nice, and all the rides are free. No cost for your ticket (just book in advance). The show was *bril*.

'The Star Camping site' was a bit nasty, but bearable. You can juggle for the queues to see what it's like juggling in front of non-jugglers (though they'd probably prefer it if you didn't pass a hat).

A few highlights - Friday Night, the usual impromptu fire show, with one six foot madman in a white paper bunny rabbit suit <ahem>. Bodgit (one Alton Towers resident juggler) with his tiny suitcase of micro-props: clubs 4 inches long; 2 tiny diabolos, handsticks and string (and he *can* do two tiny diabolos really solidly); tiny devil stick and shaker cups; passing with Adrian Kirk - he caught every bit of garbage I could throw at him; the people dressed up as the Alton Towers equivalent of Mickey Mouse - Bears, rabbits, bugs, ... and they never spoke, they did all their talking with experssive gesturing.

I'd better stop there - I'll just say BE THERE next year!

====Brian Milner, The Computer Centre, Brunel University, West London, UK====
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