Glasgow South Side Festival Queens Park 28 June 08

[Vinegar Tom]

Today saw the first South Side Festival in Queens Park.

We went along and had a good time - a couple of beers , food , fighting ( simulated ) and most importantly old Glasgow livereyed buses.

Blurrey crowd just after the procession:


Brass Monkeys playing "Shaft"


Brass Monkeys


T-Rex tribute band man


Have you clocked the shoes


View North


Clan Society Men


Clan Men


Axe to the groin


Castlemilk Bus


2 Buses


Bus


Buses

[OLDFART]

wasnt bad for 1st time, it can only get bigger & better

[Blueboy]

Nice buses.

[Targer]

Vinegar Tom: Great photo's. Any idea which clan society the group is from? They forgot to use their targes as they are lying in the background.

[Vinegar Tom]

The group are called Clann according to the South Side Festival website.

They did manage to use at least one targe , with the one in question being pierced by maces , smashed by swords and eventually being destroyed by a battleaxe. Here it is after a "maceing" as they inspect the holes:

[onyirtodd]

The group are called Clann according to the South Side Festival website.

They did manage to use at least one targe , with the one in question being pierced by maces , smashed by swords and eventually being destroyed by a battleaxe. Here it is after a "maceing" as they inspect the holes:

What do they think they look like?

[Mori]

evening times

AROUND 8000 people turned out to celebrate the first Glasgow Southside Festival and they had a day to remember.
Revellers enjoyed treats ranging from live bands and fun fair rides to seeing some of Scotland's most famous battles.
Although hit by the rain, a brief sunny spell in mid-afternoon saw families flock to Queen's Park to take part in the fun.
As bands played in the Glasshouse, excited children were given the chance to ride in a cart pulled by two huge Shire horses.

[Riotgrrl]

I took to these fellows, and I loved the incongruity of them doing all this hip-hop dancing while trying to make progress up Victoria Road in front of two corporation buses and a fire engine.