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>>>Love Parade 2006<<<
| quote: | July 2006
Whatsonwhen regrets to inform you that Berlin's Love Parade has been cancelled due to lack of funding for the second successive year. The organisers hope to return in 2006 with an event to coincide with Germany's hosting of the World Cup Finals.
The Love Parade was originally the brainchild of a German DJ called Dr Motte, who hit upon the idea of holding a free, mobile acid-house party in the street. The first Love Parade was held in 1989 and attracted just 150 revellers. They followed two cars with cassette recorders along the Kurfurstendamm. In the 1999 Love Parade, 1.4 million people followed 51 floats along the Strasse des 17 Juni and past some of Germany's most important monuments and landmarks, all in celebration of Love, Freedom and Techno!
The Love Parade is hugely popular, attracting some of the biggest DJs and crowds from around the world. It has even spawned a series of sister events in such far-flung places as the UK, Israel and South Africa.
The event completely takes over the city, prowling through the streets like a giant monster. Each float is fashioned by club and party organisers, who bring their own DJs and their own brand of techno. Fifty-one different floats create a cacophony of beats for the people who dance alongside, blowing whistles and often wearing very little bar body paint.
The traditional route of the parade snakes past the Angel of Peace monument in the middle of the Tiergarden and down to the Brandenburg Gate, a potent symbol of German reunification. Here the focus shifts to one massive arena. Two DJ booths surrounded by hundreds of cameras are raised on scaffolding high above the cheering crowd, giving the headlining DJs their moment of glory.
Giant video screens light up the sky as the likes of Westbam, Sven Vath and Paul Van Dyk play to the crowd and for the cameras who broadcast live around the world. This is the climax of the event and two million people go absolutely wild.
Some say the Love Parade has lost its original ideals, becoming too big, too commercial and even too downmarket. This is a common complaint levelled at events that have stood the test of time, but these things so often take on a life of their own and must be allowed to run their course.
Controversy has also arisen over the environmental impact of the Love Parade and the mountains of rubbish revellers leave behind, so current conditions make the organisers responsible for trash pickup. The Mayor is keen to keep the event going as it puts the city at the centre of the world stage in a very positive way, drawing young people to Berlin and helping in the ongoing process of revitalising the city. |
Links:
http://www.loveparade.net/
http://www.whatsonwhen.com/events/~15762.jml
Video:
http://www.whatsonwhen.com/video/pl...ID=MP&speed=800
Pour les intéressés, apparemment cette année la Love Parade serait de retour à Berlin. La coupe du monde y étant certainement pour bcp...
Vu que l'annulation de celle ci était en partie due au fait que ça coûtait cher, la World Cup devrait absorber une grosse partie des frais de sécurité, nettoyage, etc...
Pas bcp d'infos encore pour le moment, mais si de votre côté vous avez mieux, allez y défoulez vous.
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