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A Pride Float in 10 Easy Steps......
review Building a float is EASY when you know how. Here's the REALBrighton quick ten step guide to creating the perfect Pride float:1. Register for Same Sky workshops. Invaluable help from experts in the field, we couldn't have done it without you all! Thanks so much! 2. Ask Bill to paint you some banners. He loves it and has a spare two hours left over from his summer holidays once he's finished painting ours, so I'm sure he wont mind helping you out. Buy him some sunscreen (that sunburn looks NASTY!) and a pocket spell-checker for those hard to spell words... like Brighton for example. Imagine getting it wrong on a 45 ft banner! He'd never live it down if he did that. Not that he'd mis-spell it though, of course. 3. Go to the pub with an envelope and a pen. Have a few drinks and scribble out the seed of an idea on the back of said envelope. Ply everyone with a few more drinks and then convince them that it's a good idea. 4. Call a Big Meeting of everyone who's likely to want to help out and get lots of ideas for making it all fabulous. Rope in as many people as you can to the workshops. 5. Ask Bill to spend the rest of his summer holidays making sure that the workshops run smoothly. (please scrap point 2 above... he's now too busy to help you out). 6. Pop in and out of the Parade Workshops and annoy your lovely contributors as they work tirelessly to build the set for the float... try not to shout at them and remember that they're all there because they want it to be fabulous too! 7. Meet your scaffolders and a chap called Mads who coordinated the arrival of the 45ft truck, the crane to lift the generator onto the truck, the scaffolders and the sound engineers to put the sound system together. He's an absolute star, is Mads. 8. The night before the parade play your carefully mixed soundrack one last time before burning it to a CD... and then cry when you realise that iTunes doesn't save the cross-fades when you burn a CD so you'll have big gaps between the songs. Call Markie and have him come over and spend 3 hours creating the perfect soundrack CD. 9. After about an hour's sleep get up again and start carting the set down to the float. Get James and Huw to cook you up some mean breakfast rolls (bloody marvellous!) and watch as your float takes shape under the helping hands of your lovely contributors. Fantastic people! 10. Get on the float, press Play on the CD deck... press stop again when you realise how loud it is. Then press Play again and enjoy the next two hours of partying!
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