At Last Saturday's Big London March

Last Saturday I joined in with a million marchers in Central London for the

Unite The Kingdom March, an event I knew I had to get to having missed the

previous one, although for this one even more people turned out.

Overall the event was a very successful one apart from a few scuffles down by

the Embankment Bridge where patriotic revellers were for a while blocked

access to the central Trafalgar Square area. And I got caught up in one by

choosing to get right in there for some close up video footage, and got

knocked about in the process. But thankfully my video camera

survived the knocks.

Although I did hear of more scuffles with a small turnout of counter protestors.

And things got quite hairy when some patriots broke through Police lines in an

attempt to reach the counter protestors, as was well documented by top youtuber

Wesley Winter.

Interestingly I often get people coming up to me to say their piece to my

camera (below) believing that I must be part of the media. They're clearly

misreading the stickers I have on my video screen hood.

But it was great to see a lot of familiar street youtubers, most of who were

Live streaming the big event, something I don't do.

I'm not sure what happened to my last youtube video The London Asian Festival.

It seems to be stuck on zilch views. I don't think it's finding youtube's search engines.

So hopefully this next video will get my channel back on course. But there's still

more to edit as I filmed quite a lot.

 

Serge Gainsbourg.....Love On the Beat

Returning once again to Serge Gainsbourg, talented poet, singer, composer and film maker,

I was keen to showcase one of his performances from his 1986 Casino de Paris Concert. 

In fact there were quite a few interesting concerts and performances in Paris during the late

1980's that I've only just been discovering on youtube.

And yes, sure in 1986 he looks a little disheveled here before he's even started the performance.

And his physical decline was there for all to see. But I think his home French fans loved his Devil

may care attitude.

And so this song from The Casino de Paris is titled 'Love On the Beat' from 1985 which definitely

has that classic big sound from the 80's.

The video was kindly uploaded to youtube by

MARIO TENORIO