This cannot be construed as flaneur-ing as it required booking of tickets

[rydra_wong]

But I believe it qualifies for psychogeographical bragging, at least.

This is where I spent part of yesterday:

http://www.towerbridge.org.uk/bascule-chamber-concert/ (Google image search "bascule chamber" for more pretty pictures)

You can all be jealous of me now.

This will probably be the only time in my life I listen to a John Cage aria with a 1000-tonne weight suspended over my head.

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[kaberett]

oooooooh.

[rydra_wong]

The white-painted part you can see in the photo is the counter-weight itself; we were seated about where the photo is taken from, with the performers variously on the steps and in the galleries above.

There was a good warning note on the tickets that the concert times might have to be changed if a ship requested a bridge opening (but they have to give 24 hours notice for that, so by yesterday we knew the concerts would be on schedule).

I was conscious throughout that I was sitting in what is essentially a Bond movie trap, though. Also that I was both underground and underwater.

As I am somewhat claustrophobic, this made some demands, but I was glad to have done it; it was a good experience.