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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[nou]

Wow!

(I performed in a similar-ish thing when I was about 15 or so, which is long enough ago that I can't recall many details, but it was a newly commissioned piece for brass and percussion, composed specifically for performance in an industrial space somewhere in South Wales — not nearly as cool as Tower Bridge [though I do remember it was freezing cold].)

[rydra_wong]

Yes, it wasn't freezing but was very definitely a different environment from the sunny day happening outside.

Later in the day, we found ourselves enjoying the sun on Ernie's beach, so the contrast couldn't have been much more dramatic.