Wednesday all Imperial Staff were invited to the Centenary Staff Party, basically a big garden party on Queen's and Prince's Lawns. If you didn't attend, here's what you missed:
- All shop and restaurant staff dressed in Edwardian style.
- A chance to see the inside of the giant marquee on Queen's lawn. Rumors that it's the largest marquee in the world are definitively wrong. It's not even the largest in the borough, as some websites claim the world's largest marquee was used at the Chelsea Garden show.
- The Fab Beatles, a Beatles cover band specialised in the early years up to and including Help! but without Yesterday. I learned that to make a good Beatles cover band you need four guys including one left-handed, one who can play the guitar, one who hardly can play drums and one wearing glasses, all of them with the appropriate hairdo. The latter John-guy didn't follow the rule and had anachronistic long hair. But he was clearly the best approximation among the four.
- Fake That, another tribute band. Honestly, I couldn't really judge how good they are as I don't really know what they are supposed to be faking... Ask Yoshi, he seemed to be much more knowledgeable. There's a picture of the band above, but my autofocus seemed more interested by the balloon in front of the stage.
- And of course, the rector's dance. Luckily youtube saved it for the posterity.
Overall it was a nice party. College should make it annual! I don't want to wait 100 years for the next one!
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I took the liberty of adding a photo of the Fab Beatles to your post, so everyone can judge "John" and his hair and hat. The set was a carbon copy (well, perhaps that is being a bit generous) of that at Shea Stadium in 1965, where John was not wearing a hat.
And it is a shame they didn't do I'm Down, even when there was a keyboard at the side of the stage that John could have expressed himself with.
And as for rumours that our marquee is the largest in Europe/the World, I think that was a figment of my imagination. But as you said, after a few glasses of Imperial Red, if marquees are defined as being temporary structures, the one on the Queen's Lawn may still be the largest in Europe, but only in four-dimensional volume....
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