No More Big Wheels...

Bruce Springsteen was impressed. "Hey, you got yourselves a ferris wheel!" he barked as the Seeger Sessions Band careered across the Odyssey stage in Belfast. Indeed, we had a large wheel, strapped on to the side of the City Hall and it felt rather frivolous and city-like. Alas, on Sunday, it made a final swirl for the public and soon it will be be no more. And while a few people made sour noises, I think we will miss that moment when gravity was challenged and the cityscape was offered a bit of perspective. Seamus Heaney is doubtless already writing the big metaphorical poem about it.

Still, when your children ask you what it was like, you should remember to fetch up this charming video by Colenso Parade and the Bandwidth video people. It has everything you need to know really: laughs, music, high spirits and a rather too much condensation....