NEWHAVEN CORMORANT!

What on earth was it all supposed to be about? Men with blue faces standing on oil drums pointing.

Dan Dare and the Eagle comic had aliens with blue faces as well (known as Mekons)

Other Mekons were throwing cardboard boxes at people, and even more Mekons built a heap of oil drums and then knocked it down. WHY!!!! 

Mekons dragging a couple of old oil drums along on wheels with a fire in one. WHY!!!

Or was it just an experiment to see if people will react today as the mice did with the pied piper and follow the crowd. People did similar things in WW2. If there was a queue they joined it even though they did not know what they were queuing for.

Any other time or place, the Mekon box throwers would have been arrested for grevious bodily harm or disturbing the peace.

Similarly, as in the Hans Anderson story of the Kings Invisible clothes, you must say how wonderful it all is, otherwise if you don't, everybody else (even though they didn't understand it either) will laugh at you because in fact it was all about nothing.

Oi s'pose mus' 'ave bin zum of this y'ere modin art us 'ears 'bout.

I don't know what this was all about but it looks to have been huge fun. The photos are so great that I almost felt as though I had taken part. Thanks for showing a distant exile from his home town that Newhaven still has life left in it!

WOW the craziest thing I've seen in Newhaven but it was amazing. The rythm of the drummers and banging oildrums was hypnotic, please do more. I'll invite loads of my friends to come and watch this spectacular event. Roll on Cormorant. Thank you Julie Kingswood

Oh come on, Completely Baffled, anyone would think you didn't like it! It was street theatre, fun and enjoyment pure and simple, spectacle, no need for rhyme or reason. As for those following the Pied Piper, a lot of them followed him all the way to the beach and there were big crowds congratulating the peformers at the end, so they must have done something right!

I'm sorry, but I DIDN't understand any of it, so NO! I did not like it. AND it appears Andy Gilbert, who posted these pictures, admits himself that HE didn't understand at least some of it by his comment "What is this all about" on the 12th photograph, (the one of the man who appears to have been hung with something running out of a plastic bag above his head.) In fact IS there anybody out there who can explain exactly WHAT that particular item was supposed to be depicting?

Completely Baffled is entitled to his views about Newhaven Cormorant, which I fully respect. But, after speaking to many friends that saw the event, and now reading the reports in the Sussex Express, it seems that 3000 people were there (more than I'd thought) and that a lot of them, me included, enjoyed it. They're now asking for something similar to be staged in the future.

As for not understanding it, Completely Baffled is quite right. That's what I did say about that photo. However, I did also say 'no need for rhyme or reason' in my previous comment, sentiments echoed in the paper this morning by Cllr Rod Main.

'Vive le street art!' as I'm sure they say!

As I was quoted as saying, "it was art". The National Gallery famously had a pile of bricks, Tracey Emin had her unmade bed, Damien Hurst has all manner of weird and wonderful stuff... do I undersatnd any of it? No. This was a lot more fun... whatever it was about.

My children and I absolutely loved it, I would like to see more of this kind of thing happening in Newhaven.

This event was great I have never see something like it in my hometown of Newhaven. I hope we have something like this again.

If 'baffled' thinks that's weird he wants to come over to Hastings for the Old Town carnival,or go to Battle for the bonfire celebrations,they are something different.