Roundhay Park, Leeds, U.k. 2000

The Day We Went To The Love Parade.

What Is One Day That Makes An Everlasting Memory?

B. A. Cumberlidge.
ILLUMINATION
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3 min readJun 16, 2020

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I am 21 years old and I’m pretty much living the dream. I work hard on the building sites and play football & party all weekend I have lots of mates and I’m living the single man’s life.

We all piled on to a minibus on the promenade in Rhyl, North Wales. It was some ungodly hour like 7:30 am which on a weekend is not a time you plan to ever be awake.

Our destination was Leeds, Yorkshire. As we were making our way to one of the biggest outdoor free dance music events ever to grace our shores.

At approximately 11 am we had parked up in the drop off zone and we gradually moved out and on to the main events area.

DJs were circulating on van mounted floats playing all the various genres of dance music. It was like a who’s who of star DJs.

Seb Fontaine, Judge Jules, Tiesto, Dave Pierce, Fatboy Slim & Pete Tong were some of the many artists on show.

This procession went on into the late afternoon. Everything & Everyone was happy and chilled just embracing the dance vibes.

I’m not trying to promote or endorse it but, the drugs that were being taken or…

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B. A. Cumberlidge.
ILLUMINATION

Mental Health. Eradication of Medication. Suicide Prevention. Soccer, Boxing, Meditation & Wellness, TheWideOpenSpace, Synergy & Illumination-Curated #LEO