March of the Corporate Undead, Oxford St

Peter Marshall | 28.02.2009 12:08

The 'Government of the Dead' held a pancake day (24 Feb) parade along along Oxford Street in the early evening, hanging an effigy of a banker at Tyburn. Pictures Copyright (C) 2009, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

Making up

The start at Oxford Circus

Musicians

The Body Shop

Oxford St

I'm a Banker

Marble Arch

Hanging

Citigroup failed to set the banker on fire

A Zombie Shopping Spree took place on Oxford Street starting from Oxford Circus, complete with coffins, a dead 'banker', posters, various members of the undead and a rather good band. Police watched in a suitably deadpan manner (I did see one or two occasionally smile) as the group assembled and applied large amounts of white make-up before making its way along the pavement of Oxford Street, to the astonishment (and often delight) and approval of late shoppers and workers rushing home.

We stopped off at Stratford Place, opposite Bond Street Station to toss some fried bankers brains in the frying pans and hold a pancake race, fortuitously stopping a Rolls Royce that was prevented by the police from driving through while we were there.

The parade continued, stopping for a minute or two under the bright lights of Selfridges before continuing to Tyburn with more zombies joining all the time.

Hanging the already dead banker from Marble Arch seemed a great idea, but getting a rope up over it was tricky. Eventually a severed hand gave sufficient weight to enable a rope to be thrown over the ornamental iron-work and the banker was soon hoisted up to dangle over the continuing revels below.

More pictures on My London Diary shortly,

http://mylondondiary.co.uk/2009/02/feb.htm#zombies

Peter Marshall
e-mail: petermarshall@cix.co.uk
Homepage: http://mylondondiary.co.uk

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