"Confirmed
outbreaks of a Zombie Virus in Birmingham city centre UK #zombie
#breakingnews"
That
was my first and only twitter post yesterday. That and my phone died
really early on in the day, it was getting into the theme of the day.
And what a day it was.
The
zombie walk is a charity walk, raising vital money for the Birmingham
Children’s Hospital. Brainchild of Jamie Chapman, this is yearly
event where the city centre is taken over by a host of zombies, and
this year the numbers were well into the thousands I would say.
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| Right, Me, Middle, the other half Lisa, and left Lisa's sister Shell |
It
all starts at 10am, when people start meeting in the park behind the
ICC. This years, Monster energy drink were sponsoring the event, so
free cans of Monster were being given to everyone (most likely
wanting to create rage zombies..) Here as well is where all the
talented artists gather to paint the faces of the willing. These
artists take the time to to this for free, and as a customer you have
to pay but all that money then goes to the charity, so big props to
those talented people who volunteered.
After
you have had your face painted, the music is playing, and then we
just hung out with all the other zombies until the walk actually
started.
I
wish I had taken more pictures of this event, but enjoyed myself so
much that I forgot. The other half took some pictures, so I will post
them in a later post.
The
walk itself started at 4pm, after a talk from Jamie Chapman himself
about the walk, and he got all the undead fired up. The route was
straight through the centre of Birmingham, through Paradise Forum,
through Colmore Row, down to New Street, past the Bull Ring, then
back up and through the Oasis Market, and finished at the Birmingham
Ballroom (which used to be the Carling Academy) for the after party to begin.
Quite far for a large group of shambling zombies, I would agree, but
all for the greater good.
I
just cannot even begin to imagine what the public thought. It is
quite a big event, but you would not know about it unless you were
taking part, as it seems quite underground. There were looks of
shock, people pointing, a small amount of abuse from narrow minded
people, but mostly it was camera phones and laughing from the
public. I can only imagine You tube and Facebook's servers must have
gone mad during that hour.
All
in all a fantastic day, and we shall defiantly be back there next
year. Sorry about the lack of pictures, I will do better next year!
Go
to www.facebook.com/birminghamzombies
and like the page for all the pictures from this years, plus when the
time comes, the details of Zombie Walk 2013.
“When
there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth” - Dawn
of the Dead
