Brent: Why are so many people of the same sex holding hands?
Beth: It must be a European thing.
Brent: Possibly. Although, there do seem to be an inordinately high number of, er, what Wodehouse referred to as ‘confirmed bachelors’ marching about today.
Beth: Hmm, true.
Brent: Now there seem to be a lot of people wearing pink. And holding balloons.
[the unmistakeable, base-heavy sounds of Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean played on an extremely large and expensive sound kit on a canal boat starts just behind us…]
Brent: Strange. The music seems to be played at a very high volume for just cruising around.
Beth: They seem to be dancing on the boat. Now they’re throwing soothers at us.
[the boat playing Billie Jean moves off to be replaced by another sound … growing slowly … on a boat approaching … …]
Brent: Is that…?
[a very large canal boat approaches to the sounds of Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood …]
Brent: Where am I?
Beth: It’s the Gay Pride Parade!!!
