Andy Letcher

To anyone living within a driveable distance from Oxford, I would urge you to go and see Luminox - tonight is your last chance (it's free but they ask for a £1 donation). This anarcho-French street theatre group transformed Broad Street into a walk-through fire installation. Hard to put into words, except to say that it was beautiful, magical, captivating, slightly trippy - everything a carnivalesque eruption should be. At one point I climbed up onto the Sheldonian railings and looked out over the scene - the street was packed with people wandering around open mouthed, gazing at these extraordinary fire sculptures - from a flaming chandelier, to curtain of flaming pots strung down from the Bodleian Steps. Huddling round braziers people TALKED to strangers.

To finish the night off Spiro (one of my favorite bands) playing a storming set (different bands tonight). I came away warmed to the cockles of my heart. Go go GO!!