Urban Art Association

POW 2009, 2010, Queue Photos, by colinfishwick on Jan 10, 2011 13:08:21 GMT 1,

Dec 22, 2010 16:26:20 GMT 1 eschiff said:

have some here...also some pics from the dran queue in that post.

artonanisland.blogspot.com/2010/12/banksy-choose-your-weapon.html

sorry, lazy and don't feel like formatting to put here

a good read except for the fact that there were not car loads of people turning up and walking in at the front of the queue, nearly all the pushing in happened between 2am and 4am, i went from 80-100 in the queue at that time and ended up with ticket number 105.

no doubt people jumped the queue but this bullshit has to stop, there was someone else on here crying that night because they didn't get a print and telling the story as if all hell was breaking loose - it wasn't!
yes there were scuffles but one fight was because a drunken reveller who walked past the queue antagonising people wouldn't leave and eventually he started a fight with a young lad and got a pasting, not condoning that but it happened.

there were young people queueing who appeared to be south american and were all under 25, these people were given cash by a small man once they had collected their raffle tickets - they were not in the queue at Berwick street but they didn't jump the queue at Commercial Rd so what can you do?

finally, the assertion that a large number of the ones bought at POW were for the money and those bought at M&S were real art lovers etc, again bollocks.
there was a good 10-20 of us just back from the bus shelter who had a real good craic all night and in to the morning, in spite of the organisational chaos - drinking, joking, laughing and talking about whatever you can think of.

there were people in front of me that flipped prints but queued legitimately, there were people behind me and back at soho who queued legitimately who flipped prints.
there were people who pushed in and bought a print they love and want to hang on their walls - Slammer at the front of the first queue walked straight in to the front of the queue at Commercial road and good luck to him!

Dec 22, 2010 16:26:20 GMT 1 eschiff said:

have some here...also some pics from the dran queue in that post.

artonanisland.blogspot.com/2010/12/banksy-choose-your-weapon.html

sorry, lazy and don't feel like formatting to put here

a good read except for the fact that there were not car loads of people turning up and walking in at the front of the queue, nearly all the pushing in happened between 2am and 4am, i went from 80-100 in the queue at that time and ended up with ticket number 105.

no doubt people jumped the queue but this bullshit has to stop, there was someone else on here crying that night because they didn't get a print and telling the story as if all hell was breaking loose - it wasn't!
yes there were scuffles but one fight was because a drunken reveller who walked past the queue antagonising people wouldn't leave and eventually he started a fight with a young lad and got a pasting, not condoning that but it happened.

there were young people queueing who appeared to be south american and were all under 25, these people were given cash by a small man once they had collected their raffle tickets - they were not in the queue at Berwick street but they didn't jump the queue at Commercial Rd so what can you do?

finally, the assertion that a large number of the ones bought at POW were for the money and those bought at M&S were real art lovers etc, again bollocks.
there was a good 10-20 of us just back from the bus shelter who had a real good craic all night and in to the morning, in spite of the organisational chaos - drinking, joking, laughing and talking about whatever you can think of.

there were people in front of me that flipped prints but queued legitimately, there were people behind me and back at soho who queued legitimately who flipped prints.
there were people who pushed in and bought a print they love and want to hang on their walls - Slammer at the front of the first queue walked straight in to the front of the queue at Commercial road and good luck to him!