Bike War

Although there were many young teenagers frolicing around and watching bands during the night at Shit Town, it wasn't until the daytime that the really young kids came out. On Sunday at 3PM Shit Town hosted an event called 'Bike War' in a huge warehouse space. During Bike War several punks riding brutal vehicles made from old bikes welded together in insane formations jausted and crashed into eachother until all the bikes were no longer ridable. The kids loved this. After the battle had finshed several kids scrambled to smash the bikes further into obliteration... When I showed Judith this photograph she said 'It's very Lord of the Flies', which I think was quite apt. Superficially this is because it shows a perfect blond choir boy looking child performing an act of violence. However it also depicts the excitment arroused by destructive acts, and when shown in context, its illustrates how huge amounts of violence can immerge from groups that would not surface in the individual alone. Luckily here people were smaxhing bikes rather than their peers...