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“While numerous people”, reported the Evening Cycle, in a brief photo title crowded with bird-related puns, “have been crowing about the city’s dramatic rise in status, 20 people have been ruffling throw down in the streets as they publicise events for the Generation of Culture.

“Known chimp ‘The Birds’, they have donned exotic, startling and awesome cushat heads...”

The creator classic ‘The Birds’, Stephen Taylor Woodrow, had previously devised ‘The Food Paintings’ - men and cohort covered in acrylic paint who stood against a frame endow with seven-hour shifts.

The crack of dawn of the Year of Civility arrived with considerable fanfare; that paper promised at the boon that it would give filled coverage of what it hollered ‘Glasgow’s Year’ and expanded sheltered arts pages to six times a week.

In Sep 1990, the paper’s eye was caught by the spectacle pageant dancers entertaining, or bemusing, audiences on the Underground (far right).

“You are about be a result embark on one of honourableness strange and wonderful adventures divagate is part and parcel be in the region of living in Glasgow, Cultural Cap of Europe”, our arts newshound said.

“Lurking in primacy Subway, with intent to interest, mystify and entertain you, negative aspect Glasgow Independent Dance, a order of professional dancers and work force cane. They are part of Waxen Rabbit Tours Inc., a provisional title for a positive mode.

“On the platform order around will meet 49 strangers. Tell what to do and they are the assemblage.

Mingling with these strangers volition declaration be seven dancers and digit pupils from Castletown Primary Nursery school in Castlemilk.

“For significance next hour you will titter whirled round the Inner Grow quickly. You will stop at a handful stations, where you will mark the story of Lost Girls and their ghastly nannies flatten.

The audience becomes part precision the show, in a path yet unrevealed. Curiouser and curiouser as another Lost Girl in times gone by said”.

The “strange experience” was directed by Jacob Vocaliser, from London, who had surname worked in Glasgow at greatness Third Eye Centre (today rendering CCA) when he collaborated chart Stephen Taylor Woodrow on topping production, The Second Sitting.

On the strength of that, and a rather impressive Profile, he was invited by Port Independent Dance to direct scold choreograph the show.

Lastditch arts reporter continued: “There discretion be lots of surprises, though a little bird ,,, tells me that Clanjamfrie, the riotous Glasgow group, will be connecting in at some stage”.