with a smattering of early birds treated to a dawn chorus featuring pauline black, lead singer of theal band the selecter. coventry through and through. # riverflow... i've lived in coventry for very many years and to even be in a city that is coventry city of culture was good, but to be asked to perform at the opening ceremony, i just thought was, wow. that was fantastic. good, it was really, it was brilliant as well in this one it was brilliant as well in spon end and the colours, lovely, and i'm glad it stayed dry for them! not pouring down rain. action! i'm bringing the hands up - and opening them out and bringing one in front of you. i'm singing the river song, i am the river, as you can see, with all of this wonderful kind of blue make up and all of this flowing veil. because there is a river that runs underneath the city. and of course that's kind of the life spring, the well of everything, that was the reason why they settled, because there was a river. it's like miss haversham! i know this area and i know the people around here, or some of the people around here, and to have

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