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call environmental health noise pollution! lol

I just want to see the size of the big robotic newspaper that they squash the barstard with!

I've been told the full details for this event...

...all i'm going to say is keep your eye on the local media

Lad in work spotted it going on a flatbed trailer the other day, and I've been told it's gone from Lairds, so must have gone through the tunnel already??

roads closed on friday 1pm-midnight salthouse quay? wapping, the strand
midnight-4pm saturday the strand 3-6pm water street,castle street,lord street 4-8pm lord street,church street 6-10pm ranelagh street,lime street. sunday 1pm-midnight lime street mersey tunnel access!

cheers

as working in city center some woman came in with the list of roads closed so i posted for you guys!

great thanks for that - i wonder if we could get any more info - you think local rags will include it?

wens 3rd sep the la machine website says it will tell all!

This Wednesday

Would be great if you could get closeup pics seen as you're working by it?

see what i can do!

LATEST ECHO UPDATE

Sep 1 2008 by Catherine Jones, Liverpool Echo


THE countdown has started to one of the most spectacular weekends of Capital of Culture.

La Machine’s giant mystery creature will take to the streets of Liverpool city centre on Friday in what will be the biggest piece of street theatre the UK has ever seen.

Exact details about the top-secret creature and what will happen are still being kept under wraps.

But today, the ECHO is calling on readers to join in and play their own part in the three-day, £2m extravaganza.

We want to see your photographs and video footage of this magnificent event, and hear what you think about giant 50ft animation, known only as La Princesse.

ECHO editor Alastair Machray said: “Liverpool will never have seen anything quite like it. If you loved the Superlambananas, La Machine will blow your socks off.

“Our reporters, photographers and video journalists will be there with the creature every step of the way, and we hope all our readers will too.”

Readers can get involved in one of the following ways:

By web – comment and vote on our Live Blog at www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/machine

By mobile phone – send your photos or texts to 0787 268 0454 (put “mach” at the start of your message); standard rates apply

By email – send comments or photos to machine@ liverpoolecho.co.uk

By Flickr – upload photos and videos to Flickr at www.liverpoolecho. co.uk/flickr

Culture Company executive producer Fiona Gasper said: “La Machine is the biggest piece of street theatre the UK has ever staged and has been a carefully kept secret.”

The event is being produced by London arts company Artichoke, which brought London to a standstill two years ago with the giant Sultan’s Elephant, and created by French company La Machine.

Roads will be closed

THE Strand will be among a host of streets closed for La Machine’s mystery creature, due to hit Liverpool this weekend.

Many parts of the city centre will become pedestrian-only zones as the giant animation comes to life.

Roads will be closed and public transport re-routed at different times from Friday to Sunday.

Full details about what is happening each day are still to be revealed. Roads earmarked to be shut to traffic include Water Street, Castle Street, Lime Street, Lord Street, North John Street, St John’s Lane and Old Haymarket.

catherinejones@liverpoolecho.co.uk

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Only the French could name a big spider La Princesse!

Aparantly, it's on the move now??

Theres lots of police and a large trailer moving very very slow down Cammell Lairds, so Scott tells me.

He's going to try and get some pictures hopefully

One of the coppers escorting it through the tunnel said it will be around Liverpool for the next 8 days and it's being stored in the Echo Arena.