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The Gillingham Fire Demonstration
6+ albums
chaotic hardcorehardcoremetalcoreDoomchaotic
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The Gillingham Fire Demonstration are awesome, pissed off, razor-sharp hardcore (in the vein of Converge, Botch, and fellow scene members Mercenaries). They have so far released two ep's called "Opposites" and "Absolver", which can be found on their bandcamp. Their name is based off of the story of the "Fire Demonstrations" that took place in Kent, England. The story goes, as stated on their Facebook page, "Every year the firemen of Gillingham, in Kent, England, would construct a makeshift ‘house’ out of wood and canvas for the popular fire-fighting demonstration at the annual Gillingham Park fête. Every year, too, a few local boys were selected from many aspirants to take part in the charade. On July 11, 1929, nine boys – aged 10 to 14 – and six firemen costumed as if for a wedding party, climbed to the third floor of the ‘house’. The plan was to light a smoke fire on the first floor, rescue the ‘wedding party’ with ropes and ladders, and then set the empty house ablaze to demonstrate the use of the fire hoses. By some error, the real fire was lit first. The spectators, assuming the bodies they saw burning were dummies, cheered and clapped, while the firemen outside directed streams of water on what they knew to be a real catastrophe. All 15 people inside the house died." Now called Trench User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
