It’s too late to get tickets for Canterbury Cathedral’s silent disco tonight – as with last night’s event, they sold out long ago – but you can still join the orderly prayer vigil against this caricature of the contemporary Church of England. Some 750 clubbers are expected to attend each of the four events over two days, to dance in the nave to hits from Britney Spears, the Spice Girls and Eminem. They’ll party the night away not far away from where Thomas a Becket was murdered in 1170 as he clung to a pillar; his brains and blood mixed on the floor. His shrine is somewhere nearby. Oh, and alcohol will be available for revellers.
This martyrdom site was once the second most popular pilgrimage destination in the Middle Ages. Now it’s the setting for what the Cathedral authorities insist is not a ‘rave in the nave’. Whatever; it does make you wonder about the wisdom of the CofE retaining the property of the Catholic Church at the Reformation, given this is what they do with it.
First 2 silent disco shows complete at the beautiful Canterbury Cathedral with over 1500 in attendance.
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