Well, I just got back from Whitby (Yorkshire coast, England) where we (the Boat Band) were doing the music for an outdoor dusk spectacular to celebrate the transit.(OK, a couple of days early, but it was the weekend). We worked by the ruins of the abbey (scene of the famous Synod of Whitby,664 AD, which settled the means of calculating the date of Easter for the whole Christian world. And where Rome shafted the Celts, but dont lets get personal). A strange beautiful headland a long way fro anywhere significant, why did they choose there...people came all the way from Rome to talk).
   Snyway, I digress. A lovely calm evening, lantern procession (re-enacting the transit) fireworks sunset (real, not staged) music etc etc. Why Whitby? Well, Captain Cook, Whitby's favourite sun, went of the to the South Seas to measure some stuff during the transit of Venus in 17 hundred and lahdidah. Whether this was his first trip, or his last (where the the revolting natives eat him) I am not sure.
Anyway agood time was had by all. A nice little domestic sized show, 500 audience tops, but another memorable celebration to add to the memoirs (fireworks on the burning galleons in Plymouth Sound, Armada 400th anniversary in 1988 was probably the most fun and tecnhically most challenging. Especcially after the event, being towed up the Tamar, sitting on top of the scaffolding rig drinking Glenmorangie out of the bottle).
    Whitby 2004 was civilised, fun and peaceful.
Enjoy the transit tomorrow.