Giant Ticketmaster & Oasis 'puppets' Effigy announced by Kent's Edenbridge Bonfire Society 2024
Giant Ticketmaster with Liam & Noel Gallagher puppet effigy to take centre stage at Kent bonfire night
Edenbridge Bonfire Society has announced that the famous effigy for its 2024 event will be Ticketmaster , complete with ‘Oasis puppets’.
The 11-metre effigy of Ticketmaster was unveiled this morning before it is moved to become the centre piece at the Kent town’s annual bonfire celebrations which raises thousands of pounds for local charities, this year on Saturday 2nd November, alongside a giant effigy of Guy Fawkes.
Ticketmaster was decided by a committee due to their ‘greedy dynamic pricing of tickets’ for the long-awaited Oasis tour coming up in 2025, which saw fans who had been waiting for hours in a queue being told the price of tickets was as much as £506.25 each, well above their original value!
The Society have included the Gallagher brothers as ‘puppets’ on the effigy as it was their tour which brought to light the unfair dynamic pricing of tickets in the first place.
Andrea Deans, one of the giant effigy creators, commented: “We wanted to remind people that it doesn’t always have to be politicians who we create for our annual event. We also wanted to appeal to a wider audience. The Ticketmaster ticket fiasco has affected a lot of different age groups, such is the appeal of Oasis, and I know many fans were very unhappy at being ripped off by Ticketmaster when they discovered the price of the tickets. No one likes being taken advantage of by these big companies.”
Reece Hook, another effigy creator, said: “In the eight years I’ve been doing this we have done so many politicians, so this year we really wanted to do something different. Although our effigy includes Liam and Noel Gallagher, they are not our target, it is the corporate giant of Ticketmaster we have gone with this year. We are all big Oasis fans and wish them a very successful tour.”
Other contenders for the 2024 event included Sir Kier Starmer, Philip Schofield, P-Diddy and Mohammed Al-Fayed to name a few.
Past targets for Edenbridge Bonfire Society’s effigy have been a real mixture of public figures, including Sadiq Khan, Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Harvey Weinstein, Donald Trump, Katie Hopkins, Russell Brand, Jonathan Ross, Katie Price, Lance Armstrong and Anne Robinson.
The burning of effigies is a traditional celebration of the 5th of November. The intention behind the tradition is to bring a light-hearted twist and an element of fun to the proceeding and to raise awareness of this event – which raises thousands of pounds for local charities and community organisations.
Edenbridge Bonfire Society only started to feature giant effigies at their event since the mid-nineties when they were no longer able to light a huge bonfire in the local recreation ground.
Edenbridge Bonfire Society has been celebrating Bonfire Night for nearly 100 years and this year will see more than 500 people participating in the torchlit parade through Edenbridge High Street, from 14 local organisations.
For more informationabout Edenbridge Bonfire Night visit www.edenbridgebonfire.co.uk.
