Disco-tinged resistance to the BP Portrait Award ceremony, 16-6-09

** Green Kite Midnight perform their rewrite of The Jacksons 'Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)', whose chorus becomes'Get safe, get sound, leave the fossil fuels in the ground Let's dance, let's shout, time to shut that Big Oil down!'
** BP & NPG security check the funky sounds to their left **
Green Kite Midnight - a new band created especially for streetbenefit and maybe Climate Camp marquee - was spotted tonight serenadinthose attending the ceremony to announce the winner of the BP PortraiAward, those traditionally being ladies and gents plucked from thhighest echelons of the ruling elite, not to mention a few scruffartists hoping to snatch first prize and 25 BP-donated grand.The band - fresh from ceilidhing at the Climate Camp in the cityand playing outside BP's activist-postponed centenary party at thBritish Museum - ran through its disco-tinged BP and Art NoOil-related repertoire ('Celebrate This!', 'Let's Dance, Let's ShoutTime Shut That Big Oil Down' & 'I Took A Chainsaw to a Patio HeateToday') several times, while 'BP - your party's over!' postcards werhanded out to the receptive but hardly rapturous guests. Passers-bwere seen to dance, bus passengers were seen to wave, bemused touristwere seen to wield cameras. The music was disobedient, but this time wweren't.