Just to the side of the Swing Bridge on the Gateshead side, an artist has placed a rather large bell made with the metal gathered from melting down a fighter jet.
Fiona Banner, a British artist based in London, has been commissioned by Great North Culture and Locus+ to create Tornado, named after its original RAF Tornado fighter plane form, part of the Cultural Olympiad open weekend.
If you’re on a mobile device, watch the video here
Hundreds of venues across the UK are being unveiled under the Cultural Olympiad programme to celebrate two years to go until the London Olympics.
From Saturday, the public are invited to call down from 10am – 7pm every day for six weeks to ring as loud as they can (that last bit’s my suggestion).
If you go outside the time slots, as we did in the video above, there won’t be much point.
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