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July 2014 back issue
by Dougie Wallace
Blackpool has an unenviable reputation for its stag and hen parties.
Every weekend marauding packs of brides and grooms, close
friends and family, overflow its streets on a mission to consume
dangerous, liver-crushing levels of alcohol. This, their rite of
passage acted out on the last night of freedom, before the
conventions and responsibilities of marital life, mortgage, children.
Dougie Wallace has captured a town heaving with everything from
bunnygirls to banana men. Girls dressed in togas, all matching
gold handbags and neatly-done hair, giving it the ‘when in Rome’
treatment, devil girls, pink ladies, Brownies, guys in drag, stuffed
into nuns’ and nurses’ outfits, wearing salacious T-shirts with
‘Johnny’s Last Night of Freedom’ or ‘Up the Anus Ashley’ – each
group with the same singular objective, to get as ‘fucked up’ as
possible.
Taxi bum. Blackpool 2012.
Fish sea. Blackpool 2012.
Bridezilla. Blackpool 2013.
Divorced and single. Blackpool 2012.
Friendship selfie. Blackpool 2013.
Horny devils. Blackpool 2012.
Drunk, not blind. Blackpool 2013.
Lippy. Blackpool 2013.
Party girl. Blackpool 2013.
Dirty dancing. Blackpool 2013.
Hair do. Blackpool 2012.
Poodle. Blackpool 2012.
Blackpool 1972.
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