Like moths to the flame

摘要

It is no small feat to drag tens of thousands of people out of their homes and pubs on the coldest weekend of the last few months just to stare at illuminated walls. I've never been to a football match, but clambering out of London's Oxford Street underground station last Friday night into a bitter chill, I did feel eerily connected to the crowds around me. We had come to see Lumiere London, the mid-January festival of light that brought the capital to a standstill. The scrum to get into the Circus of Light - a giant big top promising "a magical animated world of music and mayhem" -was a precursor to the chaos that followed 24 hours later when the police issued warnings and Kings Cross station was evacuated due to overcrowding.