The Git Hat… Started life September 24th 1988. We had been taking part in the War of The Roses Competition, the War of The Roses being an ‘It’s A Knockout’ type competition between the Yorkshire and North-West Areas. At the dance in the evening the DJ wanted to do more than just play records so to continue the spirit of competition he provided modelling balloons and invited us to make balloon animals… perhaps just a bit tedious for Waffle-Ale 18 Plus, so after the balloon animals had been made we appropriated the left over balloons and proceeded to twist several together in a haphazard fashion, and then we put the creations on our heads and made them into hats… hats for gits… Git Hats to do git dancing in (there’ll be an explanation of git dancing in a later post I expect).

We then proceeded to take more balloons and fasten the hats together to make Continue reading →