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Written by Gavin McGuren

Sunday, 22 November 2009 01:50

Thousands of sun lovers at Australia's most iconic beach received a pleasant surprise last weekend when drag artiste Joyce Mange and a hundred backing dancers became a flash mob and entertained them at Sydney's Bondi Beach, where the weather has obviously been more summery than in Perth. Surely Perth's most iconic beach is ripe for the mobbing? Naturally the westside would have to up the ante. Say, two drag queens and 200 flash mobbers, doing the Eurogliders "Heaven Must Be There' (just for some added local flavour) at the launch of Sculpture by the Sea? Pity that silly pylon was rebuilt at ridiculous expense without so much as a platform on which to perform. Better be quick though. Cottesloe is a blue-ribbon Liberal seat and flash mobs are bound to be on the list of things to be banned in the next parliamentary sitting.