Creating The Spark: the kids behind 2024’s surprise summer hit
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The Guardian
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:02.0 | Today, the Spark, how some primary school kids in Ireland created 2024's Summer Bangor? |
| 0:17.0 | I think we really underestimate how actually easy it is to put together a coffee morning for your loved ones. |
| 0:28.0 | You can give the amount that you would spend in a coffee shop and that actually makes such a big difference. |
| 0:33.4 | Guardian Labs has partnered with Macmillan Coffee Morning |
| 0:37.1 | to showcase communities doing coffee morning their way. |
| 0:40.3 | Visit the Guardian.com forward slash get- Together for Good to find out more. |
| 0:45.0 | This message was paid for by McMillan Cancer Support. When they ran out on stage it was just brilliant the crowd |
| 0:57.0 | When they ran out on stage it was just brilliant the crowd erupted. |
| 1:04.8 | It was the end of summer and Rory Carroll the Guardian's Island correspondent was |
| 1:09.4 | at Electric Picnic, Ireland's biggest music festival. |
| 1:19.3 | He was there alongside thousands of others, |
| 1:21.8 | watching one of the breakout acts of the summer. |
| 1:24.0 | And then they just kind of launch into their act straight away. |
| 1:27.0 | There's no kind of like chit-chat with the audience. |
| 1:30.0 | You didn't need that. I mean, there's already an instant connection. |
| 1:32.0 | Have you tried this for me. |
| 1:34.0 | It's not 13, not a party, |
| 1:36.0 | but he wasn't there for Chapel Rowan or Charlie XXX. |
| 1:42.0 | The stars he was there to see with over a billion plays on Tic-Tock came from a leaky old cabin in the north of Cork. |
| 1:51.0 | Here was just a blast of sheer joy with a Cork accent which adds to the joy I think and it's so |
| 1:59.0 | catchy you know you hear it once and you can be singing it you can be humming it to the rest of the day. |
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