"The Morning Hour": Stealers Wheel, Stuck in the Middle with You

I woke up with a classic tune today, well, it's classic here as you can hear it often in the pubs and become accustumed with it despite, in my case, ignoring completely who's singing it and how it's become so popular in the years. In my playlist, it sits along "I will walk 500 miles" (also known by its official name "I'm gonna be") by The Proclaimers, and "Weather with You" by Crowded House. These are the songs that can bring together a whole pub in a second, strangers singing together and smiling at each other- an arcane mystery for some foreigner who has heard those songs only a couple of times in his/her life on the radio.

It's day 2 of the G20 and I'm still trying to figure out what all of this means for the town that is hosting it and, coincidentally, is hosting me as well.
i went to the demonstrations yesterday night. Not so much to protest but more to witness the moment since it's all over the media and so close to my house, and take some pictures (though i forgot to put a new memory card in...). Well, the demo was in line with what i was expecting, lots of people of different sorts shouting and holding banners, tightly guarded by the police in riot gear (i guess the open face policy of the morning had to give up to a tougher stance once the protesters became too "energetic").
What really struck me is what i didn't see... less than 50 meters far from the shouting crowd, people were watching the England game in the pub, the news stand was selling the mags with the pictures of the morning clashes, and the Terravision guy was selling the tickets for the shuttle coach to and from Stansted Airport. Everything very normal, everything so smooth and ordinary, but for the amount of police around and the helicopter constantly flying over my head. Not even debris in the street...
It was probably a matter of expectations after having watched the news all day about the riots and the excitement, the mob and the police, smashed windows and dressed up people- or maybe it was that i didn't manage to get close to the "action".
oh well, I'll leave it like that.

here are the pictures from Trafalgar Square, 15 minutes before the rally.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gianleo/sets/72157616165602061/

and here is the video: