2:13pm Thursday 9th July 2009
By Ash Bolton
IT’S not every day you get to dance around in a skin-tight suit on a statue in central London.
But that is what Southampton man Jodie Copeland will be doing after winning a place to stand on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square for an hour this weekend.
While stood on a space normally reserved for statues the 32-year-old will play music from Southampton bands on a portable stereo and a sample of the QE2’s horn on its final journey out of the city.
He is also planning to release a number of Chinese lanterns in memory of his mum Josie Roe who died last April.
Jodie, a music promoter, of Thornhill, said: “I’m really excited but at the same time I’m a little bit nervous. I have been watching it on the Internet and it looks very high.
“Also at 2am on a Sunday morning in London there could be a lot of rowdy people about but I’m just going to go up and enjoy it.
“It’s going to be like my own personal festival up there as I’m going to have music and wear a silly all in one Lycra suit.”
Jodie is one of 2,400 people who will take turns standing on the giant granite plinth every hour over 100 days as part of a modern art project called One & Other by artist Antony Gormley.
His slot is from 2am to 3am this Sunday.
All the living statues are chosen at random by a computer and can do anything they want on the plinth as long as it is legal.
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