Video of New Year's Eve revellers dancing to YMCA on Edinburgh's Royal Mile goes viral
The video shows four men dancing at the windows of a flat as lights flash on and off in time to the music
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Your support makes all the difference.Hogmanay revellers in Edinburgh’s Royal Mile area were treated to a surprise performance of YMCA by four shirtless men.
A video of the group celebrating the start of 2014 in the Scottish capital posted by Maria McMillan from Musselburgh, East Lothian, has since gone viral. 6,000 people have ‘liked’ the Facebook link and it has been shared over 2,000 times in less than 24 hours.
In their performance to the Village People track, the men stand at different windows in a flat, where the lights flashing on and off in time to the music in almost perfect sequence.
The person behind the camera laughs aloud as people in the street below bop along with the anonymous men as they perform the famous dance moves.
“Look at ones above it having like a dinner and not really caring,” a woman says on the video.
She adds: “It's a posh flat, they must have like an iPad setting," in an attempt to explain how the men achieved their DIY lighting effects.
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