To you...

This blog is for all the full time lovers of mas, kaiso, pan and soca. Its for all of you who hear soca in your dreams, who get excited at the first snip of braid and sequins, who get serious Carnival tabanca at the first beat of a soca, and who understand the meaning of "fete to fete" and "all night till morning!, who could pick up a bottle and some spoons and make sweet music in a riddim section, who could laugh at the satire of beautiful kaiso music and bawl out- oh lash, lyrics fuh so, who appreciate a corn soup and polouri an some bake an shark after a boss fete...is for all of we... all of us!

Thursday, 18 March 2010

Notting Hill Carnival Griot


I ent lying to say this page was born of envy. After reading and subscribing to Saucy's Trinidad Carnival Diary for a few years, I realised that we did not have news and information feeding through for what is the BIGGEST street party in Europe- the Notting Hill Carnival. We have to rely on scraps of information (like carnival pothounds) to decipher which band to play in (as if is some sudoku), band launches are held in some very hard to reach locations making it difficult to compare and contrast and band leaders are certainly behind times in terms of harnessing technology. So I thought why not build up a space in cyberland where we could discuss, compare, review and keep in the loop on all things NHC! The melee, the confusion, de kaiso, de mas, de costumes, de fetes, de everything. Its the Greatest Show dis side of the hemisphere at least!
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6 comments:

  1. Melissa20 March 2010 at 12:51

    So you are up on launches, Bachanal Mas are launching on 10th April with their theme Traditions! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=361324566283&ref=ts Hope to see you there!

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  2. SocaDiva7021 March 2010 at 08:25

    Here's Dragon's
    http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=337596585946&ref=ts

    Here's Burrokeets UK

    http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=369679007894&index=1

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  3. kimaspeak.blogspot.com21 March 2010 at 09:17

    Ooh wow... thank you so much for the info... I was wondering when the others would launch and was trying to find the pages! Soca Diva...Dragons, Mahagony and Burrokeets review up next...

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  4. BACHANALMAS21 March 2010 at 11:48

    COOOOOOOOOOL! so glad someone has finally started a UK!
    will send you info as and when i get it!
    although we BMAS theres also FLAGS mas band launch on 3rd April too on de south side

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  5. Nicky22 March 2010 at 08:34

    congratz, hope all goes well.

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  6. kimaspeak.blogspot.com23 March 2010 at 16:09

    All noted. We in that!

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