Notting Hill Carnival 2012

[ska invita]

What wrist band thing?

i can hear you fuming from here!

 

[TopCat]

hehehehe. I will try to loosen up.

 

[ska invita]

What wrist band thing?

http://www.redbull.co.uk/cs/Satellite/en_UK/Red-Bull-Carnival-2012/001243227797362
tbf its nothing technically to do with carnival...but in a way it is

 

[Ted Striker]

sorry Ted, what do you mean here?

The council really want extra toilets: Their sole limitation is funding.

If GT (or any other operator) offer to pay for some more to take the strain off the toilets the council provide, they will welcome them with open arms.

 

[ska invita]

hehehehe. I will try to loosen up.

i feel the same way really

 

[ska invita]

The council really want extra toilets: Their sole limitation is funding.

If GT (or any other operator) offer to pay for some more to take the strain off the toilets the council provide, they will welcome them with open arms.

ah yes of course - sorry, had a brain freeze there

 

[TopCat]

Carnival in the rain is not attractive. Certainly last year it was in some ways ace as the gangs were all elsewhere trying to avoid the revenge seeking police.

 

[stuff_it]

Looks like I am going, though fuck me train prices have nearly doubled in a year. Glad I didn't decide to try and commute to uni on the train!

 

[Ted Striker]

http://www.redbull.co.uk/cs/Satellite/en_UK/Red-Bull-Carnival-2012/001243227797362
tbf its nothing technically to do with carnival...but in a way it is

It's the crudest bullshit of the whole affair. A select few (at a website application thing that sold out as soon as the servers could register - in 2011 it was 36 seconds) gain entrance to a space under the Westway that holds a stage with Major Lazer, Rodigan and a few other paid notaries. There is free drinks and food inside. The council make NOTHING from the venture as it's on private property.

I go every year, blag a name on the list (really doesn't take more skill or guile than the ability to read upside down of the clipboarders) to fill a bag with Redbull, laugh at the crowd that have all arrived via a secret tunnel that stretches to Dalston, and get back in the action.

 

[Ted Striker]

If the megalomaniacs like Good times can't make it work without branded bars, sponsorship, paid for toilets and so on I suggest they go and fuck off? There are many many sounds who would love to get a space at Carnival and can't get in because of reductions imposed by the police and Council?

With GT's specific case, I'd be inclined to agree.

 

[TopCat]

Redbull is a horrible drink.

 

[TopCat]

With GT's specific case, I'd be inclined to agree.

I am not a fan!

 

[Ted Striker]

Redbull is a horrible drink.

Yup, I think I've still got the cans I picked up last year in the car for emergencies.

They do quite a bit of good for 'the scene', though the efforts at carnival leave me with a bit of a sour taste as it's all so against the spirit of everything else going on around.

On the flipside it was the source of one of the most amazing carnival (or otherwise) moments of my life http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/nh-carnival-2011.278715/page-4#post-10419079

 

[ska invita]

The original Good Times rig...

 

[Callie]

All this talk of GT is making me thirsty.

 

[ska invita]

All this talk of GT is making me thirsty.

carnival cocktail: G&T with red bull and rum!
More things going on this weekend:

 

[ringo]

I just got a invites to this too :

 

[ska invita]

^^^i watched a similar one live last year (rodi+fatman+channel 1 iirc) - looked ace.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Are they still flogging this dead horse?

 

[ska invita]

what horse is that then AS?

 

[rutabowa]

also: who's "they"? how "flogging"?

 

[ddraig]

Are they still flogging this dead horse?

wtf?
a dead horse that a million people (reportedly) go to???

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

wtf?
a dead horse that a million people (reportedly) go to???

Yeah that's the one.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

also: who's "they"? how "flogging"?

They = the people who promote and put it together
Flogging = Selling or promoting it.

 

[Onket]

Are they still flogging this dead horse?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

what horse is that then AS?

That there notting hill party

 

[ska invita]

...funnily enough it doesnt need any promoting...

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

They why to they try so hard?

 

[Callie]

Apart from people who are going anyway I have neither seen or heard any NHC promotion/flogging.

 

[ska invita]

They why to they try so hard?

They don't! in fact less people would be great....