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Is here. The punch has been made and I have even cleaned the flat. Norman and Sancha Panza are no longer around. I shall be around Powis Terrace and All saints at Deviation and Rap attack. I will be getting drunk and at some point somewhere mid record I will shout uuuuurrrss. When I looked this morning we were in play off spot and still in the league cup.
Oh well, it's all a bit academic as I'll be taking some young kids so will be in at 12.00 (sober) and out by 3.00. Lightweight session in Meanwhile Gardens followed by beers in the Island.
Rather keep away from the area personally. Went a few years ago and was amazed at the amount of boarded up places. Then realised it was just for the carnival weekend. Great music and atmosphere though.... Just got a bit nasty early evening
The best thing about the carnival is the people watching - find a nice spot with some friendly types, sit back and enjoy, don't move till you can't move.
Kids Sunday always more peaceable,less stressed,less packed,more fun. Say a prayer for no precipitation and minimal trouble.
I will be following local Askew Road W12 Peckings crew playing old Studio One classics the legendary Price brothers,Chris and Duke at the controls Finches,Duke of Wellington pub corner of Elgin Crescent and Portobello from 3pm today and then from 6pm Don Letts DJ roots session after-party at the favourite pub of my life The KPH (BTW The KP is now happily reverting to less nouvelle yuppie and more old great unwashed riff-raff waster ne'er-do-well type. Gruff self-styled Messiah Vince Power the music promoter retired to Eire not missed in the slightest.)
On Bank Holiday Monday I will be mostly seeing Toots and The Maytals ,Mike Skinner The Streets,Norman Jay, Lee Scratch Perry,Madness etcetera on Clapham Common one day festival.
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'I'm 18 with a bullet.Got my finger on the trigger,I'm gonna pull it.."
Love,Peace and Fook Chelski!
More like 20StoneOfHoop now.
Let's face it I'm not getting any thinner.
Pass the cake and pies please.
Looking forward to it as always and will be making a few litres of punch for our little group as always. Does worry me that every year one of the bigger sound systems disappears and isnt really replaced but i always find a fun spot. After dark, will probably head back to east london as everywhere is eithe rticketed or a pain to get in to and wandering around inthe dark isnt great fun.
18 stone we get in the KPH a fair bit.In fact we are going to try and get down there for Don Letts later. You're right it's almost a gastro pub in its appearance but it's fabric is very different and I think always will be.
I hope theres no Baseball capped William Hague , teamed up with Ffion in Marks and spencer Blue Harbour Double denim , dying of fright and dancing with fused joints to the Joey jay soundsystem this year .. That image is burned into my soul .
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"...The monkey is never dead, Dealer. The monkey never dies. When you kick him off, he just hides in a corner, waiting his turn."
Anyone else ever find it slightly odd how QPR rarely mention carnival. I'm not saying we should have a float with Karl Henry on bogling but it is our patch and we have a historically sizable West Indian community support that we never seem to reach out to...
Kids Sunday always more peaceable,less stressed,less packed,more fun. Say a prayer for no precipitation and minimal trouble.
I will be following local Askew Road W12 Peckings crew playing old Studio One classics the legendary Price brothers,Chris and Duke at the controls Finches,Duke of Wellington pub corner of Elgin Crescent and Portobello from 3pm today and then from 6pm Don Letts DJ roots session after-party at the favourite pub of my life The KPH (BTW The KP is now happily reverting to less nouvelle yuppie and more old great unwashed riff-raff waster ne'er-do-well type. Gruff self-styled Messiah Vince Power the music promoter retired to Eire not missed in the slightest.)
On Bank Holiday Monday I will be mostly seeing Toots and The Maytals ,Mike Skinner The Streets,Norman Jay, Lee Scratch Perry,Madness etcetera on Clapham Common one day festival.
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I am proper jealous. Best we get down here is The Great Dorset Steam Fair, wherein the locals are bemused and amazed by modern steam-powered technology and the exhibitors swap nasally-voiced adenoidal stories whilst replacing the sellotape on their NHS tortoiseshell spectacles. Roads utterly choked by slack-jawed gawkers travelling in the campervans / caravans that will inevitably become the location for their next round of car-keys-in-the-bowl shenanigans with similar grim, sinister-looking couples as the sun goes down.
Basically I am surrounded by cunce.
'What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!'
I was trying to get from Harrow Road to Barlby Road last year in full metal togs and my really loud earphones. It took me 45 mins and lots of funny looks. (admittedly I was going against the flow)
However i did get my Kinks overdubbed with reggae which weirdy sounded ok.
Beer and Beef has made us what we are - The Prince Regent
Everyone I spoke to yesterday is gutted that SP have gone. Doesn't sound like the organisers did anything to find them a new site but were quite happy to put yet another R&B one in their place.
For a generation of clubbers the only two questions on Sunday and Monday were "When will you get to Good Times?" and "When are you going on to Sancho Panza?".
Always used to enjoy it, until the rioting was getting out of hand. You'd see the first brick go over and suddenly the sky was full of bricks and bottles. ot good sometimes. There's a great photo of Don Lets facing down a line of riot police somewhere. How was his set at the KPH?
Used to enjoy going when living round there but there's always been an undercurrent of violence, predominantly off side roads and the media play this down.
Hearing the Police Fed have had enough of their officers getting a beating, 43 of them this year, and imagine a quite different media reaction if a London football ground was putting coppers in hospital on that scale. Just listened to radio 5 interview and you get the feeling the presenters felt it was all part and parcel.
Always used to enjoy it, until the rioting was getting out of hand. You'd see the first brick go over and suddenly the sky was full of bricks and bottles. ot good sometimes. There's a great photo of Don Lets facing down a line of riot police somewhere. How was his set at the KPH?
I've been drinking in the KPH since 1983 and that's the best music session I've ever enjoyed there. Letts knows his roots,rockers,blue beat ska and Studio One as much as anyone..
Hope he comes back next year. ALERT!! FAO Ginger Clique Fuhrer Leutnant METALLICA Also thoroughly enjoyed necking this long-haired freckly ginger soft warm sweetheart Katerina. The little tease wouldn't give me her phone number though ..she kept pointing to a little boring foo ker saying that's my hubbie. Arse! Only downer was that 'cos I was so slaughtered I allowed my irreplaceable 1982 crest KPH Ladbroke Grove No Dogs No Chelski 4ftx2ft flag to be pinched.
40th anniversary of this famous photo of Letts in front of the Bill. at the worst ever Carnival riot 1976. My late Dad was the only white man on the committee,(as treasurer,unlike some others he could be somewhat relied upon - what with devout Christian and JP credentials/bona fides - not to do a runner with the funds or embezzle the $$$$) There were loud demands for it to be closed down. It was used as The Clash album cover for Train In Vain.
'I'm 18 with a bullet.Got my finger on the trigger,I'm gonna pull it.."
Love,Peace and Fook Chelski!
More like 20StoneOfHoop now.
Let's face it I'm not getting any thinner.
Pass the cake and pies please.
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