Music
We dance to the music and drink from the bottle And the dancers follow in tune they never skip the beat Only broken hearts do that before they roll into the gutter They lie pell-mell with discarded beer cans and broken glass Making friends… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries Hits: 5
Meeting the succubus with music and booze on Chepstow The choice of no choice between two evils as they say It is a threat or threat trick in a Halloween manner And while you are looking for the candy, the girls dance away Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery Hits: 18
A man in army fatigues walking with a cane A cat looking over his shoulder Oblivious of the crowd and the music And while the world is spinning around He goes his own way unswayed and unnoticed Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery Hits: 17
Wild wild West London on Carnival days Anything goes as girls run out of control Music, drinks and laughter, the tinkle of the broken dreams The difficult labour of forgetting while remembering The spirit, the soul and the inebriation Counting the clouds until nine… Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2012 Carnival Gallery Hits: 12
Proud member of the Calabash Carnival Club Promoting the Caribbean Culture Together with Trinidad and Tobago Grenada is closely associated with the history of Notting Hill Carnival The spirit comes from the culture The culture came on the slave-ships from Africa And in spite of all the efforts of the white slavers They never broke […]
The thunder of the drums take control of your heartbeats You dance with your eyes like a moth around the lamp Night has yet to come so you can shine like a star For the last moments of daylight you follow the music The night will fall upon Carnival and set all demons free We […]
The sidelines offer a mirror of the masquerade with no masks In various degrees of mood and colors The public is an essential element of the show The free nature of the event allows a wide representation People from all walks of life and all origins come to mix in the flow Taking the quantum […]
Pink Floyd’s Music still ring in my ears Our dreams travel far into space Slowly digging our shallow graves Stars to become shooting stars Beauty is a mixed blessing A dove flying with vultures at its wings “Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun. Shine on you crazy diamond. Now there’s a […]
Posing for the camera two black beauties passing eyes wide shut Top models with an attitude, paint and powder are the fad of the day Who cares now that the furious fun is let loose Let the music play while the burning grass fade your memories And the spirits knock in your head like a […]