Notting Hill Carnival 2011
Like the Jack Kerouac lost scrolls On the road again took its toll The cute and the fun all gone There is no rewind to life Only fading memories Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2011 Carnival Gallery
We sit by the river of our life and remember Carnival’s unique and intense life explosion The virtual rendering is an insult over the injury We have all lost to fear what courage took so many years to build… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2011 Carnival Gallery
It was the year of the Hackney riots Protesting the ‘lawful killing’ of Mark Duggan At the hands of the Met’s snipers East London ablaze and quickly spreading What is left today of a Carnival legacy And the memory of Mark Duggan and Kelso Cochrane And all the others… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill […]
The storm troopers are here to enforce the fun Get up and dance to the last guys and dolls Mama’s been in the army there is no question It is obey or suffer, and it is obey and suffer We all came here for the pain and the after.. Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill […]
Two pretty young ones sitting tight on the kerb Watching the tide of revelers go by wave after wave Laying long lifelines to snag a passing Prince Charming Bring your dreams to Carnival, they are your best disguise Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2011 Carnival Gallery
A selection of images from the 2011 Carnival My first live experience of the gig nine years ago It was the year of the London riots Under a strong police presence Every year a new excuse To discipline and punish… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill Carnival 2011 Gallery
Bow and arrow, head shrinkers whenever possible with already small heads They rise from the age-long ghettoes, they come with them knives Aware, woke or whatever makes no difference, you are the mark Once the John to some brown shiny body, the new rope and the old tree Vernon Sullivan’s prophecy will come to fruition… […]