Notting Hill Carnival 2018
The crowds come crashing down the avenues wave after wave In this multicolor sea the fish are aplenty Anglers and cat-women come for the feast They dance and dine on our borrowed flesh Dreams of big love and forever afters Will dissipate before morning comes Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries Hits: 6
In the jungles of the soft tarmac avenues You may catch a glimpse of the evasive wildlife Take a walk on the wild side, the revival of a song of the seventies The walking wounded wander into the slippery side of the avenues of life Masquerade is the “Jab” (Devil) day, the ultimate threat of […]
Riding down Chepstow Row, here comes the Beauty Posse Sheriffs, deputies and the seven nations army were no match to this task-force We just surrender to the craning and the ogling lest we’d wish to die They say tomorrow is an other day But today was spent before it even started Photo Hugh Ardoin The […]
Two black multicolor dissymmetrical cameos meet on Chepstow The black, the pink and the angels from the lower heavens Succubus and other winged demons rise from the circles of hell To torment our weakened wills as we slowly sink into inebriation The gaze of the Gorgon sisters will turn us into stone Much incantations and […]
Wearing a bright red bikini, the she-torero descends into the arena for the final stab A fascinating beauty holding the hand of a supplicant she just met But her eyes are like serial killers, looking for the next consenting victim Life goes on, following death with music and confetti, in a state of state funeral […]
Strutting down the Hill the man his guardian angel in tow While she ruffles her black feathers the strut becomes a swagger Toting Caribbean flags as bandanna and scarf arms in Maori-style tattoos The pace is set as they both seem unique and unstoppable Bank Holiday Gods and Goddesses are born on Chepstow out of […]
Riding high into the battle of Shrewsbury Mews on her steed Fending off the crowds and holding back the crumbling walls The spirits and the smokes fuel the illusions as the world starts spinning round An enthralled black man called horse, blinkered with pink heart-shaped glasses Night is coming to our mind as we grow […]
Emerging from a dream to plunge into a 3D video game Wandering along the burning alleys between Parnassus and Olympus It started raining diosas and nowhere to shelter for the night Suddenly awoke from a sleepwalking voyage, you take the plunge The rivers and the beaches of crystal sands the mermaids call again You will […]
Heart-shaped shades and pouting lips ready for the kill A webbing gown and some denim under, good old John sang “imagine” I can’t believe the bottle is only water, looks like some love philtre Magic is on the way, you bump into goddesses at the door of every bar Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries Hits: […]
Life is a spinning wheel of fortune on fire We sit on the sidelines and watch the spanish armada rocking itself We see Kublai Khan and his giant fleet defeated by a divine wind Watching in awe our own life playing like a movie before our very eyes Until the last film spool is spent […]