How To Party Rio Carnival Style In London
Caipirinhas, capoeira, samba, batucada drummers, Bahia beats and Brazilian treats.
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In Pictures: Notting Hill Carnival
Photos from this weekend.
London Food & Drink News: 9 February 2012
Berry boasts big wine sales, Housebites does brunch, Budvar hosts a tasting event at Draft House and much more delicious news
Notting Hill Carnival Gets Free iPhone App
All the info you need for navigating Carnival.
What’s On In London This Bank Holiday Weekend? 26-30 August
This week we’re combining London On The Cheap and our Weekend post to give you the best of the bank holiday weekend, whatever the weather. Photo of that brilliant Carnival image used by TFL all round the tube by version3point1 All weekend The Notting Hill …
Preview: field&flower @ Dove & Son
The carnival is coming to town. Northcote Road, to be exact. This Sunday, the much-loved “boutique” street of Clapham Junction will be overcome with markets, live music, fairground rides and, of course, a carnival parade. They’re catering for everyone with antiques alongside bouncy castles; but …
Live Music Preview: Friendly Fires @ The Coronet
It’s been a good twelve months for Friendly Fires. They played a series of storming festival sets over the summer, impressed a lucky Roundhouse audience as part of the iTunes Festival – and topped everything off nicely with a nomination for the Mercury Prize. To …
Extra, Extra
It was generally a ‘quiet’ carnival – although a 15 year old teenager was stabbed. Plinth-es of rock: two new Marillion songs were debut-ed there today. A service took place at St. Paul’s today to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the evacuation. This is cool: …
Lit Preview: London Liming At London Lit Fest
Spoken word meets carnival to close the London Literature Festival on Thursday night. London Liming takes over Spirit Level at the Southbank Centre for a glorious feast of poets, MCs, vocalists, spoken word impresarios, DJs and illustrators. Based on a Trinidadian cultural institution a London …
Free Tonight?
Covent Garden is never the quietest of places. Tonight it becomes a riot of colour and noise as the London School of Samba open a six-day carnival of Brazilian music and happiness. The parade starts at 7pm (no location given; just follow your ears), and …
English Carnival
Carnival season comes early to London this week with the opening of English Carnival, a new photographic exhibition at the Barbican Library. If pictures of drunken grannies in bumble bee costumes find themselves at odds with the many feathers and riotous West Indian sounds that …
