Major Lazer x Carnival 2010 Memories....the sun has officially left tha building!!

 (All photos by FlyGirl_JoJo except where noted)

The obligatory 'one foot in' photo of the kicks we knew were in for a beating...



Neon nails and Neon wristbands (Photo taken using my waste-ass iPhone 3 on stupid iOS4 that slowed tha thang down....ahem...too much info..sorry.)

This was around 1-2pm so we still looked fresh....oh how it all changed by the time it got to Rodigan and Major Lazer which was hours later....

  

Keepin' the some of the crowd entertained...apparently...lol...until....

This guy well and truly stole our shine.....he was SICK!!!Although he was about sixty+ years old he spent most of the day dancing on his head or jumping around with people on his back!?!?!(Photo by AymenTV)

Colours'R'Us

Nails'By'Me (Photo by Quincey Thinks)

The day was a lot of crazy fun from start to finish!! The best part is that all of this fun was FREE!!!! Free entry [even though all the tickets sold out in 1 MINUTE, FlyGirlJoJo got Diplo to put us on his guestlist haha which was very nice of him to do for us indeed;)] free/unlimited drinks and food [which by the way was choooong....their potato and bean salad was on point...]! Free Free FREEEEE!!Oh and I got a free T-Shirt which, if you watched the videos, were being printed backstage during the day so it was like a sweatshop behind the decks and a sweatbox in front of 'em! I got a free vinyl but someone took it ....dahwell!!! Anyways, BIG THANKS to Diplo and the Red Bull Music Academy! And to all the DJs on the day who made the freeness even sweeter...this was the line up....

Douster - Electrinic carnival vibes to welcome everybody as the doors opened
Sticky - Lots of old skool garage that made us sweat our hair out way too early haha

Poirier - They played soca....and everybody knows how energetic soca is so this set got the blood pumping and every mouth gasping for air

Drop The Lime - Dropped a rockabilly set on an unsuspecting crowd which quickly turned into a party scene from Happy Days! Luca was our Fonzie!

Joker - Dubstep madness!!! Lots of pogo stick jumping from the crowd

Rodigan - Reggae, jungle and more vibes that were seriously crazy...especially when he dropped Newham Generals!

Major Lazer - Diplo, Switch, Skerrit Bwoy and dancers who climbed on everything and everyone to miami bass drums, house, dancehall and dubstep choooons

 Now, there are loaaaads of videos of the day but I think these are the best ones.....

First up. here's a nice lil video to the song of Carnival 2010 Katy B 'On a Mission'....oh and you may spot our crew dancing in the beginning....as usual :)

This is the official video of the day showing all the carnival-goers, the DJs backstage and the venue in all it's colourful glory!!


Here is a clip from David Rodigan's set....this man dances more than he DJs! He never stands still!! This video best captures the carnival vibes without the slick transitions and editing...just raw vibes ;)
 

Then straight after eight hours of that madness we ventured back out on to the absolutely wrecked streets of Notting Hill....I can't stand litter so trying to tiptoe around smelly mass mountains of trash is always fun :)

Here comes Diplo....

...then we went to The Count and Sinden Carnival afterparty for about two pounds LOL!! Yep another good deal haha! It had already started way before we got there but we did get to hear sets from A-Trak, Jamie XX, Martelo and Bashy .....we met Luca aka Drop The Lime too who was really cool...

....after all  of that, we left and went to the chicken shop...and that's where the party ended...in our mouths ;D

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Candy paint on them nails, Yo!

I did my nails the other day. Then my mum wanted me to cook. I was cool with that. What I wasn't cool with was GRATING ginger into my chicken stew when there was a pack of ground ginger powder in our house. Long story short I ended up grating some of the nail polish off....so I guess I gotta redo 'em!! I took a photo of the neater nails [which somehow always grow quicker than my other hand's nails????] so I could post this up as the last time I did this pattern my nails were really bad haha!!

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Still in the tribal mood...

My new [week old] iphone case! And my matching [two week old] nails that are shock horror...pink. I have always strayed from shocking pink cos it was too girly for me. I dunno, I just feel like when people look at my nail colour it says 'high maintenance pink' instead of 'hot pink'.

*Kara* sings "ooooooOOOoooh and I like it...."