CARNIVAL 2019 – PART 2

Sunday - Chocolate Nation Mas I decided to play Sunday mas aka “dutty mas” with Chocolate Nation . I decided to play with them because my first love is Trini soca, they always have good DJs and they’re the only band to throw chocolate rather than paint or powder. Also it was Chocolate Nation’s 10 …

Birthday Princess

So I know I posted a think piece about my birthday, but I forgot to actually speak about my birthday. I'm not going to let my negative mind space cloud my perspective of my birthday. Especially when taking into consideration that nothing momentously bad happened and thus objectively my 24th birthday was my best birthday …

Besties at Ballie Ballerson

So I decided to treat my darling best friend to Ballie Ballerson for her 24th birthday. For those not in the know, Ballie Ballerson is London's premier adult ball pit + bar and is located in hipster central aka Shoreditch,. It has 3 rooms (pink pit, main room and gold pit) with the gold pit …

Grey – The Play

Grey is described as a “colourful, candid show exploring depression and black women’s mental health”. The brainchild of the incredibly talented Koko Brown, this masterpiece of a play is a coalesce of BSL (British Sign Language), spoken word and vocal looping. Koko's plays a nameless character simply known as Women. Women is an individual suffering …

Notting Hill Carnival

Carnival is my life and I literally spend 11 months of the year waiting for this weekend. For me carnival fever starts from the first pre-Trinidad carnival warm up playlist - all the way in February - and lasts to the end of summer. My devotion to Soca and everything bacchanal related culminates and terminates with …

Rotterdam Carnival

Friday I decided to "Ray Charles" the J’ouvert, conveniently called Stained because I don’t a stained outfit when I’m working with only hand luggage worth of clothes. So my Rotterdam carnival experience started on the Friday with the annual boat party ‘EXTASea’ at Parkhaven. EXTASea was the quintessential soca rave – it was sweaty, full …

Wireless Festival

I am far from a lady of leisure but slumming it camping at a traditional festival is just not something I can do. I  enjoy my creature comforts i.e. access to toilet, a mattress, quilts, running water. So when I reached an age where I could attend festivals, the only logical and thus most suitable …

Berlin Carnival

As a self-confessed Bacchanalist, attendance to international carnivals is paramount to fulfilling my best life. Don't get me wrong I love Notting Hill Carnival, but sometimes fling up your batty on foreign "buddy".  I have a chronic urge to soak it to Soca in the sun, shot spirits and skin out to Spice. Luckily I …