I think it's quite varied. I mean everyone piles into the streets and so in some places you just get what the loudest speaker dangling out of a window is playing. There may be some kinda official music in the streets but I've not heard it. Also you get some parties that are affiliated with the carnival, like last year I went to one at Damas which was... well, it was loads of outrageous fabulous men in fluffy bikinis twerking on the speakers to aggressive gay baile funk or something. But also I went to a carnival party at ZdB and it was just kinda techno and house, there was nothing that really linked it to carnival except that it happened while the carnival was on and so everyone was getting wankered on a Tuesday or whatever. And ZdB is normally more like an arty venue so you wouldn't tend to have that sort of thing there (though having said that, DJ Assault played there in December so not everything there is totally cerebral).what kind of music do they play?
They have more than one carnival type thing here. There is one - not this one I think - which is really crazy, some of the narrow streets are just utterly jampacked like the moshpit or something at a gig. And those streets are residential, it has a different feel to Notting Hill Carnival cos of the narrowness of the streets. There is something fun about that but I can't take it too long. What I do like is some people kinda block off their streets and do bbqs and give all their neighbours sardines etc I would like to get in on that action.
this is germany and holland all year round isn't it?i'd like to go to a proper carnival once. in germany and holland it's so bleak and miserable. people that could be your parents completely wasted, everything and everyone smelling of vomit and dried up beer stains, cold and grey february weather with a wind that cuts right through your clothes and worst of all, the most abominable music imaginable.
sort of yea, cultural wastelandsthis is germany and holland all year round isn't it?