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  • anyone ever been? any soundsystems out there?

    i thought st lucia was the swedish festival of light in december

    different st lucia, obv 😉

    I think he means this Carribean island..

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucia

    unfortunately not much is said about their music scene

    but this quote is mentioned here

    The majority of the population are Roman Catholics (ca. 90%); the rest are Anglicans (3%) or other

    and it was “discovered” (i.e colonised and rinsed for resources/slaves) by ES and FR (two Catholic nations) which may explain the choice of name. The festival globalloon mentioned is also listed here..
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucy

    cheers for the info – not very encouraging.

    I think i’ll just find a quite spot to read some books. anyone got any goodies they reccomend?

    this is more what i was hoping

    “There’s only one place to be in St. Lucia on a Friday night, so soon after our arrival we walked to the small village of Gros Islet. Before we got there, the air throbbed with the deep bass of reggae, the music so loud that surely it could be heard 15 miles away in neighboring Martinique. Live bands with giant sound systems stood at every corner, their soundwaves making the small wooden houses shake. Every house owner had thrown open his doors, selling beer, rum, or fried chicken, and you could wander into anyone’s home, even up the stairs into their bedroom. Never was the expression “open house” more true.”

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    I think i’ll just find a quite spot to read some books. anyone got any goodies they reccomend?

    you should read ‘Grits’ by Niall Griffiths for a welsh rollercoaster of drug abuse that makes Trainspotting look like a childs bedtime story… it also happens to be one of the most interesting, well written and successful prose formats I’ve ever read

    Cormack McCarthy has a trilogy beginning with ‘All the pretty horses’ that follows a teenage orphan / cowpoke back and forth time and again accross the Mexico / New mexico border. You can believe that you start smell the leather, the horses, the sweat, but it’s not a macho novel, nor romantic. The meter also reminds me of hooves. Again, a very clever writer.

    Or for sheer warmth and richness and escapism, try anything by John Irving… Hotel New Hampshire has enough twists to keep you turning the pages between swims

    😎

    nice one, I like the sound of Cormack McCarthy books. I’ve read loads of books about drug abuse, I fancy something a bit different for a change.

    I’ve got a £10 book token in my pocket from xmas, I’m going to have to make a trip into town.

    I have a friend who used to live on Guadeloupe. He told me some things about the party scene – its in french, if you need a translation, i’ll do it, otherwise… I kind of like as it is, its well-written.
    (Feb. 2003)

    “Ah oui, j’ai halluciné, la tekno commence à arriver en Guadeloupe ! ce week-end,
    je suis allé en « rave party » (on peut vraiment
    pas appeler ça une teuf). Mais ça m’a pris la tête. 15 € pour rentrer !!!, tous
    à fond de coke, et le son n’était pas bon.
    Heureusement, le site était terrible, sur une petite plage perdue, pratiquement
    inaccessible.”

    (April 2003)
    “Ce week-end (« aquela dimenchada »), il y avait une méchante sound system sur la
    plus grande place de Pointe à Pitre. Tous
    les meilleurs selecta et MC de Gwadloup. A fond ! Dommage, il a plu toute la
    soirée et il n’y avait pas beaucoup de public. Mais
    le son était terrible. Mais une chose que je n’arrive pas à accepter, ni même à
    comprendre. Tous ces gens sont rasta, chantent
    l’amour, la tolérance, la paix, etc. mais ils continuent, pour la majorité, à
    être anti-homosexuel ! La Gwadloup est trop machiste,
    trop patriarcale. « An pa compwann »”

    And I’ll add (with reference to The General’s findings) roman catholic + caribbean culture = carneval (for the carnivores, grrr….)

    Probably should tell that the above is mry, forgot to log on…

    thanks for the info. i translated it on [url]http://babelfish[/url] and understood most of it i think.

    sounds like there’s some rigs out there at least.

    yeah, it seems so…

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