London's Notting Hill Carnival to open to steel band throng
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London's Notting Hill Carnival which is celebrating its 40th year was due to swing into action with a steel band contest setting the tone for three days of Caribbean music.
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Noise patrols are being proposed for the Glastonbury Festival as organisers apply for a new licence.
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London will celebrate 30 years of punk next summer with an exhibition devoted to the non-conformist youth movement that sprang up in England in the 1970s, the Barbican Arts Centre said.
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Glastonbury Festival organisers launch a regular gig night to find new bands to play at next year's event.
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About a million people are expected to take to the streets of west London to enjoy the 40th Notting Hill Carnival.
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Thousands of people join in with carnival celebrations in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.
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SOME of the biggest names in British rock and pop are ready to perform for free to raise money for the victims of the Asian tsunami disaster, it was announced today.
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The White Stripes, the Chemical Brothers, Muse and Joss Stone are to rock Paris this weekend when a new music festival started just a year ago opens its gates to top-notch bands.
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At least 500,000 cycling fans are flocking to central London to watch the start of the Tour de France race.
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The capital's colorful Notting Hill Carnival, one of the world's biggest street parties, will get groovy on its 40th birthday this Sunday with a theme of "Freedom and Justice."
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The national and international promotion of London&#39;s bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games began yesterday with 200,000 people lining the streets of the capital and partying in Trafalgar Square.
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Notting Hill Carnival celebrated its 40th anniversary in flamboyant style as Europe&#39;s best-known street festival brought a Caribbean vibrancy to west London over the bank holiday.
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Arts & entertainment: Almost 1,500 people queue for hours to get into surprise performance in east London
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The BBC is launching a new stage at this year's Glastonbury Festival to showcase new music.
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Dancers dolled up in feathers, flamboyant performers and elaborate floats filed through west London Monday as the Notting Hill Carnival -- Europe&#39;s biggest street party -- pumped up the volume on its Caribbean rhythms.
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London's New Year's Day Parade wound through the city streets Tuesday with thousands of entertainers and performers welcoming in 2008 with singing, dancing and carnival floats.
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Great Britain's Olympic medal winners will be honoured with a parade through central London in October.