He’s also president of the British Association of Steel Bands and director of Ebony, one of the UK’s leading steel bands. These days, carnival puts 12 steel bands, 38 static sound systems and 60 mas bands on the road. “Grenfell is carnival,” says Ricky Belgrave, chair of Bass (the British Association of Sound Systems, the organisation that oversees the carnival’s static systems). “Criminals go to carnival; carnival doesn’t create criminals,” says Dent Coad. Sadly, Dent Coad tells me, the covering of Grenfell Tower is now unlikely to happen before carnival weekend.

Source: The Guardian August 20, 2017 08:26 UTC