“I was playing a reggae cover of The Beatles' song This Boy and King Charles was really interested in it – I had to relax and answer his questions”: We speak to the DJs behind the legendary sound systems of London's Notting Hill Carnival

King Charles Notting Hill.

The UK’s August Bank Holiday might signpost summer’s demise but the sun is not setting until Notting Hill Carnival, one of the world’s biggest street parties, takes over London.

Full of people, energy, steel bands, a parade and music, at its heart is the bass and huge speakers of more than 30 static sound systems powering the two-day party. Linett Kamala, an original founder, Notting Hill Carnival Board Director and one of the first women to DJ at the event during the mid-eighties, remembers many raucous years…