Gumball 3000

Anyone familiar with this?

Apparently the festivities begin tonight, in my office building, and I just got on the list for the party!!
 

http://www.gumball3000.com/content/html/index.html

"Stars include: Jackass and Dukes of Hazard film star Johnny Knoxville, Jamiroquai's Jay Kay, Supermodels Caprice and Jodie Kidd, Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill's legendary director Quentin Tarantino with film star Daryl Hannah, Bez from 'The Happy Mondays' and DC Shoes skateboard legend Rob Dyrdek all driving everything from Ferrari Enzo's, Pagani Zonda's, Lamborghini's, Porsche GT's, to old Aston Martin's, Rolls Royce's, Bio-Diesel Hybrid's and even the General Lee!

On Friday 13th May the Global Film Premiere of the Gumball film '6 Days in May' will take place in Central London, followed by a private party with exclusive performances by Jamiroquai, the Cuban Brothers, Kym Mazelle, Tyler James, Sammy Jo (Scissor Sisters Tour DJ) and Aphletik - The film is of last years Gumball and has all the action from the streets of Paris to the desert of Morocco!"

Very cool!  Never heard of it!?

Me neither but hope it's fun to mingle!   See if Johnny Knoxville is as tall and cute as he seems! 

It will be so fun to mingle!  Johnny does look cute!  do you have your camera?  Camera phone? 

I've heard of this!
My husband and I watched one ....I think it was on the Jackass dvd 

Looked a bit crazy but like a lot of fun! Should be a very interesting crowd there! High spirited hehe

It will be so fun to mingle!  Johnny does look cute!  do you have your camera?  Camera phone? 

Yes, and yes.   But, gotta play it cool, ya know, just part of the crowd...

OMG - I have to tell my boyfriend - he's going to be SO jealous!  He's obsessed with the Gumball 3000 - lucky you - you're going to have such a great time - PLEASE post pics!

I will do my best 

Oooooh.  I'm so jealous.  Sounds like fun.  Have a good time rubbing elbows with all the stars.   

Yep , hubs absolutely loves it and can name every sports car and their top gear statistics ....although I'm not too thrilled about very rich spoilt folks tearing up the highways and waisting petrol...the party bit must be cool ..have fun 

Yep , hubs absolutely loves it and can name every sports car and their top gear statistics ....although I'm not too thrilled about very rich spoilt folks tearing up the highways and waisting petrol...the party bit must be cool ..have fun 

Having read up about it before presuming and making generalisations, I actually found that there are actually a lot of folks doing it 1) for charity, and 2) running on 'natural' or even recycled vegetable oil - like Daryl Hannah and her team.

The party was cool; not really my thing, as it turned out to be a big rave more than a fun mingling type of thing... but did say hello to Mr. Jamiroquai guy, and had a fleeting moment of 'hi, hey, you kinda do look like me' moment with Daryl.  Saw Jamiroquai, the Cuban Brothers (no idea), Kym Mazelle (fab diva from the 70's/80's).  Other than that, it was mostly "What?!" "Sorry, excuse me, pardon me, oops..."  So I ended up leaving after about an hour.
However, it was also fascinating to see the all the lower levels of this building; it's considered one of the safest in London, and it goes on for miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiles down there... and apparently they've filmed quite a lot... Britney Spears' video (where she's running down the halls, I think the one where she kills herself), and the Ferrier-Rocher commercial from last year.  So that was interesting.

Pictures to follow!

Sounds cool!  Wow, finally came face-to-face with Daryl, sweet!!!  I love Jamiroquai!!!  That must have been sweet!!!

Apologies,this was based on watching a film (or being forced to watch it by a Gumball loving husband) in which highlights individuals running across the countryside in extremely expensive cars ( 100 or so supercars) funny the veg car wasn't highlighted. Isn't it £8,000 just to get in How much money was raised for charity ?

Edit to ask per request of husband : Was Kylie there?? 

Jackass had a special on MTV a few years back where Johnny and the guys participated in this. Looks like an incredible time!

Apologies,this was based on watching a film (or being forced to watch it by a Gumball loving husband) in which highlights individuals running across the countryside in extremely expensive cars ( 100 or so supercars) funny the veg car wasn't highlighted. Isn't it £8,000 just to get in How much money was raised for charity ?

Edit to ask per request of husband : Was Kylie there?? 

Out of the approx. 2,000 people that were there, I did not see Kylie - from what I gather, she has more pressing matters to deal with - had I, I probably would have included her in my list of spottings.  Although for all I know she well could have been.  And sorry, I don't know the exact stats, Alicia.  As my very first post stated, I'm not familiar but with the little amount that I read after being invited to the party.