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Music and youth ruled MIA's 'All You Can Drink party'

A youthful crowd gathered at MIA's party. - Winston Sill

IF YOU NEEDED a party, to let it all out on Saturday night, MIA's 'All You Can Drink' party held at Lady Musgrave Road, St. Andrew was where you should have been.

Under the guidance of sound systems like Coppershot, Rennaissance, Code Red, you would not find it hard to party. One would think that the Christmas hype would be gone from the sessions by now but these systems seem to be still riding high.

Smooth transitions from R&B, to hip hop, to dancehall, ensured that even though the all-inclusive alcohol had already decreased the shyness, the music got rid of it totally.

Good-sized audience

The venue was not crammed, but a good sized crowd was there. In groups of 10 or more, patrons galloped from side to side in the spacious venue doing the 'Mad Dance', 'Crazy Hype', 'Sponge Bob' and a slew of other dances. It was like 'Passa Passa' uptown except for a few differences.

For one, this crowd was exceptionally younger. If you ignored the music for a while and paid attention, you could see that the venue was almost full of teens. If that alone did not convince you then their behaviour would.

You could see young groups of boys lighting what seemed like their first cigarette. They smoked, laughed, looked at the cigarette, smoked again, and tried to make patterns with the smoke they exhaled. Some sputtered and coughed but they continued anyway.

The couples were obvious too. Every now and again, a boy would lead his girl from the dancing area to a dark spot where they would kiss for a few minutes before returning.

Others, under the haze of the liquor, just aimlessly staggered about, while a few who couldn't manage just puked uncontrollably.

These were not the focal points of the session, as everybody ignored everything apart from the dancing. Even when a fight broke out between some of the teens, there was no stampede, or panic, or mad rush for the gates. Patrons just eased out of their way as they scampered about until the meleé was broken up.

Supa Hype of Code Red, who was at the controls, did not care either. "A wha do dem bwoy ya?" he annoyingly asked over the microphone. "Play music, mi no business wid fight!"

This music playing continued, along with the dancing, drinking, and revelling until its cut off point at roughly 4 a.m.