Entertainment

GOLDEN SHOWER - Kartel and friends reign in Golden Spring

Vybz Kartel in performance at 'High Grade' held at the Gloden Spring Community Centre, on Saturday. - Carlington Wilmot photo

IF IT WERE a film, the title probably would say something like; 'Kartel And The Kingstonians', but it was not a movie.

It was rather, a wild and raving night in Golden Spring, St Andrew, with the best and worst of the community packed onto the dusty football field of the community centre.

The event was called 'High Grade' and featured Kartel, Wayne Marshall, Kartel's protégés ­ Slash, Singer Blinger, Escobar and Blass among others.

While Stone Love and Coppershot blazed some fiery singles, Golden Spring party people were raking in their full $400 worth. The venue was not full, so the various groups charged about on the spacious field kicking up dust like horses on the track.

With all the running and dancing around, the happenings inside the session were somewhat predictable.

A gang of community girls loved the camera attention, and hogged the light for the entire night. Every chance they got the women hoisted their already short skirts to outdo one another in the flesh-baring contest. They thought they could out-dance the visitors from Kingston, while those from Kingston thought they could outdance the locals.

Dewigged

With the video light as the magnet, its force pulled the groups together and just like oil and water, the mixture did not go too well. Dust rose quickly from the ground as two wigs, one from each camp, were hauled off and thrown into the night's sky. Quick intervention by sensible onlookers prevented further cat fighting though, and on continued the show.

For flavour, the sensuous French Cut Models put on a brief show with tantalizing swimwear from the Tattwu Line, raising the night's temperature by a few degrees.

The pace was quick, but the fashion show was the ultimate foreplay for what was to be a charged show which featured Vybz Kartel as the headliner.

He wasted no time. He was lyrically armed from tooth to tooth, and delivered like a deejay performing to save his life. Wayne Marshall joined him and together they launched both new and old tunes they recorded together.

Before they closed though, they introduced members of Kartel's artiste clan, who took the show into its closing Sunday morning stages.