What a way to recover from a car crash. Fifth Element recording artiste, Chuck Fender, showed how one rises from the ashes with a rousing birthday bash in Burnt Savannah, St Elizabeth, on Saturday night.
By Germaine SmithThe deejay, who is still nursing bruises from a recent car accident, had support which was two fold. It came from his fellow entertainers and from the fruitful turnout of fans. They represented St Elizabeth, its neighbouring parish Manchester, and as expected, Kingston.
The entertainer list read Cocoa Tea, Anthony B, Richie Stephens, Tony Curtis, Future Troubles, Warrior King, Jesse Jendau, Ancient Monarchy, Bascom X, Ghandi among several others, while the sound system list featured Black Kat, Adonai, and Love Symbol.
No live band
With these systems booked for the night, it meant there was no live band for the stage show, just raw version for the deejays to lace their lyrics on.
The systems juggled from night just until about 3 a.m. when it was showtime. Since it was a sound system show, and seeing that daylight rapidly approached and dozens of artistes queued up sidestage to work, this was the perfect way to let them work - quickly.
Despite the speed with which they got on and left the stage, the list was apparently too long and some could not grace the St Elizabeth stage. These disappointed few were not amused.
Generally, discipline and restraint stood tall. The only incident of over exuberance was when the piercing blasts of a handgun firing into the sky rocked the venue to celebrate Chuck Fender, Richie Spice, Natural Black and Anthony Cruz's presence on stage.
This 'forward' went unnoticed as they passed the mic around, doing snippets of their tunes to gradually bring the party to a slow ending. Not a bad recovery for Fender.
