By Kandré McDonald, Staff Reporter
With hand on hip this young lady showed that she did not need a partner in order to enjoy herself. The couple behind her also got busy to the music at the Fame Road Party. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
THE FAME FM team left indentations at the WINDALCO Sports Grounds in St. Catherine last Saturday night as they did some 'excavation' work at the venue.
The marks left however were positive and the main perpetrators, Kurt 'The Party Animal' Riley and Marlon 'The Gatekeeper' Young, used only awesome musical selections to carry out their work.
When the clock struck 12:10 a.m. the road show, dubbed 'The Excavator', revved into action. At this point Kurt Riley summoned the patrons to the front of the stage area.
The large crowd, though still not enough to fill the huge venue, converged at the front of the stage, and an appropriate word that could be used to describe the atmosphere in the venue from thereon is splendid.
There seemed to be no one in the venue who was familiar with the term 'standing still'. Even Kurt Riley, who was still doing disc jock duties, could not refrain from dancing to the songs he was playing.
Another high point of the party was the showcasing of the FAME frat gear. This part of the proceeding lasted about eight minutes and caused an eruption in the venue when the Hard Copy models began appearing on-stage in bikinis. The men began howling like dogs but that was just the beginning.
Pandemonium surged throughout the venue some minutes to two when the second segment of the show kicked into gear. This time around disc jocks began 'excavating' soca music and dumping it on the crowd. Waistlines gyrated to the music as patrons showed their dancing skills or the lack thereof, most not even seeming aware of their surroundings.
Towels, hands, lighters and other items took to the night skies as patrons stamp their approval of various songs being played.
Things got a bit unsettled later however when shots were fired in salutation of Sizzla's Just One of Those Days. This drove the disc jocks to intervene and the guilty person(s) were asked to refrain from doing so because the police were threatening an early end to the party. This intervention was not heeded however and when the song was played again the perpetrator(s) only 'rinsed off' two other shots.
Eventually the music was changed and the proceedings continued. Luckily the flow of the party was not affected and it continued until the wee hours of the morning when the successful 'excavation process' came to an end.
