Beach Jouvertttttttt!!!!!

YOW!!!!!!!
This is the BEST Bacchanal Jamaica event! The music! The vibes! The paint! MACHEL!!!!

I smile, laugh, jump, wuk up and **** out till I fool :D :D

Machel needs to honoured and knighted! I stood in front of that stage for his ENTIRE performance!! I'm not a huge Machel fan but God know he took Beach Jouvert! The long lines at the bar and lack of paint could be ignored because of the greatness that was Machel Montano HD, his band and his dancers

This is the first time I'm watching male soca dancers live and God know.... Brittany's husband needs to come here..like now X_X

And let's not forget Patrice Roberts...her performance had some really good moments (I zoned out thinking about going to the bar a couple times tho lol)

as a female I found her outfit a lil distracting... I kept on wondering how many times she was gonna draw down her dress -__-

Bacchanal Jamaica/Smirnoff Jamaica NEED to sort out the bar staff!! ONE Bar with around 8 people serving and alot more doing stock and carrying ice.. for the amount of people at beach jouvert that just wasn't acceptable. I went to the bar three times and couldn't bother after that. I also felt that there needed to be ALOT more paint. One round of paint was just not enough.

No worries here tho, because Beach Jouvert 2013 will definitely be seeing me :)

The Experience that was Cooler Fete...

The promoter for this party deserves a kick or two from everybody who heard about Cooler Fete, thought about going and actually went!

False Advertisement

Photo Credit: Lehwego.com

Where to begin....
There was NO Kes, NO Iwer George, NO Dawg E Slaughter, NO Swappi, NO Private Ryan...No Nobody!

In the pic posted above on March 21 a member of Kes' management team made it known that Kes was never booked for the event [Strike 1]. After she did so, members of Cooler Fete's promotional team continued to advertise Kes as apart of the line up, being who I am I corrected one of them and was rudely told "I am a promoting for them so I would know more than you" later on in the day I saw that same individual advertising that Swappi was the new headliner... [Strike 2]

I was very sceptical about that but I left it alone.. at least Private Ryan was still gonna there (haha)..
I follow Private Ryan on twitter and saw him tweet that he'd be playing in studio till 3pm on April 6... How could he be playing till 3pm on the day he was booked for Cooler Fete, a day party..(we'll talk about that part a little later) so I asked him if he was playing in Jamaica and he replied --->

While on my way to Ochi on Friday Cooler Fete ads were on the radio advertising Iwer George and Private Ryan...[Strike3]

Time
I did not realise the importance of "Gates Open at...." on a flyer till this day. Being a 'cooler fete' one automatically assumes its a day party, boy was I wrong. The promoter originally told a dj booked for the event that the party would run from 2pm-10pm then it was changed to 4pm-2am and later on 8pm-2am (these changes were told to him on the day). All this time I heard no time info in the radio ads and saw none on FB or Twitter. When i finally got my early bird ticket (which was still available in Ochi during the party) and looked at it said 6pm - 2am... [Strike 4]

The 'Fete'
At around 11:30 I decided to leave out to head to the party, I had already decide to write about the pre-Cooler Fete experience which was just utter rubbish already but I decided that it would not be fair to write a review about a party I kept on getting bad updates about but never attended

Never attended anything at Drax Hall Beach so I was sure I was lost when I got to the entrance there were no banners, security or barriers just a huge light at the entrance of the estate. Luckily a lady was sitting outside and told me I was at the right place and directed me to the party.
Driving down a seemingly endless dark road to a party that was already rated F on my grade sheet did not help at all. We finally came up on 2 barriers, 2 security guards and around 40 cars parked on the road side. One of the security guards directed me to park behind the barrier even though only 10 cars were parked there... Beside the 'parking' was a huge empty lot with a very bright light beaming across the lot. The only light lit the parking was the light of the moon (luckily it was full)

Standing outside, the 30-something patrons were complaining about the 45 minute wait for the shuttle to the beach and one of the security guards called someone at the venue and was instructed to tell the patrons to walk down the road to meet the bus (lol) [Strike 65], the security realising how stupid this was told the person who he was speaking with on the phone to hurry up and send the bus and hung up [Strike 246]

Anywho around 10 minutes later a bus came n parked right where a new set of people were standing so myself and the a few of the people who were there before had to wait on the second bus which took around  15 minutes to come.

The ride to the party... WOW... I have never seen so much BUSH in my life! And I'm a country girl, used to go country every Sunday... Between the bush, ram goats and plantation slave houses and the little dirt road idk how I managed!

When I got there I was honestly shocked to see that people were there enjoying themselves and I actually started too myself. The vibes was there and after a few drinks the troubles seemed worth it...well not really but there was a glimmer of hope.

Cooler Fete advertised as a soca fete, between 12:30 and 1:40 (what I was told was the climax of the event) around 10 soca songs were played.. Approximately 1:45am the dj announced that the party was over and he was handing over to a member of the sound crew... 1:45...

After listening to a few songs from the sound guy I decided to leave. When i got to the exit another shuttle with people had just arrived... poor them LOL


The Bar

I was really tired of shaking my head and I saw people at the bar cussing so I stayed clear. They also had advertised Cooler Packages for $6000...one of my followers went to the bar to get one and..

He went there at 10:30pm.. 

"With the Caribbean Sea as a perfect backdrop for an awesome venue Cooler Fete could have been so much more than what we experienced. Fresh from his stint in London Dj Smoke kept the patrons happy with his selections as too did Dj Taj from Renaissance Disco. Cooler Fete was initially advertised as a stage show with performances by Iwer George and others but these plans seemed to fall apart due to the event being cancelled then put back on again. We want to make a special shout out to the real soca junkies who came out and especially our "truck crew" who we shared an adventure with in the Drax Hall wilderness with shouts of "tree, tree, bush, bush". Enjoy the skkans of our first event of Easter wekend guys, we have much more coming up." <----that was the caption for the Skkan Cooler Fete album

I requested an interview with the promoter earlier today and still have not received a reply. All I have to say is if Konshens did not have those two hit songs right now and people had not brought there own liquor I don't know how the promoters would have managed with the backlash.

NOTE: Usually on party fliers you will see "X, Y & Z presents..." there was no such thing on Cooler Fete's flier. Maybe it was intentional but the beauty of 2012 Facebook tells who owns pages...

The promoters need to go back to the control room and see where they went wrong. The concept was nothing new but it was a good concept. I hope they can recover from this huge failure.

Good friends and drinks can make any party experience worthwhile

Even at the venue they were still advertising Kes #sigh

UWI Carnival Ring Road 2012

:D :$

BUCKETTTTT!!!!!!!!

Island Mas Jamaica did it for me again!! :D

This year i felt getting 'carnivalized' meaning boots, gems, the works...so i did :D

My make up and sling was by Jaye-Ann O'Connor (BagLady by MsJaye in my previous post), stocking and "sequined goodness" ( as somebody called it lol) by Carnival Cute Ja and boots from Fabulous Findz

I decided to jump with Island Mas again because there was no other option really.. Ever heard of 'stick to d evil weh u kno'? Well i believe in that statement 100%. My package this year was $1200 and with that I got a t-shirt, bucket, free pass to Soca Village that night and unlimited drinks, vibes and Carnival goodness on the road, what more could a girl ask for?.... Food, water and sweets in my package and on the road! Felt like I was in Trinidad for while lol :$

I was late this year so i missed the pre-party :( by the time I got to the truck they were by Irvine and believe me walking from Preston i wanted to RUN i could feel the vibes and i was readyyyyy!

Ring Road was AMAAAAAAAAAZING! Dj Billy and Richie Ras took my heart! Island Mas played a total of 20 mins of Dancehall! 20 mins!! I think that's just beautiful :)


"Dutty Fridayz"
With that said....my Carnival experience ended with the march. Once we got to Union, Dutty Fridayz started -___- if i heard 'Bruk It Dwn' or 'Gyal a Bubble' ONE more time! The dj's even started playing gun tune....i sat in amazement I honestly couldn't believe the transformation.

Now i can understand a one n few Dancehall songs but I could count on ma 19 fingers the soca songs played at Union. Playing what the people wanted cannot be an excuse its C-A-R-N-I-V-A-L! Soca should be the order of the day!

Behaviour
For those complaining about the behaviour...what did you expect? Students walking, holding hands and rocking to the beat? kmt..
Jamaica has a Dancehall culture which comes with a 'Dash Out' mentality, so given the opportunity to be half naked in the sun hot with unlimited liquor n soca music pumping people WILL dash out and not in a 1999 sense a 2012 one that incorporates trees, gullies, stop signs and the like..


I will say that I feel Island Mas is the future of Soca in Jamaica, they get the best Dj's, have the best concepts (hello Bucket!!), keep the best parties and they are the fore runners in getting Jamaica up to par with other Caribbean countries when it comes to Carnival. Anywho I'm grateful for the soca I did hear on the road, it made up for the what I had to put up with at Union..  I'm ready for next year!

FAV costumes for the day (Y)

6:30 Bucket!

BUCKET CREW 2012

Road March Checklist

Road March is right around the corner! Do you have everything you need? *waits for you to answer....* bet you forgot sumn..

I've done some research on FB and found some pages/people selling or offering services for road march. I've spoken with most of them and their prices are reasonable and ordering is easy. If what you want is out of stock or unavailable you can always check Downtown (Y) lol

ROAD MARCH ESSENTIALS


Boots
From what I'm seeing boots range from $3000-$4000. I heard i could get for $2000 but I'm yet to find that source so.....
Many colours and styles are available from these 2 but if you fell in love with something online Fab Findz can get it to you ---> Daniella Cornwall & Fabulous Findz
I did find some more but their prices were a lil bit more expensive or the page was mia so use these two :)

Makeup

Road March makeup is not that much different from stage makeup as far as I'm concerned, only thing you add a few gems. But it may not b that simple for all of us, for clutz like myself i recommend you get it professionally done or beg a fren (Y)
Chic et Magnifique Make-Up Artistry (as the name suggests she is a MUA)
For makeup items check ----> Annbriana's Cosmetics
and if you have a friend who does makeup bt is clueless he/she can get ideas here

Stockings

Stockings were kinda hard to source (without ordering online from T&T or the US) but i found  Carnival Cute Ja They have EVERYTHING (except boots), even though most of her stock comes in for Jamaica Road March, there is stock available for UWI Road March


Sling Bags
Who else but Bag Lady by Ms Jaye! Ladies always need something to carry stuff in, phone, keys, lipgloss, get vex money etc. Her bags are affordable, cute and can be customized to match your costume (Y). Btw be on the look out for great things from this lil lady!

Other Accessories

Just because your section doesn't have head gear that doesn't mean you should leave your head bare. Lala Lola Headbands have great headbands that can add the finishing touch to your carnival ensemble. check them out
Gems would also be a great addition, Nicole Tiffany has some fab pieces with lil tips here and there (Y)

For toe guards and glitter you can also check out Carnival Cute Ja


I really hope i didn't leave anything out X_X.....if i did sue me :p


I forgot sumn :$ ..... If you need your T's designed by a tru artist send Reeni a message she's FABULOUS with scissors :)

That's it! I hoped i helped a lil :)


*UWI Carnival's Road March is March 17 and Bacchanal Jamaica's is April 15*

Soca Weekend #2

This was NOT a good weekend for me :(

Friday night was rather upsetting due to some pass issues >:o ( i wont even expound on tht) but because of that and some other things when Kes was goin on stage I was sitting at Edna -_____-
Anywho by the time i got there (12:30ish) with ma mek up face he was singing Stress Away lol so i felt a lil better :)

Anywho because i was busy trying to locate the lady with my backstage pass i missed a good amount of Kes' performance :( but based on how the crowd was reacting they were really good (Y)

I got to meet Kes! Legally!! :D
*the pic is taking a day and i half to load so i'll post it later

The Party Animal needs a few kicks! Is Bacchanal how u mus play a 2012 soca song, a 2011 dancehall then a hip hop song (idk the name i dnt really listen to hip hop bt its one a those tht is played at clubs alot) i stood there in SHOCK!

I'm there thinking he's a veteran he'll lift ma mood boy was i wrong. I went home with my make up intact n not one drop of sweat :(


Saturday night was too be my recovery but it wasn't quite what I hoped :(

Billy played a good set so did Sanjay. Ash played really good but he was playing for a 3:30ish time slot and NOT a 1 o'clock. He really brought dwn the lil vibes tht i had building :(
But i guess it was just me and ma crew cuz everybody else was having a whale of a time. I think its cuz at 2/2:30 we're used to a certain vibe and it just wasnt there for us. Maybe we're too connected to Billy lol

Idk if the foolishness of Friday did a toll on me but yea this just wasn't my weekend

Soca Calendar 2012

Ppl ALWAYS asking me party n dates n stuff. ALWAYS! Most of the time i don't mind but it can get annoying..since i posted the blog last night i've gotten alot more requests...aye sah

Anywho lemme give y'all a lists of soca fetes that you neeeeed to attend, can jus pass thru or ...... ye.

First of all EVERY Friday and Saturday in March is *Bacchanal Fridays and **Islandmas Jamaica Soca Village. if you need to know who's performing/playing click the links (Y)

There is also Jus Mas Fridays if you really cant manage Mas Camp on a Friday or want a diff environment (Y)
Socamaloo is also a weekly Saturday fete on Oxford Rd, check it out if you want..

Every Monday and Wednesday until March 28 is Socacise @ Mas Camp

March 15-18 - UWI Carnival

• 15 - Integration
• 16 - Jouvert
• 17 - Ring Road   ( **Jump with d Bucket Crew!!!! or The Islandmas Angels !!!! ) 
• 18 - Beach Jouvert

April 6 - Cooler Fete
April 7 Bacchanal BEACH JOUVERT
**April 11 I Love Soca 'Soca Bliss'
April 11 SOCA @ DE SANDBAR
April 13 BACCHANAL JOUVERT
**April 14 Water Party 'Carnival Edition'
April 14 6:30 - 'Vibes Caah Done'
April 15 ROAD MARCH

Anything with ** is an Islandmas Jamaica event or associated with them and so is TOP RATED by me and you know i doh deal wid foolishness ;)
[I was not paid for the above statement and so it is bias in no way what so ever]

Ooooooooooh Country ppl! South Coast Carnival and All Island Carnival are there for you! Check it out! (Y)

Anything that doesn't have a link unu can google, FB or Twitter, just like i do :) (Y)

being who i am.... PLZ REMEMBER DANCEWORKS March 23 - April 1st :)

Soca Weekend #1 :D *Soca Village*

Okay so this was the third week of Soca Village and just the first weekend of Bacchanal (Islandmas are such forward thinkers), hence the name Soca Weekend #1

Anywho this was my second week of Soca Village I had some issues week 2 so i couldnt make it :(  and believe you me I was in heaven!

Week 1 was pure niceness! 99.8% soca! I was beautiful! All the new songs! Fab mixing! Big up Dj Billy and Richie Ras everytime!!

Week 3 had like 96% soca (around 4am Billy started playing some dancehall n ppl were still at it!)

When a party is this good i rarely have words and God know it's Monday night and I'm still dumbstruck....soca never sweet me so yet!! and this me we're talking about here! Reeny Bacchanal! Idk how Islandmas Jamaica does this every week but its just fabulous!

Y'all NEEEEEEED to check it out!

Soca Village is held at Village Blues Bar and admission is only $500! EVERY Saturday! unitil March 31st

Check out pix and deets here (Y)