Staff Writer - Kerran Monroe
The much anticipated Water Party at Mass Camp on August 6 was a blast. My friends and I arrived at the venue at about midnight and it took us about 15 minutes to find parking.
When we arrived at the gate, the crowd outside was so thick you would swear inside was empty. But it became obvious that inside was not empty when the security guards came out to tell the mammoth crowd that they were not letting anybody else in because the venue was already cram with patrons.
I don’t know if it is a Jamaican thing or it is just human nature but nobody left, we all gathered at the gate, determined that we were going to get wet. After waiting for about 20 minutes, the men spraying water on the crowd inside the venue, turned the hose outside and started wetting up the people outside (I was also outside).
I am not sure if that was aimed at discouraging the crowd causing them to leave but the water seemed to have energized us and gotten us all hyped up again.
After numerous attempts at trying to push open the gates, the huge crowd at the gate finally triumphed. The security guards were no match for such a huge and determined crowd.
The security guards managed to close back the gates but it was not long after that the remainder if the crowd outside pushed them open again until the guards just finally gave up. (I got in on the first try……yay me).
Now that everybody is in, we are all looking for our friends, because everybody got mixed up in the crowd.
I gave up looking for my friends after about five minutes when I realized I probably was not going to find them in such a huge crowd and besides the disc jockey was spinning some serious tracks and I could not miss the opportunity to dance to all those ‘propa propa’ songs.
SOCA SEGMENT
By the time the DJ started playing Soca, there was literally bumper to bumper traffic inside the venue (if you know what I mean), then came the spraying of water on the patrons. The water was the best part. Water really is life because the water really gave life to the patrons, as every time the water was sprayed on us we seemed to have been reenergized.
After the Soca segment the DJ decided to calm things down with some R&B music along with some slow Reggae/Dancehall, such as ‘Delilah’ by Mavado. Then came the ‘dash out’ segment with songs such as ‘Dumpa Truck’ and ‘Freaky Gyal’ by Vybz Kartel, ‘Stulla’ by Mavado among many others.
After the water had finished at about two or three in the morning, many persons including myself went home.
Water Party did shell dung except two things:
1. We waa wata: Two trucks of water kyaa cut it Mr. Promoter. Get bout five trucks next time.
2. Bigger venue: Next time, we need a bigger venue. Don’t get a small venue like Mass Camp, and then you tell hundreds of patrons, they cannot come in.
