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Soca couple take Fantastic Fridays

Tuesday, March 05, 2013



SOCA couple Bunji Garlin and Fay-Ann Lyons performed to a jam-packed Mas Camp on the first band night of Bacchanal Jamaica's Fantastic Fridays.

The Trinidad and Tobago team commandeered the audience with hit after hit to hundreds of dedicated and adoring fans from across the Caribbean region.

The show opened with a surprise performance from dancehall queen Lady Saw, who seduced the crowd with a sexually charged version of her current hit Heels.

Dressed in a white dress and red heels, with matching hair, Saw raised the intensity to her set by calling a male patron on stage. She gyrated on him while the strains of her song played in the background.

This set the stage for Bunji Garlin who entered the stage at approximately 12:30 am With his 2013 mega-hit Differentology, Garlin delivered to his eagerly anticipating audience. He then segued into Irregular with the crowd singing every word.

The synergy was maintained as Garlin's wife, Fay-Ann Lyons made her entrance felt with fan favourites Start Whining and Heavy T Bumpa, for which she became the first female to win Trinidad's International Soca Monarch competition in 2009.

Backed by the Asylum Band, the wife and husband team powered through their large catalogue of music covering Bunji Garlin's Runaway and So & So and Lyons' Consider it Done, Meet Super Blue and Miss Behave.

A special performance of Super Blue's Fantastic Fridays by the duo followed the crowd's chanting of "Super! Super! Super!"

The couple's non-stop power set closed with an encore of Differentology and Garlin's call to the crowd, Vikings!

Musical juggling throughout the night was provided by DJ Richie Ras.

The night's excitement was heightened as Appleton, sponsors for the night, had their promotional girls fogging the crowd with smoke while standing on elevated lit boxes in the middle of the venue. Le Masquerade title sponsor Digicel also brought out the fun and prizes for socaphiles with their dart game, allowing fans to win phones, call credit and T-shirts.

Fantastic Fridays continues Friday with Trinidad's top female deejay, Duchess Alicia, and Jamaica's DJ Kurt 'The Party Animal' Riley from FAME 95FM.



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