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Raining Bottles caused Pandemonium at Fandemonium

Car ticket holder still to claim prize

Hits and Jams supporters at Fandemonium

Hits and Jams team has expressed great disappointment at some overzealous patrons whose actions brought a premature end to an evening of fun and give back to their diehard fans at the second annual Fandemonium staged at the National Park Saturday night.
The event got off to a fair start with Entertainer Kerwin Bollers and some other names creating the hype through the Fusion Stereo Sounds at the National Park as a mostly youthful bunch gathered. Though out the events staging the numbers grew continually covering most of the National Park's tarmac and while there were those who basically observed the proceedings the majority were bent on having a good time and that was a sure unfolding from the DJs platter.
Patrons celebrated as ticket numbers were pulled from the spinning cage at intervals for the more than 600 prizes up for grabs, at no cost to them. All they did was show up and were issued tickets with numbers. Some won hampers of assorted items, boom boxes, Black berry and shango phones and others got Ipods, toasters, DVD players, electric irons as well as one year free entrance to all HJ promoted events. One woman's joy could not be contained when she realized that she had the ticket with the winning number drawn for the laptop. And for good measure she also got a modem to enjoy a month's supply of free internet access. The sounds were the partying kind and all seemed well.

From left: X2, Lil J, Calais Peterkins, Don Gialiani

Then it was entertainment from the likes of as Lil Jay, Gialiani and Calais Peterkins. The dynamic Jackie Handover also performed proving her star quality vocally with performance to match.
The show went along well with some slight jabs to 'Haters and witch craft worker' from the DJs. Then Dj Seon aka the 'Gully Ras' faced the crowd with much hype and created a volcanic celebration with contagious soca vibes.
"Throw something in the air" he shouted and patrons responded with rags and plastic bottles being flung skywards but the party's bug bearer were glass bottles... those rained from the audience. His call to toss rags and then something in the air brought out the zeal in the party goers and they 'pallanced' tossing whatever they had in their hands skywards.

Bishram pulling the Car Winning Ticket

PANDEMONIUM: persons ducked and ran for cover in every direction and most escaped without injury. But one young lady was not that lucky as her head paid the ultimate price. With I seconds the once crowded tarmac was reduced to a few scattered patrons, some with umbrellas and bottles littered everywhere.
Comedian Chow Pow intervened at the microphone side and managed to get the crowd back to order and into the partying mode in just about 15 minutes. Bob Marley's music blasted through the speakers as continued calls for calm were heeded.
Then Jumo and Adrian (X2) were next on stage after several patrons including a 73 year old grandmother were issued birthday gifts as it happened to be their birthday.
But sooner after the crowd regrouped and was back in the partying mode on the tarmac and all seemed well more scattering happened. This time as X2 dished the out some of their hits the crowd indeed went 'Crazy' again... bottles rained forcing the duo and patrons alike to run for cover. Again! This time however the crowd was not ready to take any further risks. Some hurriedly exited the National Park while others stayed on for the drawing of numbers for the 51 inches flat-screen TV and the Car. After those were pulled from the cage a seaman, Timothy Griffith, age 21 brandished his ticket stub winning him the flat-screen Television which he collected it too. "Is 15 days since I come back from working in Suriname and I never expected this but I'm very, very happy... THANKS Hits and Jams," he said as his friends flocked to the stage.

From Right: CEO of Hits and Jams Entertainment Rawle Ferguson hands over TV to Winner

The number for the ticket holder to win the grand prize of the car is 4634 pulled by media operative Bisham of Guyana Times. However, after several calls for the ticket holder to come forward the promoters announced that the number will be published for the ticket holder to collect the car as by then the winner may have already exited the venue...
Earlier the day's activities included fun time for children with appearances from Sponge Bob, Barney, Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters.
A point to note is that in the 10 years of Hits and Jams hosting events there was never a bottle throwing incident prior. Last year the event was incident free too.
Fandemonium was advertised as a 'Free entry party' and it did deliver on that promise. However while some were lucky to collect free drinks, popsicles and ice cream others probably turned up at the venue when the stocks were done. Some did murmur but settled for beer at $300per bottle. But the music rocked and the prizes were great...

And the numbers in support tipped about 5000. However, it ended premature as a result of the bottles that rained from the audience hence Jory did not get to do what he does best. One member of the Hits and Jams Coordinating committee said "certain things can't be prevented when people have hate in their heart but you've got to smile and move on, Trusting God who knows the truth."

By Mondale Smith

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