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    sky juice and princessskyjuice and saggitarius' birthday bashment

skyjuice of metromedia alongside saggitarius sound, 10/13/01, evanston's family focus.  rest your mouse to see the caption, click to see full size pics-don't forget to hit your back button to return here.... click here to see the exclusive interview montana had with skyjuice the day before this show:::

 

it was a rainy, rainy october night, but chicagoreggae crew knew we had to be at this dance so we packed up the car and arrived at around 11:35pm.  we knew we were going to be early, as dancehall juggling events really don't start until typically 2am, but we were excited.  there were only a few cars in the lot of family focus, at 2010 dewey in evanston, when we arrived, but we were glad to get a nice parking spot in the amply sized lots.  after a thorough search by the evanston police, we entered the venue, pretty reassured that no one would be bringing any uzi's or mac 11's behind us.   the music was playing already and a few people were eating the free food (looked like rice and peas and some kind of meat, but we didn't try it out) at tables in the hallway.

 hallway looks pretty, eeh?  kitchen cojo selects saggitarius sound

slowly the dance started to fill up.  here are some pics we took while the early juggling and early line out was going on, from around 12am-130am...

early juggling courtesy of saggitarius early line out begins 12:39am the crowd arrives, drink up early bubbling navigator and friends

the first metromedia dubplate signaled the wheels were being taken over by big belly skyjuice himself at 147am.

skyjuice selects from his infamous box of metromedia dubplates skyjuice sets up for his time sky juice arrives... big belly skyjuice himself

at 148am, skyjuice is just starting his nice and easy early juggling.  the crowd gets thicker, along with the smoke.  by 201am, the crowd was bubbling and the smoke got so thick, the smoke detectors had to be deactivated after a false alarm.  no one seemed to mind though, as sky juice started to get hype, and the crowd began to boil at 210.

148am skyjuice runs the wheels  more smoke! where there is smoke, look out for...

by 221am the dance was going at a full bubble as skyjuice picked up the pace and rinsed some riddims from the recent past like the showtime and the bruckout.  pure smoke and heat and hype vibes filled the room:::

bashment time now bruk out bruk out how do they stand right in front of the speakers?  the crew took a break from the heat to take some pictures of the bashy crowd and some of the vip's of chicagoreggae:::who's ready fi di videolight? show off yuh bling bling shirt nice shirt andrew curtis john promotions dance nice eeh? field marshal bashment girl princessmighty mike of navigator sound nice jeans which school outfit is that? yes princess, pose up now sky juice juggling at 210 at 230, the chicagoreggae crew is called away due to prior commitments for sunday morning, but it seems the night is not over yet, as our car is blocked in::help! we're blocked in!

 

so, back into the dance we go and by 244, the dance was at a full boil.  the crowd had closed in to a circle in front of the turntables and sky juice was playing the liquid riddim (log on), stripped down to his undershirt and calling for the people to buss the log on and the screechie dance:::endofnightcrowd.jpg (65429 bytes)  log on!! and step pon...   this dance was hype.  the venue was great and the crowd was nice.  this was the kind on dance you wish you could relive over and over every weekend (or every month, as every weekend may be too much to handle for some of us :) the chicagoreggae crew gives this dance an a+ rating.

 

 

 


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