WAVS CONCERT WITH EL AND PATAPAA GETS ONE SEVERELY INJURED AT TAKORADI
As promised by Sleeky Promotions, EL (2016
VGMA artist of the year) and Patapaa (One corner hit maker) were in Takoradi
yesterday for the Wavs Concert at the Vienna City Beach.
How Sleeky Promotions managed to gather
these artists on the same stage at such a cool price is in itself a testimony
that the guy knows what time it is.
As usual I will share my opinion on the
show by looking at the ups and downs and add some recommendations to help
improve future shows in the oil city.
High Moments:
Sound: Idea sounds were in charge of sounds at
the event and the engineer knew his job. There were speakers at all vantage
points; the gate (to entice outsiders), on stage (for the DJ and artist) and
giant speakers for the audience. It was DJ Champagne of Radio 360 who tried to mess
up the show with his fake laptop charger. This is common knowledge, when you
connect a high voltage charger to an electronic gadget, there is always
interference with sound. You do not need to study any DJ course at GIMPA to know
this. Though the sound engineer detected this problem earlier and informed the
DJ to either get a different laptop or laptop charger that has accurate
voltage supply, the DJ did not heed to this advice. I think moving forward, Sleeky
should sideline DJ Champagne if he refuses to buy a new laptop charger. He
messed up the sounds at the last SalaFest and some 3 months down the line, he
repeats same mistake.
MCs: Clenzy (self-acclaimed oil city finest MC)
and Yoofi Eyeson (presenter at Spice fm and 2017 RTP awards nominee) co-hosted the
show. Clenzy as usual chose to remain sexy and calm. Yoofi on the other hand preferred Klints
da drunk and DKB personalities on stage. Why Klints da drunk? He
chose to make jokes about personalities who were billed to perform and/or grace the occasion with their presence. Take for
instance, the comments he made about height of EL and his DJ; Patapaa and his
one winter jacket; and finally asking the audience to vote between Lil Win and
up-and-coming movie star Atemuda in an Ugly Beauty Contest.
The DKB part about Yoofi's personality on
stage was his use of vulgar words on stage. Sorry I cannot repeat them here. It
seems dude forgot he was a nominee for the RTP awards. If Nana Konadu was around I am very
sure, she would have walked out. But surprisingly, the audience loved what he
was doing. So he also gave them more, and they laughed more.
Security: Even though Shatta Wale's die hard fun who
gave a spectacular performance claimed there were no policemen at the event, I spotted
few police officers at the event grounds alongside official bouncers at the
beach. There are speculations the guy who got injured in the pool is a junior officer with the Ghana Police Service. But for the presence of the security men on stage, the headline would
have been "ten on admission after Patapaa mounted the stage with One
corner".
Low moments:
Time: Show that promised to start at 7pm started
at 11pm. I am tired of complaining about late start of events in
Takoradi.
Audience: For reasons known only to the audience,
the artists from Takoradi did not receive any better response from the crowd.
Take for instance, someone like Ras Ebo who in my view performed far far better
than EL and Patapaa put together did not get so much cheers from the crowd like the latter. But hey, people paid to be entertained and
had the right to choose which artist to cheer to. May be Jesus was right when
he said: "a prophet is honoured everywhere except in his own hometown and
among his relatives and his own family"
Power outage: EL mounted the stage 3 minutes after 12
midnight, and 39 minutes into his performance, the power at the venue went off.
People started appointing accusing fingers at Mahama even though he was not there. Later
it was detected the was power outside and same at Allan beach. That was when,
it was speculated that the manager at Vienna Beach forgot to buy enough pre-paid
credit. The show was interrupted for about 15 minutes. This is not the first
time Vienna Beach has done this. Do you remember the Valentine's day show which
ended prematurely when their plant failed there was lights out? Vienna
Management must sit up and know that they cannot take everyone for granted all
the time, may be EL will be humble to return to the stage after power outage
but someone like Wizkid, will not tolerate such nonsense.
In related development, one person had his
head severely lacerated after he jumped into the swimming pool to dance one
corner when Patapaa mounted the stage. The victim Emmanuel Opoku was quickly
sent to Takoradi Hospital for medical attention.
It is not clear why the organizers drained
water from the swimming pool which was in front of the stage prior to the event
knowing very well how crazy the on corner dance can get.
The victim in an interview stated he was
rather pushed by an unknown person and blamed the organizers for the injury,
since he believes the injury could have been prevented if the swimming pool had
enough water. He has since been treated and discharged.
Below are photos of the victim and the
accident scene:
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| Victims Blood spotted in the swimming pool |
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| State of the wound after it was sutured by nurses |
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| Nurses attending to Victim at the hospital |
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