What a burning show!
Last Saturday, Burning Spear unleashed a musical storm that left us breathless and in a musical daze. Now that the smoke has settled, the equipment is packed away and memories are beginning to fade, here’s my take on that unforgettable spectacle. The organisers were clearly playing musical chairs with their audience demographics. Lawi is a musical maestro, but he was performing for a crowd that looked like they just emerged from a smoke-filled haze. Seriously, his music deserves a better setting than a stoner’s paradise! There’s a time and place for his tunes, and it’s definitely not in a cloud of smoke! Then we had Sangie, a musical gem, yet her audience was a bunch of time-travelling ancestors from the 1970s, with a few 60s and 80s kids thrown in for good measure. The 90s and 2000s kids? They were either babysitting their ancestors or trying to sell you some questionable ‘herbal’ products or wandering around, searching for easy targets to lift phones and wallets from! To these bunch
