SHHH All-inclusive
Last night we attended SHHH all-inclusive in Sound Forge. This is the first time this party was being held in Trinidad but apparently it is popular in foreign. I'm still trying to figure out if the party is "Shhh" as in finger over lips or "shush" as in "hush yuh mouth" because nobody does shush me.
Parking was a breeze given the time we arrived and the decor was minimal yet appropriate for the venue. Again there were two Moko Jumbies in silver outfits and one even came dangerously close to being "accidentally" tripped.
So the party was scheduled from 3pm but them same Trinis who always on time at their job in foreign, reach back here and reverted to their dutty late coming ways, arriving to the people fete after 6pm. In fact at 7pm I swear about 5 maxis pull up and dump a whole setta people from some kind of excursion.
I took the opportunity while the place was skanty to put some fuel in the tank before they arrived. The food section had a variety of options including three types of chow, creole food with a saltfish and dumpling that real lash (although I prefer to eat live saltfish 😜), Chinese food with both noodles and fried rice, Indian cuisine with what one Yankee-Trini called "boady", phoulourie and saheena, a whole geera station, chicken foot souse aka Strutters, doubles, cotton candy, popcorn, desserts and pasta.
When the patrons finally started to arrive if you see the outfits. There was one lady in a frilly dress with so much cloth I'm sure Jimmy aboud have no more fabric. I was like I ain't know it was a coronation we went to. Another chick show up to the people good good all-inclusive in a silver bikini like she in Stink and Dutty. However, the ever fashionable Sharon Rowley brought back the classiness. Miss Sharon is like a proper celebrity too eh with people asking for selfies with her and ting. One of her bodyguards look like the only thing he accustomed guarding is a pelau pot.
The drink options were pretty decent for a smaller fete. There was a main bar and a premium bar that both stocked Tanqueray and Bombay gins. There was a Puncheon and White Oak snow cone station, not sure why, and a cocktail station on entry.
For some reason the DJs only played groovy soca. I don't know if all they listen to overseas is slow soca or they couldn't handle the heat and didn't want to be jumping too much but imagine we spent 6 hours in the fete and not once we heard Carry It or Pardy or Road Meeting play. But the rest of the crowd couldn't care less. Them look like they could listen to Dollar Wine whole day as long as they not in the cold. Speaking of...I hate that Eskimo song....HATE IT.
Out of the corner of my eye I noticed the misses doing some weird dance like she was bitten by one of these freshwater zombies and infected with the dancing out of timing virus. Imagine my horror when I realized she was locked in an epic battle with a cockroach. Then this particular horror movie went from Chucky to Hellraiser when she told me it was a flying roach that landed on her chest. I'm certain people heard my screams above Full Blown performance.
Apart from Full Blown we were entertained by a number of performers including TRILLAG (pronounced Trilla-G), Blaka Dan and Ding Dong. There could have been more after but at that point we were 6 hours into this fete, belly full, tired from the cockroach MMA and wasn't in the mood to continue partying to Black Stalin and Sparrow soca.
Despite the differences in what we look for in a fete, the party had real vibes once you adjusted your expectations and know your Pokémon. Whenever you go to a dance targeted mainly at the visitor and Freshwater crew just know you'll be at least one year behind in the music....and you will hear their anthems Mr Killa's Party Bad (ah drunk arready) and Bunji's Jumbo Jet a bazillion times.
We scored them a decent "3.26/5 - Decent" on the TL Fete Ranking system which for a first attempt is commendable but SHHH definitely has the potential to establish itself down here. To be fair the rating would probably be higher if I were rating it from a visitor perspective.
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