Gentleman, Tamika, Treesha, Pow Pow and Msoke in Bremen

Gentleman and Pow Pow were in Bremen on April 26 and I had the pleasure of documenting the event which was held at Speicher 2 - Eventloft, a fairly new venue by the river Weser decorated with palm trees and illuminated by video-animations generated by two Bremen entrepreneurs Jorge Armando & Michael Suding (Miquele). The show was opened by the locals King Ralph, who was one of the organisers, with the help of Deejay Laye and then Roots Ashanti.

Pow Pow's Ingo and Junior Carl really brought the massive to the boil in preparation for the very talented Kenian singer Treesha and of course the wonderful Tamika who received a lot of love from the massive - and rightly so. Tamika had brought the young Tanzanian artist Msoke Minha with her whom she had had a show with in Hamburg prior to the evening in Bremen. He was full of energy and very good at rhyming freestyle.

When Gentleman finally came on he was in top form and frequently jumped off the stage to interact with the audience. He was joking around and hugging Tamika - what a lovely moment! - and even shared out a crate of Beck's beers which are made in Bremen to cool down the massive who were jumping and reaching out to Gentleman at any opportunity they had!

Alltogether, it was a real nice and chilled vibe down to the moments the artists took to pose for Help Jamaica and also a charity festival called "Feeling Fine" in aid of a charity for children in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia which Gentleman, Tamika alongside Silly Walks happened to have visited earlier this year. Last but not least big thanks to Kalin of Back To The Roots for everything!

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Chronixx and Gentleman in Hamburg

Chronixx was ending his European tour in Hamburg at the ReggaeVille Easter Special and graced the stage after Kelissa and Dre Island opened for him.

Kelissa

Dre Island

Chronixx

Then Gentleman took the stage and rocked the concert hall for an extended show
backed by the wonderful Tamika and Treesha.

Please read the review written by Gardy for ReggaeVille which will give you more facts and insights here. Last but not least, I met Torch who was kind enough to pose for Help Jamaica for me. Here is an article from IrieItes about Torch in Hamburg.

Spring @ Lehester Deich • Bremen

Dancehall CoNNect Shellingz 2014 'Spring Edition'

The Dancehall CoNNect Spring Edition went down on April 5, 2014 @ Club Moments. For certain reasons I arrived late and couldn't stay too long but I enjoyed the brief time there and met some lovely people. The vibe was very good as King Ralph was playing the latest in Reggae and Dancehall and I got to dance with my camera a little bit too! :-)

King Ralph

Deejay Laye

Rugby at Bremen 1860

I had my first experience of rugby on March 29 at Bremen 1860 when the DRV Cup game Bremen 1860 versus RU Hohen Neuendorf took place. You can view the event here on facebook. I was invited to come by my friend an colleague Samy and some other colleagues were also present to whitness 1860's 16 : 20 defeat against the visitors. As far as I know 1860 is now in 6th place and it will depend on how the other teams play where 1860 will be placed at the end of the season.

I must admit that I had no idea about the rules so I looked them up prior to the game, in order to be able to anticipate a little bit of what the object was here. I did my best with my equipment to capture some moves but in the end I thought it best to stick to capturing the goings-on on the sidelines. The game is as fierce as I thought it was and there were quite a few injuries and even Samy had to go to hospital on the night because of some injury that was not visible to me after the game.

I really liked the "round-up" after the game where the teams spent a while to discuss their moves and other details not related to the game - as far as I could make out. Altogether, it was a real nice spring day! The sun was shining so strongly, it felt like summer!

Update: Here are some great photos from my friend shot with a longer lens. :-)

Unrated

On March 14, 2014 I was invited to UNRATED by Exquisite Visite. I had not been to the venue for a while and I must say, I really liked the lights and vibes in the place called Level II. My friend, Queen Easy from Hamburg could not be there as announced in the flyer but it was a nice night same way. Hopefully, Queen Easy will be there another time.

Reggae Nights #124

This Reggae Night was going down at Magazingkeller with Roots Ashanti as host to the "Sound Conference 2014" on March 1, 2014. As in the previous year the Conference Members were SWS (Sound with Soul) from Berlin and Hakuna Matataa from Saxony. We all enjoyed it, same as last year and here are the photos to prove it - also starring the fog from Ben's fog machine! lol :-)

Hakuna Matataa

SWS (Sound with Soul)