#DJSTYCHLive || #Must Read || Review || GDJ Awards{@ghanadjawards} 2016 In Retrospect; A Total Disappointment
The 2016 Ghana DJ Awards took place at the Accra Conference Center on Friday the March 18, with DJs being awarded for their good works.
An in-depth review of the recent Ghana DJs Awards shows that even though the planning of the event seemed well coordinated, the lapses outnumbered the positives.
The event which was billed to start exactly 8pm delayed as music lovers, Award Presenters and DJs waited three (3) hours before the start of the show at 11:10pm.
This has become a norm for most event organizers as they always claim the ‘Red Carpet’ session are reasons why events are not started at stipulated time. They claim celebrities and fans spend a lot of time on the red carpet taking ‘selfies’ and exclusive pictures with their fans whilst others engaged in long hours of interview.
STAGE DESIGN/DECORATION
The Ghana DJs Stage design was on point, the lighting system with the decorations on stage was well done. Another striking issue that crossed the minds of the audience was the failed video show on the nominees mention. It was so bad as it made most of the award presenters almost stranded.
During the DJ Song of the Year category, VVIP’s name was interchange with Atom’s picture.
The Gospel DJ Award winner left the stage without his plaque.
SECURITY CHECK
The organizers were good at the security point as the personnel used all means to ensure sanity prevailed.
TICKETING
Ticketing was a problem, since some DJs spoken to revealed that they were not given their complimentary tickets to the event. According to one of the organizers, a day to the Awards event they discovered that the tickets had been duplicated and pirated by an unknown persons so they had to redraw all the earlier tickets and re-print new ones on the eve of the event.
This made turnout at the Accra International Conference Centre low. The upper gallery was empty.
MCING
Kwame Sakyiamah aka Lexis Bill saved the event on the night with his well controlled delivering and good timing. His costume was good for the event.
MzGee made no impact because she was not flowing with the audience, her confidence on her first appearance on stage was down. Her black costume didn’t draw attention from the audience since it was a normal outfit. MzGee’s stay on stage didn’t count.
PERFORMANCES BY DJS
Dj Wabs did averagely well with his mixes but as the main starter DJ, he should have done extremely well to wow the audience.
DJ Cue had a good day with his style and his scratches were amazing.
DJ Vyrusky of Starr FM had good mixes. Though he started on a slow note he was able to turn the audience.
PERFORMANCES BY ARTISTES/COMEDIAN
At the start of the show the audience were bored because they were left waiting for too long a time, however Baba Spirit sparked excitement into them with his delivery of spectacular jokes.
Female rapper, Eno could have done better with her rap flow and the movement of her body. Eventually her stage craft was lacking but had good rap lines.
Don Itchy’s act was better as he utilized the stage.
Dancehall Act Chameleon did a normal performance with ‘bad’ stage act. The lady and the guy he brought on stage lost focus on what they were supposed to do to make his (Chameleon) performance more exciting.
A moment when most of the fans were animated was when Kwaw Kese’s name was mentioned. With his prowess and energy the ‘Abodam’ hit singer turned the whole auditorium into a ‘Psychiatric’ place with lots of excitement. Kwaw Kese was the man of the night as he also saved the show.
Female Dancehall artiste, MzVee needed lots of energy to wow the fans but averagely she did well with her stage act and nice costume. She was heard miming in most of the songs she sung however others may find fault with the microphone she used.
Other performances include Akpaaste Apaa who had a good control on stage and good stage act with his soldier regalia.
Ras Kuuku had a lot of energy but only jumps to and fro the stage without the words in his reggae songs being heared.
The duo, Galaxy Boys also did averagely well, their traditional wear was lovely.
MAIN AWARDS
Touching on the awards, with all respect to all the awardees, most of them didn’t deserve the awards. The definition of who is a DJ and a presenter have been redefined by Ghana DJ Awards organiser, because it is clearly stated that a DJ chooses some or all of his own music and a Radio Presenter only plays what they are told to play.
Again a DJ is creative and spontaneous whilst a radio presenter is methodical and well planned.
A DJ has his own unique personality whilst a radio presenter adapts to the radio stations identity.
The underlisted people awarded on the eve of the event do not deserve that honour if GDJ is honestly defining DJ as stated in the dictionary.
- Gospel DJ of the Year – Agyemang
- Reggae/Dancehall DJ of the Year – King Lagaaze
Ghana DJs Awards can improve when all flaws are rectified for the next edition.
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