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Saturday again had drummers and dancers performing earlier that night, besides beach parties and tasty Jamaican food, to enjoy the examount of visitors of the International Night.
Following the motto „British Invasion“ Steel Pulse out of Birmingham were the first to enter the big stage at 11:45pm.
“Skin flesh bones and dreadlocks” only stopped “to start again my friend”, ‚cause the knew “what unites the people”: great tunes such as “Pan Africa unite” or “Handsworth Revolution”.
After a short performance of the group Isis in the amphitheatre, Damian Marley was next to continue the big show on the main stage.
The set he had already performed on his recent tour through Europe was full of hits like „Beautiful“, „Justice“ and „Welcome to Jamrock“ and left the audience full of enthusiasm even touching a happy smiling Marley son.
Returning from a short performance on the amphitheatre stage again it was time for the big sensation of the festival: for the very first time ever the British legends of UB40 performed in Jamaica and their 75-miunute performance of classics like „Red red wine“ left a convinced audience happyly yelling „bullet bullet bullet“.
Topped by another colourful fireworks in the sky above St. Ann the exclusive premiere was perfect.
At 4:45am the massive again went for a walk on the other side of the Richmond Estate to the amphitheatre to support Kipsick aka Kiprich styled in his uniform.
With his inviting „Full up“ the young Singjay created a good vibe and the personal performance for a fan in the middle of the audience was finally top a top.
Back on the main stage the invasion went on with another British artist, who had returned to his Jamaican roots just like the festival itself.
Maxi Priest was so entertaining, that even the security guards had to dance and nobody could miss singing along the cover version of Cat Steven’s classic „Wild World“ in combination with Red Fox after a great 50 minutes show.
Not wasting any time rebelutionary Tanya Stephens was next to perform and kept the fans dancing and singing along her old and new hits.
The sun was rising and the atmosphere amazing already, when a rainbow showed up right at the same time with Luciano at 6:45am.
Starting with „Give Praise“ Jepther McClymont had carried some surprises:
Three young kids danced acrobaticly, Andrew Tosh paid respect to his father and Luci himself sang for the still imprisoned Jah Cure „True Reflections“.
Shinehead was supposted to perform next in the amphitheatre, but as he seemed to not find the right stage, the last band change was without musical entertainment.
At least the food stalls were lucky now, serving breakfast already.
8am started the final spurt, when an energetic Buju Banton entered the stage to present a great full hour set with conscious classics such as „Destiny“ or „Hills and valleys“ and dancehall bombs like „Bongo Cart“ or „Talk to me“.
But even this amazing performance felt like nothing compared to the following 45 minutes, that convinced the last player hater that there is only one King of the Dancehall.
Only the first line of each tune was enough to turn the audience into a huge choir singing any of Beenie Man’s big tunes while dancing the right moves to it.
Once again torches and rags filled any centimeter of the air, while hits like “Dancehall Queen”, “Dude”, “Come again” and “Miss LAP” sounded off the PA.
Although International Night still continued with Shinehead on the smaller stage, the majority of visitors left the venue exhausted from Beenie’s breath-taking show at 9:30am... when another great night of the legendary Reggae Sunsplash closed down.
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