THE CLOCK STOPS at twelve tonight.
When the world ushers in another year, krosfyah will be standing still. Standing still on 21.
The popular band will be throwing its 4ever21 Old Year’s Night party tonight, marking 21 years of making music. The band’s manager Michael Agard told WE Magazine about the big bash, which he promises will rock and transform the Party Stand.
When asked how and why the name was chosen for the concert, which krosfyah will be presenting with PowerX4, Agard simply stated that the band that had delivered a number of popular and successful hits was “now ready to grow and party”.
“At 21 years you are now ready to do a lot of things because you are now ready to enjoy life. Some people feel that at 21 you can leave home, you can drink as you please, you can party how and when you feel like. But we are telling those young people out there that even though you are now ready to party, do it in a careful and positive way,” he said.
Though the band has held its annual Old Year’s Night concert at the Party Stand for the past three years, with last year having the largest turnout, this year will be one with a big difference.
“We wanted to do something different but still keep something from the past two years. This year we decided to give away a brand new car worth $50 000. But we are still keeping our balloon drop where people can win prizes.
“We are also going to be extending to accommodate the large number of people we are expecting, and we are also decorating it . . . . We are looking to transform the Party Stand. I want to invite everybody out to come and have a good time,” Agard said.
Now a seven-member band, krosfyah has sung its way through ups and down, resignations and additions. But according to Agard, “we have survived them all while continuing to press on and looking up”.
“We started out as a five-member band on stage. We still have four of those members but the band has still continued to keep pressing on. What we have is a beautiful relationship, where even though we have our differences we are still together.
“David [Burnett] left and Phil [Phillips] left but the band is still here. Phil did his part; he took us from the hotel stages to the club stages and into a touring band. When Phil left ten years ago we decided to keep pressing on and that made us a tighter unit. But he felt that there was a need for him to resign and that was history.”
The manager said that the band, which has always looked for different markets to tour, has given a taste of its soca music to the countries in the Caribbean, North America and South America.
He revealed that the band, which intends to be 4ever21, was currently working with officials in Africa, Las Vegas and Dubai to get the opportunity to give the people in those countries a bit of what 21-year-old krosfyah is made of.
