It's Friday -- it must be fantastic

Thu, Jun 25th 2015, 11:45 PM

It's the last Friday in the month -- which means all roads lead to one place, the British Colonial Hilton Hotel's Bullion Bar for the happy hour and social event known as Fantastic Fridays. The Bullion Bar is the place to see and be seen on the social calendar. It's the wind-down social event of the month at which top band Visage rocks the house and is sponsored by Star 106.5 FM.

Star Program Director Tony Williams promises a Fantastic Friday event and says that for lack of a better word, this evening will simply be "fantastic".

"It's going to be a party, and all you have to do is show up" said Williams. "Visage will of course be doing their stuff with their Bahamian Soca songs and the music that they are known for."

At Fantastic Fridays you can dance to your favorite old-school Soca tunes and some of the most popular Bahamian hits while you release the work tensions from the past month. The doors to Fantastic Friday opens as you clock out at work -- at 5 p.m. A $20 admission includes a drink. After more than a year of the most Fantastic Fridays people have had, event principals say they are still pleasantly surprised at the crowd that flocks to Fantastic Friday, and are floored every time as the patronage continues to increase, forcing them to throw open the doors from Bullion to the hotel's outside lawn, for the overflow.

"It's really become a wonderful event," said Visage leader Obi Pindling.

Fantastic Fridays was actually the brainchild of Pindling who had approached the hotel principals with the idea in December 2012 after they had played the Hilton's corporate Christmas event. Pindling said they received many compliments and comments from the people that attended about playing on a regular basis in the venue. He approached the Hilton with the idea of the happy hour event, an idea they liked, but at that time the ducks did not line up all in a row. Visage played the Hilton's corporate Christmas event again at the end of 2013 and after the same response from patrons Pindling pitched his idea again. That time the stars lined up.

They discussed it throughout January 2014, Pindling contacted Star 106.5 FM programming director Tony Williams to see if the radio station would be interested in joining in on the event that would fill that entertainment void for "grown folks" who were looking for a nice, cozy, comfortable, classy venue so that they could go to have after-work drinks on a Friday and dance to good music -- old school rake n' scrape, and old school Soca -- and just have a good time. Williams loved the idea and Star 106.5 FM was on board.

Pindling has described the happy hour social event as the greatest five hours every month in local entertainment.

Admission into Fantastic Fridays is $20 and includes one free drink. Free parking is included with proof of a one-drink purchase.

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