Clarendon got the Fireman at full blaze last night, and the footage that landed this morning says the energy has not dropped one level in nearly four decades.
Capleton headlined Appleton Estate Live Wire at The Wharf Estate in Clarendon on Saturday, October 31, the first Clarendon staging of the series, according to World Music Views. Deep Jahi and Jamarii also performed live, and Capleton worked the stage with a full live band behind him, according to the event reporting and the footage posted this morning.
In the clip Capleton reposted on his own Instagram page this morning, he is in a light blue two-piece and matching headwrap, at the very front of the stage, inches from a packed crowd with every phone in the air. His caption kept it simple: the Fireman is in full effect at Appleton Estate Live Wire, according to his own post.
He set his terms before the show
The Clarendon set carried a talk point before a single song played. In his announcement post for the booking, Capleton added a disclaimer in plain words: he is not endorsing and not promoting any alcohol, and the booking is a performance only, according to DancehallMag.
The show was staged with Appleton Estate, and the Fireman still drew his line in public, on his own page, before he touched the mic. Fans noticed, and the disclaimer travelled with the announcement all week.
Photo credit: Capleton at the front of the stage in Clarendon, frame from his own Instagram post.
A streaming king who still works the stage
The homecoming landed at the top of a remarkable week. Capleton’s album Heights Of Fire has passed 35 million streams on Spotify, reported by World Music Views as the highest streaming reggae album by a Jamaican artist released this year, a milestone Nation reported on Saturday.
Days earlier, he closed a 20 year gap by returning to the stage at the World Creole Music Festival in Dominica, according to DancehallMag. Heights Of Fire is his first studio album in 16 years, according to Kaboom Magazine.
That is the whole career in one weekend: the catalogue streams at a level most new artists never reach, and at 59 the Fireman still takes a full band into his home parish and performs like the room has to earn him.
Photo credit: Capleton at Live Wire, frames from his own Instagram post.
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