Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

Lad/es and gentlemen...

Miss Grace Jones.

"Slave to the Rhythm" by Grace Jones

AUDIENCE CHEERS

I'm just playing around.

# Baby

# Work all day as men who know

# The wheels must turn to keep the flow

# You build on up, don't break a chain

# Sparks will fly when the whistle blows

# Never stop the action

# You better keep it up, keep it up

# I said never stop the action

# You better keep it up, keep it up

# Work to the rhythm

# Love to the rhythm

# We live to the rhythm

# Slaves to the rhythm

# Axe to wood

# In ancient times

# Man machines

# Power line

# Fire burns

# Hearts beat strong

# Sing out loud, the chain gang song

# Never stop the action

# You better keep it up, keep it up

# Work to the rhythm

# We love to the rhythm

# We dance to the rhythm

# Slaves to the rhythm

# Carry on

# Slaves to the rhythm

AUDIENCE CHEERS

The album is unbelievable, Grace. Thank you, darling.

I've waited 25 years to see you.

Oh, my God! I'm waiting 30 years.

Now one each, you know that's enough. I'm so sorry.

It's alright. We love you, Grace.

Give me your favourite one. - You're worth waiting for.

Cos my mother's waiting for me, OK?

FANS LAUGH

No, I mean it. - I know, I know, I know.

We love Grace Jones!

We love Grace Jones!

We love you, Grace!

Grace. Over here, Grace.

God, it's been such a long wait.

Don't push. Coming.

Would you do another movie?

My own. Yeah!

GRACE HUMS

# Hats for Jamaica #

Do we have everything now? Count, count.

I've got everything.

So how is everything in Jamaica? - Cool. I'll leave that up to you.

Nothing dramatic happening?

BOTH LAUGH

Oh, my God. Hi, Mom. - You remember Paul?

I know Paul well.

Hi. - Thank you.

Hi, Paul. Oh, my God. Good to see you.

You recognise Paulo? Hi, sweetheart.

ALL LAUGH

I can see you looking but she doesn't recognise him.

And his daughter Paula. Hi. Finally.

Finally!

I didn't even peek.

Well, peek. Peek now?

Yes. We gonna peek now?

He didn't have any banana colours.

The colour won't go with my banana dress.

What colour's your hat? Everybody looking now?

He said it was beautiful.

I'm sure it's beautiful. Oh, man!

Almost a banana.

Oh!

Oh!

Mommy! That is... That is...

Dressed for Sunday? - I'll wear my purple dress Sunday.

MAN LAUGHS - Oooh.

This is fabulous. That's wicked!

Oh, wow, look at that behind.

Can you stop when you get the view there? Of the water, there's a...

When you go around the corner.

Is that all sea there I think I'm seeing?

Yes, yes.

It's crazy because it doesn't...

See that strip in between? Uh-huh.

Near the water, that's where we've come from, the airport.

That's the airport down there? Get out.

DRIVER SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY Right.

That is just absolutely breath-taking.

Over there, right there, see those light greens?

Uh-huh. That's out by the wharf.

CICADAS CHIRRUP

Hello!

AUDIENCE CHEERS

Mmm-hmm. Alright.

Well, you know, I'm gonna give you...

a Jamaica trip.

CHEERS

You know, I have a lot to talk about Jamaica.

Give you a little history.

My mother was the Williams and my father was the Jones.

When I grew up there

in the little old Spanish Town

it was a whole other world.

The Supreme Court has ordered

that the financially strapped Dial insurance company be wound up.

The order was handed down today by High Court judge

Mr Justice Pa trick Brooke's

following an application by the Financial Services Commission.

The FSC took over control of the collapsed insurance company

after it was unable to service the claims of its clients

in the Cayman Islands following the passage of Hurricane Ivan

which devastated this island last year.

WATER RUNS - Following Hurricane Ivan...

NEWS REPORT CONTINUES

PAN SIZZLES

GRACE". If you have any make-up on, you can't get through the gate.

If you've got your toes showing, you can't get in the gate.

If you got the heels showing, you can't get in the gate.

So what the fuck was I doing inside?

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

DOG BARKS

Anything welded in here, Mas P did it.

Mas P had a garden that was, I mean, when I say perfection...

Yes.

Obsessive lines, everything completely...

Look how the grass has come up since the rain.

Oh, what happened? They had a hurricane?

Did the hurricane kill it?

That's Pam's daughter.

Yes, I could see Grace when she look like a mutton; 80 or 90, boy.

She's going to be a tyrant. HE LAUGHS

And this is my son.

She's going to be acting like a 25-year-old.

But, Dad, everybody, I noticed, in the Jones family

they act younger as they get older. Have you noticed?

You know what we said yesterday? We said Miss Dorothy makes the best fish.

I like the heads so I'm gonna take the heads.

You got it. You rule. Mmm-hm.

How come you married and Daddy wasn't saved yet? That's what I was talking...

Oh, no. - We need to get the history right.

Yeah, your dad, he spent four years in America, got saved

and the brothers told him that Bishop Walters

have a daughter in the house that nobody can go in there and get.

Oh, Lord have mercy!

ALL LAUGH

Challenged Dad!

He... He made up in his mind he was going to do that!

The contender. Wow.

That's a Jones! That's a Jones! That's a Jones!

In those days, 17-year-olds don't get married.

But she had faith.

But I didn't even like the Joneses.

I didn't feel like I wanted to be bothered with Mr Pat.

Right.

You know, cos he was so boastful and he thought the Jones family was it.

Yes. - You know, nobody else was good...

Good enough. - Yeah.

Grand P never thought that any of the women that his boys married to

were worthy of his boys. - Right.

Not every one! - Yup.

He gave a problem to Dora, to Lelieth, to me.

Aunt Phillis never married because he ran

chased off her husbands, her would-be husband.

And he was from another prominent family in Spanish Town

they was a good family.

The problem now was, the Williamses

with their record of having this big, big, big family,

you know what I mean? Outside children.

My father said, ah, you know, he was kinda...

CHRIS LAUGHS

He was kind of rough.

Really? - Oh, yeah.

He talk about the Williamses were known for having illegitimate...

They don't fly far from the block.

They had a lot of illegitimate...

Pappy Williams did. Uncle Luther too.

Everybody called him Pappy. He boasted 60 children.

Right. Oh, my God!

He was like a bunny rabbit.

No, he was a record breaker in Spanish Town

because there's another man... Morgan.

Morgan. He had around 30 or 40.

The Williams side is very creative

but then Mr Pat has always told his children

'A Jones never come second. They always come first.'

AUDIENCE CHEERS

"Williams' Blood" by Grace Jones

# When she was seventeen

# She married a preacher man

# And she settled down

# In a little part of town

# Followed him all around

# Having little babies

# Singing in a little church

# In a little ghost town