Did you read the news story about the CBC and Nation media personnel being roughed up by the police at our Queen Elizabeth hospital? Read it now!

See how CBC camera man Jimmy Gittens was imprisoned and charged for committing the heinous crime of attempting to report on a bus accident? When you see this kind of aggressive police action being taken against press freedom we need to sit up and pay attention! Both as entertainers and as members of the public.

Outside of the press the next entities who “report” on issues are entertainers, specifically Calypsonians. RPB, Classic and Romeo all give commentary “reports” on things which happen in society. How long will it be before the same type of aggressive action is also utilized against the entertainers who are the mouthpiece of the people?

MADD has had various encounters involving the police through out the years,such confrontations are characteristics of a police state and not the democracy we are supposed to be. When you see reporters being dragged away for something as mundane as attempting to report an accident, we need to sit up!

“All that is needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing” (women also included)

To end here is a famous quote which I have modified;

1st they came for the Jews, I did not speak up because I was not a Jew

Then they came for the Christians, I did not unpick my teeth as I was not a Christian

Then they came for the gays, that didn’t bother me as “I like women badd”

Next they came for me, by that time there was nobody left to speak up….

Support 100% Bajan Movies ….

Doesn’t it make you proud to be a bajan when you look in the newspaper and see not one but two local films showing in our Olympus cinemas?

Kite Flyer and Hit for Six, even the names of the movies sound Bajan. Movies starring Bajans made for Bajans, so as Bajans we need to go out and support.

I saw the poster for Kite Flyer displayed in the Olympus, it looked tight*. It looked like a movie I would want to see regardless. I am not really a cricket fan, but I will see “Hit for Six” too, I hear the production values are high.

About the “Six” poster (above) look closely at Andrew Pilgrim and that guy, it looks like they are going to kiss, it looks very Broke Back Mountainy. I recommend they change the poster before they release in Jamaica.

See you at the bajan movies now showing at an Olympus cinema near you.

Also big ups to Olympus owner Phil Hardin for giving our local films the chance to be featured in his cinemas along with Spiderman 3.
* Good

His license plate is E 69 and he hails from the parish of St. Eater.

Talking about Timmy and his big release for Crop Over 2007 which is now burning up the airwaves entitled, De Sauce! (more…)

“This is Bare Exclusive Bull Again Then!”

The voice of popular Madd character Archiebull Cox who is up in arms over an exclusivity clause in NCF Producer Performer Contract for 2007. The clause in question which says that competitors cannot supply services of the same or similar nature while in NCF competitions has Archiebull hopping Madd!

After I perform for NCF I usually have to go down Bush Hill and by de libary and turn a few tricks to get money to pay my back ups and dancers, cause de performance fees are not enough! This exclusivity clause stops me from doing this.

On one hand them say they can’t increase calypsonians money and then gun turn round and want yuh exclusive” wuh I want exclusive money too! “Isn’t this exclusivity restriction of trade? I will call the Fair Picking & Trading Commission” and lodge a complaint, I need to pick fares, how else will I get home after shows!

Efforts to reach NCF CEO proved fruitless as he was unavailabull!

Check the title “testing testing testing 1, 3, 1,3″ you should be asking what happened to the number 2?

There is a funny story behind that, and when I say funny I mean homophobic funny.

When I was in Jamaica recently our group was touring in 3 buses, I noticed the buses were numbered 1, 3, 4 skipping the number 2. So while talking to the Jamaican bus driver,I asked what happened to the number 2 bus and here’s what he said.

Appearently Jamaicans have developed an extreme aversion to the number 2. We know that “number 2″ in the Caribbean is some times used to refer to what someone does when they go to the bathroom. So because Number 2 is associated with something which comes from the behind.

In Jamaica Number 2 has been therefore designated as a “botty boy” number. So the driver said if a number 2 bus turns up people ask “whey you gine wid that botty bus?” And then people started stoning the buses and so they had to take the 2’s off the buses.

Because of the aversion to the number 2, when sound men are testing the microphone in Jamaica they now say testing testing 1, 3,1,3!

And where did this flawed concept originate?

Music!

Appearently this perception of the number 2 was birthed in certain song lyrics. This speaks to the power of music and power and influence of entertainers. It also speaks to the extreme homophobic nature of Jamaicans.

If I was Elton John, I wouldn’t quite start planning my Jamaica tour just yet!

Testing testing 1,3 out!

In the blog post entitled Ask Not What Culture Can Do for You I alluded to the fact that the NCF instead of seeing what needs to be done for culture spends its time pleasing itself.  The NCF therefore can be said to engage in a form of “cultural masturbation”!

The result of their self pleasuring activities can be blantantly seen in the performer producer contract which is currently being issued by them.  Like the self pleasing exclusivity clause where the artist is now restricted from performing at another event the same time of Calvacades.

This clause also impacts negatively on any event that competes against Calvacades as the artistes would be prevented from going to Tim’s or the same tents that are NCF registered.

The contract says you must ask NCF for permission to perform some place else, you could imagine you spend thousands of dollars producing a song and for a stinking $300 you have to ask for permission to do your own song some place else? You would have to be a c____*

The contract also contains c____ * like you must sign over all the rights in your song to them.

Oh, and the clause that says you can’t talk publicly about the contract or what they do with your song. That’s usually what an abuser tells a victim “don’t tell any one what I did to you”

We must congratulate the NCF in their efforts to please them selves, they have got to be the best cultural masturbators ever.  You know they say, that makes you blind. I guess that’s why they wear glasses!

*Clown
*crap

I apologise for using the word stinking, I wanted to use another word but Darron would’nt let me.

I get curse this weekend!  And real bad too.

This man walk up to me and start busing like there was no Crop Over.  At first I was vexed until he pointed out that he had read my blog post To Curse or Not to Curse and he was following  my instructions.  So I told him continue.

His bone of contention was my blog I Like Women Badd.

He said that it was men like me who was stopping the black man from progressing resulting in the general decline of morale of society symbolized by men no longer being seen as effective role models.

And how was I doing this?

He said I went to the Caribbean Comedy show on Mothers Day, saw hilarious performances by Fudd Straker Jamaican Bobby Smith (star of Royal Palm Estate) Learie Joseph, Louise Antoine, Damian Melville and eating expert MC Alf.

Did I not mention any of the outstanding performances of the men, NO! All I could talk bout is how I like women Badd. “You should be shame” he said “You are like a clown and should be working at the NCF!”  Now that is where I drew the line, to curse me is one thing but to tell me I should be at the NCF that is where I draw the line.

So for the record and to prevent future cursings…

MC Alf was in fine eating form, the women were just lapping up his jokes, it was the best MCing from Alf I had ever seen.  Television star Bobby Smith proved that not only could he act but that he is also a top class comedian.  Ok I admit almost all the male comedians were good, but I still like women Badd!  

The good news is that the show is being repeated on fathers day 17th June as a fund raiserfor Trevor Eastmond so you can still get a chance to catch it and judge for yourself.  It will be a show of BRAND NEW JOKES!

I thanked the guy sincerely for cursing me and putting me in my place, some times you have to do that!

What is the boyce boy doing in Jamaica? I will expand on my reason for visiting here later but right now I will tell you this.

While in Jamaica I am keeping a low profile as you know how Jamaicans are. They can be “funny” when it comes to certain “funny” issues in a violent aggressive kind of way. (funny here meaning gay)

Some people also cannot decipher between fact and fantasy!

Next thing you know, I would be walking through Spanish Town, somebody will recognise me as Madd from Barbados that group that got in “dat botty boy” archiebull cox. Of course I would vigorously deny it and claim I would never be associated with such a group. Somebody would say “nah de boy does be pun de radia talking funny” next thing yuh know I dead! (that would raise some peoples hopes there) you could imagine a man could get dead so easy for playing a role. That is like meeting actor Tobey Maguire and throwing him off a building and expecting he would shoot web and swing himself down!

An Entertainer can find himself in danger if his professional persona gives a perception which in no way represents his true self. People also should not be so quick to act on perceptions as happens here in Jamaica where attacks on supposed “gays” occur regularly. It dawns on you as you walk around here, that that could easily happen to you.

So while I am here I talk with extra bass in my voice, drink beer and if any one recognises me I walk pass them like I have never seen them before.

By the time people read this I should have flown out of their air space and on my way back to Barbados! More on Jamaica later, Irie mon!

BARE BULL FROM NCF

“This is Bare Bull Then!”

The voice of popular Madd character, Archiebull Cox who is up in arms over the wording of draft NCF Producer Performer Contract for 2007.

Cox finds the wording of the NCF contract which refers to HE/SHE/IT to be discriminating. Cox who has been competing in Bacchanal Time for the past 12 years said “It is obvious NCF is referring to me as a “IT” and I find it very offensive”

I read the Boyce voice blog article “To Curse or not to Curse” and this is a time to curse!
I will go down NCF West Terrace and buse de Ceo, de Chairman and de Minister of Culture.
“I am not an ‘IT’! I am a real woman! And I got the receipt from the operation to prove it!”

Tyson the Dog

Hi, this is Tyson the Dog from Fairfield Tudor Bridge, St Michael. Right now he is the happiest doggie in the whole wide world!

He has just discovered that there is now a clause in the draft of the 2007 NCF performer producer contract which allows dogs to sign up and participate in Crop Over 2007.

For real; there are several clauses in the NCF drafts which make reference to HE/SHE/IT.
As Tyson sees it, the IT mentioned opens the opportunity to do what it has always wanted to do, Crop Over!

For years “IT” has been disturbed that Ricky “lil Rick” Reid has been masquerading as a Dog and making all the doggone it money. But now that the NCF is making it possible for a REAL dog to participate in Crop Over, this Dog will have its day!

Tyson said he always thought the NCF talked Dog and he loved to hear them, “if you look at other proposed clauses in the same contract they are bare dog then”.

HE/SHE/ or IT Tyson has already taken the contract to his ….. sorry! to IT’S lawyer who has advised it that yes it (the dog) can indeed sign up or paw up and do Crop Over stuff.

“They talking bout politicians biting this year, well I gun show wunnah real BITING! Tyson snarled, “I gun be biting IT and eating IT up in 2007”. Watch for “IT” in Bacchanal Time!

For Bookings Call Santia! Tell her you want to book “IT”

Moral of the story; You can’t keep a good doggie down!

HE/SHE/ or IT; the question is WHO ARE IT?

*Closing Note: Tyson the dog was last seen in the Eric Lewis studio recording it’s tune “The Hot Doggie”