Pyramid Entertainment wishes to announce that Mr. Dale, the “soca junkie”, has claimed the title of “Favourite Groove Soca of 2008″ in the International Soca Awards. The awards, which were held in the St. Kitts Marriot Event Center in Frigate Bay, St. Kitts on the 18th of October, were a celebration of the art form and those who partake in building the genre. 
Beyond having a song nominated for the “Favourite Groove Soca of 2008″ title, Mr. Dale was also nominated for “Over All Male Soca Artists of the Year” and “Soca Song of the Year” titles. Narrowly missing having these two under his belt as well, the artiste is currently basking in the accolades and congratulations this masterpiece of a soca song has earned him and the recognition paid by his peers and soca lovers around the world. 
See below for a list of the recipients of this years awards:
2008 International Soca Awards Results 
 
Best New Female Soca Artist: 
• Zoelah 
 
Male Soca Vocalist of the Year 
• Never Leave Ya by Kerwin Du Bois 
 
Female Soca Performer of the Year 
• Faye-Ann Lyons 
 
Male Soca Performer of the Year 
• Machel Montano 
 
Soca Song Writer of the Year 
• Kernel Roberts & Machel Montano – (Unconditional Love, Blazed D Trail, Make Love) 
 
Best Soca Collaboration Grove 
• Kerwin Du Bois & Shal Marshall – Gyal Farm 
 
(2008 International Soca Awards Results) 
 
Best Soca Collaboration up Tempo 
• Machel Montano & Mighty Sparrow – Congo Man 
 
Over All Female Soca Artist of the Year 
• Faye-Ann Lyons 
 
Over All Male Soca Artists of the Year 
• Machel Montano 
 
International Soca DJ of the year 
• DJ Spice 
 
Best Soca Compilation Rhythm 
• Leh go Riddim 
 
Soca Humor of the Year 
• Phone Card by Crazy 
 
Favorite Groove Soca – Female 
• Patrice Roberts 
 
Favorite Groove Soca – Male 
• Mr. Dale 
 
Favorite up Tempo Soca – Male 
• Pressure Boom by Ricky T 
 
Soca Artist Album/CD of the year 
• Flame On by Machel Montano 
 
Soca Song of the Year 
• Get On by Faye-Ann Lyons 
• Pressure Boom by Ricky T 
 
Favorite Soca Info Website 
• www.toronto-lime.com 
 
Over All Soca Band of the Year 
• Machel Montano HD 
 
Soca producer of the year 
• Kerwin Du Bois – (Breathless, 2 days, Gyal Farm) 
 
Best Soca Music Video 
• Desire by SKHI 
 
Best Soca Re-mix Collaboration 
• Ricky T. ft. Mr. Vegas – Pressure Boom (Remix) 
 
Soca Chutney Song of the Year 
• Bring It by Hunter 
 
Favorite Soca Online Radio 
• WWW.SOCA919.COM

Boyce Note; 

Congrats to all the winners above, I just have one question?? Who do I have to buse to get an award at one of these damn shows? This is like 2 years now Boyce Voice has been up its time I got a freaking award. Take a subtle hint somebody

Don’t I edify and entertain your asses? thats why you keep coming back, I went on Toronto Lime.com, I did not see any articles on “How to be a whore” nor “How to call a cat and make it come” they call that a website?

They did not curse any body even once!!

Its time that Boyce Voice gets an award, if you dont agree, LOG OFF NOW! Bye!   (Come back tomorrow though)

Jerry Lewis makes another anti-gay slur
Oct. 25, 2008, 8:24 AM EST
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Jerry Lewis made an anti-gay slur on Australian television similar to one he apologized for using on his annual telethon a year ago.

Caught this just now on MSN.com Jerry Lewis again dropping nasty remarks at gays, but not what this post is about lets us return to the remainder of the news release.

Following a news conference in Sydney Friday, Lewis, 82, was asked by a Network Ten national TV reporter for his opinion on the Australian nation sport of cricket.
“Oh, cricket? It’s a f– game. What are you, nuts?” Lewis replied.
The network broadcast the comment in full on its Friday evening news bulletin along with footage of Lewis handling an imaginary cricket bat with an effeminate gesture.

Now that’s where we need to draw the line Jerry, Dropping remarks at Gays is one thing but when you bring cricket into it that’s where we must draw the line…
Where is the connection between cricket and fags? I think they 82 year old Jerry is going off his rocker or maybe at 82 he needs to stay on his rocking chair and shut to ass up.
And wha is dat about handling a cricket bat with an effeminate gesture… Jerry should be aware that he is treading on a dangerous cricket ground, in the Caribbean it is more known that you must be a fag if you DON’T like cricket.
Allow Boyce to take some time pick Jerry Lewis and the Americans breadfruits which hang pretty damn low..
Is Jerry Lewis aware of the practice in his national game American foot ball of the male players slapping one another on their behinds when they score a touch down? That’s why they wear those tight ass sissy pants when they are playing.

Let’s not even speak on how they call the game foot ball but yet spend the whole time running around with the ball in their hands, and it’s not even a freaking ball it’s some oblong thing. Some body should inform Americans that balls are round.
Isn’t it in the same American football that all the male players jump down on one another in a pile supposedly over a ball, those players lose no opportunity to get in contact with one another in a most gay like manner?

Is Jerry aware that his United States of America has the most fag laws you have ever come across? They are now three states in the U.S where men can marry other men legally, I challenge Lewis to come down here and identify a cricket playing Caribbean territory where Ellen can marry her girlfriend.
Mr. Jerry Lewis I would advise you to stop up in Australia and make your stupid comments if you come down to the Caribbean talking yuh shite holding a bat effeminate to prove your point, next thing one of we beer drinking west Indian cricket fanatics hit yuh round yuh fagging head with the same freaking bat and out yuh lights, yuh *gun see.

Cricket is a Game of glorious uncertainties, one thing for certain, IT IS NOT A FAG GAME!

*Gun is used hear deliberately cause if he is in Jamaica he probably “Gun see” for truth
Some parts of this post were written deliberately in dialect so Americans reading it would not know what I mean but would skin their teeth anyway…

Remember watching Kung Fu in the Plaza?

Asiba you seem to have been quite a theatre (Cinema) pimp, who spent quite a bit time in the pit, when I first started going to the cinema that’s the only part of the cinema I went. For one pit admission was $2.50 which was the lowest ticket price.
As far as I was concerned, you saw the same movie as the people in the circle and the balcony.
Let me explain how cinemas were segregated up through out the 60’s and 80’s The pit was the area right in front of the screen then there was a barrier midway which separated and created the “circle”, the balcony speaks for it self.
I can’t tell you what the ticket prices of the circle and balcony was cause I never went there… I was always a cheap Ali Singh from school.
Of course if you had a date you could not take her in the pit, which would be dissing the girl, your friends would laugh at you, and her, and you could forget any baby making activities you might have in mind. Fortunately for me I never had a date back then, or unfortunately.
Some times I would pay for the pit and sneak into the circle when the attendant wasn’t looking. Girls seemed to frown on that too.
I spent most of my time in the Olympic cinema, which was close to the buses, and then I watched kung fu and spaghetti westerns in the Empire and Plaza.
Westerns like “The Good the Bad and the ugly” “Trinity is still my name” and “A Fistful of dollars”

Kung Fu Starring Silver Fox, Wang Yu and Sonny Chiba in “The Drunken Master” “Snake and Crane Arts of Shoalin and “The Big Boss”.

Remember people use to say how the Roxy had in chinks?
When ever any technical malfunction happened in any cinema in Barbados people would shout “Roxy”! ….
The Globe and Vista were considered up market cinemas at that time, that’s where you took a girl when you wanted to impress her..
And here endeth my Boyce Voice Bajan Cinema nostalgia for the day…..

Sarah Palin with producer on Saturday Night Live

I told you so and you thought I was clown, who’s the clown now?
On Boyce Voice back in January I wrote on the ability of local entertainers to influence politics and you laughed. You threw your head back and laughed like a facking idiot and said Boyce is such a clown then…..
Now you are laughing the other side of your face (the igrunt side) with reported news of the roles comedy and talk shows are playing in the presidential campaign now on in the United States of America.

A massive 69 million Americans tuned in to Saturday Night Live (SNL) to see comedienne Tina Frey meet the real McCain running mate Sarah Palin.
For months now Frey has been lampooning Palin on the hit show SNL so much so that people are now saying that when Palin speaks they see her as imitating Frey.
That means that comedienne Tina is now more seen as Palin than Palin her self…! You probably will have to pause and figure that one out.

Can you guess who is the real Sarah Pailin?

All the leading politicians Obama, McCain and of course  Pailin it is now a must that you appear on Letterman show or Ellen or SNL to let America see how human you are and how you can make people laugh. If you want to be the most powerful man in the world and make decisions on where to drop bombs and start wars, it helps if you can also tell a joke.

McCain made the mistake of standing up Letterman late night show some weeks ago and regretted it dearly.
Letterman took a turn in his ass cracking jokes on him; see where he is in the polls now?? Yuh idiot.
So much that McCain realized his mistake and hired a helicopter to make sure he got to Letterman’s show on time the second time around.
So in January when Boyce spoke of the Lil Rick factor playing a role in the changing of the government along with other entertainment factors and you thought I was an idiot, you should now see me for what I really am….. A visionary who once wearing his contact lens can see clearly.

click to read rick post here;  http://www.boycevoice.com/blog/2008/01/18/entertainment-and-politics-the-lil-rick-factor/
Note to America; you have got to be careful when you make decisions on who will be president based on how they well they make you laugh…. Look at George Bush for example…. Need I say more…..?

For your comedic edification I am posting the Tina Frey meets the Sarah Palin link, Click below

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdDqSvJ6aHc

This was quite a loquacious post, maybe I should run in politics too

Here’s a Press release sent to me by Boyce Voice reader CiCi about her new Jazz album recorded live at the Calgary Club… Expand your musical horizons and take a read…

Live at the Beat Niq captures a magical performance by CiCi and her quartet of masterful musicians at the famed Calgary jazz club.   The accomplished vocalist and her dexterous band captivated the audience with enthralling performances that run the gamut from the reggae-inspired “Summertime” to the breathtaking ballad “If.”

The venue’s intimate environment allowed the recorded songs to jump out at you like an old Ella Fitzgerald live record, but that didn’t stop the spellbound audience from pushing aside tables to clear space for impromptu dancing inspired by the rhythmic show.   Live at the Beat Niq is packed with marvelous, fresh takes on some of history’s most treasured songs.

CiCi – Live at the Beat Niq
1. The Lady Is A Tramp
2. Summertime
3. If
4. It’s All Right With Me
5. Route 66
6. All Of Me
7. Just In Time
8. Over The Rainbow
9. Teach Me Tonight

 

I saw this play when it came out last year and wrote about it on Boyce Voice, it was pretty damn entertaining!Bajans living in Canada should not miss out on this opportunity to experience our culture in fact everyone should see it regardless of where you are from..

It is very significant that Andy Armstrong and A and W Productions are exporting a Bajan entertainment product, usually when exports are spoken of it refers to Pepper Sauce and Sugar and tangible products, that now needs to be redefined. So when the Government is looking to put incentives in place to encourage exports, they must also remember the entertainment entrepreneurs who export the intangible cultural products.

By exporting to other territories also gives the play a longer revenue generation life, instead of depending on our small local theatre market “Going For Love” can now experience renewed financial vigor that an result in even more potential profits being recognised by the producers.

In Closing; If in Canada, Go and see “Going for Love” you will not regret it…..

one criticism I have of “Going for Love” the title should be more Bajan and it should be “Gine for Love”

Local politics just got more entertaining….

With the news that entertainment lawyer and artiste manager Santia Bradshaw is now taking entering the political arena. Santia will be running to represent the Barbados Labour Party in the St Michael South East constituency aka “The Pine”.
The same way you know about Obama and McCain you should know that Hamilton Lashley resigned from the BLP to become an independent and so Santia is looking to take over that position.
Ms Bradshaw aka Santia has been involved in entertainment for some years now, her company Pyramid Entertainment manages Peter Ram, Lil Rick, Mr Dale Philip 7 and numerous other artistes that if you are a regular reader to Boyce Voice you should know.
Santia is also well versed in copyright and intellectual property being a well studied British trained lawyer.
She has used her legal knowledge on behalf of the industry to help bridge the perennial gap which seems to exist between local artistes and the National Cultural Foundation.

Santia’s father Delisle Bradshaw was also in politics which according to political pundits gives her an advantage, it will be most interesting what Santia Bradshaw brings to the political table with her in-depth entertainment background and the perspective which will be presented as it relates to the industry.

Here’s an interesting Shontelle interview sent to me by a friend you will find interesting, She mentions meeting Rihanna in a sub military organisation re cadets; Also Shontelle talks about working with Beanie man and how incredible he was, she also talked about when she worked with Peter Boyce and how fantabulous I was but they edited it out, Damn them like ass.. She also gives Barbados a good plug click and check it out you are not busy…..

The infamous old Empire Theatre

If you are old enough you might remember the significance of the above times, 12.30, 4.30 and 8.30.
Years ago in the hey day of the cinemas In Barbados those were our standard movie  show times.  

Back when there was bare cinemas in Barbados, the Plaza Olympic empire and Roxy Cinemas in addition to the Globe and others. When you feel like “Gine in de theatre” there was a range of options to choose from.
Back when the only place you could see a movie was in the cinema so you had no freaking choice.
I remember standing in this incredibly long line outside the Olympic waiting to see the musical “Grease” back in 1978.
There were neither video tapes nor any DVD technology that we had access to back then.
You either got into the cinema and saw John Travolta and Olivia Newton John dancing on the big screen or you didn’t see them at all.

So to service the hungry throngs of Bajan movie goers, it would be a standard that from Wednesday to Saturday movie show times would be 12.30, 4.30 and 8.30.  So “theatres” would have generated quite a bit of revenue back then. Now cinemas has been impacted by several factors including technology.
So we no longer have the proliferation of cinemas which once dominated, gone are the days of the Plaza, Olympic, Empire,Vista and the Roxy is now a supermarket.
Gone are the days of 12.30, 4.30 and 8.30….!

Would you beleive the Roxy is now a super market?? Lord come fuh yuh world

This Morning Boyce Voice is educating your ass…

Here’s a free lecture thats on this morning that my friend and assoiciate Chris harper is staging….

It would be worth while attending from what I can see, if you are outside of Barbados its worth flying in for….read on

Notes to Notes Inc.

In collaboration with
The Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination

Present the

2009 Summer Scholarship Audition preparation workshop
Delivered by Berklee’s
 Associate Professor John Pierce
 
Time:   Saturday October 4th 2008 10:30am -12:30pm

Location:  EBCCI- UWI Cave Hill Campus, Barbados

Admission:  FREE

For details call Chris Harper @ 427-2555 or email notestonote@caribsurf.com

This initiative sponsored by
The Peter Boos Foundation

Berklee preparation workshop October 4th 2008 Press release
         This Saturday between 10:30am -12:30pm at the EBCCI, UWI, Cave Hill campus, Notes to Note in collaboration with the Errol Barrow Center for Creative Imagination will be hosting a free workshop conducted by Berklee College of Music, Associate Professor John Pierce.
      The workshop will be geared towards musicians interested in taking part in the annual  Berklee Summer Scholarship auditions which are held in Barbados at the end February. Therefore the material will be primarily focused on preparation for the audition process as well as general methods for practicing improvisation and overall musical growth.
       Notes to Note Inc. for the past five years have facilitated the Annual Berklee Scholarship Tour and Barbados in now the official audition location for the southern Caribbean. This strategic alliance has lead to sixteen summer scholarship being awarded, ten of which were won by Barbadians.
      Winners of the Berklee Summer Scholarship 2009 will have the opportunity to spend five weeks at the Prestigious College in an exciting accelerated program and have the opportunity to re-audition for the full time degree program. For additional information on the workshop please contact Chris Harper at 427-2555 or email notestonote@caribsurf.com .