Soca Chronicles

It's Giving... Trini Carnival: Machel's controversial wins

Sharnz and Arkayo Season 4 Episode 7

Soca Chronicles explores Trinidad Carnival's judging controversy, Machel Montano's historic Road March win, and Sharnz' dramatic Mardi Gras adventure.

• A Trinidad Carnival judge prematurely announced Machel Montano as the Road March winner before counting finished
• Soca power couple Fay-Ann and Bunji Garlin withdraw from future competitions citing the incident as "uncomfortable"
• Machel Montano wins his 11th Road March title with "Party," tying Lord Kitchener's all-time record
• Machel also enters and wins the Chutney Soca Monarch with "Pepper Vine" in his first attempt
• Sharnz shares her stressful travel drama at Mardi Gras when a missing bus driver nearly causes her to miss international flights

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Speaker 1:

Welcome to the Soca Chronicles. Soca Chronicles with.

Speaker 2:

Sharns and RKO. Welcome to the 43rd episode of Soca Chronicles, the podcast that brings you everything Soca, I'm RKO and I'm digitally sitting next to the one and only Sharns.

Speaker 3:

Yo yo. Yo had to bring back the original yo yo yo Because it's been a while and I couldn't be bothered to think of a different one this month. So here we are.

Speaker 2:

I'm feeling very retro. I like it.

Speaker 1:

In the words of Bramble Absolutely.

Speaker 2:

This month we do not have an interview. Which means you're stuck with us for the time of this podcast.

Speaker 3:

Uh-huh.

Speaker 2:

The good news is that we have plenty to discuss.

Speaker 3:

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2:

Because we had training carnival.

Speaker 3:

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2:

And there was some controversy around that as well, mm-hmm, so I suggest we just get ready to go.

Speaker 3:

Let's get right into it soca chronicles.

Speaker 2:

Starting off with a bit of a judging fail, I would say so during trina's carnival road march Competition which is basically the title for the most played song on the road, when you know Carnival is happening. There was a judge on Carnival Tuesday that in the middle of the parade said yeah, marcio Montano is going to win with party. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3:

Uh-oh.

Speaker 1:

Spaghetti-O Exactly.

Speaker 2:

People were like wait, hold on. Aren't you supposed to wait with the results until all the results are in to tell?

Speaker 1:

somebody. You're winning.

Speaker 2:

So people obviously lost their shit.

Speaker 3:

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2:

And well, specifically, two artists right Sharns.

Speaker 3:

Yep, yep and yep. Two artists, yep, yep and yep. Two artists feyenne and bungee, the soca power couple. So feyenne released a video just saying that she's no longer going to compete in the soca monarch, because you know soaker monarch, because you know it's just. It's a mad thing that, yeah, this lady knew the results before it was publicly announced and it just is giving. It's giving rigged, it's giving disingenuous look at me using big words. It's giving unfair. It's giving unfair. It's giving. What's it giving? Rko? It's giving. I need one more thing that is giving. It's giving.

Speaker 2:

Well, in her own words, she said it was uncomfortable and unsettling.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, there we go. So they're stepping away from the competition for that reason and I hear it. And obviously Fae-An released her video and obviously Bungie, being a supportive husband he is he followed suit afterwards and ended up releasing his own video, which I get, I get.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Because, yeah, it's just mad. It's actually mad, because how can you turn around and tell me the competition's not rigged? But this lady who's a judge, has this information before you. You know everything's been finalized it's not making sense. It's giving two plus two equals ten, you know I'm saying, I can say, if I look at the final score, right so?

Speaker 2:

the final score is that, uh, marshall montano's party was played 267 times and bungee gardens carry it was played 253 times and I have to give some explanation here. At least I had to get explanation for these numbers, because the third place, uh, was also, uh, bungee gardens. It was thousand, it was 22 place yeah, when I first saw it I was like, oh, there's a zero missing. Because why would that be such a difference? You know why would the second place be 253 plays and third place 22?

Speaker 2:

yep and there is I mean, if you judge only at certain points, and they are known and you know you're a band leader that favors bungee, you're just going to play carry it whenever you just tell a dj hey time for carry it, right now start yeah, exactly so in a way it is already rigged, but I guess there's some lobbying that can be done before to, to you know, make it whoever lobbies best wins, I guess.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, still, you know they are solid songs. Let me not, you know, oversee that fact that both of these songs Were hard. They were Epic, definitely. So, Both of them, you know, won in their own way.

Speaker 3:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

But the difference in the end Was not that big Not at all.

Speaker 3:

So how does?

Speaker 2:

this lady Already say this Is weird.

Speaker 3:

Exactly, mate. It's giving, rigged, it's giving, rigged, it's giving. I feel like this podcast episode should be called it's Giving.

Speaker 2:

All right, this episode will be called it's Giving, it's Giving.

Speaker 1:

Suga.

Speaker 2:

Chronicles. But to just continue with the good news. Marcel Montano's party has won him the 11th ropemar's title damn, he definitely is the king of soca. He is the goat yeah, but it also means that he is now tying with the all-time record holder, lord kitchener damn, that's actually crazy yeah so machal has he's.

Speaker 3:

He's tying with lord kitchener. He appeared on tiny desk.

Speaker 2:

He took a year out to study, came back and just one road wiped the wipes, the fucking table.

Speaker 3:

That's crazy and he only released, I swear he what Released this song this year, like two months ago.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's a pretty late entry To be Late.

Speaker 3:

Best late entry Of the century.

Speaker 2:

Entry Well.

Speaker 3:

In the words of Bungie, who came second. I'm so sorry, bungie.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

So it seems like it's giving Marshall's year. That's like it's giving Mashal's year. That's what it's giving.

Speaker 2:

Because it doesn't end there.

Speaker 3:

Oh no.

Speaker 2:

Mashal. No, he decided this year. You know what I'm going to join the Chutney Soka Monarch.

Speaker 3:

Oh, my goodness.

Speaker 2:

Because I want to bring Chutney and Soka closer together, which is a good thing to do. And guess what? He bloody well won the thing His first ever entry and he just won With his own pepper vine. That's actually insane, so yes, he wiped the table. Everything is his.

Speaker 3:

That's crazy. And Mashal said yeah, you lot thought I was out. Yeah, I'm coming back and I'm cleaning up, cleaning up cleaning honestly yeah, that's mad for my show, oh, 100 yeah, I can imagine and fayenne are a bit like yeah fantastic. Yeah, I know, I know, but imagine if my Marshall didn't even Take that year off.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, do you reckon he could?

Speaker 3:

have won Roadmarch last year and then, this one Would have been Like his 12th. He would have been In the lead.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, he would be the Record holder. Yeah, well, there's always next year.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, this is true, but then if he didn't Take that year off, would this song be so big? Because it's like we've not had any music From Marshall for a little while. Now he's releasing music Boom winner, winner.

Speaker 2:

I am going to put that in the same Category. If, what if Sharns enters the competition and won? But I would win If I entered Roadmarch.

Speaker 3:

Actually no, but I wouldn't win because I'm not Trini.

Speaker 2:

So I wouldn't be eligible to Enter.

Speaker 3:

But if it was like, if it was, if it was like I wouldn't win because I'm not Trini so I wouldn't be eligible to enter. But if it was like, if it was, if it was like Soka Monarch or something, yeah. I would definitely win with the Advil man. The Advil man Give me headache.

Speaker 2:

Still waiting for the official release, but you know.

Speaker 3:

Oh no, I know, I know, I know I've got this bouillon track to to drop. I've got my bashment soaker track to drop guys, I've got so much music to drop but I don't have much lyrics. That's the issue that we have and I need some beats. So, guys, if you've got beats for me, send me beats I can get in the studio let me make something happen.

Speaker 2:

Let's make something happen anyway again.

Speaker 3:

I've got a side track in and going like yes, bouillon, because remember, I'm a bouillon, babe guys, since 2024 because there was something else happening around the same time as training carnival oh yeah what was it?

Speaker 1:

said it at the same time.

Speaker 3:

That's crazy. It was Dominica Carnival, aka Mass Dominic, yeah, and guess who didn't get to go this year?

Speaker 1:

Aww, Well, me neither.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, but that's just a common Occurrence for you, man. You don't go anywhere these days.

Speaker 2:

Wild, but also true.

Speaker 3:

I'm outside.

Speaker 2:

You're outside.

Speaker 3:

I went somewhere else. However, we'll discuss that a bit later, because there was some drama on my trip. Yeah, there was drama, but we'll get to that a little later, but let's focus on carnival right now. Yeah, yeah, dominica, carnival looked lit yeah, absolutely lit yeah, and I think the last episode. I told you guys that I was in the group chat and I got salty because they started sending locations and I left that group asap but.

Speaker 1:

I saw.

Speaker 3:

I saw all their posts on, like Instagram and Snapchat and stuff and um, yeah, it just looked so amazing. And I think I've mentioned before there's a promotion company called Love Siwo in the UK and they do the Dominican parties which have sold out. Every single one they've done has sold out. Yeah, and imagine they've been active.

Speaker 3:

I think it's just under a year and already they had a section with ecstasy mass I think it was a section they had, or they had some sort of alliance with ecstasy mass yeah and they are also going to be on the road for notting hill carnival with chocolate nation they actually actually have their own section where they've got their um costumes, but it's not like the feathered costumes, it's like the t-shirts and then the ladies leotard or whatever it's called. You know, I'm not a girly girl so I don't really know all the terms, but I think it's like a leotard, I think it's called, or whatever.

Speaker 3:

But yeah, yeah love ceo are doing big things, so I just want to big up morgan. Who is the ceo doing big things? Keep it up. I'm trying to be like you one day when I grow up I hear it, I hear it, yeah, so yeah, but next year, rko, I'm 155.2 percent gonna be in dominica for carnival. I mean I I don't really have interest for trinidad anymore. Do you know what?

Speaker 1:

let me, let me say that again rephrase that please, yeah, please before people come for me, don't come for me, please.

Speaker 3:

I do really, really, really, really, really want to go to trinidad carnival like I've never been. I want to go once so I can say, yep, I've done it and I don't ever need to go back again. But what is putting me off is the prices. So I've got to pay like 10 times the amount for accommodation, unless I go find some trini man that's gonna put me up.

Speaker 3:

But then you know I've got to do things that I don't want to do, so that's not an option. Okay, I don't have. Well, I have an aunt or a cousin, I don't know what. She is in Trinidad, but that's not going to work, so she's not an option. So, yeah, I'm going to have to fork out, bear money, my flight is probably going to be kind of expensive. And then let's talk about these FETs. Oh my goodness, the FETs are expensive.

Speaker 2:

Premium prices.

Speaker 3:

I'm literally going to have to go sell my front down Soho to be able to afford to go to Trinidad. And guys, I'm not ready to do that yet. I'm not that desperate. So I'm just going to take myself to Dominica, where I had an absolute whale of a time last year for a fraction of the price, yeah. Do you know what I mean, so yeah, and I'm going to one-up, one up you.

Speaker 2:

I'm just gonna follow your stories and not pay anything. Oh, my goodness, I'm blocking you. You're getting blocked. Don't do that. You gotta be there, bro. Be there or be square oh my god, I'm gonna have to find a square bed, because I'm gonna be square anyway, these jokes I need you to stop, for sure, but yeah trust me, it's gonna be lit next year 100.

Speaker 3:

So if we can, don't worry, if I become rich and I become like a superstar, then I will just pay you all the way to that, yeah I'll pay for you yeah to go I won't say no yeah, obviously not. If you said no, I'd be very upset. I was gonna. I was gonna to say something violent, but I'm not a violent person, so yeah I stopped a real quick do you know? I mean, you look like you beat men rude. Yeah, that's that. Should we do the song in a month first?

Speaker 2:

Yes, I think we should, you know, close our Trini and Dominica section.

Speaker 3:

We should With the song in a month and then I can talk about my drama.

Speaker 2:

Exactly Because there's drama to be told. Oh gosh, More drama for your mama.

Speaker 1:

Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2:

The song of the month Is a homage to the man who is now 11 wins in. It is the song that won we should definitely highlight it. And we shall. What are we going to play?

Speaker 3:

We Are going To play Party by Michelle Montano I love it, let's go.

Speaker 1:

This is the song of the month. We put so hard every week. We deserve a party. We deserve a party. So tell everybody and let's get it started. I'm telling you All work and no play Me. Say no way, we don't want no water, that I need A stress reliever, two drinks in me hand and a girl in the middle. That's the one we need to find the middle For the sake of peace of mind. So the middle of the road is where You'll find me and my friend and them, because we work so hard All week. We deserve a party. We deserve it. Say we deserve it, yeah, we deserve it. Tell all your friend and them, tell all the girl and them. Bring all your friend and them and let's get it started.

Speaker 1:

I say I say, oh yo, all talk, I mustn't take a joke. But let me start it by. I say I say, oh yo, you all talk. And I say take a joke, but let me start it by the joke, by the joke. Let me start it by the joke. Party on the road, it's a party on the road. Line it up, line it up, bring the shots and line it up. Party on the road, it's a party on the road. Look at knives in the back. Watch my kennel in the throat.

Speaker 2:

Party on the road. It the winner of the Roadmars 2025.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, boy.

Speaker 2:

We're moving north a couple of thousand kilometers or miles, whatever you want, I don't care to. Houston right.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, houston and New Orleans as they say New. Orleans, new Orleans. Right, my drama. But before I get into the drama, let me just give a quick backstory. Well, not backstory, but a quick introduction, quick backstory. Well, not backstory, but a quick introduction. So instead of going to Dominica Carnival this year, I went to Houston and then I went to New Orleans aka New Orleans in my accent for Mardi Gras, which happened the exact same weekend as Dominica Carnival and Trinidad Carnival.

Speaker 2:

It's a very concentrated week.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, definitely, and yeah, mardi Gras was fun. It was different but it was fun. They still had, like, trucks on the road but their trucks were being pulled by. What are those things called? You know, the trucks that the farmers use? What are those called Horses, tractors.

Speaker 2:

Oh, tractors.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, they were being pulled by tractors and obviously in New Orleans for Mardi Gras you have to collect beads, so they'll be throwing beads out of the trucks and throwing little plushy toys and all these different things they're throwing out. Anyway, into my drama, into my drama, I went to houston on like the wednesday and then the sunday we got the bus to new orleans, which was like a six hour bus journey yeah, I know, it was long yikes yeah long. And then mardi gras was like the monday and the tuesday, so exactly like.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3:

And the bus going back. Our bus was meant to leave at 11 pm on the Tuesday. Oh well To arrive back in Houston at like 7 am or something.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

And then my flight back to London was on that Wednesday at two something, I believe.

Speaker 2:

Busy travel days yeah.

Speaker 3:

So, leaving Houston on the Wednesday to land in London on the Thursday to then fly to Berlin on Friday for my booking which I had on the Saturday, which I'm not really going to get too much into, but I've got footage on my Instagram, so head there. Dj Sharns, dj S a r n z, check out the footage from there.

Speaker 2:

It was a lit weekend etc.

Speaker 3:

Etc. Anyway. So from the jump, when my friend said, yeah, we're gonna leave tuesday night, you know we'll be back in houston in plenty of time, you know, to get your flight and I'm a bit like, oh, you know I'm not really feeling this, but he was like, yeah, but you know we can't miss the tuesday.

Speaker 3:

So I'm like, all right, cool, whatevs. Anyway, the monday evening, my friend because my friend booked the the bus and everything because he lives in houston he booked, he booked the the bus and then he got a text saying unfortunately, your bus has been cancelled oh no I said, excuse me, what my what has been what?

Speaker 3:

you better start renting a car, bro. So then he's like yep, it's been cancelled, but let me see what the options are. And I'm like, bro, I have to get back to houston in time for my flight, because if I miss that flight then I'm gonna end up missing my flight to berlin. And yeah, do you know, I mean that they've paid for my flight.

Speaker 2:

They've.

Speaker 3:

They've sorted my accommodation. I cannot let them down, because that was their first time bringing me over. Cannot let them down. So then he's like oh, there's an earlier bus that's at 6 55 that we can get, so I'm just gonna rebook us on that one.

Speaker 3:

So I'm like, ah cool, no problem, boom, yeah, panic over. And I'm like all right, well, it gets us back to um houston at like, just like something before 1 am. So I'm like, okay, we get there good time, you know, I can go, I can sleep, I can organize myself, whatever, whatever anyways. So the tuesday comes, yeah, we're having fun, you know, collecting our beads, bar hopping, whatever, whatever then, it gets to, like what I don't know, 3 pm, 4 pm.

Speaker 3:

So we're like all right, let's go back to our hotel, let's grab our stuff, let's head to the bus station. Cool, we get to the bus station, like quarter past six. Cool, we're there, chilling, chilling, chilling. You know more people start coming Because you know they're on our bus Going to Houston. Anyway, 6.55 comes and goes. No announcement nothing, I'm like oh no 7.30 comes no announcement. Where's our bus?

Speaker 2:

are you still chilling?

Speaker 3:

yeah, but I'm like what's going on? So you know, kind of getting a little bit antsy, like hmm, but I'm just waiting. Eight o'clock comes, hmm, no announcement. So then obviously the people that are waiting are going over to speak to the guy at the desk and the guy's like you know, I've not got any information, but you know, just hang tight, when I get information I'll make an announcement. 8 30 comes no announcement.

Speaker 2:

I'm like yo my ass will be walking to a rental car right away bro, I was like this say it ain't so, so anyway yeah it gets to about nine o'clock and we finally get an announcement.

Speaker 3:

Guys, sorry for the delay. Your bus has been here the whole time, but your driver is not here. Your driver's mia, what do you mean? My driver's mia, huh, excuse me what celebrating yeah, bro, my guy was down collecting beads why are you collecting beads?

Speaker 3:

please, when you have a bus to drive. Then the guy at the desk was like um, they've sent an uber to get a driver, so I think they had to find another driver, so they've sent an uber for the driver. The driver's on their way here in an uber. So I'm like, okay, cool, you know, maybe they'll be here in half an hour. Half past nine comes no driver. What's going on? And there was meant to be a bus leaving at nine o'clock to go to atlanta, so those atlanta people were there waiting, etc.

Speaker 3:

10 o'clock comes a driver, comes through, but he's like anybody going to atlanta so I'm like oh, the atlanta bus is going, so obviously they're all lining up ready for their bus as soon as the atlanta bus is going, so obviously they're all lining up ready for their bus as soon as the atlanta bus went please believe. The guy at the desk went home, so then there was no one else to give us updates or anything.

Speaker 2:

Excuse me what. What do you mean?

Speaker 3:

you're going home and no one else can give us updates. Oh my god, crazy, crazy. So then they had like two security guards that were in the station, but obviously the security guards don't have information about the buses. So they're just like. I'm really sorry. We're just here to secure the bus station. We don't work for the bus company, we're employed separately. We don't have any information. I can't really tell you anything other than the guy that was in the information desk.

Speaker 3:

So I'm just like all right, cool and he's like, but, but you got a pretty accent, thanks but my pretty accent is trying to get my ass back to houston so I can get my pretty accent back to where it comes from, because, bro, I got things to. Anyway, it gets to half past 10. No driver, nah bro my friend's calling up the bus company and the bus company are telling my friend oh, we don't know what's happening, we don't have any updates. What do you mean?

Speaker 1:

you don't have any updates. You're the bus company.

Speaker 3:

So how do you not have any updates? So I saying to my friend yo, we're not leaving new orleans tonight, we're not. So I'm starting to look up flights when's when's the soonest flight that I can get? Obviously I can't get a flight that night, it's too late. The soonest one was like 5 am but that flight was going from new orleans to atlanta, then atlanta to houston. Still got, yeah, just mad. But it would have got me to houston, I think. At like I think you were saying 8 am or something, so it would have got me there in time. Um, but that flight was like I think it was telling me it was like 500 us dollars or something stupid like that I'm like yo, I can't, I can, I can't and there were no other options.

Speaker 3:

like literally no other options that would get me to Houston in time. And then I'm thinking okay, maybe I can fly to New York somehow, because New York has about 12 flights a day to London, so I can get back to London if I get to New York. But then I'm looking at the flights to New York and I'm like my More expensive Me more my clout, they're not cheap.

Speaker 3:

They were not cheap and I was like, oh my goodness, and the flights didn't include luggage, and obviously I had luggage, so I'd have to include my. I was just like I can't do this. So I literally was fighting back tears, rko Fighting back.

Speaker 2:

I'm panicking.

Speaker 3:

Like yo, I cannot be stranded in new orleans yep so then my friends start saying well, you know, I can maybe rent a car and see if we can drive, but you know it's going to be a six-hour drive. My friend had been drinking that whole day. He was drunk earlier on to the point where he's slurring up his words, screaming and shouting in a restaurant. I'm like yo that's not gonna.

Speaker 3:

You're embarrassing me because I wasn't drinking, because my belly was doing a madness that day. And yeah, yeah, my belly was doing a madness. I'm not gonna say any more than that, but my belly was doing a madness. So I was like I'm not drinking any alcohol today. I'm done so for once. That, for that was the first time, that whole trip, that I'd ever been sober. I'm'm not going to lie to you.

Speaker 2:

I was sober yeah, because.

Speaker 3:

I was drinking from morning.

Speaker 2:

I was having like alcohol for breakfast whatever.

Speaker 3:

Anyway, so you know, when you're sober and you're around drunk people, it's like, yeah, you know the feeling it's off for goodness sake, is this what I'm like when I'm drunk?

Speaker 2:

Yes, I am.

Speaker 3:

Literally, so my friend's like.

Speaker 1:

literally, so my friends like I've checked out all the rental companies and I can't rent a car before 8 am.

Speaker 3:

I'm like what? So obviously we rent it at 8 am. Let's say we do all the checks, get it whatever it's half past eight, six hours by the'm not going to get my flight in time. Do you know what I mean? So I'm like oh my God. Anyway, 11 o'clock comes this young girl that looked about two years old I'm exaggerating, but she looked really young and she was just dressed in like joggers and like a little jacket. Whatever, she was dressed casually.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, she comes out and she's like oh, is anyone going to houston? But obviously we've looked at her?

Speaker 3:

no, but we've looked at her and everyone's just ignored her because yeah, we thought that she was like one of us waiting yeah so she, she. Then she goes, I guess nobody going to houston. And I said are you the bus driver? Nobody going to houston. And I said are you the bus driver? She said yeah.

Speaker 3:

I was like, oh, the way I picked up my stuff and ran over to her, bruv, I was like thank you so much so yeah so we all started packing up our stuff and we we managed to get back to houston in one piece, and then I was like this girl looks about 12 is she? Gonna get us to to houston in one piece. So that was on my mind as well. But we got back to houston a little bit earlier than we were supposed to like. That girl put her foot down. She made about three or four different stops. Still got us back early.

Speaker 3:

I was like, yeah, so I think, yeah, I think we got back to houston like just before seven or something like that, and then I even had time to, you know, get a bit of sleep.

Speaker 3:

I slept for about, I think, five hours or something like that, and then I even had time to, you know, get a bit of sleep. I slept for about, I think, five hours or something, then started packing up my stuff, headed to the airport, got back to London, all well, all on time, slept when I got home, packed and then the next day I flew to Berlin. But yeah, that was my drama, guys. I thought I was going to be stranded in New Orleans and I nearly cried.

Speaker 2:

Because I had places to go Like literally. Drama. Yeah, couldn't believe it. The stress is Too much.

Speaker 3:

Mate.

Speaker 2:

I can imagine Like stranded in yeah, on a bus station In New Orleans.

Speaker 3:

That's what I'm saying. That's a bit much Long, but yeah, guys, I made it. I'm here in one piece. Check out my instagram to see some footage. Actually, no, I don't think I uploaded any footage to my instagram better start uploading then. Yeah, you promised already yeah, yeah, I need to. So, guys, I will do that. But, yeah, that was my drama, that was my drama and that was my drama, and I chatted for so long. My mouth is extremely dry right now, extremely dry.

Speaker 2:

That's wild drama, Sian. She suss on a bicycle.

Speaker 3:

Crazy, absolutely crazy, honestly.

Speaker 2:

But now you can laugh about it right. There we go.

Speaker 3:

There we go. And you know me, I don't like drama when I'm involved, but at least this is like a funny story that I can tell people.

Speaker 2:

Do you know what I mean? Ending Exactly?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, exactly, and I think it just added character to the to the trip you know with this bit of drama.

Speaker 2:

So yeah, it would have been a different story. You would be pissed.

Speaker 3:

Exactly Pissed. Let's not even get into that. No, exactly yeah. But before I stop talking, can I please plug my event RKO.

Speaker 2:

Please do, because we're all out of drama, so we have to have.

Speaker 3:

Positive things and future things.

Speaker 2:

So let's go Please.

Speaker 3:

Right. So remember, guys, I did tell you that I was doing a Beijing event. I gave you the wrong Email address, not email address, web address. I didn't even spell the web address, can't even talk. I didn't even spell the web address correctly. How stupid am I? Anyway, I'm going to plug it again, guys.

Speaker 3:

Friday, the 25th of April, I have my first ever Bajan event that I'm doing in London. It's called Brawling. Now you know what it's about to be already. So it's going to be at least 50% Bajan music. So we're going to have Bashment Sokar, we're going to have Power Sokar. We might even have a bit of of Not might, but we will have a bit of, you know, the Bajan dance, a bit of it, you know, because it's part of the Bajan culture. But we're also gonna have soca and bouillon From other islands, etc. So you know, you know how we do, it's gonna be lit. So already the response for it has been crazy To the point I had to make a promo mix. So, guys, this promo mix has just recently dropped. The promo mix is 100% bashment soaker. It's rko approved, by the way. I love that mix.

Speaker 2:

I've been listening to it a couple of times now.

Speaker 3:

I'm gonna just do it more thank you definitely seal of approval yes, so so far I've had, obviously, rko has given it the seal of approval. I've also had some other response, positive response for it, where I've had ladies saying, yeah, you got me walking up in my chair, etc. Etc. So guys check it out. I've got it on soundcloud, I've got it on youtube. All you have to type in is brawling without the g on the end. So B-R-A-W-L-I-N Promo Mix. Type that in on SoundCloud. Type that in on YouTube. Listen to it. Let me know what you think. I'm actually very proud of it Because I've listened to it a good few times and it's got me shaking what my mama gave me.

Speaker 2:

You know what I'm saying. It made me very excited for the event please.

Speaker 3:

I am looking forward to it me too, and I'm looking forward to having you here in london with me. Okay, yeah, because it's been a while yeah, it has been. It's been a while, absolutely so remember, go to wwwletmespellthiscorrect-L-D-Ncom for your tickets. So that's TridentLDNcom for your tickets. Make sure you get them before they sell out, because there is a lot of demand for this event.

Speaker 2:

Exactly, yeah, all right.

Speaker 3:

And that's my plug-in done, RKO.

Speaker 2:

Well, there's a plug in done it's a drama done. We had a song on that month, so I think it's time to say goodbye and wish everybody a happy remainder of the month.

Speaker 3:

Be safe people. Look after yourselves and we'll be back next month.

Speaker 2:

Yup, see you then, bye month.

Speaker 3:

Yup, see you then. Bye, you've been listening to the Soka Chronicles Chronicles.

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