MUSIC FEST DAY 2: Lady Saw keeps it clean but wows; Ritical, Third World impresses
BVI News Staff - Sunday, May 27th, 2012 at 2:27 PM
An amazing performance from Quito and the Edge started things off at the second night of the 2012 Music Festival.
The crowd obviously loved Quito and hung on every chord and note during his performance.
Mada Nile was awesome and the crowd went especially crazy when she sang her farming song and literally “went down in the patch”. A resounding response came when she sang “Send I the Love,” so much so that she had to sing it twice.
Following the premier of his new music video, Ritical emerged on stage and made the Virgin Islands very proud. The artiste began with renditions from artistes such as Keri Hilson and Tarrus Riley, and then went into some of his early hits such as “Love is the Greatest” and “Black Woman.”
The audience really enjoyed the beautiful and romantic duet that the artiste did with Xtreme Band vocalist Vianella Garcia. However, a totally new side to Ritical was seen during the segment of his performance called “Big People Time.” Fans loved that the artiste belted out a number of fresh new dancehall songs and just couldn’t get enough of the two that the artiste sang. So great were the songs that one woman inched to as close to the stage as she could have gotten and began to grope the singer. Ritical kept singing, trying desperately to ignore the woman’s roaming hands.
Before paying homage to Bob Marley, the singer gave a shout-out to Eighth District Representative Marlon Penn, who was earlier seen in his music video. Ritical announced that East End youths are thinking positively and have a new talk called “Put Move” which means to do your best at whatever you endeavour to do.
Lady Saw came on stage with lots of energy, singing her song “Walk Out”. A woman in the crowd screamed that she loved the artiste’s hair and Law Saw responded: “It’s mine I bought it, I am really a bald headed chick.” As she sang some of her hits like “It’s Raining,” “Woman Me Name,” “Healing” and “Pressure Them” women went crazy, and some Caucasian male tourists moved to the front of the stage in awe of the performer. Lady Saw responded by moving to the edge of the stage, serenading one of the tourists who blushed profusely.
Songs like “Back Shot,” and other more raunchy songs were not performed because the artiste stated that there were children in the audience and she could not do such songs while they were present.
“I know you want the raw Lady Saw, but I can’t do it….Their parents should have known that this is a Lady Saw show and left them home, but anyhow I can’t do such songs with the babies here,” she said.
However, the fans were very angry and some openly berated the parents who had children present, announcing that the best Lady Saw songs couldn’t be heard because of them.
In the meantime the artiste tried her best to appease her audience by singing edited versions of her songs and using innuendoes by stating that she likes when “She gets wet with sweat” and blinking her eyes so the audience knows that she means something else.
There was a part of her song that she invited DJ Bertrum on stage to enable her to do a little demonstration, but she stated: “Watch the children there watching; oh my gosh dem watching me, Birch I can’t do it…. Kids you should be home.”
This had the audience quarrelling again with the parents. In the end, the artiste called two members of the audience to come on stage and do the performance for her, and the gentleman danced until his trousers crotch ripped. Lady Saw’s segment was also interrupted by a male tourist who got on stage wearing an American flag thong.
On a more serious note, the artiste sang about infertility and her miscarriage, and the fans seemed very sympathetic. She also gave a lot of relationship advice and had everyone laughing when she sang how much she loved her ‘man’s other woman’ because she does things she would never do, and finances both her boyfriend. She told the women in the crowd: “….I don’t take women’s men because I don’t pick up crosses. Women when you see a woman throw away her man, leave him.”
At the end of Lady Saw’s performance, the crowd didn’t want the artiste to leave the stage at all.
embers of the audience went crazy when Third World raised “96 Degrees” and “Sense of Purpose.” The group also did a tribute to reggae artiste Gregory Isaacs and then sang “Reggae Ambassador.”
Group members showed versatility and had an instrumental interlude where all members of the band played an instrument. Another crowd-pleaser was the song “Now that we Found Love.”
A man on stage during Lady Saw's performance.
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Can someone let us know why is it that every year for music fest that a security company from St. Thomas is contracted every music fest for the artist? You mean to say that here in the BVI do not a reputable company(s) that can do the job? Who on the music fest committee getting a cut from this security company from St. Thomas?
Just a quick mention that there was the school marching band and A Type of Toad on before Quito and the Edge.
If I pay good money to go see Lady Saw then I want to see her real act,not some toned down kiddy version.
Why would the parents of the young children not take them away?? It was after midnight anyway,this is pure selfeshness and ignorance on the part of a few spoiling a show for the majority, calling yourself parents you should be ashamed of yourselves.
If the so called parents were so ignorant then someone in authority at the show should have made them take the kids away so we could see the act we went and paid to see.
Quito and the Edge were not the first act of the evening. Saturday’s line-up began with a highly entertaining local band A Type of Toad who did a wonderful job and started the night on a high note. Not one on-line paper today made mention which is totally not fair. Many of us thought the band was great and will definitely be looking to support them at local venues they play in the future.
Ugghh. It was bad enough seeing that dude’s bare ass cheeks on the beach last night and then we have to wake up and see him plastered all over the news. He was not a pretty site!
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