Results coming through now

10 – 377 pts – Colin Spencer (All Stars) 

Wuhloss! De crowd holler out hard fuh dat one! Nuhbody wasn’t expecting Spencer to be so low down.

9 – 382.5 pts – TC (De Big Show)

Oh loss… a mix of loud cheers and a few boos fuh dat one… people like dey still unhappy bout dem double titles fuh one song ting.

8 – 384 pts – Hee Haw (House of Soca)

7 – 387 pts - Bumba (Headliners)

6 – 395.5 pts - Adrian Clarke (All Stars)

5 – 397 pts – Sheldon Hope (De Big Show)

4 – 398 pts – Sir Ruel (House of Soca)

We down to de top three now – Blood, Bag and John King. Dey dragging out tings a lil more by presenting them all with Blackberry smartphones…

3 – 404.5 pts – Blood (Headliners)

John King and Bag now shaking hands and laughing with each other. It’s good to see de kaisonians in good spirits and getting along…

2 – 405.5 pts – John King (De big Show)

1 – Red Plastic Bag!!!!

And de man from St Philip has done it again… and again and again and again to de power of NINE!

He got he ninth Pic-o-de-Crop title ‘in de bag’ and he now performing Something’s Happening before de ecstatic crowd at Kensington Oval.

And dat is all from me tonight peoples. It was good ketching up wid wunnuh fuh a nex’ year. I gine and scuttle off back to de cane fields now before all dis big set of people stomp pun muh mongoose tail.

See wunnuh nex’ year!

Oyoyoy…something’s happening… dat you should not be missing!

Wha dey does got de results quick enough dese days!

Dey just finish de performances bout half hour ago and Mac Fingall already back pun de stage calling de finalists on stage.

Dey just announce de winners of de King and Queen of de bands. Trevor Chase win King of de Bands fuh de fifth year straight and Gwyneth Squires win de Queen of de Band title.

But I know de title all wunnuh interested in is de Pic-o-de-Crop Calypso Monarch.

So we gine give it to yuh as soon as we get it…

So couple people ask muh if I ent got nuh pictures fuh wunnuh to give yuh a feel of how tings look out dey.

So I went down in de crowd to get two lil pictures pun muh mongoose-cam so wunnuh could feel like yuh here at home in de Oval wid all of we.

Photograph by De Crop-Over Mongoose

 

Dis is how de Oval look when Bag was performing ‘Something’s Happening’.

Photograph by De Crop-Over Mongoose

 

Dis is how de grounds did look earlier on. De big blur of light in de distance is de stage (I tell wunna it did a mongoose-cam!)

So wunnuh come through de whole contest wid de Crop-Over Mongoose – over 3000 visitors fuh de night and counting!

Yuh hear all de contestants or yuh read me describing dey performances and we hey now coolin’ out waitin’ fuh de judges to mek dem decision.

But! Who is de choice of de internet judges – yes, dat is wunuh!

I want to hear who yuh got as de king (or queen?). And who yuh got second and third and why?

So let me hear yuh!

I ent feel dis gine be de year TC get de big one.

Dat is what dis mongoose feel.

She just finish perform she big tune Hot Sun and Riddim – de one dat win she both de Sweet Soca Monarch and de Party Monarch title last Sunday up at Farley Hill.

But trust me, me and my mongoose friends watch she up at Farley Hill and me one watch she hey tonight and de performance tonight ent match up to de one dat win she de titles.

From de start, de performance was real-real shouty. De song is already a kinda tune dat require some power vocals and yuh got to guard against sounding like yuh hollerin’ at people but TC din manage dat. She did sound like she did hollerin’ down de people place so it look like it gine got to be two crowns fuh she dis Crop-Over season.

Sheldon Hope just perform de stronger and more popular of he two songs – Character.

De song all bout how nobody can’t scandal he name cos he character intact – he doh talk people name nor cheat, nor t’ief. He also pay tribute to some prominent people who pass way in recent years like Kathleen Drayton, Jeanette Layne-Clarke, Stephen Alleyne and Terry Mayers and talk bout how even after dey gone people speak well bout dem cos dey got good character.

De song alright and Sheldon voice nice but it did missin’ da li’l somet’ing else extra to really mek dis mongoose move.

De defending monarch Adrian Clarke get some more response wid he second song – Put Out.

De song is like a reverse to de song he win de monarchy wid last year when he tell people to ‘Put Dat In Yuh Song’.

Dis year, he talking bout wha people putting out – illegal immigrants, bad examples, all kinda t’ings.

De song lyrically sound and yuh know AC could hardly ever do wrong when it come to vocals. De voice did sweet and sugary as usual and he din bother wid nuh big set of moving round de stage, he just stand and deliver.

He get some reaction out de crowd when he pelt a few licks in de last verse – he pelt a jab at he former bandmate TC over she double-win fuh de same song and some in de RPB fans telling dem he gine tell dem where dey could dispose of all de plastic dey wavin’. But de last line which was a nex’ jab at Bag, kinda fizzle – it wasn’t sharp enough or had enough double entendre and he coulda do without it to tell de trute.

But… de people pun de ground din feeling it – and seein’ as how I’s a mongoose, yuh know I does know wha gine on down dey. Keeping muh ear close to de ground is muh speciality.

Lemmuh tell wunnuh somet’ing. Dis li’l fella Sir Ruel is one fuh de future.

Coming after Bag mash up de place, dat can’t be easy at all, at all and he come on wid confidence to perform de song Where Are de Calypsonians.

De song got good solid lyrics and asking some hard questions of de more established people in de art form about whether dem tekkin’ dem duties as kaisonians seriously.

I gine tell wunnuh – he come out like more of a calypsonian than some of he seniors dat in de competition years before he.

He voice was mostly strong but he struggle a bit pun de last high note when he try to add in some drama and add an extra high note to finish pun. He was ketching it at first but he try to hold it a bit too long and it slip way from he.

But dat is de only criticism. It was a solid performance from de youngster and even doh de crowd was coming down offa dem RPB high, dey still give he support. I like to see dat becausin’ when de Bags, John Kings and all uh dem gone long out de contest, it is youngsters like Sir Ruel who got to carry de contest and it ent got summuch young people dat interested in kaiso nuh more. Everybody more favour de fast songs and de jokey songs but we need somebody fuh de social commentary… ah lie?

Wuhlossssssssssssssssss x 2!

I say it in de firs’ half and I gots to say it again in de second half.

Bag mash up de place.

If wunnuh feel people did singing along hard to he first song Home Drums, well it was de Kensington Oval Choir fuh de second song, he big hit ‘Something’s Happening’.

He start wid a nice lil intro wid dancers in Kadooment costumes and two ‘tourisses’ trying to figure out what gine on and then he burst on to de stage.

People LOVE dis song – listen to dis mongoose. I even try snapping a few pictures wid muh mongoose-cam to get a shot of de crowd reaction fuh wunnuh. Iffin de batteries hol’ up, I gine upload dem and leh wunnuh see.

Is de ‘oyoyoy’ part in de song dat does get de crowd – remembuh I tell wunnuh people like to be able to sing along wid a song and dat part where Bag does go ‘Oyoyoy… somet’ing’s happening!’ had de crowd going good.

Kensington was a sea of red just now – red plastic bag, red umbrella, red kerchief – everyt’ing red people had dem in de air fuh RPB.

Bumba second half song was much like de first – it ent really move de crowd and to tell yuh de trute, it ent move dis mongoose neither.

De song Yes We Can was a play on US President Barack Obama’s campaign slogan and it talk about all de t’ings we can do if we put we minds to it and adopt de attitude of ‘yes we can’.