Portmore Awards come to ... Daylight end

Portmore Awards come to ... Daylight end
published: Monday | June 20, 2005

Mel Cooke, Freelance Writer

CHAM

WESTERN BUREAU:

TERROR FABULOUS returned in good, if not outstanding, form at the 2005 staging of the Portmore Awards.

The show held at the Caymanas Football Field in Portmore, St. Catherine, also saw awards being handed out to Macka Diamond, Professor Nuts and Gregory Isaacs. Billed headliners Sizzla, Anthony B and Beenie Man did not perform, but the 'unbilled' Baby Cham sparkled and two of an abbreviated 'Magnificent 7', Turbulence and Ghandi, were also in especially good form.

The show ended with a command from MC Nuffy to "pull up" at 5:20 a.m. yesterday morning, as an audience that had stuck through a long programme drifted away.

The event pulled out enough people to fill a little over a third of the football field, with some choosing to stand a bit back from the bulk of the crowd. And it pulled out pride from Nuffy who was also the promoter.

"Look pon me nice, decent show. Me feel nice yu know. A de firs' time me a put on a band show," he said. The band for the entire show was Live Wya.

In the relatively early going, Trapper John with his encouragement to work ("how it a go when you an' Mista Lazy a par"), Mikeylous ("it sticky ova farin an' it sticky dung a yard"), Benito with his searing description of "where I live" and Derrick Parker's Bus De Appeal were among those who hit the right note with the audience.

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