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Scandalous!


The scandalous party goers who had a fantastic time at the show.
Sheron Garraway 07.JUL.06

Party patrons who attended the HOT 97.1 show dubbed “Scandalous” on Saturday, July 1 at the Arnos Vale Hard Court got downright nasty.

Radio Disc Jockeys: Brown Sugar, Too Kool Kris and Jude the Cool Dude warmed up the crowd with hit after hit, and the local acts followed.

Homegrown talent like Urban Mystic, Sexy Sugarz & DJ 20, Skarpyon and Solomon Gates all gave good accounts of themselves. The heat was turned up another notch when Non-Fiction and Rusty did their magic and got the crowd jumping, while the return of Bomani to the band HS Phaktor got the fans “Wet”. As usual, Fireman Hooper a.k.a. the ‘Chosen One” also brought the house down with his antics.

But the Scandalous Award must definitely be given to guest performer of the evening, Trinidad and Tobago’s Soca King, Machel Montano. From the word go, Montano had the crowd in a frenzy as he gyrated and ground in slow and fast motion. He laid down some of his own tracks and easily flowed into Hip Hop, Reggae and back to Soca music.

At several points he commanded the ladies to grab his privates and the few that got the opportunity to reach out and touch the phenomenal entertainer seemed to be captivated. Montano’s behaviour however received a loud negative jeer from the crowd when he insulted one of the ladies at the show.

A young lady who apparently could not reach up to the stage grabbed Montano several times on his leg and even reportedly pinched him. Montano was seen apparently scolding the young lady off the microphone about three times before finally rebuking her on the microphone.

Montano lashed out to the over-enthusiastic patron that he had asked her not to pinch him so roughly on several occasions and that he was not going to ask her again. He said that he didn’t know if her skin was like a crapo, but that he had smooth and delicate skin.

To add insult to injury, the Trinidadian Soca artiste then told the young lady that he would stomp her in the face if she pinched him again and told her “besides yo not too pretty either.”

This led to loud booing from the partygoers, but Montano kept on going and the crowd proceeded to party.

But after the show, some patrons expressed their disgust to Carnival Buzz, one man chanted, “I can’t believe Machel come here and insult Vincy woman so, if he wanted to tell the young lady to stop pinching him he could have done so better. He was asking the ladies to grab on to his privates and one lady grab on to a foot and pinch him and he got mad because of that. I believe that as an entertainer he could have handled the situation better. He don’t have no right to insult she so.”

Another patron in making a comparison between Montano and Vincentian Kevin Lyttle pointed out that someone in the audience pelted a bottle at Lyttle during his performance, but Lyttle did not retaliate but continued his performance.

She recalled, “That is to show you how we does treat we own, we pelting bottle after Kevin Lyttle, who only bigging up the ladies and Machel come here and insult we. Not because Kevin ain’t make another “Turn Me On” hit yet, Kevin didn’t even lash out at the person he just continue like a professional. We not supposed to make no artiste come in Vincy and insult we so!”

probably it was unprofessional to inslut her on the mic, but look at it this way according the article it seem like he had to continuously tell her to stop pinching him i mean after a while that can get annoying and one could retalliate, HOWEVER, sh!tty part is as an artiste, yuh still suppose to hold composure in the eyes of patrons, cause yuh know what they go say " Machel is a beast he does insult ppl, he have no repect" hey what's new what dem say, dem say, he's in the spot light so they go talk.LASTLY, he didnt disrepect VINCY LAND, the woman in the crown get buff, someone always have to take it to that level...

dey like to get dissed by him, i have no pity for anyone who gets buffed by machel. I'm not condoning his behavior, but he's known for having a PhD in Jackassology and still these women continue to put themselves in these situations to get offended by that idiot. He's a great performer, but his personality sucks big time. I'm sorry to hear about this incident though, i guess he won't be visiting Vincy anytime soon.

so he scared of a little pinch by a women maybe if a man pinched him he would have reacted different

if he didn't want to get pinched, he could have moved away from her.

yea he continuously told her to stop, but he encouraged them to interfere with him in the first place. He of all people should know how aggressive these women get, esp. with him lol. If you know you dont want any woman touchin yuh in a way u may not like, doh encourage the touching thing period.
Yea he should've held his composure, but he's not known for keeping his composure atall...dude can be a brat when he ready

To me it don't matter if he visit VINCY LAND or not you think SVG are going to stop bringing MACHEL because of that incident that's money lost there for big promoters, i mean if the ppl/patrons didn't like him, then, other than that Machel gets ALOT of work elsewhere...

I agree..but I am sure he will be back

Hmmm isnt this the second known incident this year between Montano and his over zealous fans. He needs to chill out with the insults and threats.

yeah you right, even self he like and YOU as a person tell someone to stop doing something would't you want them to stop, he still human you know, not that i'm justifying him being a human and all, yeah but in a way you right...

Lets be real here, MOve away from her HOW?????

Well...I'm not a big machel fan, but if he asked her to stop several times, then she shoulda stop. Like Val said, he's known to have an attitude...maybe will teach her next time she wanna pinch people.

True but if a lot of Vincy's are like meh boy VP here the parties may buss wuss yet Kevin Lyttle not dey

*Machsalt Fishano jumps on top of thread and says....*

"Huuuuuuuuy, all de sweet woman dem inna thread, come and grab up on de saltman*

*rummy, val, dancer race to front of thread and start posting*

Rummy: "ooooohhhh" *rub rub*
Dancer: "oooooohhhhhhhhhh" *rub rub*
Val3: "HE'S ALL MINE!!! BACK AWAY" *climbs stage, knocks out thread starter, deletes everyone else's post and carries salty into the mods only forum.

Machsalt:

show ends.

salty

OMG....