PAN Dos and Don’ts

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When someone says, “Pan”, it’s understood that they are referring to Pan Trinbago’s Panorama Semi-Finals Competition, bringing together the best steel bands and players in Trinidad and Tobago and from around the world since 1963. In the late 2000′s the Semis had a huge resurgence in popularity when some hardcore limers (probably SCORCH affiliates) decided that pan was no longer an ‘ole people ting’, but an event to ketch a vibe and bird-watch (we’ll get to that later). Since then, Pan has become a requisite…

#Val: Project MAS-ccessory

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FACT – the average masquerader, without even realizing, spends at least TT$1000 in addition to their costume cost…*Cough*…”Designers, in Mas you either wine IN or OUT, wave left or right OR drop to the ground and roll!” (In Heidi Klum’s voice). You will now have till the end of this column to realize whether your costume this year will be properly ACCESSORIZED or become a proper hot messy ACCIDENT (Screeeeech…BADANG!!!). The months between launch and the road really is like entering Project Runway – challenge…

The Camel Toe Speaks

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Dear SCORCHers, At some point or another every woman has had an encounter with me. I mean I kinda get up in there. I puff out, hump up and make myself seen. I have my share of haters mostly from jealous b!tches or those who think they were morally appointed to judge me. Judgement passed regardless of if it’s that time of the month, the type of clothing material, nil or ill-fitting undergarments or just damn good genes. However, I can no longer take it…

10 People Yuh Go Find In Every Fete

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Yesterday, we gave you a crash course in ‘Fetiquette 101′, listing all the major do’s and don’ts for party-goers this Carnival season and beyond (hope allyuh had a good read and take heed!). As mentioned prior in the previous article, there are always certain characters that consistently appear in each and every Carnival outing. Whether it’s somebody in your crew, a random stranger in the party or you self, yuh bound to find one somewhere in the party. So, after critical acclaim, it only seems…

#VAL

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No stranger to the world of Mas, Social Media or Ole Talk, we welcome Valmiki Maharaj to the SCORCH team with his weekly installments of whatever the hell he feels like talking about. Coming to you every Wednesday. Enjoy!

30 Years, 1 Sound: The Iwer George Story

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The Boss. The Big Man in the Business. Call him what you want, Neil ‘Iwer’ George is a soca staple with a career that rivals perhaps only that of Machel Montano in longevity. Since his Road March runner-up ‘Boom Boom Time’ in 1987 (yes, NINETEEN EIGHTY-SEVEN! De man shelling down fete since before the coup!) Iwer has been dropping hit after hit, racking up 3 Soca Monarch titles, a Road March title and a slew of top 3 finishes in both competitions over a 30…

“Where all dem woman does come from daddayyyy?”: A question answered

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Every year as the long awaited Carnival season rolls around, people of the sweet republic of Trinbago swell with the anticipation of the massive star studded fetes, the rivers of alcohol, ‘bumpas like rain’ and the general euphoric atmosphere that completely envelops the entire country. However, there is one thing about this festive occasion that keeps most men up nights in sheer bafflement. A phenomenon as old as time that, for years, has gone unexplained…until now. That is, as young soca star on the rise,…

SCORCH Awards 2014

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Local Celebrity Scandal Winner: Room 201 Girls, Ganja and a Government Minister. If there was a Naparima Girls’ Bachannal Cookbook that would most certainly be the recipe for public scandal. Earlier this year in May, a video surfaced featuring a man who both looked and sounded like then Sports Minister Anil Roberts, rolling a small amount of marijuana in a hotel room whilst surrounded by a bevy of women. Despite the uncanny likeness in appearance and voice, Roberts adamantly denied that the self-proclaimed ‘two-pull man’…