Trinidad Guardian Feb 20, 2019
Four-time Panorama champions Republic Bank Exodus Steel Orchestra will not be able to change its tune of choice for the Panorama final according to a unanimous decision of Pan Trinbago.
However, Exodus’ manager Ainsworth Mohammed said the band will be taking Pan Trinbago to court to challenge its decision.
Speaking to Guardian Media, Mohammed confirmed that the band was verbally informed of Pan Trinbago’s decision and has already started drafting legal documents to challenge it.
“We are going to court over this. We are taking them to court,” Mohammed said.
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Good for Exodus! Hope they can play it for Panorama Finals. There is good history for allowing this change of tune. Before Panorama was created, steel bands would often prepare a "Bomb tune" in secret, to surprise and best rival steel bands they might meet on the road and have a show down with! It is still common to save a passage, key change, or run for Finals night. Does anyone expect the Renegades to play exactly what they played at the semi-finals? Every steel band should be allowed to play anything they want at panorama, once they have qualified to be included! Shake up the Savannah grass.
What Pantrinbago has actually said was, there are no stipulations or provisions in the rules that prohibit you (Exodus Steel Orch.) from changing your song for the finals, however you can't because WE SAY SO!, sounds familiar hint (Donald Trump). The label they are creating for themselves is one of a dictator. This is a monumental mistake the administrations has committed. If they know Ainsworth Mohammad at all (and they should) they would know he will not make a decision about something like this unless he was absolutely sure he had solid grounds to stand on, also he would not accept this and just walk away, he would do exactly what he is doing, "taking them to court".
They (Pantrinbago) are setting themselves up for a court fight one which they will loose. that is well illustrated in some of the comments posted and the fact that they don't have legal standing for their decision.
Pantrinbago be smart and be big, reverse your decision, you will in the eyes of every Pan lover, follower and supporter, all over this world look better.
Thank you in advance.
Hope she listens to YOU -- Mr. Keith Marcelle!!!
#1 - I am not aware that there is not rule that a band cannot change a tune
#2- There is precedent that this had been done before "Solo Harmionites"
#3- The term tune or song is open to interpretation. A band can play an entirely new arrangement (8 -9 minutes)
of the tune that they played for preliminaries or semifinals. Is this considered a new or different tune or song?
You don't have to be a ROCKET LAWYER to figure this out.
Rocket Lawyer, thas funny!
Panorama finals is a NEW competition. Has nutten to do with what happened last week, last month, in de yard, outa de yard. Each band plays ONE song and iz dat.
The judges take a decision on what they are hearing at the point and time. Not what thay want to hear, or what they have heard before. At every stage of the competition the bands start with a clean sheet. What is wrong with a band changing its tune? Are the judges coming with preconceived notions?
Michael Joseph… I don’t know what country Panorama you are talking about. There is no clean sheet start in a panorama. Bands are given a judge’s critique at the end of the prelims. Bands rectify that in the semifinals where they are critiqued again. This is why the same judges are used from Prelims to Finals. There was a time when 7 judges were used and that was after controversy between Desperadoes and Renegades when we had a few judges favoring a particular band and awarding them extraordinary high marks. We have seen that in the prelims when one judge awarded much higher marks than the other 3 judges. With 7 judges you can eliminate the highest and lowest score and keep 5, that offers a lesser chance of a tie between bands. Even number judges are always a bad idea. I guess it is a cost saving effect.
Short and Simple. What is their problem?
Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! PanTrinbago cannot change their "tune" midstream either. They are not a law unto themselves. This discussion should have been set for March 7th, 2019. We have been branded a lawless society . See why?
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