San­dra L Blood

Should the lis­ten­ers-in­clud­ing the ad­ju­di­ca­tors-have heard any­thing less than a per­fect per­for­mance, how would they know it's not a re­sult of the rip­ple ef­fect of the pre-per­for­mance com­mo­tion, com­pound­ed by the con­stant flow of mu­sic in-be­tween the per­for­mance? The dis­tur­bance of the mind and spir­it caused by some au­da­cious DJs, some self­ish peo­ple who ev­i­dent­ly lacked re­spect and dis­ci­pline; some per­son or peo­ple who do not re­al­ly care about the art form or what is hap­pen­ing on stage? Peo­ple who had spent more than $300 just to come and "lime," get­ting bar­gain of a deal all-in­clu­sive bram, and bring­ing their own DJ as well to dis­rupt the se­ri­ous busi­ness of a pres­ti­gious steel­band mu­sic fes­ti­val?

No re­spect for pan

What an in­sult to the per­form­ers, and in­tegri­ty of the show by ex­ten­sion! Weren't they aware a se­ri­ous mu­si­cal com­pe­ti­tion was in progress? Clear­ly not, for they had se­cured po­si­tion be­hind the stands, on 'The Greens', obliv­i­ous to, or un­car­ing about, what was tran­spir­ing in front of the mas­sive stands. Who is to be held ac­count­able for the men­tal, spir­i­tu­al and psy­cho­log­i­cal dis­rup­tion that caused Rene­gades' demise push­ing them to 13th place? What do the rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties have to say for the breach of in­tegri­ty of their show? Oth­er big bands en­coun­tered de­lays of their own do­ing as their sup­port­ers re­fused to clear the stage, but not de­lays as lengthy as that en­dured by Rene­gades', and the in­con­sid­er­ate play­ing of mu­sic. Tak­ing what tran­spired, and all of the above in­to ac­count, I think the ho­n­ourable thing to do is to al­low Rene­gades to be judged for the fi­nals. For they have been dealt a blow un­de­serv­ing to them, aris­ing out of the bla­tant lack of re­gard of some pa­trons of the show...be­cause Rene­gades is Ready!

San­dra L Blood played sev­en-bass with Rene­gades at Panora­ma semis.