New­town Play­boys will this year be at­tempt­ing to se­cure a hat-trick of wins in the Na­tion­al Sin­gle Pan Panora­ma com­pe­ti­tion.

But could this be the band's last year in the Panora­ma?

For­mer Port-of-Spain may­or Keron Valen­tine, the di­rec­tor of New­town Play­boys has hint­ed as much.

The New­town Play­boys formed in 2015 are the reign­ing Na­tion­al Sin­gle Pan Panora­ma Cham­pi­ons of 2017 and 2018.

And Valen­tine said the pan­side is "all poised and ready to de­fend its crown".

The pre­lim­i­nary round of pa­n­yard judg­ing takes place at the New­town Play­boys' Tragerete Road pan the­atre on Tues­day.

This year the band will be per­form­ing the 1990 Road March "No No We Eh Go­ing Home" by Christo­pher 'Tam­bu' Her­bert.

The song is arranged by two of the band's young arrangers Aaron Pereira and Richye Joseph un­der the mu­si­cal di­rec­tion Tony 'Pan Jumbie' Williams, Valen­tine said.

"Play­boys is all geared up and ex­cit­ed to jeal­ous­ly de­fend its throne and will leave no stone un­turned in do­ing so," Valen­tine said.

Valen­tine said he was "very up­beat and op­ti­mistic" about his band's par­tic­i­pa­tion in the com­pe­ti­tion while hint­ing that it may very well be its last per­for­mance in the Sin­gle Pan Panora­ma Com­pe­ti­tion.

"For us in New­town Play­boys, Panora­ma is just a small part of our ex­is­tence in the steel­pan are­na. We are more fo­cused on our lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al per­for­mances such as Bar­ba­dos Crop Over, Mi­a­mi Car­ni­val and Youth Fes­ti­vals, South Ko­re­an Ex­pos to name a few. And of course many of our lo­cal gigs and per­for­mances right here at home," he said.

The band is al­so look­ing for­ward to Trinidad and To­ba­go's host­ing of Car­ifes­ta XIV lat­er this year.

New­town Play­boys rep­re­sent­ed this coun­try as part of a cul­tur­al del­e­ga­tion in Bar­ba­dos in the last leg of Car­ifes­ta in 2017.

The band is spon­sored by The House of An­gos­tu­ra and its brand White Oak.