Mood:  d'oh
Topic: Tired of the Politricks
The price of 'bad words'



NO MATTER HOW long an entertainer spends on the stage during a particular performance, it is nowhere as much as the time - or the effort - that has gone into making things just right for him or her.

Even before the advertising and entire promotion effort begins, there is the planning stage and, most importantly, the seeking of sponsorship. Then there is preparing the venue, which may or may not include building a stage, putting in the proper light and sound, parking, the backdrop - all those things that many people take for granted, just so that the performer can go and deliver for the (hopefully) eager audience.

Spoiling things

So, when an entertainer goes on stage and contravenes the rules of the promoter and especially the police in his or her performance time, they are using their little portion of the expenditure of time and effort that it has taken for the show to be put on to spoil things for everyone.

And that is what Fantan Mojah did at Western Consciousness last weekend.


Fantan Mojah - file


Charged a paltry $1,000 in the courts, Fantan Mojah will come off looking like a folk hero to the boot-licking masses who see any defiance of any sort to be something to be applauded. How many of those who might cry 'low de deejay' will be thinking of the promoter, who has invested all his time and money and who will have the unenviable task of going to seek support for next year's staging of the show with this image of cursing and bottle throwing fresh in the corporate mind?

I always contend that while there is no such thing as a 'bad wud', but an event that an entertainer has been paid to perform at for a set time, within the limits of the promoter's rules and the rule of law, is not the place to show that you are defiant. That is a matter of simply getting cheap 'respect' from a set of people who are, simply put, very dunce.

No. If an entertainer wants to be defiant of the laws against certain language, go through the process of putting on an event yourself and then curse all you want. Or, better yet, simply stand up in front of a policeman or police station and let the 'claats' rip. Then I would say a person is serious.

But do not take people's hard-earned money and then proceed to make a mockery of their hard work.