Shaggy will headline the Beach-a-rama festival at the Splashmin’s Fun Park in Guyana tomorrow, on December 16, according to Stabroek News. Other artists on the festival are among others Natural Black, Destra and Tami Chynn.
On December 18 Mr Lover Lover will perform at the Power 96 Christmas Party (tickets) in Café Iguana on Pines Blvd., Pembroke Pines in Florida, U.S. alongside Trina, Stevie B, Casely, Rick Ross, Grind Mode, Yungen, Liyah and DJ Laz.
On December 29 he will be in Trinidad and on December 31 Shaggy will do a special New Year’s Eve Bash show together with Collie Budzz in Bermuda, about which you can read all in the Bermuda Sun.
For a full list of tour dates you can visit this site’s Concert dates page.
Shaggy will release a single for the UEFA Soccer EURO 2008 Cup, together with the official mascottes Trix and Flix. The disco-dance-pop song is called “Like A Superstar” and will be released on January 4 2008! Source – Source.
Mister Lover Lover on the 411Mister Boombastic in Amsterdam – for more videos of Shaggy at the NIKE end of the year party in the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, go here
This site wasn’t available for a couple of days, sorry for that! A big thank you to my web host for getting the whole network including my site working again! So here are the main parts of news that I posted elsewhere as well:
December 8 – Shaggy is currently in Ireland to promote his new 2007 album Intoxication. Tonight at 9.55pm Mister Lover Lover will be on Tubrity Tonight on RTE One, where show host Ryan Tubridity will interview him as well as Irish acting legend David Kelly, ‘The Afternoon Show’s Blathnaid Ni Chofaigh, ‘Nob Nation’ star Oliver Callan and ‘Fair City’ duo Dave Duffy and ‘Fair City Sings’ Sorcha Furlong. Source.
December 9 – Shaggy and Rayvon opened the stage for Mr Vegas in a surprise performance at Workers Comp Afterwork Thursday at Dirty Disco with HOT97FM’s Jabba, Bobby Konders and Mr Cee on December 6. You can view some pictures here.
December 10 – Shaggy on Sizzla in a Sizzla interview When the Walls Fall
December 11 – HOT97FM.com Thirsday Afterwork Party Dirty Disco with Mister Cee, Bobby Konders, Jabba and Shaggy
Did you ever dream of meeting Shaggy? If you could ask Mister Boombastic one question, what would it be?
Well, here’s your chance to win tickets to the exclusive “An Audience with Shaggy” in Second Life! To mark the release of Shaggy’s new single, Bonafide Girl, which is currently #1 on the iTunes Charts, you’re invited to join the Facebook group “If I Met Shaggy In Second Life, This Is What I’d Ask Him”. The first 150 fans to join the Facebook group will be guaranteed access to the event, which will take place in a secret location in Second Life in the New Year.
Videos of Shaggy’s Intoxication album will be shown, before Mr. Lover Lover arrives to hang out with his fans and answer their questions. And that’s not even all, if you’re one of the winners you’ll receive an exclusive goodie bag “filled with limited edition t-shirts and gold jewellery”, says Joy Ellington of reggae record label VP. So, if you’re a Shaggy fan or if you wanna ask Mister Lover Lover a question, what are you waiting for?
Shaggy will be at the launch of the Irie TV network at 6 p.m. today at 1604 Broadway, Times Square, Manhattan, New York City. Irie TV is launching an Internet Protocol Service and several Caribbean artists, among whom Shaggy and Wyclef Jean, will attend the event. Source: Hard Beat News.
Besides the embedded video below of It Wasn’t Me and Angel festival goers also uploaded 11 other ones of this magnificent show: 2 – 3 – 4– 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12. Enjoy!
Shaggy performed at the Turn on the Pop at the large Live and Loud KL07 festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, yesterday. Shaggy’s concert was awesome according to everyone I heard or read from so far, he really got the crowd dancing and the party started. There’s a video of Shaggy performing Hope last night at the LNLKL07 below, it looks and sounds like a hot show to me as well!
Shaggy designs NIKEiD Dunk Low
Take a sneak peek at the shoe that Mister Boombastic Shaggy designed for NIKE and MTV’s Staying Alive at Digi Today. Click on the picture to enlarge it and see Shaggy’s signatures as well! The exclusive pair of shoes will be auctioned for the MTV Staying Alive anti-HIV/AIDS Foundation at MTV NIKEiD Auction starting December 6 2007.
Anti-HIV video message UNICEF Malaysia Video (Shaggy’s video is in the right column, search for international reggae artist Shaggy video and click on high or low to see either a high or low bandwidth version of the video).
Tour dates
Shaggy is performing today in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at the LIVE & LOUD KL 2007. Andy Francis Anggi has pics of the tickets and a flyer for today’s Turn of the Pop featuring among others Shaggy, Whitney Houston and Elliot Yamin. If you want more info about the LNKL07, you can visit the official site.
As for other tour dates, here’s more info about Shaggy’s December 16 concert at the Mc Neal Entertainment ‘Beacharama’ in Splashmin’s Fun Park in Guyana. Shaggy will headline the concert and Destra Garcia, Rikki Jai and Natural Black will also perform.
Shaggy designs for NikeID Footwear and MTV Staying Alive
MTV and NIKE are working together to raise money for HIV and AIDS education and prevention through a worldwide online celebrity auction. Shaggy, Snoop Dogg, Craig David and Kelly Rowland designed Nike Dunk Lows at this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards, of which one pair will be auctioned for the anti-HIV/AIDS cause. You will be able to find more info at the MTV / NIKE Ebay page.
For more Shaggy on MTV, you can view some pictures of Shaggy and Styles P visiting MTV2’s Sucker Free show at Film Magic, Getty Images (search for Shaggy in Editorial) and View Images. The tv show episode is yet to air.
There are also other new Shaggy photos at Rex Features from an event earlier last month. As for other events, Shaggy also attended the launch of the NIKE Jordan Melo M4 basketball shoe in New York last night and maybe his designing for NIKE might be related to the NIKE event Shaggy will be attending next week in either Holland or Ireland (there are two countries listed for the event but no further details were announced – I got a couple of questions as to time and date but none here has any specific answers, sorry guys – when / if there’s more info it will also be posted on this site).
Essence Shaggy interview
What inspired Shaggy to write Church Heathen? What’s his favourite song from his new 2007 album Intoxication? Essence Magazine interviewed Shaggy all of this, the Marines, his music, the record industry, being a dad and more, you can read the full interview here: page 1 and 2 (if the direct links don’t work, gor for the “Shaggy’s Big Comeback” article or buy the magazine).
Shaggy discusses Intoxication in an ECTV interview with EL X Man of El Circuito TV
In today’s post you’ll find a lot of interview videos where Shaggy promotes his new 2007 album Intoxication and his new 2007 single Bonafide Girl. Shaggy visited Mike Schneider’s Night Talk show on Bloomberg on November 21 and here are the videos! Also, there’s a video from MTV’s World AIDS Day specials and an interview for Hugs for Harlem.
Shaggy on sex commercials: Safe Sex vs. No Sex from MTV World AIDS Day Concert special
Shaggy interview video by Mike Green Exclusive Hugs for Harlem
Night Talk with Mike Schneider on Bloomberg Shaggy interview video Part I: music, not being on a major record company anymore, his label
Bloomberg Night Talk Shaggy interview video Part II: music, Jamaica, the Marines and his early years
Bloomberg Night Talk Shaggy interview video Part III: performing concerts all around the globe, his influences and his new music
Shaggy performed at the Universal City Walk in Hollywood to promote his new 2007 album Intoxication. He also met up with fans and signed albums. Watch a video of Shaggy, Rik Rok, Michael Fletcher and more to the music of Can’t Hold Me at the Universal City Walk in Hollywood at Digital Mind Productions.
Shaggy also visited Mike Schneider’s Late Night show on Bloomberg TV on November 21 and here’s some promotion for another show, Headliners.
The Jamaica Gleaner interviewed Shaggy about his new album Intoxication. Although promotion for the album started late, everything is going well, according to Shaggy. His favourite song on his new album is Woman Scorn and he also likes What’s Love featuring Akon, Mad, Mad World feat. Sizzla Kalonji and Collie Buddz and Outta Control ft. Rayvon a lot. As for the near future, Mr Boombastic will shoot a video clip for his upcoming single What’s Love and have a couple of more music videos hit the streets in Jamaica. Next year he’ll start touring. You can read it all here.
If you wanna read another interview with Shaggy about Intoxication, visit yesterday’s Jamaica Observer. Shaggy’s new 2007 album Intoxication has reached the #1 spot on the Billboard Reggae Charts within the first week of its release!