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While Shaggy is in Ghana for the Reggaefest 2007, he might also perform at the Joy FM Old Schools Reunion that will be held in the Trade Fair Centre at La, Accra. More info at My Joy Online.

Upon request… Shaggy’s full tour schedule for August and September 2007 as well as the album release dates as known so far. You cannot derive any rights from any of the contents of this page or this site, it’s for informational purposes only and based on internet sources which might or might not be completely accurate.

August 4 BVI Heritage Festival, Emancipation Festiville, Festival Village, Tortola, Virgin Islands
August 5 Independence Sunday Market, Lawns of the OAS, Washington D.C.
August 8 New 2007 album Intoxication released in Japan
August 8 Singfest 2007, Fort Canning Park, Singapore (Big Yard has Phillippines)
August 10 Reggaefest 2007, AICC, Accra, Ghana
August 11 Reggaefest 2007, AICC, Accra, Ghana
August 12 Reggaefest 2007, AICC, Accra, Ghana (Big Yard has Liberia)
August 18 Champion in Action, Jamaica (NOT Mainz, Germany)
August 26 Leeds Reggae Concert, Potternewton Park, Leeds, UK (apparently NOT Trinidad). There will be a live online stream of the concert at BBC 1Xtra
August 27 Notting Hill Carnival, Rampage Stage, Notting Hill, UK (apparently NOT Guyana)
August 27 UK Church Heathen single release 
August 28 Notting Hill Carnival Afterparty Choice FM and BBC 1Xtra, Anon and South night clubs, London, UK
August 31 On the Reggae Tip, HOT97 FM, N.Y.
September 2 New York
September 6 FYE Stores Convention, New York
September 19 MOBO Awards, London
September 21 Club Lido, Boston
September 22 Club Crossroads, Washington D.C.
October 15 Jamaican National Heroes Day, Shaggy will receive an Order of Distinction in the Rank of Commander, Jamaica
October 5/16 Shaggy’s new Intoxication album will be released internationally

If there are no links present at the concert descriptions it means there is no further information available at this time (TBA).

Shaggy’s new 2007 studio album Intoxication has been released in Japan today! If you haven’t bought the album yet or you’re waiting for the international release date (which is not in August but in October) and if you wanna hear an audio preview of the album, it’s finally possible! The track list that’s in English on the link I’m going to give you is not completely right, see below for the correct tracklist (thanks to “Japanese Reader”).

Click here to listen to the Shaggy album, then click on a track you want to hear and an audio player pops up!

Alternative link to listen to Intoxication in Windows Media and Real Media format

So far I’ve heard nothing but positive comments on the upcoming album, if you bought it or are going to buy it please let us know what you think of it! I think Intoxication is a great album!

Intoxication track list
1. Can’t Hold Me
2. Bonafide Girl feat. Rik Rok and Tony Gold (Shanty Town Riddim a.k.a. Panty Town Riddim)
3. Intoxication
4. Those Days feat. Na’Sha
5. More Woman (Reggae Gold 2007)
6. Woman Scorn
7. Mad Mad World feat. Sizzla Kalonji & Collie Buddz
8. Outta Control feat. Rayvon
9. Church Heathen (Heathen Riddim)
10. Wear Di Crown feat. Mischieve
11. Criteria
12. Body A Shake
13. What’s Love feat. Akon
14. Holla At You
15. All About Love
16. Wrong Move *
17. Reggae Vibes (which is also on the Solomon Riddim) *

* = the asterisk indicates the song is a bonus track

Intoxication lyrics

Please note: all lyrics are © of their original owners, no copyright infringement intended. These lyrics were written using Robbo Ranx’ radio play of Intoxication, so they are incomplete and might possibly be a little off. Any comments on the words or more lyrics are very welcome!

“Yow!
I’m not crazy you know what’s up
You put something inna my drink

Listen gyal mi nah innah nuh freaky stuff
Mi nah mek nuh other man come straight me up
Nuff kisses you hold me and feel me up
Buy me drinks all night and booze me up
She tek three shots and it nah loose har up
Seh Shaggy drink and it a fix her up
Every time she go sleep she tipsy up
Bartender go sweet pon switch the cup

Listen woman me nuh know about weh you a think gyal
Feel like you put something in mi drink gyal
Cos you got me head stuck inna di sink gyal
And I can’t remember last night

I ain’t never gonna drink again
Before I take a sip I’m gonna think of when
I had sex with my woman best friend again
I can’t blame intoxication

Ain’t never gonna drink again
Before I take a sip I’m gonna think of when
I had sex with a girl I considered a friend
I can’t blame intoxication

Gyal a bounce pon me bed like trampolee
And a shake up me hip like tamboree
And a dive in di pool like swimmeree
Whips and shakes eh gyal how dat come in
Gyal ahug me pon di bed and a tie me up
…
Too much of one thing gyal we glide u up
She just sit on me lap and slide it up

Listen woman me nuh know what you a think gyal
Feel like you put something inna me drink gyal
‘Cause you got my head stuck inna di sink gyal
And I can’t remember last night

I ain’t never gonna drink again
Before I take a sip I’m gonna think of when
I had sex with my woman best friend again
I can’t blame intoxication

Ain’t never gonna drink again
Before I take a sip I’m gonna think of when
I had sex with a girl I considered a friend
I can’t blame intoxication

Baby mother on the phone say she coming early
Like plans at nine now it’s eight thirty
How me haffi explain bout her friend Shirley
How… when the sun comes up
booze yuh up
Couldn’t drive and drink so me sober up
Never want kill nuhbody upon the road come up

Listen woman me nuh know about what you a think gyal
Feel like you put something inna me drink gyal
Now you got my head stuck inna di sink gyal
And I can’t remember last night

I ain’t never gonna drink again
Before I take a sip I’m gonna think of when
I had sex with my woman best friend again
I can’t blame intoxication

Ain’t never gonna drink again
Before I take a sip I’m gonna think of when
I had sex with a girl I considered a friend
I can’t blame intoxication

I ain’t never gonna drink again
Before I take a sip I’m gonna think of when
I had sex with my woman best friend again
I can’t blame intoxication

Ain’t never gonna drink again
Before I take a sip I’m gonna think of when
I had sex with a girl I considered a friend
I can’t blame intoxication

…”

More Intoxication lyrics here (work in progress)

Shaggy will be performing at the Singfest 2007 in Fort Canning Park, Singapore today, as well as Cyndi Lauper, the Pet Shop Boys, the Stranglers, Sugar Ray and Sacha Bach Band. Cyndi Lauper, who performed together with Shaggy before and recorded “All Through the Night” on her latest album “The Body Acoustic” with Mr Lover Lover, told the gathered press at yesterday’s press conference that she’s looking forward to be on the same festival as Mr Boombastic and that she’s hoping to jam a little together with Shaggy at the concert. So Singfest 2007 attendees… you might be in for a real treat!

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Source. The flyer is © of its original owners, no copyright infringement intended.

Shaggy’s 2007 album Intoxication has been released in Japan today, I’ll have an item about the new album in not too much time so stay tuned or come back soon! As far as the rumors go about an upcoming Shaggy & Akon performance in Japan, I have no idea of whether they are true or not. Shaggy’s label and his MySpace don’t confirm anything either. If I find out anything, I’ll post it here!

Ad for the Singfest 2007 in Singapore, August 8 featuring Shaggy, Cyndi Lauper, the Pet Shop Boys and Gym Class Heroes

Shaggy Boombastic live at BVI Festival Village 2007 on August 4th in Tortola at the British Virgin Islands

Shaggy will NOT perform at the Rheinland Pfalz Open Air 2007 in Mainz, Germany on August 18
Shaggy had to cancel his performance at the RPR Rheinland Pfalz Open Air 2007 on August 18 in Mainz, Germany, due to personal reasons. RPR is happy to announce that although Shaggy would have made a great show, Rihanna will replace Mr Boombastic and band.

The Swiss radio station DRS3 will broadcast Shaggy’s concert at the AVO Session 2006 in Basel tonight. The concert will be broadcast in the program “DRS Konzertsommer” as well as concerts by Taj Mahal and Pink Floyd between 21.03h and 23.59h CEST (so it starts in a few minutes from now). Click on Web radio, then choose your settings (Windows Media Player or Real Player and off you go!

Listen here.

Shaggy’s and Rayvon’s Angel live at BVI Heritage Festival

Shaggy will be awarded with the Jamaican Order of Distinction (OD) in the rank of Commander (CD) for his music successes and promoting Jamaican music internationally, along with Byron Lee and other reggae pioneers. The awards will be presented on the Jamaican National Heroes Day, 15 October. Congratulations Shaggy on a very much deserved award!

Shaggy performs Church Heathen live in Tartola, Virgin Islands, on August 4 2007

Shaggy, Beres Hammond and Lady Saw pictures and show review at the British Virgin Islands Friday’s Reggae Night at Emancipation Festiville. Shaggy was a guest artist and performed a good show according to those who attended.

Shaggy was also interviewed by the Ladies of Reggae on the Reggae Sumfest 2007 in Jamaica. They broadcasted a radio show yesterday where they played More Woman, Bonafide featuring Rik Rok and Tony Gold on the Shanty Town a.k.a. Panty Town Riddim, Big up featuring Rayvon and Church Heathen. You can check out the above pic and their playlist on their blog, where Shaggy also dropped some words to promote their show. If the show will be available as a podcast (which it isn’t at this time) you’ll see here.

Chris Goldfinger from BBC Radio 1 did a special today on the Jamaican Reggae Sumfest 2007, where Shaggy and crew performed as well as LL Cool J, Ninja Man, Beenie Man & Barbee (!?! … if you know what I’m talking about), Elephant Man, Morgan Heritage, Assassin, Vybz Kartel and many, many more. He also did an interview with Shaggy, which you can listen to until next week’s show on Goldfinger’s page.

There’s also a gallery of pictures of the performances and interviews of Shaggy, Rik Rok, LL Cool J, Beenie Man & Barbee, Assassin, Aidonia, Cherine Anderson, Cham, Morgan Heritage, Ninja Man, Wayne Marshall, Gyptian, Christopher Martin, Lutan Fyah, Chuck Fender, Kiprich, Macka Diamond, Da’Ville, Lady Saw, Einstein, Mavado, Little Hero, Elephant Man, Mr Vegas, Buju Banton, Etana, Munga Honourable, Voicemail, Busy Signal and Vybz Kartel here. Shaggy is in pictures 29 to 31. Although orange looks good on him, I think I prefer picture 31 to 29. What do you think?

Speaking of Shaggy photos (see below), the Cayman Islands Summerfest 2007 concert photo gallery is up! You can see Shaggy, Rayvon, Rik Rok, Kiprich, Na’Sha, Tony Gold, Dubwise, JG, Notch and more here, here and here (the links lead to the same galleries that are on different radio stations’ web sites).

Shaggy has done a promo shot for his upcoming 2007 album Intoxication and he looks pretty cool! I got one relatively large image for PR use, so you can check it out yourself!

Image is copyright of its original owners, no copyright infringement intended, just for promotional purposes, thnx Mhiva from Japan!

Here’s a preview of the track list of the new album and the album cover, the cover is not the real one, but just to give you an idea of what it is going to look like big sized (no copyright infringement intended, image is copyright of its original owners, blocks were added, edited for preview use by shaggy.v3x.biz). In case you’re wondering, you’ve already seen this information if you have been watching this blog. Intoxication will be released in Japan on August 8 2007; the international version of the album will be released in the second week of October 2007 according to two articles.

1. Can’t Hold Me
2. Bonafide Girl feat. Rik Rok and Tony Gold (Shanty Town Riddim a.k.a. Panty Town Riddim)
3. Intoxication
4. Those Days feat. Na’Sha
5. More Woman
6. Woman Scorn
7. Mad Mad World feat. Sizzla Kalonji & Collie Buddz
8. Outta Control feat. Rayvon
9. Church Heathen (Heathen Riddim)
10. Wear Di Crown feat. Mischieve
11. Criteria
12. Body A Shake
13. What’s Love feat. Akon
14. Holla At You
15. All About Love
16. Wrong Move *
17. Reggae Vibes (which is also on the Solomon Riddim) *

* = the asterisk indicates the song is a bonus track

If you haven’t heard Shaggy’s hot new tunes Bonafide Love (this song is also going to be on Shaggy’s upcoming album Intoxication) featuring Rik Rok and Tony Gold and Yuh A Move Hype on the 2007 Shanty Town Riddim a.k.a. Panty Town Riddim yet (or Da’Ville’s Fling It Up or Collie Buddz feat. Roache’s Sensimilia), you now have the chance to listen to the songs on Robbo Ranx‘s Thursday Dancehall Splurt (right at the beginning of the recording). The broadcast will be available until next Thursday, so you still have a week to listen to them!

And there’s more UK news, so UK readers listen up! Shaggy will be performing at the free Leeds Reggae Concert on August 26 in Potternewton Park in Leeds, together with Freddy McGregor, Mr Vegas, Wayne Wonder and a vast number of UK reggae acts. If you’re not from the UK or you can’t attend, there’s no problem, since BBC 1Xtra will broadcast the concert live!

(So I guess Shaggy’s concert in Trinidad on August 26 that Big Yard has on its site is not going to happen.)

A new interview article of Shaggy, Rayvon, Rik Rok and Notch at the Cayman Islands press conference including a large picture of Shaggy just got posted online. It’s all about music, go check it out here!

Some more articles about Shaggy’s upcoming performance at the Jamaican Independence Sunday Market at the lawns of the Organization of American States in Washington D.C. on August 5, which will celebrate Jamaica’s 45 years of independence anniversary, are online. A good source if you wanna check out more links is at the Read Express by the Washington Post. There are also some announcements on the site of the Jamaican Embassy and the Jamaican Information Service.

As for the Singfest 2007 in Singapore on August 8, I got a couple of requests for the promo flyer. I heard you might be able to get the student discount flyer at HMV, but I’m not sure of that. If you want to know where to get your tickets and get the large flyer, go here. Flyer is © of its original owners, no copyright infringement intended.

Did anyone from Japan catch the MTV Japan Shaggy special yet? If you did or do, please let us know how it was!

I found a Rayvon & Rik Rok & Shaggy performance on YouTube that I hadn’t added yet, and there’s also a live interview video of Rik Rok, Shaggy, Notch at the VIP Party at the Cayman Islands concert last week:

Rayvon, Rik Rok and Shaggy Bounce & 2-Way (low quality) at the Rock the Tempo concert 2007 at the Virgin Islands

Rik Rok, Shaggy and Notch at the Cayman Islands V.I.P. Party

Guess who’s featured in the new video from Da’Ville featuring Sean Paul, the Always on My Mind Remix? Yup, it’s Mr Lover Lover Shaggy! The song sounds good, if you wanna see Shaggy you can watch the video below!

Shaggy’s wild, enthusiastic performance at the Rototom Sunsplash 2007 was a big success and there are even more videos of it online now! First of all, there’s a video of Shaggy singing Boombastic at the sound check which is followed by an interview. In the interview, Shaggy compares the success of his music in Europe, the rest of the world and the U.S., he speaks about freedom of speech, he tells he’s against violence and gives his opinion on the current situation in Iraq, his experiences in the first Gulf War and the current global refugee problems and he also tells more about his upcoming 2007 album Intoxication and what the next single of his new album might be.

“We have more success in Europe than in America. America is such a big market, that we end up selling a lot more records, but we have more hits here in Europe. I think we have a very long and lasting relationship with Europe and the rest of the world.”

“The type of artists and songs is so appealing to the mainstream, but most of the time I don’t target the mainstream.”

“I think everybody has an opinion and a right to an opinion. I’m not condoning any acts of violence towards any human being, whether young, old, race, black, white, other sexually oriented or otherwise. Inflicting any kind of harm towards any other human being is wrong. It gets us nowhere. You should be able to say what you wanna say, nobody should be chastised for their opinions. ”

“Music for me is spreading love and happiness to people.”

“My new album is entitled Intoxication, it is produced by Tony Kelly, Sting International, Robert Livingston, Christopher Birch, to name a few, featuring a song by Sizzla Kalonji and Collie Buddz, Akon on Give Me Some Blessings On It (on the Japanese track listing it is called What’s Love), a song with Shaggy and Rayvon of course, a Shaggy and Rik Rok collaboration called Bonafide Love which probably will be our next hit single, so all is well.”

• Shaggy performing Boombastic live at the sound check and interview video
• Hot video of Shaggy, Rayvon, Na’Sha and Tony Gold at the opening and performing Wild 2Nite, Hot Gal and Bashment Party!
• Search for more interviews at the source or see when they are broadcast in the rss podcast live feed

And finally, there’s another video online at MySpace of Shaggy and Rayvon performing Oh Carolina and The Rivers of Babylon. The videos above are of much better quality, if you wanna see more videos please visit the July 2007 Shaggy news and videos archive.

Shaggy Oh Carolina and Rayvon Rivers of Babylon at Rototom Sunsplash (bad sound quality, you’ll find better ones above and in the July 2007 Shaggy news and videos archive)
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