Super Blue, Road March Winner 2013

Super, Super, Super, the results are out the people have chosen. Austin "Super Blue" Lyons is the new 2013 Road March winner, beating his closest rival by several miles.  Bands crossing the stage played his song "Fantastic Friday" a total of 511 times Monday and Tuesday.  This is Super Blue’s 9th Road Monarch title.

Super blue made his heroic return to the art form after more than 10 years. Last Friday the soca king had to  shared the 2013 Power Soca Monarch title with Machel Montano. Mantona who yesterday said that the race for road march seems to be a close one had to settle for second as his song "Float" was on played a meager 56 times. Super Blue has now dethroned Montano who won last year’s Road March title with “Pump Yuh Flag”.

Machel Super Blue Slug it out for Road March

AS if to mirror the outcome of the results of the 2013 Soca Monarch Competition on Fantastic Friday, in which Austin "SuperBlue" Lyons and Machel Montano tied for first place, most of the bands crossing the stage at the Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain, yesterday chose "Fantastic Friday" and "Float" as their songs of choice.

In fact the trend was started by Bliss—the very first major band to put in an appearance at 11.30 a.m. with its presentation Savage Beauty. Its DJ first played SuperBlue's "Fantastic Friday" followed by Machel's "Float".

Another large band, Tribe, quickly followed with its presentation Butterflies, Beasts and Bacchanal. Its first song of choice was "Float" but it too jumped and waved to "Fantastic Friday".

The majority of the masqueraders, as is customary on a Carnival Monday, opted not to wear their full costumes and made little, if any, effort to get in a section. Most of them were clad in costumes specifically designed to be worn on day one of the revelry.

The situation was different with the traditional mas players from bands such as the Chinese Minstrells Band, the Original Jab Jab Band, Vintage People with its fancy Indian presentation Satinka—Magical Dancer, Belmont Original Stylish Sailors with Under D Big Top, Tribal Connection Cultural Promotion with Visions of Crazy Horse and Touch D Sky Jumbies with Mokos of Rebellion.

Although moving quickly across the stage, the masqueraders savoured the moment most of them were preparing for.

Among the other bands parading before the judges and a sparsely populated North and Grand Stands were Wee International's Magnifique...Earth's Most Colourful Creatures, Genesis' Mirror Mirror Who is The...Spice Carnival Band Ltd with Let's Dance and Island People Mas/Spirit International with Re-Humanize.

Defending champion in the Medium category The Word and Associates, more popularly called "the Catholic band", crossed the stage at around 1.15 p.m. with its presentation Leviticus and it too chipped to Fantastic Friday.

By 3 p.m. 21 bands had already made their way across the stage and on to the other judging points around the city of Port of Spain. 

Reproduced from Trinidadexpress