This week, amid the turmoil in Guyana over parking meters coming to Georgetown, I ended up, along with Mighty Gabby, on an NCN interview promoting the weekend’s Rupununi Musical Festival event in the city. Inevitably the interviewer asked about the song ‘Postpone’ I had just released on the parking meter issue. Only two days old, the song was popping up all over the place, including a push-cart vendor airing it at a street protest, and via several thousand hits on the Movement Against Parking Meters website. Against that background, we got into a discussion with Mark Watson on NCN who had remarked about the efficacy of music as a persuader in recent times. In brief, my point was that the song I had written on the parking meter controversy in Georgetown, is in the tradition of calypso music where a variety of topics in current life – some serious, some not – are addressed by the song-writer.
