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Voicemail wants to know if you're Ready to Party

Reggae group Voicemail promises a concert where attendees should ?come out ready to party, ready to sing (and) ready to enjoy yourself? tomorrow night.

Spanish Town Entertainment presents Splashout ?06 at Horseshoe Bay tomorrow night featuring the ?Jamaican Jiggas? Voicemail as part of the Bermuda One Love concert series.

Local acts include Ninja Cutty, Tiny T, King Jyrus, Vybez Alliance and DJ Scoobay.

The Royal Gazette spoke with group member O?Niel Edwards ? son of reggae great Rupie Edwards ? about what he anticipates for the show. Voicemail includes Craig Jackson, Kevin Blaire along with O?Niel who specialise in Dancehall music with an R&B flair. Their songs include ?Weh Di Time?, ?Ready to Party (Weh Di Time 2)?, ?Jamaican Jiggas? and ?Wacky Dip?.

The concert will take place tomorrow night at Horseshoe Bay. Gates open at 9 p.m. with the show beginning at 10 p.m.

Tickets are $30 in advance and $40 at the gate. They can be purchased at Dub City, Music World, Logic on Burnaby Street and www.bdatickets.com.With the recent release of their first album Hey on VP Recrods, the guys are all set to perform for the first time in Bermuda. The group has been together since 1999 and started as a quintet.

When asked how he found his love for reggae, O?Niel said: ?We grew up on that, remember we live in Jamaica, hearing it every day on the radio. My dad was involved and Craig?s brother is in Scared Dem Crew.?

He said they have been performing for several years but he knew he wanted to be a performer since he was a child.

As far as inspiration goes, O?Niel says: ?It comes form a number of different places ? people, going to different sessions. You kind of get ideas on different topics and ideas and things to talk about based on what?s happening in the dancehall. You go out and see dancers performing and doing all the new dances.

?You get inspiration to come up with themes and melodies. You get different topics, different places at different times. It?s not just one set place. Sometimes you can get a riddim and different things come to the head just like that depending how good it is or how the melody is.?

He couldn?t predict what the highlights for the evening will be. ?You can never tell. Voicemail is a very energetic group. You can?t plan it ? depends on the crowd. Just come out in the numbers and come out ready to party, ready to sing (and) ready to enjoy yourself.?