Marc Chung
“POOTIE”
Vocals
Every couple of decades a new musical genius emerges… from Beethoven to Frank Sintra… Jimi Hendrix to Kurt Cobain.
Marc “Pootie” Chung is not one of these people. In fact, he has no idea why there needs to be a page dedicated to his musical prowess when he does not consider himself a musican at all… just a dude who writes dumb songs.
Why are you still even reading? What you want me to tell you? He bathes twice a day, once on Sunday…. He likes video games and girls and gives a shit about the environment.
Hes been trying to bring back the term ‘Bitchin’ for a lil while now and would appreciate if people started using it again.
Bitchin’…
Christian Rambissoon
“CHEESE”
Guitarist
Hailing from the quiet plains of Mt Stewart , Christian “Cheese” Rambissoon got his start in music at a young age, playing classical piano.
But come cxc exam stress time he discovered rock guitar and never put it down. He joined his first band Gregorys Dream after form 6 and rocked all the way into uwi med-sci.
From there he took an almost 20year break before joining PATSF, learning the guitar all over again, adding some backing vocals along the way and having fun jammin with this bunch of fellow crazies. He also thinks he can drum 👀.
In his off time he’s usually on the beach or playing with RC cars, when not dabbling in the medical field during the day
Stuart Wallace
“SWAG”
Drummer
Hailing from the mean streets of Block 5 Palmiste I have my father to thank for my love of music. He exposed me at a young age to everything from Bob Marley to Simon and Garfunkel to Judas Priest.
Picked up a guitar at the age of 15 and then realized shortly after that wasn’t for me. I realized that I would always tap my fingers or my feet to a beat and decided to try my hands at drums. It snowballed from there.
Formed my first bamd while I was in secondary school called CoBoLiZeD and hit the local circuit hard. From there I was in and out of a few outfits, most notably, Fever Dog, Surgeon Generals, and Goodnight Parliament.
All different styles of music but all original bands. So I decided to jump into Pootie under the assumption that it was going to be a 90’s cover band. This turned out to be false and I’ve been trapped here ever since.
Allan Lalla
Guitar | Random Backing Vocals
Born and bred in San Fernando, Allan would not call himself a multi-talented musician, but if you did, he would take it. His musical pursuits began with learning to play 90s dancehall on the piano on his own and 90s rock on the guitar which later led to the founding of the band Howling Dog in 2008. Known for his innovative musical twists and renditions of popular songs, Allan’s performances seamlessly blend reggae, rock, pop and soca.
As a guitarist and keyboardist for “Pootie and the Saltfish,” Allan has been referenced as the sanest “least crazy” member of the band. His style adds a flexibility to the band’s unique “Trini-Glad” genre.
Off the stage, Allan is an IT professional and is known to be annoyingly overly logical in all decisions.
Jerome Girdharrie
Bass Guitarist
Before there was Pootie and the Saltfish, there was piano class. It lasted exactly one year because Common Entrance was serious business and smashing up music class wasn’t a career move yet. Fast forward through a musical blackout and suddenly our future Saltfish bassist resurfaces in Gregory’s Dream, somewhere between 1995 and 2001, making noise (good noise) at World Beat Festival in Jenny’s car park alongside legends like Orange Sky, Jointpop and 3 Canal.
Enter Isolate via a fateful call from Riyad Boochoon and boom, Anchorage Pop Music Awards champions, walking off with the fattest cash prize ever. No biggie. Until 2004 that is, when Fever Dog barked into being featuring Kiwan, Devin Harrypaul and a slew of gigs so intense the names of the bands they opened for evaporated from memory. Still, they nabbed second place at Anchorage like champs.
Then came The Sky is Falling, an appropriately chaotic name for a band so mysterious the bassist can’t even recall what the other guys’ original band was called. The Sky might’ve fallen around 2010 but our Saltfish soldier floated on to Jointpop. Though technically he was never officially in the band. He just showed up every Tuesday for 12 years and nobody told him to leave. In that time he shared stages with Dolores from The Cranberries, Collective Soul, Kansas and yes, Blue Oyster Cult (whoever they are). Plus four UK tours, Caribbean shows and five albums. No paperwork necessary.
From there? Fuego Caribbean, a parang-powered party train from 2018 to 2023. Christmas in Silver Stars Panyard, gigs at the British High Commissioner’s residence and enough Latin spice to make a steelpan sweat.
And scattered between all that? More bands, forgotten timelines and even a stint in Trans Zen, sending demos to Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. Why? Because Nigel Thomas felt like it.
Which brings us, finally, to Pootie and the Saltfish. In 2024 he officially joined the madness, replacing his old Fever Dog bandmate Devin Harrypaul on bass. Full circle.
Pootie and the Saltfish: where genres collide, band names are wild and every Tuesday might just change your life.