HEAVY K A No Show At Go Green Festival
Kgotso Kennekae | Tuesday October 8, 2013 00:18
The show held at Lions Park Resort, was meant to sensitise the public on the environmental conservation and degradation. The organisers of the show highly advocated for use of renewable energy as opposed to use of energies that could harm planet earth if discarded carelessly.
The show which boosted a line up of a mix of leading deejays and musos in Botswana including, DJ O'Neal, Franix, Scar, Linxstar, Team Distant, Chrispin the drummer, Ricky Lamar, NT Base, DJ Kellz, DJ Kuchi, Ozzy the Great, with DJ Ralf Gum (Germany) and Heavy K (South Africa) along side the local acts.
Spectacular performances from DJ Kuchi and DJ Ricky Lamar kept the crowd on their toes for the most part of the show. Heavy K and DJ Ralf Gum were meant to headline the event but it was Team Distant who offered the best performance of the night.
The group comprising of four males, on the percussion instruments being Roy K Kasale, shakers and tambourines by Aaron Riise Motlhabani, on the decks Kgosi AfroZest Toto and lastly Omphile Baoki on the Music Production Controller rocked the crowd the most. The group combined both live performances and deejaying semi-recorded music to produce a sterling performance with their two hit singles Kave Ngoma and Oni Korota.
The band which combines different music genres in their performance from House to Afro House, Ancestral and Electro House electrified the crowd and by the time they got off stage the crowd was yearning for more.
Renowned German DJ Ralf Gum spoke to Showtime during the event. When asked about how he felt about the relatively small crowd at the event he said, 'I think the most important thing about today is the message being sent by the show.
The people of this globe need to be sensitised about the use of renewable energy sources so that future generations still have some natural resources to use when they come up.' He also said that 'with all due respect' he finds the Botswana crowd the liveliest of the African countries he has visited. 'I think this has to do with the fact that the Botswana crowd is not exposed to such shows on a weekly basis so by the time they come to such shows they are hungry and eager to make the most of it.'
He praised the performance of Team Distant whom he described as 'energetic'. Ralf Gum, who played singles from his upcoming album, mixed his songs with other music artists' song for a balanced performance that kept the crowd wowed. The crowd seemed to love two of his songs the most being Take Me To My Love and Fly Free.
Big Brother former housemate O'Neal played mostly RnB tracks and kept the crowd entertained during his segment of the show. However the crowd was mostly concerned about the whereabouts of his fiancŽ Feza whom he met in the Big Brother competition of 2013. The crowd could be heard shouting Feza's name during his performances, and when MC Dollar Mac came on stage they pushed him to ask O'Neal where Feza was. O'Neal kept mum about it and kept on playing his music then danced for a few seconds for the crowd before making way for Team Distant.