If any artiste is
enjoying 2013 so far, it’s the Goodlyfe boys. While we are barely into the
first quarter of this year, goodlyfe’s Radio and Weasel have all these big
songs respectively dominating our airwaves.
From Obudde, Fitting, Ba customer to
the 2012 crossovers like can’t let you go
and Fantastic, it’s clear that Radio
and Weasel are set to regain their position in the Ugandan music industry.
On Friday 22nd,
Goodlyfe added already big 2013 CV, a role of being TV presenters when they
sat in for Douglas Lwanga to host his famous Katogo music show, the program
airs from Monday to Friday between 4-6pm.
The Observer caught up with the highly syked
duo before they hit the lights and camera to do the show.
According to
Bushington, the duo’s manager and the producer of the day, the show was a way
of connecting to the fans directly.
“This is the first time
we are going to talk to the fans. They have those burning questions; they want
to hang with us and today, they have us for 2hours, said a jolly Bushington.
During the show, the
duo did a countdown of their top ten songs by the other artistes and a couple
of other songs. It was intense as the face book posts kept guessing whether
they could put Bebe Cool or Chameleon onto their number one spot.
The show turned
inspirational when Radio preached perseverance to upcoming artistes like
Khalifa, Gravity Omutujju, Rema…… among others.
“Hold on, don’t let
anyone discourage you. We too faced at us now”, he said.
As you could imagine,
the show couldn’t go down without controversies, the boys used the platform to
hit out at their enemies which caused a storm on the Katogo fan page as Goodlyfe
and the rival fans exchanged insults.
Off the camera, Radio
and Weasel danced to all the songs they played, they even tried to mimic Jose
Chameleon Badilisha dance when the
song was playing.
The show turned out to
be one of the most successful since Katogo’s premier back in 2009 attracting
very many calls from fans, producers and fellow artistes trying to talk to the
Goodlyfe crew.
“The phone lines have
never been this crazy, to accommodate the callers. We made sure no video would
be played for more than two minutes”, said an overwhelmed Douglas.
Mean while, straight
from playing TV hosts, the boys rushed to club Venom to premier their video magnetic. It’s good on colour and just
like fantastic and can’t let you go, this too is spot on as
long as editing, lighting and production are concerned. The video features a
number of prominent models and famous singer Sheebah. The piece was produced by
Kenya’s Razor wire, directed by Andrew Macharia and co-produced by Ph-Ny. Andrew
Machari is the director behind Camp Mulla’s fresh
all day, Sauti sol’s money lover
and Keko’s make you dance. He has
also worked with bigger names such as Akon, Young Jeezy and Frankie J among
others.
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