A rescheduled show at Premier Lodge in Blantyre organised by Anthu Ambiri Band to placate their fans for a disorganised show at the same venue last month failed to pull an attractive audience.
\nThe show was meant to start in the afternoon but with fans not showing up, it was pushed to the night with only a few making it despite a rich line-up of veteran artists.
\nLegendary Paul Banda led the line-up which also had forgotten artists Enot Spear Mbandambanda and Vincent Kachingwe, Thomas Chenkhumba Chibade, Rod Valamanja, Kanthu Kalinda alias Kaka and Daniel Kaliwo popularly known as DNA.
\nChibade, who announced recently that he is working on a new album, had time to perform songs done by other artists including Joseph Nkasa\u2019s song.
\nHaving performed with Alleluya Band for over 10 years, Kachingwe took a break but now he is back and will be backing Paul.
\n\u201cI am excited to be back, it\u2019s been long but I am still around and music will always be part of me,\u201d Kachingwe said.
\nKachingwe has one song to his credit \u2018Ana Anga,\u2019 which is in Alleluya 20 album.
\nSpear Mbandambanda also said he was back in full force and hailed Paul for fishing him from where he was.
\n\u201cI was surely forgotten but Paul Banda, Kaka and others have made it possible for me to come back. I am excited and I enjoyed the show although we didn\u2019t have a big audience,\u201d said the artist, who dropped two songs.
\nHe further said that he has lots of songs he would love to record but his wallet is dry, hence he cannot afford to go to the studio and record with some renowned producers.
\nPaul, a brother to Lucius Banda, who has helped several artists through the Imbirani Yahwe Studio, said he enjoyed the show although not many people showed up.
\n\u201cWe would have loved to have more people but it seems we didn\u2019t do well on the organisation. This show was put for us to say sorry to the audience after we disappointed them last time only to have no audience. All I can say is that when we put up such shows, people should support us,\u201d said the \u2018Malilime\u2019 star.
\nThe old-timer armed with his lead guitar impressed during the show as he dished out several songs from his many albums and even had time to enter a reggae session offering songs such as \u2018Zonse Nzabwino\u2019 and \u2018Ndakhala Naye\u2019.
\nValamanja also had his share dishing out songs from his albums with Paul Subiri.
\n\u201cPeople should watch the space as we will be working on a new album once Paul Subiri is back from Italy in August,\u201d he said.
\nThe soft-spoken musician, who with his colleague Subiri have been nicknamed Njobvu Ziwiri zaku Balaka for their music exploits, said they were disappointed with the turnout.
\n\u201cIt was disappointing that we didn\u2019t have a big audience but those who came enjoyed. I guess the poor turnout is because we did not do much on promotion,\u201d he said.
\nKaka, who is the bandleader opened the night while DNA of the \u2018Ukandipepesele\u2019 fame performed close to midnight soon after Paul\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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