Concert Review: A FOKN Party The Rains Couldn’t Stop

Concert Review: A FOKN Party The Rains Couldn’t Stop

Half way through their set, the rains began to fall; first in drops and latter in sheets. Earlier in the afternoon, the city had been washed by rains. But, the party wouldn’t be stopped by the showers. The adrenaline was high and the rains, it appears invigorated the fans even more.
The venue, Alliance Francaise wasn’t full when the party commenced. But, people trickled in as the show progressed. The venue was almost full a few performances later.
And the Fokn Bois – consisting of Wanlov The Kubolor and M3nsa- as usual, kept the audience excited throughout their two-and-half hour set.

What is fascinating about the Fokn Bois and their concerts is this: they are able to re-invent their performances each time they mount the stage. You can see them ten times performing the same songs yet, you wouldn’t have two sets being the same.
Their performance was a combination of comic dramatization, serious political commentaries, introduction of new artists -Fiddy and 730 (Seven Thirty) and of course, a strange appearance by a certain Donald Trump. (You read right). Ironically, this was during the performance of ‘Help America’, a humanitarian chant.

They performed songs from their classic album, “FOKN Wit Ewe” and “FOKN Ode To Ghana”. It wasn’t much about the songs they performed on the night. It was the manner it was performed that would stay with the many who were present.
The impressive backdrops and the dramatic interpretations of some songs handed their set a theatrical feel. It was like watching a musical being performed by master actors.
They had two ‘gays’ on stage to help dramatize the lyrically visual song ‘Strong Homosexual Guys’. The acting- from Wanlov being awoken by a phone call, to the ‘gays’ chasing them- as unexpected as it was-added to the overall excitement, especially when they got chased around on stage and through the audience. The backdrop did change with each song, including a Bruce Lee and a crop of lawyers during the performance of ‘Famous In China’ and ‘Laughing At Cripples’.

“Sextra Terrestrial Sex” went with a space odyssey backdrop adorned with graphics images of aliens, space ships and galactic impressions. Sitting on a couch, rapping out lyrics felt like two old buddies relaxing at a porch casually daydreaming about sexual escapades with aliens.
When we thought we’ve seen it all, they, like politicians on a podium, read out a joint ‘speech’. The speech, as politically and socially toned as they were, were taken from four songs off their “Fokn Ode To Ghana” album- ‘Live The Highlife’ (The price of lies/ the price of lies dey rise/ The price be right/ To my cit it taste nice), ‘Muga Yaro’, ‘One for Aniki’, ‘Africanspirit’.
They called on stage Medikal who joined them performed their new single ‘Wo Nim Mi’ (You Know Me). Watching the Fokn Bois on stage is amazing. Their ability to improvise and even crack jokes and start little off the cuff conversations is in itself an art. And on the night, we witnessed many of these instances.

The fever pitch moment, interestingly coincided with the rains; something they jokingly described as a godly ejaculation session. Fans weren’t perturbed. They joined the Fokn Bois in the performance of what had became a cult favorites: ‘Gimmie Pinch’, ‘Broken Lngwjz’ and ‘Super Chompia’. And when they were done with their set, the audience requested them to perform ‘Beeches’, which they had no objections to.
Like all their concerts, the Fokn Bois performed live. They had on stage a MacBook Pro which contained the instrumentations of their songs; some were a re-creation of the original.
The only downside on the night was the discomfort that some of their lyrics caused among some of the elderly folks who were in attendance. I couldn’t help but notice the facial expression of discomfort on the face of one elderly man who sat two places from me. He had his young family with him as well and hearing the Fokn Bois sing about genitalias obviously was uncomfortable.
But again, this is a Fokn Bois concert where irreverence rules. Like I always say, the FOKN Bois are masters of their trade. And they keep proving why they are one of the best performing artists in the country, by far.
Photos used in this article are sourced from the twitter pages of @revyboadu @mutomboDaPoet @arkiim_ @_kwnbnx @dadaeli_