ponti93:
I also like the way the writer advertised d show through the write up

ponti93:
I also like the way the writer advertised d show through the write up

Joshkid:
Can you get a table of six... I'll meet you at the event

Nutase:
Op you seem to be jealous

boiz2men:
damage control i think... there wasnt much ticket sold .. so they decided to make ppo buy the 10k ticket...... so they can at least ofset monies paid for the venue... lol. asa kind of music isnt for the majority.. her audience isnt large enough

LastMumu:


The emboldened, you mean Nigeria right? Asa concerts in Europe are always sold out. Particularly in Europe and Germany where she is a household name. z

Nutase:
Op you seem to be jealous

Nutase:
Op you seem to be jealous

ifyalways:
My bae of life, Asa.

One of my legs don reach Yaba already for her show. Can't wait.

dangotesmummy:
I like ASA no doubt. She's one of the very few musicians in Nigeria with musical content and depth but let's be reasonable that money is ridiculously exorbitant. We're not in the era of surplus.this is recession and everyone is managing the scarce and hard earned resources they have so why will she be calling that kind of price?

ifyalways:
Well, I didn't pay for table or VIP.
I actually got regular seats from dealday for less than 10K per person. My whole household absolutely love her and her genre of music so. . .

ponti93:
u mean six regular tickets

ponti93:
For only the second time in her career, singer Asa is hosting a concert in Lagos. To rub it in that it’s not her idea to have a concert, she kuku titled it ‘Asa Encore’ so that everybody will know that it’s you people that begged her to bless us with her gift.

Tickets to the Asa show start at N10,000 and table goes for N2.5m. In this Buharinomics recession? How dare she?! Who is she to charge that much for just a couple of hours, is she Beyonce?
10 years ago when she started wailing about broken hearts (‘Bibanke’) and sharing the story of her nephew’s bastard child (‘Awe’), all we’ve done is support her.

Not like we had a choice though, she’s nothing like we’re used to. Her cooling tones and soothing chords seeped deep into our subconscious, healing our wounds and providing a succour for all of us that have been bruised by all the akpako Nigerian artistes have been ‘nacking us since.

After that eponymous album in 2007, we kept begging ‘Asa sing another one for us na.’ She refused. She was touring all over Europe, cavorting with people with more sophisticated palates than we.
She waited three full years before she released Beautiful Imperfection. Sigh. And then waited a full world cup-cycle till she released Bed Of Stone in 2014. Still, no Lagos headline concert. She just stayed touring and getting a serious glow up.

Finally in 2016, she deemed it fit to stop by these parts to throw a show like we had never seen before. Angelic, divine and breathtaking – before our very eyes at Eko Hotels last year, Asa ascended to god status; joining Sade people who could do no wrong. E yo, she told us. And we rejoiced.
Little wonder that our appetite for her has refused to satiate in ten years that she has been a part of our lives.

Tomorrow she will bless us again with her cherubic presence and ballads. Tomorrow she will stand on a stage and invoke the spirits of the Yoruba gods that touched her tongue with the gift of words; couple them with the tones as luxurious waters of the Seine from which she drank in Paris and once again, kill us with enjoyment.
But the N2.5m per table she’s charging for her show, isn’t it excessive? Not nearly.
See ehn, Asa doesn’t belong to us anymore. We gave her up long ago to the world to enjoy. We sent her out to the world to show them that Nigeria is capable of producing a truly world class musician.

To witness the greatness that is Asa, one billion naira won’t be enough. The richness of her melody is unquantifiable. Like the Mastercard advert, seeing Asa and hearing her voice in person is priceless. Add to the fact that she will be performing with a 30-piece orchestra, then you know that it’s no run-of-the-mill show.

But seriously, Asa Encore is not for everybody and neither are the different ticket prices. If there’s anyone who does not enjoy her music (I cannot for the life of me imagine who doesn’t), stay at home and do you.
However for true Asa fans, none of us should pay N2.5m to attend Asa Encore. There’s no shame in saying it’s probably beyond what we can afford to fork over.

Instead, pay the basic N10,000, make your way to the regular seats near the rafters that are not encumbered by tables of 10 chairs each and have a ball.
That’s where I’m going to be, basking in the presence of the most ethereal entity to ever write and sing a song in this part of the Atlantic. Her name is Asa, but you knew that already.

This write up was done by jide taiwo for Netng.
I copies and pasted for your reading peasure and comments.