The Tabs Ug mesmerize audiance with Game of Thrones

The Tabs Ug, commonly called The Tabs were among the performers at the Chords of the Tower concert at Makerere University. The event, organized by third year students with support from the Department of Music and Performing arts at Makerere University, brought a number of artists to perform. Kenneth Mugabi, Giovanni Kiyingi, Haka Mukiga, Happy Kyazze, Andereya Baguma and The Tabs Ug all shared the same stage with final year students.

Makato Band, the class band played for all the student performers while the guest artists came with their own bands. Haka Mukiga with his team performed amidst poor sound issues. None of the artists had done sound check causing most of the first performances to lack taste. Kenneth Mugabi took to the stage and did his Kibunomu song that brought the audiance to eargasms.

A number of special acts with different instruments commonly known to the local Ugandan music scene blessed the stage but some acts were more special than others.

The Tabs Ug came to the stage with Allan Watson Waswa holding his violin and David Tayebwa with a guitar. Owing to the rarity of the violin on the Ugandan music stages, the audiance were all waiting to get a piece of this violin and guitar duo. Allan Watson Waswa introduced the duo in a very meek few second speech and they started of with Pirates of the Last of the Mohicanns theme song, then Caribbean theme song and brought the house down with the Game of Thrones Theme song. The latter had been rearranged to give the audiance three scaring holds that are not in Ramin Djawadi's original version.

The Tabs had previously performed Game of Thrones at the Pearl Rhythm Stage Coach in April 2017 winning them special recognition from the judges who selected them for the Pearl Rhythm Activations. Andereya Baguma won these auditions with Apio Moro.

Allan Watson Waswa is a self taught violinist and David Tayebwa is a music student at Makerere University majoring in Guitar. The duo met in 2015 at a Jam Session at Milege and started playing together in August 2016.