Ofege band biography movies

Long overdue for a reissue and sought after by crate diggers, Ofege’s Try and Love — a psych-rock classic by the hottest band in Nigeria in the ’70s, who were all teenagers when they recorded it at EMI Nigeria — is out on vinyl again thanks to Tidal Waves Music.

Vinyl Me, Please is selling an exclusive color version of the record in our store, which you can grab right here.

Below, read an excerpt of the Liner Notes from the new edition of the album, written by one of the band’s members about how the group formed and recorded Try and Love.

The school was St Gregory’s College (Lagos-Nigeria) in the early 1970s.

In class 1 my friend Paul Alade and myself, Melvin Ukachi Noks, had passion only for music. While other students were doing regular school activities, during which we always secluded ourselves twanging away on our box guitars, Paul on bass, I on rhythm, rehearsing my composed and written songs.

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