:: The Kenya Music week
10 December 2006

The plan was to watch Man Yoo being crushed by Man City in the Manchester derby. So an hour before the match, me and Ed, our fave Kwani Intern, passed by Sarit centre to check out the Kenya music week exhibition. I didn’t know what to expect there but I figured that I might as well see what was on offer as I waited for the match. At the information desk they handed me a floor plan and shock on me. There were eighty bloody stands at this event! How the hell did this one pass me by? Yaani every one in the Kenyan music industry was featured in this event. Holy mother of God. The crowd was huge in there.

I instituted the tried and tested method of visiting exhibitions. This involves going around the whole exhibition barely pausing just to see what each stand had on offer. This way one saw a snapshot of the whole of Sarit. Then one could easily pick and choose the people that one was really interested in. I did a quick run around the exhibition, then started looking through stands of some interest. There was the Eve Girl /Oakland Media stand ably manned or rather womanned by Wayua Muli the shapely editor of Eve Girl. As I was looking at this month’s edition of the magazine, my pal Bosire showed up and said wsup.

There was also the Citizen Royal media. They were promoting x-treem music show which is like "The Beat" on NTV or H2O on KTN. This one is prepared by the Blackstar group. And there was Mwafrika.com the gospel portal that had so many pals.

And what I consider one of the best Kenyan websites Campusvybe.com. I was fortunate to meet Joshua Mwaniki who is the face of campusvybe.com. This man is a legend on the campusvybe.com forums and we had a nice chat as I looked at all the campus booty in his stand (verry nice).

There was the Balozi productions stand. It was manned by Mwaniki Mageria who always does a stand up job mcing all those Kwani open mics. I saw a beautiful thing on "the stomp" earlier today. It was some animated lions singing a gospel song that was Kayamba Africa sung. It was so nice. Balozi productions was credited with the work. Note to self: Ask Mwaniki if his Balozi is the same Balozi doing such great animation.

And there was Kijiji Records. These guys did this wonderful CD for aerobics and was targeted at gyms. This CD ruled. The tracks were very off the hizzi my nizzi! They used very aerobics type tracks but the singing comprised those songs we used to use to cheer our teams in sports in high school like "mama milka! milka bonyo!" and "eloya, woiwoi eloya!" Don’t ask me for the CD! Email Kijiji at kijijirecords@gmail.com and leave me be.

The gospel influence was really there to be seen. Angela Chibalonza the Congolese singer was there (congratulations on your new baby girl Madame). As was award winning Wangeci Mbogo. And DNG (assuming he is still gospel).

But you know where I headed and spent quite some time. One stand was the one for Mahogany models. This stand was quite an attractive one with all the hot model babes. I off course asked what it took to be a model and they took a snap of me and asked me to come back in an hour with a review from the people in the know. I wasn't called back. I guess I have no career in the modeling business then...

Also passed by a stand which had so many models and I immediately stopped to enjoy the view. I was given a card by a person in the stand and it stated that the hot babes were part of the Kinky models. Yup. These are the same models that were there during the launch of the MSK gala as well as the gala itself. Watch this space then… The stand was actually booked by a dude called stitch who has some serious leather and denim threads that y’all need to check out.

I didn’t stay too long after this. I had to head and see if Man Yoo could be beaten. They weren’t. Sad.

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