Just What Do Nairobians Want at Entertainment Spots?

Kenyans are quite a dynamic lot when it comes to just what they fancy to experience in the club.

Obviously by around midnight, most revellers are either too intoxicated to care what’s going on around them, or the loss of inhibition leads their raw instinct to take over.

With few or close to no discotheques dotting our fair city, ‘the lounge’ concept of entertainment venues has taken root, and with it a restricted dynamism to ‘activities’ that can take place in a given venue. Even when dancefloors or designated dance areas are provided in these establishments, they are often too tiny or enclosed to maximise the experience that is ‘shaking what your mama gave you’.

Kenyans were obsessed with the live band concept from mid 2005 which saw the emergence of the likes of Kidum, Gogo Simo and the Villagers Band drawing phenomenal following to popular clubs in suburbs such as Langata and Nairobi West.

With the advent of 2011, the love of more ‘modern’ music gripped revellers, with taste branching out into at least three distinct categories: house/trance/dance music, local/riddim/hip hop music and the laid back fusion of classical/jazz/afro fusion for more affluent locations of Nairobi.

This hunger for a broad range of music has also berthed the explosion in the depth and scope of talent in the fledgling Deejaying industry that was once dominated by a hand full. 

It’s not a secret, the entertainment business in Kenya is growing, and blessed are they who will cash in before the dynamic Kenyans move on to the next one…