All in Places We Snuck Into
A few months ago two brave young men embarked on a noble quest into the heart of Harare's deep and dark enclaves. This quest would have them encounter many perils, pitfalls and pestilences, but some way, somehow they pulled through and managed to survive. Their quest was of course to attend Electric Arena at the Harare Showgrounds.
Barely having any time to recover from the long tiring walk home from the Toni Braxton & Babyface show the previous night, Dan & Phil found themselves cutting a hole in the fence around Belgravia Sports Club to get into the Davido show. The pauperized pair arrived bright and early at 10:00pm, 7 hours after the gates were opened for the show. It was apparent from as far as the Avondale area that the numbers at this concert were immense.
It was a dark Friday night, thanks to ZESA. Tired of being stuck at Casa De Broke and playing “I spy” in pitch black darkness – Dan & Phil decided to hop on their unicycle and peddle furiously to the Borrowdale race course where American R&B legends Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds and Toni “Tonderai” Braxton had somehow been convinced to perform in Harare.
Being big fans of any event that they can sneak into for free, Phil & Dan are extremely excited about the newest Electronic Dance Music festival in town, Electric Arena.
The brains behind this event is Zimbabwean EDM DJ & producer, Rob Macson (to listen to the Rob Macson episode, click here) who has called it Zimbabwe's largest indoor EDM festival. On the bill to perform are 4 international acts and 7 local acts
On a rainy December night Dan & I rustled up the little cents we had and made our way to the Zimbabwean Hip Hop Awards. After sweet talking several combi hwindis and doing things we would rather not repeat, we arrived at the Wing Wah International Restaurant , Casino, Conference Centre
A short while ago Harare was treated to a little shindig that local residents have come to know as Shoko Festival. (Pronounced Showkow by the natives)
upmarket Taboo club. The event was a very intimate affair with invited guests that were made up of notable media figures,
On a cold Harare night, I made my way to the Borrowdale Race Course in my uncle's unreliable 323. No I had not turned to eating horse meat to sustain my hungry self – though stallion steak does sound like a good idea. Britain seemed to love its horse meat mince pies.
Go sports! Yay team! Dan & Phil are back for a fresh new installment of your favourite dedicated Jonasi-hater themed podcast. In this episode of 2 Broke Twimbos, the dynamic duo react to the viral sensation that is Sue Nyathi's Netfilx-adaptation of her book The Polygamist, then they review the experience of the World Cup so far. There's room to wax lyrical as tech ombudsmen about the big AI companies and their shenanigans this week, from Anthropic's clash with the US Government over Claude Fable 5, to Open AI's leaked financials from their iPO filing. And also... how much should domestic workers be paid? Enjoy!