Insider Terms Adrenalive’s “Bandage” The Worst Event of the Year

The holiday season is here and already gigs are lined up promising fans nothing but pure excitement and rejuvenation after a year characterized by ebbs and flows. But sometimes they miss the mark spectacularly. One such event went down last weekend.

According to a reveler who had coughed up her hard-earned cash, the event had a lot of things going wrong and even felt like it was jinxed right from the start.

“Don’t get me wrong, the concept of the event and the line-up was great. The crowd targeted was mature and the entrance fee, Ksh. 3,000 was going to lock out ‘unwanted groups’. The poster alone made alot of people salivate at the thought of attending such an event. Alot of things however, went haywire,” starts the source.

First of all, the venue of the event changed severally as they were shown a cold shoulder by most venues. Finally after alot of searching and ‘pleading’, they landed a venue. Museum Hill. Great venue, right? Everything was going well with the planning up until a week to the event when Museum Hill gave them the boot for a number of reasons that I am not able to disclose at the moment.

You think that was bad? There was already an issue with the ‘alleged media sponsor’ Capital FM who pulled out and demanded that their logo be removed from anything to do with the event and that they did not want to be ‘associated with the event’. The reason for pulling out revolves around shady dealings, Maqbul Mohammed and Grace Makosewe (formerly of Capital FM) So, without a venue and a media partner what do you do? Scratch your head.

The sponsors were not informed of the issues mentioned above and they were later told about the lack of a venue, TWO days to the event. Now the running around had begun. With numerous event venues having declined to have the event at their premises, the Adrenalive team was in a predicament. The sponsors’ representatives were not happy with this but were assured that the event will go on and that it will be successful.

A venue was finally found, Prestige plaza ROOFTOP. This venue and space has hosted numerous events, day and night parties. Yet again, the ball was rolling. Hopefully without any hitches.

This was however not to be as on the day of the event, there was heavy downpour The management of the mall, after a discussion with the Adrenalive CEO, Ahmed Mikwa informed them that they cannot have the event at the rooftop but on the third floor in a room. The information that was given to the sponsors was that the event couldn’t be held at the rooftop due to the rain and flooding. The rooftop has never flooded even during el-nino rains. The sponsors were yet again fed with blatant lies and they agreed to take the room on the third floor.

Part 2 HERE.