Skwatta Kamp concert - Party Extraordinaire!

When we were shopping for some South African hip hop, we were introduced to a group called Skwatta Kamp, who are apparently South Africa's foremost hip hop artists. Then one day as we're driving along, we see a poster for a Skwatta Kamp concert with a phone number on it. So we dial it up and buy some tickets over the phone. To our credit, we had no idea where the concert was when we bought the tickets :) It did not even occur to us that it might not be in Durban. But when we called the cab company, we found out it was a $30 cab ride away! Gulp. So we debated whether someone would be DD (i.e. Laura or Christina 'cause Allison can't drive stick), and it was decided that we'd rather just spring for the cab rides and all get to party. We weren't even sure if they sold booze at the concert, but we figured we'd take our chances. Also, we didn't know if it was assigned seating or a free for all or what. We all just pictured a packed, grungy club somewhere in the city. Lemme tell ya, our expectations were WAY off.

So we get to this concert, and to our surprise, it's being held in a super swank club at this really nice casino. When we go to pick up our tickets, we see that we are three of about 15 people who bought tickets over the phone and the venue is totally empty. It's still a bit early, so we go hunt down a bar and get this: highballs are $1. Boy were we glad we decided to take a cab! After about 20 minutes we hear the concert start up, so we cruise in to the venue (we couldn't bring our drinks in, but you could go in and out as much as you pleased). There are (maybe) 15 people on the dance floor! So down to the floor we go. We start dancing, and we are the only white people in the place. We're on the dance floor with all these black girls, and they're loving it! And these girls are SO excited about Skwatta Kamp. They keep going up on stage and touching them, and taking quick pics with them. Basically, anyone can do whatever they want since there are only 15 of us around the group at any one time. At one point, one member of the group starts speaking Zulu, and then he pauses and says, "It looks like we're gonna have to translate cause there's some white folks in the audience." And that was us! They even pointed at us and said "Yes, we see you there." It was hilarious. We started cheering and screaming!

The show was absolutely amazing. We danced the ENTIRE time. At the end of the show, a DJ started spinning and the guys from the group came down and we were all dancing together (now there were about 25 people on the dance floor). The best part of all this was that they played again the night after, and that show was completely sold out. So we TOTALLY lucked out!