Hello dolls.
Sometimes it feels as though your favourite Skinnerbek is getting too old for the club scene as she often spends as long a while as she usually lasted on the dance floor contemplating which club to go to where she won’t be surrounded by kids who are almost half her age.
So, lately, instead of torturing myself by partying with these 2000s-born kids and hallucinating that they have baby bottles in their hands, I tend to find a myself at a do or concert for the slightly more mature audience.
Failing to imagine kids at Unathi Msengana’s Brave True and Strong album tour, I decided it was exactly the place for me.
And so there I was in the VIP section of the Tshawe Bar at the Boardwalk, hanging out over drinks with the likes of our former mayor (nope, not you Mr Trollip) Nceba Faku and his wife before the concert.
I must say, seeing Mr Faku had me reminiscing of the days when we had a clearer idea of whose guitar strings we danced to in the Bay.
Any who, Algoa FM presenter and former Home Affairs actress Lee Duru had the crowd in stitches with her township-girl-next-door style of programme directing... that’s when she wasn’t speaking English.
Skinners loved it when the host clarified to the people of Uitenhage that what she was wearing was a kimono and not a nightgown.
Aren’t we grateful for that clarification – we have more than enough people going around in sleepwear thinking it’s cute.
One other thing Skinnerbek does not find very cute is upand-coming folks who try to be clones of already established stars.
Take singer Terrence Mckay who seems to be trying to be a version of Zakes Bantwini.
Terrence opened the concert and was on stage for what felt like the longest 20 minutes of my life.
Although he gave a stellar performance of Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On, it would have been even better had we seen more of his authentic self during the performance.
One Zakes Bantwini is more than enough, thanks.
Moving on to the lady of the night ... it wouldn’t have been an Unathi concert if we hadn’t seen the waterworks from the star who couldn’t hold her tears when The Herald team handed her a framed copy of an article and a beaded necklace on stage.
Given the ease with which the singer’s tears come running, I worry her Day Zero might come quicker than Cape Town’s.
Now who will give us her beautiful renditions of Miriam Makeba’s Pata-Pata if Unathi runs out of tears?
Let’s catch up next week, dolls. Ciao!