School wear party at city club

School wear party at city club

By Silence Charumbira

Parliamentarians may have been forced to discuss it and sober minds abhorred it, but DJs Danny and Lady Vicious will next Thursday hold the School wear party at City Sports Bar.

The program will be theming the weekly ladies night, arguably one of the consistent and probably commonest club concept in the country.

Several games have been played with many others becoming generically part of any ladies night event often turning some of the events variety shows, but the duo feels it is time to spice things up.

“I take it like any other theme wear but with the school wear it is even becoming even more popular even when I play at round table parties. At the club we will be alert that there are no under 18s,” said DJ Danny.

Lady Vicious, the brainchild of the concept said their intention was not to have ladies dressed in school uniforms of particular schools that people can identify with but just to revive memories of school days.

“We are just trying to imagine what it would look like if we were to say university students are now wearing school uniforms. It is just aimed at having fun and not to have kids in clubs. We want to have fun in a fashionable and of course funny way,” she said.

“What one simply has to do is to put on a short skirt, heels or flat shoes and long white socks. We want to do it in a fashionable way.”

She said she understood the ire of some sections of the community when they blasted Lady Storm for donning a school uniform in one of Jah Prayzah’s music video Eriza but said theirs was just a concept like a mask party or all white party.

Lady Vicious said the concept was brought about by the need for creativity when they host Ladies’ Night events.

“When one is hosting a ladies night they have to know their audience. Bring something new. Make people do something. It has to be you making your audience do something,” said adding that ladies were enthralled with competition.

“It’s also all about competition. Ladies really want somewhere to prove themselves in terms of their wardrobe. Some have the clothes but they don’t know where to wear them. We want people to have a platform to wear them. We want creativity,” she said.

As if to justify her name, she could not end the interview without showing a bit of viciousness as she went on to launch a scathing attack on fellow dancers and party lovers who drop out of school for the love of fun.

“People should go to school. Whatever profession; go to school because when you go to school you know how to value things and how to face different situations. I did multimedia at Amkhosi Theatre between 2006 and 2008. That is why I can dance, I can venture into film and video production and theatre. I have acted in a Greek play Lystrata,” she said.

The play, she said was about women taking a stand against men ordering them to end war or be starved of sex as the women locked themselves in a temple.

Born Pindurai Mwakurudza some 34 years ago, Lady Vicious said she attended St Patricks High School where she attained one A, four Bs and a C at ordinary level and says initially her family was unsupportive of her career path until they understood her choice.

She is also a make-up artiste and a DJ.