We started with one speaker stack and a hired van
Nine years later the kit is ours, the crew is ours, and the schedule still gets printed.
Why we bought the equipment
Kurimagu was two people with one speaker stack in 2017, hiring in everything else. The night that changed it was a wedding on Hulhumale where the lighting we had hired arrived four hours late, and we spent the afternoon of somebody's wedding on the telephone instead of on the floor.
Owning the kit is expensive and it is the whole business. It means we know what is in the store, we know when it was last serviced, and when a desk fails at nine o'clock there is a second one in the van rather than a conversation about whose fault it is.
We run about sixty events a year, more than half of them weddings, and we turn down work in the weeks we cannot crew properly. A calendar with nothing in it for the second Friday in April is a decision, not a gap.
The people who run your night
Nashfa Ibrahim
Started Kurimagu in 2017 with one speaker stack. Takes the weddings herself and writes every run sheet that leaves the office.
Ahmed Sinan
Runs the store, the crew and the build. Knows what is in every case and when it was last serviced, which is why the second desk is always in...
Mariyam Reesha
Handles corporate and school bookings, the permissions and the suppliers. The person who tells you honestly whether a date will be approved.
How the day itself works
What happens if it rains?
Every outdoor event is quoted with a wet option and a decision time, usually four hours before doors. At that hour we ring you, we both look at the same forecast, and somebody makes the call.
The important part is that it is agreed in advance. A conversation about rain at five o'clock with no plan is how an evening gets lost.
Will your crew be visible during the event?
Barely. We finish building two hours before guests arrive, the crew changes into black, and after that nothing of ours is carried through a room with guests in it.
There will be two people on the desk and an operator at the sound position all evening, and you will be given a number that is answered on the first ring.
Come and see the store
Buruzu Magu, Male. Ask for Nashfa and she will show you the kit that will actually be at your event.