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There’s the old joke that punk is not dead, it just smells that way. Well, here’s proof that it certainly isn’t dead: Lambination III! The compilation is from Dead Lamb Records in Ireland and features underground punk bands from all...
When I was in the UK in 2003, 4 scraggly hill-billy looking guys were interviewed on TV and touted as The Next Big Thing! I laughed. How typical of the British music press I thought. Well, 5 years and four albums later, I reckon Kings of Leon must actually...
It's no secret that I am a fan of SA rock. But even for me what is currently on heavy rotation in my CD player is a bit of a surprise. I have 4 South African bands whose CD’s I am playing back to back. Well, not all of them are bands, making things even...
The hype and the muttering has been emanating from Cape Town about Unit R for some time now. They came to Jozi City a while back and played a gig here as part fo a bigger line-up. According to all accounts they aquitted themselves well. So then it was...
In my black 501’s and ex SADF issue Dorp T-shirt I was out of place in the Wits Theatre foyer last night, and the teller’s face said so. It was the album launch for one Marcus Wyatt, jazz trumpeter and muso extraordinaire The occasion was the release...
When this idea was first mooted to me, I said that it was a terrible one, that the past was the past and that I didn't think there was any merit in resurecting it. I went on to express doubts as to whether it would do Arno Carstens' solo carreer any good...
I had heard of J because I know his manager, Danie, and he had invited me to a gig. I was pretty impressed, skinny, very young little kid who could certainly play his acoustic guitar and had penned some good, moving songs. I was impressed, but I honestly...
This is not a review, this is not even a vague attempt at objectivity, this one is a hard sell, and this is straight down the line. I manage a band called The Hellphones. I happen to believe they are the best rock band in existence in South Africa right...
Saturday night in the big smoke, what to do, what to do? Luckily for me, a little birdie told me that The Diesel Whores were playing at The Bohemian in Richmond, and that what’s more, they were supporting Rokkeloos.
As a soutie growing up in South Africa, Afrikaners were not my favourite people. Not because I knew any mind you, and certainly not from any kind of political motivation. We just used to have run-ins with them all the time in the veldt near where I grew up and they always wanted to fuck us up because we were rooinekke. And generally they did, because they remembered the Boer war and hatred for us burned bright in them and we were totally clueless
The Rudimentals – Set it Proper Independent Cape Town Ska Doctors The Rudimentals are finally back with a follow up album to their brilliant debut offering, Mo Fire. Set It Proper is instant pure Rudi’s… chock full of ska grooves, jumpy...
Tykoon Suit is yet another one of these cooler than fuck bands that seems to emerge from the Cape own scene with nauseating regularity. Mean, I know that Jozi is a way cooler place that The Mother City will ever dream of being, why the hell do they get all the cool bands? And, as with most cool as fuck stuff coming out of Cape Town, this one comes via African Dope Records and distributed by Loophole. What a coincidence neh?
Goldfish are a jazzy electronic duo from Cape Town comprising ex Dorp saxophonist David Poole and his Breakfast Included side kick Dominic Peters. And the music they make is best described as jazz influenced, down tempo electronic.
Fetish remains entrenched in my mind as one of the very best bands to come out of Cape Town and indeed South Africa. In a business dominated by male voices, the power and aggression of Michelle Breeze as singer, person and front woman of a band was over whelming.
The Mizers are a bunch of kids from Durban… all in more or less their late teens except for old fart drummer Adam who is 24. ‘Lights Out’ is their debut album, and showcases their surf-rockabilly sound to good effect.
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