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Yeah, another cheesy mantra from the school of self help. And not that I buy it, but last week I did just that. After fifteen years of music journalism, and nearly ten years after my last turn on a proper stage,., I played a live show on Friday night...
I have always liked the music of the Black Hotels. I have however tended to avoid their live shows after seeing a couple. Not the most inspiring performance band lets say. But Thursday 20 November at The Bluesroom, they were pretty damn good. The...
Saturday28 June 2008 and a weird occourance is taking place. Early 80’s Punk legends, The Exploited have been brought to South Africa by scene promoters Punk Safari for a two date tour. Not so weird? So there is nothing too strange in that...
I went to go and see Joe Jackson live at the Teatro, Monte Casino last night. And what a show it was, the man remains a genius! It was a strange night out. Thanks mainly to the location, at the ripe old age of 37, I was in the unusual position of being...
I have not taken photo's at a gig for aeons. So I got a new digital camera last weekend and I thought I'd give it a go. Took a few shots of taxi Violence and The New Academics at the Bohemian Last night... Clearly, I need to learn some more. Liam Lynch...
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...
Thankfully the Blues Room is under new ownership, and going there no longer involves an encounter with that cantankerous old Git George Worthmore! Well, that’s a redundancy actually, because after my last such an encounter, I had been boycotting the place...
It is a Saturday night and I put on my glad rags to go out and play. At a bowling alley for god’s sake. It is the Shut Up I’m Dancing party featuring Durban based Fire Through The Window at the Cosmic Bowling alley down the arse end of Corlett Drive....
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...
On Friday night, 2 March, there was an absolute blizzard of quality entertainment, and it went from one extreme tot eh other. In Melville, Fuzigish launched their 4th album to the world at The Roxy Rhythm Bar. To nearly 1 000 kids, who had been queuing...
So, after hearing so much around town about The Privates and Desmond and The Tutu’s, I took myself off to the Sunnningdales Hotel on Friday to check it out. Well, what a night. Nice venue. Tiny, sweaty, cramped, perfect! All very 70’s and off the wall...
So, it appears the rumours are true. The Horror Café, as and where it stands now is closing. The building is owned by SAB and they have decided not to renew the lease of the guys who currently run it, despite the fact that they have really managed to...
Uptown downtown, tunes are thumping! My weekend past was a study in contrasts, united only by top quality live South African music. And this above all else, is what thrills me and enchants me about where we are in our corner of the global music biz. Regretably...
Was trying out my new toy, a little Nikom compact digital on Saturday night... hmmmm, NICE!
For better or worse, it seems to me, that the truth of the matter cannot be escaped. And that truth is that our taste in music in some ethereally important way, defines us. It is our psyche and our attitudes in life that lead us to identify so strongly...
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