Event Review: Brickfields Music Festival in Downtown Joburg
A Music Festival. In the middle of Joburg. Doesn’t sound quite right does it? Like board-shorts and a neck tie, the two visuals just don’t seem to go together. The Brickfields Festival was such an...
View ArticleArtist Review: Sibot. 2012. CTEMF.
So it’s roundabout dusk, I’m in the Press lounge, CTEMF, 31 March 2012. It’s been a good day. Great day actually. Kicking off at 11 with Godfather of local ‘lectro Warrick Sony’s Kalahari Surfers,...
View ArticleEvent Review: CTEMF 2012 – The Debut
So the year of the Dragon, the year of the Apocalypse, and, more mundanely, the year following 2011, is now also marked as the birth of what promises to become a star-spangled Stomp of local and...
View ArticleTour Review: Spoek Mathambo in Durban
“He has, what to me, true artists have. That which sets them apart from the mediocre and the ambitious; he is in himself, his own masterpiece.” My engagement with Spoek Mathambo’s new album, Father...
View ArticleArcade Empire: Christian Tiger School*Spoek Mathambo*Sibot*RudeOne
“An assorted crowd it was too: Sprinkles of metalheads, a generous portion of Grunge types, Hip-Hop kids represented, and the requisite quota of perturbing hipsters in abundance. All swinging to the...
View ArticleAfrikaBurn: Party In The Desert
“I then realised why so many of us come to see this and just why it feels like the climax. It is Beautiful. Powerful. Two things we all long to be privy to.” So personal is the journey of anyone who...
View ArticleThe Young Guru Workshop at SAE, Cape Town
“When you start something, set it up so that it will last and can be built upon in the future. The sound should be yours, so good and so quality that it makes me say, what was that? Be honest and...
View ArticleEvent Review: The Red Bull Thre3style DJ Battle
The inaugural South African edition of the Red Bull Thre3style DJ Battle went down at the Alexander Theatre in Braamfontein this past weekend. Eight DJs were pitted against each other in a test of...
View ArticleDiplo on Zafari in Review at Joburg, Town Hall
Nathan Kabingesi casts a somewhat critical eye on the Joburg leg of DJ/Producer extraordinaire, DIPLO, as he played Town Hall ahead of his Oppikoppi gig. Partially impressed, definitely intrigued but...
View ArticleThe Earthdance 2012 Experience
So Friday the 21st of September arrived and it was time for us to embark on yet another adventure to the beautiful world that is the magic of Earthdance. We had all the supplies we needed: booze,...
View ArticleRocking The Diaisies 2012 In Review
If you didn’t manage to score tickets to this year’s Rocking the Daisies, you might want to stop reading now. Or at the very least, you should try to wipe away your miserable, jealous tears first....
View ArticleGoodLuck host Lucky Packet launch party
Wed, 14 Nov ’12 – Cape Town based electronic group, GoodLuck hosted a select group of friends, family, media, sponsors and industry folk (fellow musicians etc) to officially launch their latest release...
View ArticleReview: Eclipse 2012 – North of Cairns in Queensland, Australia
The small city of Cairns in Northern Queensland Australia was abuzz for the Solar Eclipse with people from all over the world coming to see this spectacular natural phenomenon. With a tropical climate...
View ArticleJoe’s Butchery – The heart and rhythm of Alex
Every city, town and neighbourhood has its iconic venue. That one place where no matter who you ask, they know just how to direct you there. Cape Town has the mountain, Hillbrow has the Vodacom tower...
View ArticleOrigin 2013 In Review
(Looking Back on Origin 2012: Saturday) “Oh my fuck. This venue. Wow. I’M LATE! Next year I will attend from the Friday!” And this I did. I rocked up this year just as the gates opened up at two in the...
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