Spoek Mathambo & Mshini Wam and the Wild Eyes at the Assembly

Sat 05 February 2011

Last Saturday I saw the Wild Eyes again for the first time since 2005. Last I’d heard they’d broken up some years ago – I was always a fan, so when I heard they were back I was pretty excited, and when they played a set of all-new songs, I was really excited.

Last time I saw them, front-man Nikhil was in a short, hot pink wig; aside from the fact that this time’s wig was platinum blonde, visually they hadn’t changed. Their sound however had changed quite a bit. The new material feels a little less frantic (which isn’t really the word but…) and a little more measured…older and wiser maybe? I dunno, and it doesn’t really matter – the point is they’re back and they’re better than ever:

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Boo! & Caroline Coon at Mercury

Fri 04 February 2011

Last Friday we headed to Mercury to see Boo!, and were actually so early that the we had to wait outside the closed doors for a little while…but we weren’t the only ones – there was quite a crowd of eager beavers gathered by the time the doors finally opened.

Once inside and upstairs, we were entertained by a somewhat thrashy set from Caroline Coon.

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Yoav, Farryl Purkiss & Jeremy Loops at The Assembly

Thurs 03 February 2011

On Thursday, Yoav played a final Cape Town show at the Assembly, and, as usual, was totally fantastic. The other two acts were good matches for him, also doing the singer-songwriter-loop-pedal-one-man-band thing, though Jeremy was billed as “Jeremy Loops & Co” (“& Co” took the form of a rapper while we were there) and Farryl was joined by Ross Campbell on drums.

We arrived in time to catch the last few tracks from Jeremy Loops (& Co) – I’d never heard him before and was pretty impressed.

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Balkan Beat Box

Fri 21 January 2011

On Friday I saw Balkan Beat Box at the (very windy) parking lot in Harrington Street.

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The Little Kings at the Grand Daddy Hotel

Fri 21 January 2011

I’ve wanted to check out the rooftop trailer park at the Grand Daddy Hotel for ages, and finally got the opportunity to do so on Friday evening.

Each trailer’s interior was designed/decorated by a different artist; a friend’s staying in ‘Dorothy’ so we got to explore inside it.

Trailer exterior

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