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The Curious Incident (UK), Saintfearless & Jackal+Wolf at Mercury

Posted on: January 24, 2012

Saturday 21 January 2012

It’s a shame more people weren’t at Mercury last Saturday (even the bar staff showed up 45 minutes late) because The Curious Incident put on a great show, as did Saintfearless who have yet to disappoint.

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Posted in Gigs/Live Music
Tagged cape town, guitars, international act, jackal+wolf, jumping musicians, long hair, mercury, music, photography, rock, saintfearless, weekends

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Year of the dragon

Posted on: January 23, 2012

23 Jan 2012 – 9 Feb 2013

I’ve always loved dragons, and have always been slightly peeved to have missed being born one by a few months…but I love snakes too, so it’s alright. Today marks both my 100th blog post and the start of the year of the dragon in the Chinese zodiac, so here’s an ink drawing of a Chinese dragon I did some years ago (and retouched recently).

Happy (Chinese) New Year, especially to all my dragon friends!

Posted in Art
Tagged art, celebrate, dragon, drawing, friends, ink, mythology, new year, wishes

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We Are Beautiful Losers 2 at A Word of Art in Woodstock

Posted on: January 19, 2012

Saturday 14 January 2012

The last ‘We Are beautiful Losers’ party at A Word of Art was fun, but really crowded and a bit claustrophobic. The second one was a vast improvement, with the stage outside and a super impressive line-up featuring Taxi Violence, KONGOS, Bateleur, Beatenberg, Beach Party and Black Handed Kites as well as loads of art on display inside.

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Tagged a word of art, art, banjo, barefoot, bateleur, beach party, beatenberg, black handed kites, brass, cape town, costumes, guitars, international act, jumping musicians, kongos, long hair, music, outdoors, photography, pop, rock, singing bassists, singing drummers, south african, taxi violence, we are beautfiful losers, weekends, woodstock, woodstock industrial centre

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Sublime tribute show at Mercury

Posted on: January 8, 2012

Friday 6 January 2012

Given that it’s the first week of 2012, I won’t get ahead of myself and declare Friday’s Sublime tribute show the party of the year, but I will say I’m pretty sure it’ll be a while before something tops it.

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Tagged 7th son, alive at midnight, cape town, captain stu, favourites, fuzigish, general disarray, gigs & festivals, half price, headbanging, hog hoggidy hog, international act, juke riyal, little kings, long hair, lp show, mercury, peachy keen, photography, punk, reggae, rock, ska, stage diving, sublime, summer, taxi violence, tribute, van coke kartel, weekends, your LMG

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Music: 2011 in review

Posted on: January 2, 2012

MUSIC

Today marks my 5th year since joining last.fm; for a while it was the only social network I was actually active on and, though I don’t spend as much time on there these days, I still find the graphs and data it collects about listening habits fascinating.

Lists of my favourite music of 2011 after the jump.