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Morcheeba at Kirstenbosch
Fri 6 April 2018 British downtempo legends Morcheeba performed a once-off South African show in the always beautiful Kirstenbosch gardens in Cape Town, supported by local act Valve State. It was an unexpectedly cold night (a fact even noted and mentioned … Continue reading
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Tagged brass, british, cape town, crowd, disco ball, evenings, favourites, gigs & festivals, guitars, international act, jumping musicians, kirstenbosch, lee thomson, light, lighting, long hair, memories, morcheeba, music, nature, outdoors, photography, silhouette, skye edwards, south africa, south african, summer, texx and the city, trumpet, valve state, we are live, weekends
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Texas (UK), Henry Ate & Emily Capell (UK) at Kirstenbosch
Fri 8 December 2017 Growing up I always had a soft spot for Texas and was low-key really looking forward to their Kirstenbosch show for ages. Happily they didn’t disappoint – they played all the old hits and some decent … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, british, cape town, crowd, emily capell, evenings, events, favourites, gigs & festivals, guitars, henry ate, international act, jumping musicians, kirstenbosch, landscape, lights, long hair, memories, mountains, music, nature, outdoors, photography, pop, south africa, south african, summer, texas, texx and the city, uk, we are live, weekends
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Tagged acoustic, british, cape town, crowd, emily capell, evenings, events, favourites, gigs & festivals, guitars, henry ate, international act, jumping musicians, kirstenbosch, landscape, lights, long hair, memories, mountains, music, nature, outdoors, photography, pop, south africa, south african, summer, texas, texx and the city, uk, we are live, weekends
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Tribes’ Got Soul: Assembling The Good Folk
Sun 7 May 2017 A night of (at times a bit frustrating) musical collaboration, American Willy Mason headlined this Sunday show at Mercury, featuring Frenchmen Yoann Minkoff and Kris Nolly, Brits Emily Capell and Matt Cowley and Capetonian Mark Fransman. … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, american, british, cape town, emily capell, evenings, folk, french, gigs & festivals, guitars, inge beckmann, international act, kris nolly, long hair, mark fransman, mercury, photography, rock, sonik citizen, south africa, south african, texx and the city, weekends, willy mason, yoann minkoff
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Tagged acoustic, american, british, cape town, emily capell, evenings, folk, french, gigs & festivals, guitars, inge beckmann, international act, kris nolly, long hair, mark fransman, mercury, photography, rock, sonik citizen, south africa, south african, texx and the city, weekends, willy mason, yoann minkoff
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Music: 2016 in review
MUSIC And just like that it’s 2017, and even more scarily, my 10th last.fm anniversary. I honestly can’t believe I joined it a decade ago. Though I don’t spend much time on the site these days I still find the stats and … Continue reading
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Tagged best of, british, cape town, favourites, gigs & festivals, guitars, international act, kent, last.fm, memories, music, pop, reflecting, review, rock, swedish, tiger lou, wild beasts
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Tagged best of, british, cape town, favourites, gigs & festivals, guitars, international act, kent, last.fm, memories, music, pop, reflecting, review, rock, swedish, tiger lou, wild beasts
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Oppikoppi 2016: The unsea Day 2
Sat 6 August 2016 Oppikoppi gets cold at night… But like really, really cold. So the fact that I spent Friday night sweating in my bed made me rather concerned… Yup, the flu finally got me, and it made the rest … Continue reading
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Tagged academie, acoustic, adelle nqeto, adventureman, aking, boxer, brass, british, cape town, choir, costumes, crowd, dressing up, duo, dust, easy freak, events, favourites, femi koya, fevertrails, fishwives, fokofpolisiekar, gangsterdam, gerald clarke, gigs & festivals, grassy spark, guitars, hip hop, horse, hot, international act, jerry and the bandits, joburg, johannesburg, jon savage, jumping musicians, lights, little simz, long hair, made for broadway, man as machine, marching band, music, naked, nature, new academics, nonku phiri, ok22, oppikoppi, outdoors, photography, plants & flowers, portraits, prime circle, rambling bones, rap, reason, red bull, riky rick, rock, sannie fox, satanic dagga orgy, shortstraw, shotgun tori, ska, sketchy bongo, south africa, south african, stone jets, sunset, texx and the city, the hip replacements, the kiffness, the mitten fits, the sextons, the unsea, thorns, tidal waves, urban village, we are charlie, weekends, werner von waltsleben
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