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South African HorrorFest: Makabra Ensemble’s Faust at the Labia
Fri 30 October 2015 The last time I saw the Makabra Ensemble perform a live score to a silent horror film was in 2012 when they re-imagined Nosferatu. Watching them again last Friday, breathing new life into the 1926 classic Faust, made me … Continue reading
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Tagged classic, costumes, dressing up, faust, favourites, film, gigs & festivals, gigs and festivals, halloween, horror, horrorfest, industrial, labia, makabra ensemble, market, metal, music, orchestral, photography, rock, silent film, silent movie, south africa, south african, south african horrorfest, steampunk, summer, terminatryx, weekends
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Tagged classic, costumes, dressing up, faust, favourites, film, gigs & festivals, gigs and festivals, halloween, horror, horrorfest, industrial, labia, makabra ensemble, market, metal, music, orchestral, photography, rock, silent film, silent movie, south africa, south african, south african horrorfest, steampunk, summer, terminatryx, weekends
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Rocking the Daisies 2015: Saturday
Sat 3 October 2015 Day 2 of Rocking the Daisies 2015 featured the biggest crowd I’ve ever been stuck in (for German headliners Milky Chance – it honestly took me the majority of their set to get from the far end of … Continue reading
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Tagged accordion, acoustic, afrikaans, aking, al bairre, australian, bongeziwe mabandla, brass, british, cape town, card on spokes, cloof wine estate, costumes, crowd, dancers, dancing, darling, derek gripper, dirty hippies, dressing up, electro, evenings, fairy lights, fire, flowers, george bacon, german, gigs & festivals, grassy spark, guitars, hipsters, hog hoggidy hog, hula hoop, international act, jack parow, jon shaban, jumping musicians, landscape, long hair, milky chance, mountains, music, nature, nu world, out in the country, outdoors, parade, peter bibby, photography, plants & flowers, portraits, rock, rocking the daisies, saxophone, scuba, seed experiences, ska, south africa, south african, stage, suitcase hearts, summer, sunset, tattoos, texx and the city, the brother moves on, the kooks, the shabeen, touchwood, trees, tribute, trumpet, weekends, wild lettuce
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Tagged accordion, acoustic, afrikaans, aking, al bairre, australian, bongeziwe mabandla, brass, british, cape town, card on spokes, cloof wine estate, costumes, crowd, dancers, dancing, darling, derek gripper, dirty hippies, dressing up, electro, evenings, fairy lights, fire, flowers, george bacon, german, gigs & festivals, grassy spark, guitars, hipsters, hog hoggidy hog, hula hoop, international act, jack parow, jon shaban, jumping musicians, landscape, long hair, milky chance, mountains, music, nature, nu world, out in the country, outdoors, parade, peter bibby, photography, plants & flowers, portraits, rock, rocking the daisies, saxophone, scuba, seed experiences, ska, south africa, south african, stage, suitcase hearts, summer, sunset, tattoos, texx and the city, the brother moves on, the kooks, the shabeen, touchwood, trees, tribute, trumpet, weekends, wild lettuce
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Rocking the Daisies 2015: Friday
Fri 2 October 2015 Celebrating a #DecadeOfDaisies, Rocking the Daisies‘ 10 edition saw their biggest ever crowd (some 22 000 people) and featured a wide array of local and international artists across many stages. Always an entertainment jam-packed festival, this … Continue reading
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Tagged 340million, 340ml, acoustic, afrikaans, art, australian, bateleur, bed on bricks, brass, camping, cape town, cat empire, cloof wine estate, costumes, crowd, crowd surfing, darling, decadeofdaisies, dirty hippies, dressing up, electro, felix laband, flowers, fokofpolisiekar, forefront, funk, gigs & festivals, guitars, haezer, hula hoop, international act, jeremy loops, john wizards, jumping back slash, kings down south, krafty kuts, lights, long hair, majozi, medicine boy, monark, mr sakitumi, music, nature, nu world, outdoors, paige mac, people, ph fat, photography, plants & flowers, portraits, rock, rocking the daisies, sannie fox, seed experiences, sibot, ska, south africa, south african, summer, swingsetters, tents, texx and the city, thor rixon, trombone, trumpet, vukazithathe, weekends, werner von waltsleben, your LMG
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Verona Walls, Black Moscow, Dukes of Note & Room of Phonics at Mercury
Friday 18 September 2015 Like a lot of people, I was really sad when Mercury announced it was closing. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, it was saved from the brink and is now back up and running. I’ve been slack in checking … Continue reading
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Tagged alternative, battle of the bands, black moscow, cape town, competition, contest, costumes, dressing up, dukes of note, evenings, family, gigs & festivals, guitars, hats, injuries, lights, long hair, mercury, music, photography, rock, room of phonics, south africa, south african, texx and the city, verona walls, weekends, zombie fest, zombie walk
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Tagged alternative, battle of the bands, black moscow, cape town, competition, contest, costumes, dressing up, dukes of note, evenings, family, gigs & festivals, guitars, hats, injuries, lights, long hair, mercury, music, photography, rock, room of phonics, south africa, south african, texx and the city, verona walls, weekends, zombie fest, zombie walk
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MAX Presents: Take a Stand! at ROAR
Saturday 29 August 2015 I’m not very involved in the metal scene so hadn’t heard of the MAX Campaign until recently – a great local initiative, Metalheads Against Xenophobia raised over R9000 last weekend alone when they hosted a huge … Continue reading
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Tagged all ages, animus fall, beeldenstorm, cape town, charity, corsets, dressing up, fake blood, fallen prophets, farewell, farewell show, final show, fundraiser, guitars, headbanging, ill system, instrumental, jumping musicians, leather, long hair, max, max campaign, metal, metalheads against xenophobia, mosh pit, moshpit, music, obs, observatory, ohgod, photography, roar, rock, shredding, south africa, south african, subject to slaughter, suiderbees, weekends
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Tagged all ages, animus fall, beeldenstorm, cape town, charity, corsets, dressing up, fake blood, fallen prophets, farewell, farewell show, final show, fundraiser, guitars, headbanging, ill system, instrumental, jumping musicians, leather, long hair, max, max campaign, metal, metalheads against xenophobia, mosh pit, moshpit, music, obs, observatory, ohgod, photography, roar, rock, shredding, south africa, south african, subject to slaughter, suiderbees, weekends
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