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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 →
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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Eluveitie at the Assembly
Fri 23 October 2015 Swiss folk metal legends Eluveitie performed their Cape Town show at the Assembly last week. The 8 band members looked exactly how you’d imagine an Alpine folk metal band would: all long hair, viking accessories and celtic … Continue reading →
Tagged assembly, cape town, celtic, eluveitie, favourites, flute, folk, german, gigs & festivals, harrington street, headbanging, hudy gurdy, international act, long hair, mandolin, metal, music, photography, south africa, summer, swiss, tattoos, texx and the city, the assembly, violin, weekends, witchdoctor productions
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Infanteria & School of Rock at Paul Bothner N1 City
Sat 17 October 2015 As part of ‘Rocktober’, Paul Bothner are hosting free live gigs every Saturday this month at their various branches. Last week that meant N1 City weekend shoppers and passersby were treated to some loud and energetic metal … Continue reading →
Tagged cape town, favourites, fun, gigs & festivals, guitars, infanteria, kids, long hair, metal, music, n1 city, outdoors, parking lot, paul bothner, photography, random, rock, rocktober, school of rock, shopping, south africa, south african, spinal tap, weekends
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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 →
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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Oppikoppi 21: Fantastic Mr Vos Vos Day 1
Friday 7 August 2015 Now in its 21st year, Oppikoppi is legendary among South African music festivals. Its status and distance from Cape Town have always intimidated the hell out of me but attending has always been something I’d hoped … Continue reading →
Tagged acacia, aking, bitches brew, british, bye beneco, camping, catherine grenfell, cortina whiplash, costumes, crimson house, crimson house blues, crowd, curious incident, danish, december streets, doring, dressing up, dust, facing the gallows, farm, favourites, festival, filth, gigs & festivals, guitars, hilltop live, hokum, kameeldoring, lanterns, les javan, lights, limpopo, long hair, metal, mr vos vos, new academics, northam, oppikoppi, out in the country, outdoors, parlotones, photography, portraits, powersolo, red bull, red helen, rian malan, rock, rockabilly, singing bassists, slashdogs, smoke, south africa, south african, stage, stoker, sunset, tents, texx and the city, thorns, uk, winter days
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