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Oppikoppi 24: Nomakanjani 2018 – day 1

Posted on: August 23, 2018

Thurs 8 August 2018 After only narrowly surviving the zombie flu in 2016 and taking 2017 off, I returned to Oppikoppi for the third time earlier this month. It was a very different festival, for better and worse, but as beautiful … Continue reading →

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Tagged acoustic, black cat bones, blind butcher, bushveld, crimson house, dust, events, favourites, frame janko, gigs & festivals, guitars, headbanging, hip hop, jack daniels, limpopo, long hair, music, nature, northam, oppikoppi, outdoors, photography, pop, rock, satanic dagga orgy, silvablack, sio, south africa, south african, southern wild, spraypaint, stoker, street art, summer, sunset, texx and the city, trees, veld, weekends

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After Dark: AKING & Bam Bam Brown

Posted on: August 3, 2018

Wed 25 July 2018 The second installment of Texx and the City’s series of intimate shows at the Aquarium featured a stripped down set from AKING and my favourite Bam Bam Brown performance to date. Here are some shots from … Continue reading →

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Tagged acoustic, after dark, aking, aquarium, cape town, cbd, evenings, fish, fisheye, gigs & festivals, guitars, long hair, music, nature, photography, rock, south africa, south african, texx and the city

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After Dark: Southern Wild & Grassy Spark at the Two Oceans Aquarium

Posted on: July 3, 2018

Mon 25 June 2018 The first in a very special series of concerts ‘after dark’ at the Aquarium took place at the end of June and it was a beautiful night.

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Tagged acoustic, after dark, aquarium, cape town, evenings, events, fish, gigs & festivals, grassy spark, guitars, music, nature, photography, rock, south africa, south african, southern wild, texx and the city

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Morcheeba at Kirstenbosch

Posted on: April 15, 2018

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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Night-blooming cactus time-lapse

Posted on: February 7, 2018

Thurs 18 January 2018 Golden Torch Cactus produced the most amazing flower over the course of one night in late January – here’s a short time-lapse as well as a few stills from the night.