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Rudimentals, Voodoo & Los Tacos at Mercury

Posted on: September 28, 2015

Sat 19 September 2015 From not going in months I found myself at Mercury two nights in a row – this second time it was for the Rudimentals‘ screening of their Rudeboy Styles music video and live set, with support from … Continue reading →

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Tagged brass, cape town, evenings, gigs & festivals, guitars, launch, lights, long hair, los tacos, mercury, music, music video, photography, reggae, rock, rudimentals, saxophone, ska, spanish, texx and the city, trombone, trumpet, voodoo

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Tweak’s 10 year reunion show at the Assembly

Posted on: September 1, 2015

Saturday 22 August 2015 I was never a big fan of Tweak back in the day and kinda skipped the whole high school punk/ska phase in general, but I do remember them, as do a whole lot of other people who packed … Continue reading →

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Tagged assembly, black and white, cape town, cbd, costumes, crowd surfing, dressing up, events, farewell show, final show, gigs & festivals, glam, half price, inflatables, jumping musicians, last show, long hair, loveglove pyrotechnics, monochrome, photography, pop, punk, reuinion, rock, ska, south africa, south african, stage diving, texx and the city, tweak, veladraco, weekends, werner von waltsleben

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Hog Hoggidy Hog’s 20th birthday in honour of George Bacon at the Assembly

Posted on: September 1, 2015

Saturday 15 August 2015 George Bacon‘s untimely death was made even more tragic by the fact that it came just a few months shy of the band’s 20th anniversary. On Saturday August 15th the Hogs got together with a long … Continue reading →

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Tagged 7th son, anniversary, arrogant sandys, assembly, birthday, brass, cape town, crowd, crowd surfing, francois van coke, george bacon, gigs & festivals, grassy spark, guitars, half price, hog hoggidy hog, jon shaban, jumping musicians, long hair, music, peachy keen, photography, punk, reggae, rock, ska, south africa, south african, stage diving, taxi violence, texx and the city, the assembly, theo crous, tribute, trombone, trumpet, weekends

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Oppikoppi 21: Fantastic Mr Vos Vos Day 3

Posted on: August 25, 2015

Sunday 9 August 2015 With Women’s Day being observed on Monday, Oppikoppi 2015 ended on a Sunday, which I must confess felt a little weird as festival Sundays are usually used to recover from the weekend’s biggest acts the night before. Friday … Continue reading →

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Tagged acoustic, afrikaans, american, anton goosen, bagpipes, birds, black math, brand new, camping, cape town, costumes, crowd, dirty hippies, doring, dressing up, durban, dust, emo, evenings, events, favourites, float parade, gigs & festivals, go barefoot, gogol bordello, guitars, heat, hilltop live, interior, international act, johnny clegg, jumping musicians, kameeldoring, kings down south, landscape, limpopo, marching band, meth breath, moonchild, mountains, music, nature, oppikoppi, outdoors, photography, plants & flowers, portrait, portraits, rock, russia, russian, satanic dagga orgy, scottish, ska, sky, south africa, south african, spring, summer, sun, sunset, tents, texx and the city, the vanilla, trees, twin atlantic, umlilo, weekends

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Desmond & The Tutus, Grassy Spark, Early Hours & Make-Overs at the Assembly

Posted on: June 8, 2015

Saturday 6 June 2015 I don’t remember the last time I was at the Assembly…but I had a great time there last Saturday watching Grassy Spark, Early Hours and Pretoria favourites of mine Desmond & The Tutus and Make-Overs.