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Blood Brothers Cape Town – Zip Zap Dome
Sat 22 September 2018 One week after watching some of SA’s finest musicians collaborating for the Francois van Coke en Vriende show in Pretoria, Cape Town got to see another collaborative show courtesy of local supergroup Blood Brothers. The show … Continue reading
Francois van Coke En Vriende – Sun Arena Pretoria
Sat 15 September 2018 ‘Francois Van Coke en Vriende’ was an aptly named, once-off show in Pretoria’s massive Sun Arena and a truly world class production (props to AMP Events). It featured collaborative performances from Francois’ bandmates in Fokofpolisiekar, Van Coke … Continue reading
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Oppikoppi 24: Nomakanjani 2018 – day 3
Sat 11 August 2018 The third and final day of OK24 was my favourite of the festival: it began with the notorious naked run and ended with a spectacular sunset, and sometime after that Hellcats utterly destroyed the top bar … Continue reading
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Tagged 2lee stark, acoustic, afrikaans, bed on bricks, blk jks, brass band, brass cartel, brynn, bushveld, cockles, costumes, crowd, crowd surfing, dressing up, dust, events, favourites, fokofpolisiekar, francois van coke, gigs & festivals, guitars, hellcats, hezron chetty, Jagermeister, jumping musicians, kwesta, long hair, melo b jones, music, naked, nature, oliver mtukudzi, oppikoppi, outdoors, photography, rayban, red bull, red robyn, rock, sky, south africa, south african, stiff pap, summer, sunset, texx and the city, trees, violin, weekends
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Oppikoppi 24: Nomakanjani 2018 – day 2
Fri 10 August 2018 Enduring a freezing night in a tent before being woken by bagpipes and a dust-induced coughing fest – it could only be Oppikoppi! Day 2 of OK24 looked like this:
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Oppikoppi 24: Nomakanjani 2018 – day 1
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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