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Interplanetary Folk Fest at the Blah Blah Bar
Sat 26 September 2016 Blah Blah Bar held the Interplanetary Folk fest, a mini folk and quirky music festival, over a week at the end of September; here are some shots of the Saturday night, featuring Ottoman Slap, Hezron Chetty, … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, afrikaans, belly dancers, blah blah bar, cape town, churchill, costumes, dressing up, evenings, festival, folk, gigs & festivals, hezron chetty, jonothan tait, kloof street, long hair, music, ottoman slap, photography, riku latti, south africa, south african, texx and the city, weekends
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Tagged acoustic, afrikaans, belly dancers, blah blah bar, cape town, churchill, costumes, dressing up, evenings, festival, folk, gigs & festivals, hezron chetty, jonothan tait, kloof street, long hair, music, ottoman slap, photography, riku latti, south africa, south african, texx and the city, weekends
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Retro Dizzy, Runaway Nuns & Dangerfields at Mercury
Fri 23 September 2016 Retro Dizzy played a packed show in Mercury back at the end of September and, I must say, Mercury looked better than I’d seen it, well probably ever – balloons, lanterns and streamers abounded and a … Continue reading
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Tagged balloons, cape town, cbd, crowd, dangerfields, decoration, favourites, fireworks, gigs & festivals, guitars, long hair, mercury, music, photography, post-punk, retro dizzy, rock, runaway nuns, south africa, south african, sparklers, streamers, surf, surf rock, texx and the city
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Tagged balloons, cape town, cbd, crowd, dangerfields, decoration, favourites, fireworks, gigs & festivals, guitars, long hair, mercury, music, photography, post-punk, retro dizzy, rock, runaway nuns, south africa, south african, sparklers, streamers, surf, surf rock, texx and the city
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Slander (IT), FREExMONEY, One Eight Seven, Young Hands at Club Med
Fri 16 September 2016 Club Med played host to another chaotic night of high energy courtesy of Italian hardcore punks Slander in mid-September. The Italians were good but for all their hype I have to say I was a little disappointed … Continue reading
Oppikoppi 2016: The unsea Day 3
Sun 7 August 2016 By day 3 of Oppikoppi 2016 I was well and truly feeling like death. Two nights of no sleep and a relentless fever are not conducive to a happy festival experience…but what can you do? I think … Continue reading
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Tagged 7th son, acoustic, afrikaans, american, august burns red, bombshelter beast, brass, cape town, costumes, crowd, dj, dressing up, dust, evenings, events, favourites, fever dogs, gigs & festivals, go barefoot, hezron chetty, hip hop, international act, jack parow, japanese, jumping musicians, kongos, late night fox, limpopo, long hair, medicine boy, ok22, oppikoppi, out in the country, petite noir, photography, plants & flowers, rap, raygun royale, ready d, rock, sawagi, saxophone, sick, sky, sol gems, south africa, south african, summer, sutherland, texx and the city, the unsea, trees, tuba, violin, weekends, yelawolf
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Oppikoppi 2016: The unsea Day 2
Sat 6 August 2016 Oppikoppi gets cold at night… But like really, really cold. So the fact that I spent Friday night sweating in my bed made me rather concerned… Yup, the flu finally got me, and it made the rest … Continue reading
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Tagged academie, acoustic, adelle nqeto, adventureman, aking, boxer, brass, british, cape town, choir, costumes, crowd, dressing up, duo, dust, easy freak, events, favourites, femi koya, fevertrails, fishwives, fokofpolisiekar, gangsterdam, gerald clarke, gigs & festivals, grassy spark, guitars, hip hop, horse, hot, international act, jerry and the bandits, joburg, johannesburg, jon savage, jumping musicians, lights, little simz, long hair, made for broadway, man as machine, marching band, music, naked, nature, new academics, nonku phiri, ok22, oppikoppi, outdoors, photography, plants & flowers, portraits, prime circle, rambling bones, rap, reason, red bull, riky rick, rock, sannie fox, satanic dagga orgy, shortstraw, shotgun tori, ska, sketchy bongo, south africa, south african, stone jets, sunset, texx and the city, the hip replacements, the kiffness, the mitten fits, the sextons, the unsea, thorns, tidal waves, urban village, we are charlie, weekends, werner von waltsleben
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