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Eluveitie at the Assembly

Posted on: October 25, 2015

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 →

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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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Rocking the Daisies 2015: Saturday

Posted on: October 8, 2015

Sat 3 October 2015 Day 2 of Rocking the Daisies 2015 featured the biggest crowd I’ve ever been stuck in (for German headliners Milky Chance – it honestly took me the majority of their set to get from the far end of … Continue reading →

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Tagged accordion, acoustic, afrikaans, aking, al bairre, australian, bongeziwe mabandla, brass, british, cape town, card on spokes, cloof wine estate, costumes, crowd, dancers, dancing, darling, derek gripper, dirty hippies, dressing up, electro, evenings, fairy lights, fire, flowers, george bacon, german, gigs & festivals, grassy spark, guitars, hipsters, hog hoggidy hog, hula hoop, international act, jack parow, jon shaban, jumping musicians, landscape, long hair, milky chance, mountains, music, nature, nu world, out in the country, outdoors, parade, peter bibby, photography, plants & flowers, portraits, rock, rocking the daisies, saxophone, scuba, seed experiences, ska, south africa, south african, stage, suitcase hearts, summer, sunset, tattoos, texx and the city, the brother moves on, the kooks, the shabeen, touchwood, trees, tribute, trumpet, weekends, wild lettuce

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Oppikoppi 21: Fantastic Mr Vos Vos Day 2

Posted on: August 24, 2015

Saturday 8 August 2015 As mildly traumatic as it is waking up in 5 layers of clothes in a state of humid confusion surrounded by a tent and the nonsensical conversations of your neighbours outside, there’s something reassuring about the situation: you know … Continue reading →

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Tagged afrikaans, aka, al bairre, american, bagpipes, black cat bones, brass, british, camping, circle view, costumes, crowd, dance, dancers, dancing, desmond & the tutus, desmond and the tutus, dirty hippies, doring, double bass, dressing up, drummers, drums, dust, favourites, felix laband, full swing, gigs & festivals, guitars, hilltop live, international act, jumping musicians, kameeldoring, kid x, kilts, konrad kuechenmeister, light, livingston, long hair, marching band, memories, mordor, music, nature, nomadic orchestra, nonku phiri, okmalumkoolkat, oppikoppi, original swimming party, outdoors, ph fat, photography, portraits, red bull, reunion, rock, sannie fox, saxophone, sibot, south africa, south african, southern wild, spring, stage, summer, sunset, tatran, tattoos, taxi violence, tents, trumpet, tuin, tweak, weekends, werner von waltsleben

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Rocking the Daisies 2014

Posted on: October 10, 2014

Saturday 05 October 2014 Rocking the Daisies managed to expand from its colossal 17,000-odd crowd last year to around 20,000 this past weekend. The weather was great and, as usual, there was plenty to see and do. I may have gone … Continue reading →

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Sublime Tribute show 2013 at Mercury

Posted on: January 13, 2013

Friday 11 January 2013 Déjà-Vu; the first gig I attended last year was the Sublime Tribute show, so it’s amusing, and fitting I guess, that the event (back by insanely popular demand) be my inaugural gig of 2013.