{"id":12169,"date":"2013-04-29T11:30:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T09:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/?p=12169"},"modified":"2013-04-30T01:02:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T23:02:55","slug":"mumiy-troll-long-time-citizen-at-ragazzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/mumiy-troll-long-time-citizen-at-ragazzi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumiy Troll & Long Time Citizen at Ragazzi"},"content":{"rendered":"
Friday
\n26 April 2013<\/div>\n

Arriving and performing on the 92 year old Sedov<\/a> sailing ship, and recently voted Russia’s “best band of the millenium”<\/a>, Mumiy Troll, played their third and final Cape Town gig on Friday at Ragazzi<\/a>, with the support of Long Time Citizen<\/a> (and a huge crowd full of Russians!)<\/p>\n

\"Mumiy<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \"Long<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ragazzi was packed pretty full, both upstairs and downstairs, and it wasn’t the usual Cape Town crowd…instead, the excited chatter before the show was mostly conducted in Russian. There was also quite a broad spectrum of ages in attendance which is always cool.<\/p>\n

Long Time Citizen have increased in size since the last time I saw them<\/a>; bassist Anton Marshall<\/a> took over vocal duties from the laryngitis-afflicted Greg Donnelly, and they were joined by guitar demon\u00a0Willim Welsyn and Lance Brandow on the drums.<\/p>\n

Granted, the last time I saw them was over a year ago when they played a pretty chilled acoustic set, but still they were a lot punchier at Ragazzi than I was expecting and, I think, complemented the tone of the headliners pretty well.<\/p>\n\n\t\t