{"id":9143,"date":"2012-08-13T09:59:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T07:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/?p=9143"},"modified":"2012-08-20T22:59:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T20:59:22","slug":"one-night-in-cape-town-at-the-grand-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/one-night-in-cape-town-at-the-grand-arena\/","title":{"rendered":"One Night in Cape Town at the Grand Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"
Thursday 09 August 2012<\/div>\n

Oppikoppi boasted a pretty impressive line-up of artists this year, and luckily for those of us staying in Cape Town over the festival weekend, the organisers put together a day-long concert featuring some of them: Bullet for my Valentine, Seether, Enter Shikari, The Eagles of Death Metal, KONGOS and Van Coke Kartel at Grand West’s Grand Arena.<\/p>\n

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Not being a big enough fan of the bands playing, I didn’t buy a ticket but was lucky enough to win one in an art contest, one of several held on the One Night In Cape Town Facebook page – so thanks to the admins for that.<\/p>\n

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Here’s my drawing of Josh Homme from The Eagles of Death Metal
– sadly he wasn’t playing with them though!<\/p><\/div>\n

So while I was grateful for the chance to go, it didn’t change the fact that aside from KONGOS & VCK, I wasn’t a huge fan of any of the bands before the night – Seether are okay and EoDM totally won me over but Enter Shikari were total shite and we didn’t hang around for the emo headliners, Bullet for my Valentine.<\/p>\n

Like my last time at Grand West (watching Rammstein<\/a>) I did take some photos but they’re all courtesy of my dodgy little point & shoot, so they’re pretty terrible. Shame, I give that camera a lot of grief<\/a> but all things considered it actually handles situations like this pretty well<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The concert kicked off around 2pm on Women’s Day – Chris & I arrived a little late because \u00a0our main concern was seeing KONGOS<\/a> and everything else was sort of a bonus. Van Coke Kartel<\/a> were wrapping up as we got there, but the plus side was that they ended with my 2 favourites:\u00a0Voor ons stof word<\/em> and that other one about haaling asem.<\/p>\n

They were rocking out pretty hard<\/a>\u00a0as always but it felt a bit weird, no doubt because the venue was a little empty and it was still really early; things would pick up…<\/p>\n\n\t\t