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Ed Force One leaving Cape Town

Posted on: May 27, 2016

Fri
20 May
2016

Though I didn’t see them in concert, I did see Iron Maiden leaving Cape Town last Friday afternoon. My shots of Ed Force One were all super boring so I decided to metal this one up a bit \m/

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Tagged aviation, cape town, ed force one, fun, international act, iron maiden, lightning, music, nature, outdoors, photoshop, plane, planes, sky, winter days

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Iron Maiden Tribute show at ROAR

Posted on: May 27, 2016

Sat 14
May
2016

Though I didn’t get to see the real Iron Maiden when they played in Cape Town, I did get o see an awesome local tribute show a few days before. Technology was against me that night and unfortunately both my sets of flash batteries died on me a few minutes in to the show…since ROAR‘s lighting isn’t my favourite without flash I went with a moody black and white album for the night, which I don’t do often so that was fun too.

Anyway, here are some shots from the night.

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Posted in Gigs/Live Music
Tagged all guns full ammo, atlantic south, black and white, bulletscript, cape town, events, favourites, gigs & festivals, guitars, infanteria, iron maiden, long hair, megaladon, metal, monochrome, music, photography, reverse the sands, roar, rock, south africa, south african, supergroup, texx and the city, thread of omen, tribute, weekends, zombies ate my girlfriend

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Dangerfields & The Fizz Pops at EVOL

Posted on: May 17, 2016

Sat
7 May
2016

I’ve been wanting to check out new post-punk/indie band Dangerfields for a while and finally got a chance when they played EVOL/Hectic on Hope two Saturdays ago along with The Fizz Pops.

I have a soft spot for anything vaguely post-punk, so while they’re new and feel a bit like they still need to find their sound, I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on Dangerfields in the future.

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Tagged cape town, dangerfields, dark, evenings, evol, fizz pops, future primitives, gigs & festivals, guitars, hectic on hope, long hair, lucy kruger, music, photography, post-punk, psych, retro dizzy, rock, south africa, south african, surf, texx and the city, the very wicked, weekends

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Music: Tape Hiss and Sparkle – The Winter Switch (2015)

Posted on: May 14, 2016

MUSIC

I don’t post many album reviews, mostly because I struggle to find the time to put them together. As it is I’ve been sitting with this one since the end of last year, and though I really enjoyed it, I couldn’t quite get into the headspace to truly appreciate and dissect an album called The Winter Switch during the relentless heatwave Cape Town faced last Summer…so I let the months drift by, and the air grow colder…

Autumn doesn’t really exist in Cape Town and the seasons seem to transition quickly and messily from summer to winter during April. Then along comes May and it’s undeniably winter – I always find that sudden change quite amazing…I’m not sure what exactly Tape Hiss and Sparkle‘s titular ‘winter switch’ refers to, but the phrase definitely came to mind during the first cold days of May.

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Tagged acoustic, autumn, coal, favourites, folk, gigs & festivals, indie, music, oh cruel fate, review, rock, south africa, south african, tape hiss and sparkle, winter

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FanCon at the Lookout

Posted on: May 12, 2016

Sun
8 May
2016

Billed as ‘Cape Town Comic Con’, there was considerable hype and anticipation surrounding the inaugural FanCon over the first weekend of May. I was out of town on the Saturday but word was traveled fast that it was chaos at the Lookout – the entry queue apparently stretched for miles from early in the morning and it seemed a lot of people had a lot of complaints…

Sunday however was nothing but pleasant, both in terms of organisation (staff were on hand in the queue giving armbands to those who were there yesterday and had weekend passes and the whole thing seemed to move pretty smoothly) and the event itself.