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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.

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Tagged animation, anime, art, belly dancers, cape town, characters, comics, competitions, conference, contest, convention, cosplay, costumes, crowd, dancing, discussion, diy, dressing up, events, expo, fancon, fans, fun, games, geek, league of legends, long hair, lookout, manga, market, movies, panel, photography, pokemon, south africa, south african, superheroes, villains, warcraft, waterfront, weekends, wigs, workshops

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Past Haunts ‘Afterthoughts’ album launch at Club Med with The Shabeen

Posted on: May 12, 2016

Sat
30 April
2016

Club Med is always fun to shoot at, the stage is so small that you can get all up close and personal with the band and the lighting’s always great – fun events like Past Haunts’ EP launch featuring the always enjoyable Shabeen are an added bonus.

Here are some shots from the thoroughly enjoyable night.

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Posted in Gigs/Live Music
Tagged acoustic, album launch, cape town, cbd, club med, emo, ep launch, evenings, events, folk, gigs & festivals, guitars, launch, long hair, long street, merch, music, past haunts, photography, punk, rock, south africa, south african, the shabeen, weekends

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Stone Jets at the V&A Waterfront Amphitheatre

Posted on: May 10, 2016

Sat
30 April
2016

The Stone Jets played a really lovely show at the Amphitheatre at the end of April; it’s a tricky venue as it caters mostly to casual Waterfront shoppers , passersby and denizens of the foodcourt but it was great to watch the audience swell throughout their performance and it was a very pretty evening.

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Tagged amphitheatre, cape town, evenings, events, gigs & festivals, guitars, music, outdoors, photography, pop, rock, south africa, south african, stone jets, trio, waterfront, weekends

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One last bash: Julia Robert and The Pranks’ farewell show with Black Lung at Manila Bar

Posted on: May 9, 2016

Tues
26 April
2016

Julia Robert and The Pranks both played their last shows (along with Black Lung) at Manila Bar at the end of April. Though tinged with sadness of their farewells it was a really enjoyable night with loads of energy all round, especially from The Pranks’ eternally engaging frontwoman Purity.

Here are some shots from the night.

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Tagged black lung, cape town, costumes, covers, dressing up, evenings, events, farewell, farewell show, garage, gigs & festivals, guitars, julia robert, long hair, long street, music, photography, post-punk, psych, public holiday, punk, rock, south africa, south african, special guests, texx and the city, the pranks, weekends

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RIP Hammy Cat

Posted on: May 3, 2016

Mon
2 May
2016

This is one of the last photos of our dear ginger boy Hammond, taken yesterday morning. We don’t know exactly how old he was but was at least 3 when he adopted us in 2001 so must’ve been around 18. Though we’ve known it was coming for a while his loss has still been hard to accept and my bed felt empty without him last night…he’s been around through thick and thin, a brawler in his youth and battle-scarred in old age he was always a character to say the least. As his health deteriorated it became my mom’s running joke anytime he’d do something crotchety or unfortunate about it being time to send him to Valhalla…I thought a lot about that, wondering if those who don’t die in battle would go to Valhalla. Well in true style our boy put up a fight to the end, even as our dear vet gently explained it was heart failure and it was his time, he got in one final swipe before the tranquilizer lulled him to sleep. Enjoy Valhalla you crazy bastard, we miss you already ♥