Arriving and performing on the 92 year old Sedov sailing ship, and recently voted Russia’s “best band of the millenium”, Mumiy Troll, played their third and final Cape Town gig on Friday at Ragazzi, with the support of Long Time Citizen (and a huge crowd full of Russians!)
The moon over Cape Town tonight, 10:04 PM
Stopping over briefly in Cape Town as part of its tour around the world, the 92 year old Barque Sedov is the world’s oldest sailing ship still in operation. Built in Germany in the 1920s and under the Russian flag since the end of WWII, the ship is currently a training vessel for the Naval School at the Murmansk Technical University.
On Tuesday, Russian band Mumiy Troll performed a show on board the Sedov (with support from Long Time Citizen) for Rolling Stone SA‘s ‘The Story’; sadly I couldn’t stay for the performance but I did have a great time joining the other wide-eyed visitors wandering around the ship and watching the Russian band soundcheck.
The small upstairs theatre of Strand Street’s Alexander Bar was the perfectly cosy venue for 3 charming folky acts – Joy Smith, Thomas Krane and Tape Hiss and Sparkle. Wow, what a lovely show.
The Parklife acoustic music Festival debuted in Joburg on March 21 and in Cape Town on the following day, at the one-of-a-kind and always gorgeous Kirstenbosch Gardens, where Jeremy Loops and Farryl Purkiss played the sunset opening slots in support of Australian headliner Xavier Rudd.
