Tag Archives: favourites

Belly of the Beast: Hellcats, The Tazers, Retro Dizzy & In Bloom at the Assembly

Posted on: March 8, 2016

Sat 6 March 2016 Though poorly attended, Saturday night’s show at the Assembly showcased some first class rock from newcomers In Bloom, surf rockers Retro Dizzy and Joburg’s The Tazers and Hellcats. All of the bands had great energy and didn’t let the poor turnout faze them, … Continue reading →

Posted in Gigs/Live Music
Tagged assembly, cape town, cbd, dj, duo, evenings, favourites, gigs & festivals, guitars, harrington street, headbanging, hellcats, in bloom, long hair, music, photography, psych, retro dizzy, robfather, rock, singing bassists, singing drummers, south africa, south african, summer, surf, texx and the city, the assembly, the tazers, trio, weekends

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World pangolin day

Posted on: February 23, 2016

Sat 20 February 2016 Pangolins have been among my favourite animals for many years so it’s always surprising to me how many people don’t know about them. Aside from being really adorable and peaceful creatures they are also one of the world’s most poached … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Ramblings, Random
Tagged animals, close up, conservation, favourites, figurine, garden, gold, macro, outdoors, pangolin, photography, weekends, world pangolin day

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M4A SummerFest 2016

Posted on: February 4, 2016

Sat 30 January 2016 Last Saturday I attended the first of Metal4Africa’s 2016 bi-annual festival events, the M4ASummerFest. Since the usual venue (Stellenbosch‘s Klein Libertas) is still under reconstruction, the fest was held at a new venue: a warehouse/langarm dance … Continue reading →

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Tagged brackenfell, burlesque, cape town, crowd, diva disastar, dressing up, evenings, events, favourites, fuera, gigs & festivals, hardcore, headbanging, imperial destruction, jumping musicians, langarm hall, long hair, m4a, megalodon, metal, metal fest, metal4africa, mosh pit, moshpit, rock, south africa, south african, subject to slaughter, subvers, summer, summerfest, take hand, texx and the city, the drift, wargrave, weekends, wildernessking

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Misc photos from 2015

Posted on: January 10, 2016

2015 By the end of last year I was shooting 6 days/nights a week; spending more time with my camera than ever before has been great but unfortunately it doesn’t leave a lot of time for personal photography. Here are some of the … Continue reading →

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Tagged birds, blood moon, butterfly, cape town, cats, cherries, crow, crows, daisies, eclipse, favourites, forest, franschoek, garden, garden route, klondyke, knysna, landscape, loerie, macro, monzi, moon, mountains, nature, ocean, olivia, out in the country, outdoors, paarl, personal, photography, plants & flowers, reptile, sea, sea point, sky, south africa, south african, stellenbosch, summer, super moon, trees, weekends, winter days, ziggy

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Music: 2015 in review

Posted on: January 2, 2016

MUSIC Another year has evaporated and it is now 2016, and my 9th last.fm anniversary. Last.fm’s implemented a whole load of changes most of which I don’t really like but the improved graphs are interesting – looking back on mine … Continue reading →