MUSIC REVIEWS
Tropical storm creek
Last Saturday night 1.5 billion people watched the opening ceremony of the Cricket World Cup on TV. 20000 people experienced it at Newlands. 1000 brave souls descended upon the Breede River to experience its banks thump to the sounds of some of South Africa's finest music.
“DON’T PANIC!” – Sugardrive are back.
As tight as ever, as raw as ever, as energetic as ever and as well loved by the fans as ever – Sugardrive are back. And back with a bang...
Jazz in the city of saints
In the city of Saints, among the people with peculiar hats, the hippies on donkey carts and the street children singing for their bread, lies a venue whose walls resounded with the most amazing music and the tremendous applause from the audiences who literally pushed and shoved to see their favorite musicians in action.
Soulja make an impact at Mercury Live
Providing an explosive start to the long weekend Soulja opened for New Porn at a packed out Mercury Live on Thursday evening.
Savage Garden live in South Africa @ Century City
There must be something in the fertilizer at Century City…. First of all a large atomic mushroom looking contraption erupts from the ground and shortly afterwards this futuristic structure goes bananas with a sound so awesome that my ear drums are still reverberating weeks afterwards from the sounds of screaming girls (and guys) that were literally fainting at the sight and sounds of the Aussie duo - Savage Garden.
Koppi-Grammy’s
As a Fountains Valley virgin and an absentee from the SA music scene for over a year it was with trepidation that I slunk into the new Pretoria venue - good mates in the car and good wine in the boot. I really had no idea what to expect - and kept telling myself: "Sam, don't expect anything…you will be disappointed".
Orgasmic!
Norman Mailer once said: “ …jazz is orgasm, it is the music of orgasm”. I couldn’t agree more... and this weekend’s North Sea Jazz Festival - which took the Good Hope Centre hostage and rocked the Mother City - was just that: orgasmic.
Mann Friday – A Recipe for Success
Take three parts Zimbabwean musical genius and add two parts South African musical talent and you get a musical union that is going to take the SA music scene by storm in the months to come.
LIVE take SA by storm
The editor of Stage Magazine phones me and asks: “Can you possibly photograph the Live concert in Cape Town… and write a word or two about it?”
Kaktus op die Vlaktes - a 37 hour road trip
The dateline for this article is: The Cango Caves, Oudschoorn. More specifically: The Food court, sitting at a table with a leopard print table cloth and writing on a till slip kindly donated to my cause by the (very bored) attendant working at the self serve counter.
Kaktus op die Vlaktus 2000
Once each year the quaint little town of Oudtshoorn - of ostrich and Cango Cave fame - metamorphisizes into a hive of exuberance, colour and excitement. At the height of all this electric atmosphere is Kaktus op die Vlaktus, a music concert that has, over recent years, earned itself the reputation of being one of South Africa's best.
The New Harvest is a good one
"Cape of Good Dope" is the fresh harvest from African Dope Records. In true Dope style it is a mixture of in-your-face hip-hop, backbeat, trip hop, dance and dub tracks to get even the laziest of people onto the dance floor.
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