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What rocked the Vlaktes
Sam Reinders crammed into a car with four other people on a 37-hour road trip to Oudtshoorn, South Africa’s ostrich capital, for six hours of musical bliss at Kaktus Op Die Vlaktes. Her feedback? "Like a case of assorted bottles of Tass, some of the music was of exceptional vintage, while other musical offerings were of the slightly vinegary type — still drinkable but not entirely memorable."

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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, says Sam Reinders who recently saw them shake the foundations at a Cape Town venue? And with the band hibernating in their studio for another three months, fans can expect an even greater pool of awesome new material when they're ready to take the country's music venues by storm...

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'Orgasmic' jazz fest rocks Mother City
The North Sea Jazz Festival took Cape Town hostage over the weekend, giving jazz lovers an electric 48 hours of aural pleasure with its smorgasbord of traditional jazz, cutting edge contemporary fusion, beats and hip hop sounds. Sam Reinders joined the capacity crowd of over 12 000 people at the Good Hope Centre to take in what was, for her, an "orgasmic" aural experience... In the pic: Busi Mhlongo

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Tropical Storm Creek
Far from putting a dampener on the weekend, the wet weather at the recent Up The Creek music festival served to make the experience a better one — an ideal mixture of intimacy, music and mud, writes Sam Reinders, who was among the thousand brave souls who descended on the Cape's Breede River to watch South Africa's finest bands perform.