Flower Power Friday 09h00: Wake up with hangover. Buying extra jugs of margarita during happy hour always seems a good idea at the time. 10h00: Attempt to locate tent and other useful camping items. 12h00: Take fourth headache tab...

It has been a while since I took the streets. OK that’s a blatant lie (with a straight face too). But it sounds far better than it’s been a while since I wrote anything. Which essentially is also fibs because I am cons...

Remember the grand opening of the Zula Bar? Springbok Nude Girls, Hog Hoggidy Hog, The Rudimentals and Ashtray Electric were there. So was I. So were approximately 1 500 revellers. It was mayhem. It was crowded and chaos reigned. ...

The other weekend I had a series of “firsts”. No, it wasn’t the first time I got “rogered” as the title may suggestively suggest. It was the first time I saw the band Three Chord Theory (at their last...

Monday nights. Nothing happening right? It’s the ultimate school night. Ha! You couldn’t be more wrong. While you are all tucked up safely in your beds, there’s a whole other world happening. It’s called St...

I have been bleating on about this stuff to my long-suffering colleagues and friends for some time. Especially when I am getting cabin fever and a little tired of looking at a screen all day. Especially when I have fifty emails to...

I really didn’t see this one coming. Going to an unplugged, quiet gig at a hotel with a strange name, on a week night, with Mum Friend from 6pm to 8pm. Easy stuff. Tame evening. Early night. Yeah right. I should have known b...

I knew it was going to be a good weekend when everyone started raving on about The Rapture. Rapture? What the hell? Er, perhaps hell is the wrong word to use here. According to a religious freak (namely one Harold Camping), The Ra...

At risk of showing my age, I am going to start off this blog like this … Back in the day we used to buy music on cassettes. Er, we also had walkmans and tape decks. Cassettes used to get chewed in tape decks, quite regularly...

I love music. Most of my entertainment revolves around it – music festivals and gigs are frequently on my social agenda. But don’t really know much about it. Some people will go as far as to say that I know nothing and...