Being out of town at a festival on New Years Eve is pretty much a priority these days, what with road blocks, hordes of tourists and getting mugged. If you’re into live music, Rock the River is your only option near Cape Town. T...

While the Synergy festival was in full swing just outside Stellenbosch this past Saturday, the few live music enthusiasts that were left in Cape Town could be found at Zula. The only band worth hanging around in Cape Town for were...

What a total disaster of a day this past Friday was. FFS! Everything that could possibly have gone wrong, did. It was the kind of day, where at around 8pm you just want to go home and swallow a handful of Fukitol tablets and go pa...

First of all, where the hell was the advertising for this event? Not again – you have got to be kidding me! If it hadn’t been for someone mentioning this in a status update on facebook a few weeks before the show, this...

Mercury Live and Lounge has been a cornerstone of the local live music scene for many years and has hosted all the top bands in the country along the way. When I think of Mercury I usually think of these raucous gigs on the weeken...

Jan Blohm is one of the few Afrikaans artists whose CDs and DVD  have earned their well deserved spaces in my music collection. Don’t get me wrong, I am not a racist. (You can clearly deduce that I am South African – ...

There are loads of new bands popping up around Cape Town every week, some better than others, and some getting the whole marketing thing right and some not so much. Woodstock Mafia are one new band that are certainly getting it ri...

Last Wednesday Hanover Street (the club in Grand West Casino), hosted a fancy shindig to launch the debut album of CT band The Rescu. Walking in we were handed a bag full of delights including a cupcake, the album and some magazin...

While half of Cape Town were rolling around in the dust and the tequila in the North of the country at a festival that apparently has a ‘koppie’, I made the hour and a half drive to the quaint little town of Ceres, 50k...

I rarely write about a band/musician after only seeing them perform once. I like to form my opinion over at least three shows – consistency is one of the attributes I value the most in a band. I hate having advocated the bri...