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Well hello…

Crikey, i haven’t posted on anything on here for what feels like forever!  I do have half an excuse though, as i’ve been lucky enough to go on a jaunt to Taiwan to visit some family. As it happens, during the the two weeks that i was away, some of the most amazing gigs i’ve [...]

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Sticky Antlers in CT

The Sticky Antlers, a great band from Pretoria whose first album i wrote about here , and which has subsequently been picked up for distribution by One F Music, are finally coming to play in Cape Town for the first time ever.

As my cursed luck would have it, i’m away for the entire time they’re [...]

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Blackmilk – Kimono Dragon

I know i’ve posted this before (on a blog that has since dissolved into the ether, mind you), but i feel any South African music enthusiast has the constitutional right to be exposed to this magnificent song, and i am preparing this house for some new guests, in a manner of speaking.
Blackmilk is a band [...]

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Back online.

You may have noticed that this site has been offline since Sunday – this has been due to a problem encountered in upgrading the Wordpress platfom to the latest version (and stupidly not backing up the previous installation, because, what could possibly go wrong?) – anyway, it’s back online thanks in no small part to [...]

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From the Vaults: Skrummasjien

Skrummasjien: (l) Mark – Drummasjien, (r) Righard – Strummasjien

Skrummasjien was a two-piece noise rock outfit consisting of myself on guitar and Mark Van Niekerk on drums. The central idea was to fixate on an almost comical heaviosity based on power chord riffs, thrash metal drumming and feedback, coupled with noise loops.We liked the idea of [...]

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Two Great Guitar Albums pt.2: Andre v Rensburg,Nels Cline

It seems to be becoming a habit of mine to write about guitar albums – no surprise there – but also to tackle them in pairs. If you missed my previous lyrical waxing about Marc Ribot and Fred Frith, you can find it here.
Andre van Rensburg – Unfinished Cities
(South of the Border, 2008)

“When he was [...]

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Sticky Antlers – Blind Horse Video

Some lo-fi animated fun from Pretoria’s no-fi noiseniks Sticky Antlers.
Blind Horse (animated music video)

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Dual Album Launch Videos pt1

Some videoclips from the recent Newspace Theater performance – firstly from Ramon Galvan’s set – the gorgeous song ‘Salvo’.

The highlight of Ramon’s set was the closer ‘No Rest’, which featured an amazing free drumming performance by Ross Campbell and generally much noise.

Thanks to Jaco Minnaar for filming – I will upload more videos early next [...]

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Pics from Righard Kapp and Ramon Galvan album launch

We’ve got some photos from Nic da Silva and his wife Lauren from the Dual Album launch, you can view the full album here.

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Delay in distributing two new albums

Due to an error at the pressing plant there is going to be a slight delay in getting the two new albums distributed into shops, keep watching this space for news on that.
The launch gig was a wonderful experience, thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of that, particularly The Newspace Theatre and [...]