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You are invited to that last Hi5 of 2013!
On Sunday night Hi5 is back! Our series of guitar-centric dance parties returns for one last bust out in 2013! Our live acts for the night are two of my personal favourites; Motèl Mari (back from a...
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I'm back!
I'm back! It's been a (long) while. For the past two weeks I've been wanting to make my return with a post that would have started like this:"I'm back! Just got home after touring the UK for a month...
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Dune Rats 2013 tour video!
Last year South Africa recieved a visit from three dynamos collectively known as Dune Rats. What followed were some really excellent adventures, awesome shows and stellar high jinx. Anja managed to...
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UK do better 01 - the tour in posters.
I mentioned yesterday that I've recently come off a tour, playing bits of the UK with Johnny Foreigner, touring the band's 4th album "You Can Do Better". As with pervious adventures with the band, this...
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Dune Rats return to Hi5!
Last year, at one of our first Hi5 nights, we hosted an Australian band, playing their first show on Africa soil. The resulting show was pure carnage of the most excellent variety, and the Dune Rats...
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UKDB00 - YOU CAN DO BETTER!
As the backstory of my forthcoming UK Do Better tour diary, here's the album that the tour centred around. "You Can Do Better" is Johnny Foreigner's 4th album. Hearing it for the first time I was...
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You are invited: Dune Rats South Africa 2014.
Last year a friend asked me to design a poster for an Australian band who would be visiting South Africa. The resulting tour saw The Dune Rats initiate South African audiences to their specific brand...
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UKDB-1 : You Keytar Better.
As I'm slowly penning my recap of our recent adventures through The UK, here's a little prequel to set things up... In anticipation of Seafox and I joining Johnny Foreigner to launch their 4th album,...
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Disco De Moda presents Justin Miller & Tyson Ballard!
Having recently brought great joy (see Marcus Marr) to Joburg and Cape Town earlier this year, Disco De Moda returns this weekend! Uping their game yet again, the next DDM will feature not one, but...
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Dune Rats UK/ Euro tour 2014!
This is pretty long overdue, but I guess it's better late than never right?Following on their most excellent tour of South Africa, Australia's Dune Rats made their way North for a string of dates...
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Days Like Television: Beach Party - I Want To
The Cape Town awesomeness-generating wonders known as Surfing Looser Space Cult have done it again! The gang's latest creation is a major double whammy; a stellar new Beach Party song and an...
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The Batelur Moves On!
Next Friday I'll be putting on my Sassquatch suit for a very special night out. Joburg's (absolute) finest, The Brother Moves On, are making a trip down to Cape Town. In turn, The Mother City's...
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SMAC 750!
Well, this is it, my 750th post on my dear old blog. I've been watching this milestone approaching for months. In May I posted animal call 749. From there, I planned a super elaborate 750th post,...
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JOHNNY FOREIGNER ARE COMING HOME!
Johnny Foreigner are a noisy, fun band of magicians who I've shared many of the best moments of my life with. There was that time they came to South Africa in 2010 and there was that time we toured...
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Cool Your Jets 2014 update!
I feel I owe this old blog an extensive apology for my absence this year. Unfortunately, I don't really have time for that. And I guess that's really a huge part of this forthcoming extensive apology;...
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Good Weekend: Star-crossed Lovers was born.
It's been more than a year since the last time I got one of these "Good Weekend" posts out. In the time since then I've had some pretty dam righteous times, all un-blogged about. So many excellent...
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Hi5 present "An Indie Thursday Throwback"
Next month will mark Sassquatch's 9th birthday. Almost a decade ago, Ri and I teamed up to play our first set as Sassquatch and Data Takashi at "The Secret Pirate Party". We quickly found ourselves...
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Drift Prism EP on it's way.
Drift Prism is (in my books) the most exciting new face in South African electronic music. I've been lucky enough to see this fantastic monster growing for the past few months and now, a debut 5 track...
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Dune Rats at Hi5 - episode 2!
With Hi5's nostalgia-fueled next episode going down in two days, I figured it could be a good chance to share some snaps from our last party. For Hi5 13, we were really stoked to have Australia's Dune...
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TBT: the golden age of dance punk.
Tonight Hi5 is hosting a family reunion. We're re-assembling a gang of DJs and dancefloor-enthusiast that used to get together every Thursday night between 2005 and 2007 (maybe into 08?). I, for one,...
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