Making it in the music industry is hard. In South Africa, even harder. The scene is small, good (paying) venues are scarce, and it takes time and hard work to get on to a festival line-up. Living for the music isn’t free. Enter Maddy Behrens, a folk/pop musician reminiscent of Continue Reading
Marnus Strydom
Less Wes Anderson, more Wes Craven.
Lush Festival 2017: A Photo Review
All images by Marnus Strydom and Henk Labuschagne. All images by Marnus Strydom and Henk Labuschagne.
Van die kombuisvloer na die verhoog – Koos Kombuis gaan Lush Festival toe
Suid Afrika is ‘n kulturele land, daar’s geen twyfel daarin in nie. Ons hardloop op diversiteit. En vir al ons verskille het ons almal een ding in gemeen; ons hou van partytjie. Die beste bewys hiervan is die menigde kuns – en musiekfeeste in ons land wat vir ons beskikbaar Continue Reading
Top 25 Films To Look Out For in 2017
Of all my addictions, my biggest and most long-lasting one has to be films. Or movies. Cinema. Whatever the street name is for it. Each year the streets fill up with my favourite dealers, delivering a fresh batch of goods for temporary euphoria, and this year they’re coming in hot.
End of Daze: Aidan Martin talks music, politics and Cape Town’s newest music festival
October saw the release of Aidan Martin‘s latest single Refugee, a tour-de-force rock and roll anthem perfectly fitted for tense political state of mind the world finds itself in lately. Aidan Martin is the real deal. With a career stretching for almost a decade, Aidan has been touring, moving around Continue Reading
Love In The Time Of The Robot Uprising – Kabaal klankbaan releases Robot Girlfriend
As we move further and further into the future of convenience and technology, new possibilities are arising to find love, be it scanning dating apps for the perfect partner, stalking the girl of your dreams online or building the perfect mechanical partner that passes the Turing test to keep you Continue Reading
Verplaas – Song and Dance and Farm Murders
I don’t know much about theater or cabaret. I can’t remember the last time I went to such a production. I do know live music. And cinema. And I would like to think that I know good entertainment when I see it. This changed when I broke my dry spell Continue Reading
The Graeme Watkins Project – In Abundance
Love is a wonderful thing. It brightens up even the sorriest of existences, leaving the lovestruck victim radiating a vast array of colour to the world around him/her. A hormone on fire, lighting your way around the dark world. This feeling can be found personified in the new Graeme Watkins Continue Reading
20 Exciting movies coming in 2016
A new year brings new films and character to fall in love with. Last year saw innovative pictures come to life. From an entire movie shot in a single take, shooting in the harshest conditions using only natural light, to George Miller’s masterpiece that is Mad Max: Fury Road. With Continue Reading
An Ode To Ash Williams
With the world getting ready for Halloween this weekend, another fandom is eagerly waiting to step out of the darkness back into the world again. This weekend sees the premiere of the brand new Starz television show, Ash vs. The Evil Dead.