Cape Town Music Archive

  • Captain Stu Live & Unplugged

    Captain Stu Live & Unplugged

    Captain Stu has never had a full mention on these pages, and that is a great failing of ours. They are local Capetonians, and they’ve been going for around eight years. In that time Captain Stu have carved themselves a new genre,  and a place in the hearts those of us who go to their [...]
  • Hogs Record a Live Album

    Hogs Record a Live Album

    There have, in the past, been attempts to capture the unique sound of a live hogs gig. Thus far though every attempt has been a failure marred by booze, studio’s or 5fm.  Anyone who has listened to their albums and attended their live shows can attest to the fact that the albums fail to capture [...]
  • Preview: A B Turbo ‘Carry Me Away’ Music Video

    Preview: A B Turbo ‘Carry Me Away’ Music Video

    Well, a few weeks back I mentioned that myself and Kyle Ecks spent some time hanging out on the set of the debut A B Turbo music video for their song, ‘Carry Me Away’ – and they’ve just released a teaser! The video is due to be released some time around March, but in the mean [...]
  • 01/23/10 – Butterfly Studios – HALO Feat. Jason van Wyk

    01/23/10 – Butterfly Studios – HALO Feat. Jason van Wyk

    Who HALO Feat. Jason van Wyk When Saturday, January 23, 2010 8:00pm - All Ages Where Butterfly Studios (map) 8 Bree Street, Cape Town Cape Town, Western Cape Other InfoJoin Jason van Wyk and the HALO crew, as well as two of our featured artists, Shaun Holiday and Scott Small (and others) at Butterfly Studios on January 23rd for some uplifting beats and the best in progressive [...]
  • Interview: Shaun Holiday – Mixed-up Productions

    Interview: Shaun Holiday – Mixed-up Productions

    Author’s Preface: A couple of months back I stumbled across a Trance podcast by the name of ‘Come Down Monday‘. If you don’t know how this works, basically it’s a free MP3 of about an hour and a half of the most progressive and entertaining dance music around.  You can listen to it live on [...]
  • The Punk Ska Pioneers Tour

    The Punk Ska Pioneers Tour

    I’ll bash this one out quickly as there not much that needs to be said. (Not that kind of bashing one out, you sick fucker) On Friday Night (11th December) Fuzigish, Hog Hoggidy Hog and Captain Stu will be playing a show at Mercury. That’s pretty much all you need to know. If that information isn’t [...]
  • Synergy Live in Stills: Part 1

    Synergy Live in Stills: Part 1

    Author’s preface: My colleague, Kyle, has already given his partially lucid account of Synergy Live, 2009.  So I thought I would let our staff photographer, Cameron, tell you his story.  He doesn’t talk much, but he takes pretty good pictures. These are some of them. They are just a few of the hundreds of images he took [...]
  • Synergy Live Festival: Are You Ready?

    Synergy Live Festival: Are You Ready?

    This weekend sees the return of the Synergy Live Music Festival. While many of you have that stupid clueless look on your face with the question in your mind being something along the lines of “….return??…. I’ve never heard of this thing”, it is, most definitely, a return. For the last 7 years Synergy festival [...]
  • Behind The Scenes: Making of an A B Turbo Music Video

    Behind The Scenes: Making of an A B Turbo Music Video

    This weekend Kyle Ecks and myself spent the day at R.O.A.R (above Gandalfs) helping out on the set of the new A B Turbo music video for ‘Carry Me Away’, set to be released by early next year. Despite any discomfort felt at being in the nastiest corner of Observatory and seeing the place (and Antonio) [...]
  • 10/31/09 – Springboks Pub, Newlands – Hogs, Checked Zebra Rock Out at Springboks

    10/31/09 – Springboks Pub, Newlands – Hogs, Checked Zebra Rock Out at Springboks

    Who Hogs, Checked Zebra Rock Out at Springboks When Saturday, October 31, 2009 9:00pm - 18+ Where Springboks Pub, Newlands (map) Cape Town, Western Cape Other InfoIf you're not amped for too much Halloween tomfoolery this weekend, but you'd still like to be a part of the action, catch Hog Hoggidy Hog and awesome Cape Town reggae rockers Checked Zebra at Springboks Pub on 31st October [...]