Music Archive

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

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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Why Cool is Un-cool: Part 1

Author’s preface: This began as a rant about why I could never get friends to come to gigs in Cape Town, but has turned into more of a sociology paper. I was finally prompted to write it when a friend of mine, Brett Allen-White, asked why there were no girls at shows apart from the [...]
Every Time I Hear “I Got a Feeling”, a Little Piece of me Dies

A drug addict said to me today, “that bullshit Black Eyed Peas song was number one when I relapsed. I’ve since cleaned up, and relapsed again, and it’s still number one.” For too long we have endured this song every time we turn on the radio, flick past MTV or stumble into Tiger Tiger Claremont. In [...]