• Oppikoppi – Ripe for the Picking

    Oppikoppi – Ripe for the Picking

    I woke up on Friday morning at OppiKoppi 23 – Me Now The Mango Picker, in my kak-hot tent, with a headache, loud music blaring, neighbours loudly talking bullshit and a skrik-vir-niks wet-wipe clasped in my hand. As OppiKoppi rituals go: I first blew my nose, awaiting a small construction site’s worth of dust and brown gunk…

  • CORTINA WHIPLASH – WE DO

    CORTINA WHIPLASH – WE DO

    Marriage is difficult, you have to pick one human to spend the rest of your life with. One human to share your last cigarette with. One human to always put in ahead of yourself. One human to love until you, your partner or even the universe implodes. What if years of playing Monopoly leads to…

  • Pixies Rock The Lawns

    Pixies Rock The Lawns

    Nostalgia can be a quite addictive and a beautiful experience. 10 years ago you had your first kiss with Thembi the girl who sat behind you in Afrikaans. You have long forgotten what the initial spark was and what she did after Matric. However thinking back brings the same rush of emotions and those butterflies…

  • Q & A with Aidan Martin

    Q & A with Aidan Martin

    Aidan is most likely the South African bluesy rock love child of Jimmy Page and Keith Richards. His band has just dropped a new music video for their song Refugee. Earlier this week, I had a chance to electronically catch up with him before they set off to Psych Night & Vans Present: Endless Daze…

  • 7 Sutures: A Tour in Review

    7 Sutures: A Tour in Review

    “High above the angels sung, goodnight evil brought a gun, she laid a curse out on my head and swore that cub will find you dead” Well, shit, let it be know, that this here tale is the sweetest bit of truth I ever tasted. The best part about showing strangers, new friends and future…