 | What has a hundred legs and one pube? The queue outside Jesters in PE. Nah, it’s usually not that bad. More like a handful of birds and a family feast sized braaipack of wors. For a place that usually caters for white painted faces, black nails and emo fringes, the other night’s menu served up a jovial mix of genres with the usual copious beer drinking quota. ...read more |
Kings and Clowns
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 by Gary Udemans
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Firebirds and a face full of Gravel
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 by Brett Allen-White, images by Kate Davies
 | It’s getting a little late. We’re pumping Doomriders first album Black Thunder, nodding heads to their abrasive blend of bluesy hardcore, and screeching down Baden Powell Drive like a soccer mom car out of Hell. I didn’t get a Pontiac Firebird for my 21st. Renault Modus. Laugh it up. ...read more |
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Vom Kid and the Bitch
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 by Roger Young, images by Adriaan Louw
 | Cynical Me and Positive Me are having a fight near the edge of the Assembly’s stage during New Holland’s set on Saturday night. Cynical Me is clearly losing because we’re no longer at the back sitting on the steps and judging from a distance, which was our position during the guitar power pop (without any real power) of Third World Spectator. I had missed Red Huxley due to a certain reluctance, lets just say, on my part to even ...read more |
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Non Prophet
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 by Samora Chapman
 | I met one of my heroes the other day. His name is Sage Francis, a slam poet and emcee hailing from Rhode Island, USA. He is the anti-thesis of the 50 Cent candy rapper generation and is one of the few people making hip-hop today that is truly taking the music to new frontiers as well as remaining true to the old school heroes like Public Enemy and KRS One. He has gathered a worldwide cult following as is ...read more |
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Rum, by the glass
Monday, August 30th, 2010 by Max Barashenkov, images by Deborah Rossouw
 | Rum and coke #1: Speedway, what a great venue – huge hall, two bars, one sweaty punk-as-hell stage area and an owner deeply rooted in the old school South African music scene. Good vibes all around… ...read more |
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Lucky Town
Friday, August 27th, 2010 by Sarah Claire Picton
 | Up until now, my experience of the intimate downstairs area of Mercury has been dedicated to getting loose to the thrashes of d’n’b… getting sweaty to beats that assault the crowd with dirty audio pleasure. This all changed the night of the 18th. That cold Wednesday night, I experienced what I can only describe as feelings of nostalgia – nostalgia for a time that I was not even a part of, and for memories that didn’t belong to me. ...read more |
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Planet of the Fakes?
Thursday, August 26th, 2010 by Max Barashenkov, images by Mark Reitz
 | Talk about failed expectations and let-down hopes. There is a girl, she has a sailor hat on and a fake moustache and she is, perhaps, the hottest thing I’ve seen at the Assembly, ever. I want to fight her boyfriend and hold her hand and tell her beautiful things and dance with her in a magical world. Then the Great Apes take the stage, she takes off her moustache and all dreams crumble. She’s just another non-descript indie girl ...read more |
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Kulture Noir
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 by Dave Durbach
 | If ever there was a woman who marched to her own beat, it’s this one. With her regal sense of style, genre-defying music and steady refusal to bow to trends, Simphiwe Dana has balanced sales, SAMAs and street cred to rise above her many contemporaries in a relatively short space of time. ...read more |
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Goth Fans and Foos Girls
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 by Roger Young, images by Danielle Clough
 | Goth fans of country pop bands fascinate me. Not that there are any country pop bands other than Wrestlerish, that I know of, that have cute goth girls down front chanting the lyrics; verse and chorus. Wrestlerish have been touring hard and at the Saturday Mercury gig with the Jack Mantis Band and Tidal Waves that much is obvious from the tightness of their set. If anything, it’s a little too rehearsed ...read more |
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The Ninja Skool of Hip Hop
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 by Andy Davis and Waddy Jones
 | Once upon a time, in a galaxy before Zef, Die Antwoord, Yolandi Vi$$er and DJ Hi-Tek, before Max Normal.TV and Constructus even, there was a talented Jozi-based rapper by the name of Watkin Tudor Jones Jr. Back then, in the winter of 2002, I asked the young MC to write a series of reviews of his favourite hip hop albums. It’s been a year since Watkin Tudor Jones was euthanised, in his memory we wanted to publish some of ...read more |
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