The Hollow Body to tour up north

Gauteng, say hello to Jonathan Velthuysen. He is the man behind The Hollow Body, a wonderfully unembellished folk act from Cape Town. The good news is that he will be paying us a visit this week when he sets off on tour to promote his debut album, Johannine. "It all began as an experiment with old gear and testing mics on guitars and went on to become a full album of songs overdue for release," says the musician's Bandcamp page of the album.

Man, I'm excited.

Here are the tour dates: 

02.04 - Waiting Room | CPT
https://www.facebook.com/events/234494050030183/

03.04 - Arcade Empire | PTA
https://www.facebook.com/events/226375130838990/

04.04 - Wolves | JHB

05.04 - Railways Bar | JHB

06.04 - The Library, Brazen Head | JHB
https://www.facebook.com/events/439674339453769/

You can also listen to Johannine below. If you like what you hear, you can buy the album off Bandcamp. The best part is, you get to name the price. 

You can't say I don't look after you.  

Sun. Wine. Music.

Ah, what a weekend for live music in P-Town. My ears are still ringing and my whiplash hasn't gone away but I carry my war wounds proudly. 

On Friday night I covered Goodnight Wembley's debut at Arcade Empire for Perdeby (the article will be in next week's paper). They were magnificent, despite a few teething problems like George van der Spuy's vocals being a bit too soft at times. Their sound is this really raw rock 'n' roll, quite unlike anything we have in the South African music scene at the moment. Shadowclub, one of my favourite local live acts, played before them and were equally as remarkable. The band played a bit of their new material which had a tinge of Radiohead to it. It gave me goosebumps. I'm really looking forward to the release of their second album, hopefully the wait won't be too long. My Epic Vice opened the show but were mostly unremarkable.

Then, today, I went to Park Acoustics at the Voortrekker Monument. Lazing in the sun, drinking cheap wine out of sippy cups and listening to live music is probably the best thing way to bid farewell to the weekend. Dan Patlansky, Holiday Murray, Andrew James and Manny Walters and The Width entertained our ears and boy, did they do a good job. My ears say thanks, and so do I.

I'm going to stop writing now. This is turning into one of those live reviews and for the most part, I hate live reviews. Probably because I associate them with poor quality online music magazines. Ha.

But anyway, hope you all had a good one too. 

Here's some photos from Park Acoustics.

 

Four Cousins out of a sippy cup. These are the days of our (student) lives.

Andrew James is incredible with his acoustic guitar and lap slide. Reminded me of Xavier Rudd.

Holiday Murray. I've been a big, big fan of theirs for quite a while now but only got the chance to see them live for the first time today. Their performance was as good as their recorded material and it made happy.

Dan Patlansky. Are there really any words to describe how talented this man is? No. Watching him play, it looks like he is trying to wrestle a demon out of his guitar. He wins. Every time.

The view from Fort Schanskop.

The Voortrekker Monument as the sun went down. Good weekend, good.

This weekend

Exams are around the corner, you say?

This weekend

OppiKoppi 2012: Sweet Thing

Yes! OppiKoppi 2012's theme was announced today. Taken from a Van Morrisson song that was covered by The Waterboys, this year's theme is Sweet Thing. 

The Oppikoppi people commissioned fine artist, Gavin Rain, to come up with an image that would be used as source material. They then got the folks from janaandkoos.com to work their graphic design magic and voilà, this wonderful poster was born. 

Tickets are R700 on the OppiKoppi Facebook page (or R750 on Ticketbreak.co.za) but Standard Bank youth portal has said  that they will subsidise every ticket bought from them (www.standardbank.co.za/studentachiever) to the value of R150. In other words,  you only pay R600.

Keep an eye out as I update you on all the Oppi news that you'll need to know. 

Yay! Now I'm excited!

Tomorrow we Jump

This weekend

 

LINEUP:

FRIDAY, 3 FEBRUARY

MONSTER ENERGY STAGE

19:00 - TBC
20:00 – Benson
21:00 – Rude One
22:00 – Hyphen
23:00 – Heist (UK)
00:00 – Sub Zero & Felon (UK)
01:00 – Grooverider & Junior Red (UK)
02:30 – Bruce Willis??

CARFAX STAGE:

19:00 - TBC
20:00 – Jab A Jaw
21:00 – Articulate Artists
21:30 – Lithal Li
22:00 - ID
23:00 – Ill Skillz
00:00 – Eligh & Scaurb (USA)
01:00 – Raiko
02:00 – Niffty

MASH STAGE:

20:00 – A Fate Like Yours
20:45 – The Dead Will Tell
21:30 – Facing the Gallows
22:30 – Vendetta Cartal
23:30 – Knave
00:30 – Pestroy
01:30 – Bloodline

TOWN HALL STAGE:

19:00 - TBC
20:00 – Destrukto
22:00 – DJ Calculus
23:00 – Damage Inc
00:00 – Musical Chairs
01:00 – Double Adaptor

SATURDAY, 4 FEBRUARY

MONSTER ENERGY STAGE:

11:00 – Only Forever
12:00 – Josie Field
13:00 – Popskarr
14:00 – Wrestlerish
15:00 – The Frown
16:00 – Taxi Violence
17:00 – Zebra & Giraffe
18:00 – Tasha Baxter
19:00 – Aking
20:00 – 340ml
21:00 – Tidal Waves
22:00 – Foto Na Dans
23:00 – Lark
00:00 – Die Antwoord
01:00 – Fokofpoliesikar
02:00 – DJ Sideshow

KILLCOOL STAGE:

12:00 – Natural Selekta
13:00 – Point 4
14:00 – LVS
15:00 – Ish
16:00 – MPI Project
17:00 – Cut Key Low
18:00 – Ambush
19:00 – Liver
20:00 – Greg Reve
21:00 – Kennedy
22:00 – Blush n Bass
23:00 – Twelv & Thesis
00:00 – Jenna G (UK)
01:00 – Funtcase & Krafty MC (UK)
02:00 – Haezer
03:00 – I Am Noize

MASH STAGE:

19:00 - TBC
20:00 – DJ Soosh
21:00 – The Cutt
22:00 – Lapse
23:00 – Deeziak
00:00 – Hypomaniacs
01:00 – Blunted Stuntman

CARFAX STAGE:

Blotchy
Reepa
El Phonix
DJ Burn
Black Lotus

Art / Design / Photography / Video / Installation Exhibition