Inked skin deep: 2013 Cape Town Tattoo Convention makes permanent impression
Three days of international and local art, music, vendors, drinks and hundreds in attendance contributed to a culture of extreme energy and variety during the Cape Town International Tattoo Convention brought to you by Southern Ink Xposure. This year was really spectacular — better than last year and all years past. The location was perfect....
#BOTTOMRIGHTCORNER – JANUARY, WEEK 02
Make sure your groovin’ shoes are polished, you’ll need them for this week’s bottomrightcorner. Since we interviewed The Ratrod Cats, Th’ Damned Crows and The Vodun Haunts last week and posted a piece on CT’s ’50s revival scene, we decided to make it all about rockabilly, psychobilly, whatever-fuck-a-billy but most importantly move-a-bility! Including tunes from...
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CBGB at SYNW
The night of January 16th saw the weekly event – See You Next Wednesday at The Assembly – paying tribute to the legendary home of punk – none other than the historic CBGB. Initially intended for country, bluegrass and blues, the New York City night club soon favoured the disorderly. It saw bands like The...
#BOTTOMRIGHTCORNER – JANUARY, WEEK 01
This week’s #bottomrightcorner is dedicated to Soul. Soul as a genre, soul as a lifestyle, soul as a state of being, as a representation of life and everything we are… Soul, soul soul. Please enjoy this lovely selection that celebrates the part of you that is moved by good music… after all, for some of...
#BOTTOMRIGHTCORNER – DECEMBER WEEK 02
December is finally upon us. And that means excess. Everywhere. No matter who you are or where you are, ’tis the season to be jolly; to eat too much, drink too much and spend way too much. Christmas carols on repeat, sweaty scrambling among the red and green shiny crap, and overpriced, well, everything. Sounds...
#BOTTOMRIGHTCORNER – NOVEMBER WEEK 03
Hello once again! This week’s #bottomrightcorner spotlights some fresh beats of the future-experimental variety. Featuring some new instrumentals by the likes of Seth Williams and fLako, as well as some mellow tones by XXYYXX and múm, this music is so smooth and, there’s no better way to put it, SO good. Happy Friday! fLako...
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#bottomrightcorner – November, Week 02
Ok people, it’s that time again… With a lovely new selection of tracks picked ripe from the tree of awesome jams, these too will be your new favourite toys. The weather is just right today, so it’s time to get involved! Featuring some great gems from the likes of Fybe:One, Chrome Sparks, Fat Freddy’s Drop...
PO10c Presents: Discotheque x MyCityByNight
The third PO10c Presents: Discotheque x MyCityByNight happened on Friday 22nd October at The Assembly in Cape Town. We went to check out if the promising line-up lived up to our expectations. Among others, Christian Tiger School, DJ Invizable and Niskerone performed, and all managed to wind the beat-addicted crowd up, to say the least....
NIGHTLY PLEASURES WITH BEATENBERG, BEACH PARTY AND EXORSISTAHS
Saturday, October 13th was the night of the YOH! Early Halloween party, which featured, amongst other things, a screening of William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973), performances by Beatenberg, Beach Party and the Exorsistahs as well as very little light. We attended the dark parade and felt homely between the presence of spider webs, vampires and...
THE STALKED
Stalking has become easy in an age of social media. In fact, most of us are quite content to release private information into the whacky world of the www. Christine Hogg speaks to Alice Toich, who examins this phenomenon by painting portraits of Facebook users who she ‘stalked’. “None is so famous than the example...
pulp, colour & country – neil krug
Neil Krug’s latest creative offering lies in a series of books, entitled Pulp Art Book, (Volumes One and Two) which he created with Joni Harbeck, model and art director, who he is now officicially married to. Like something out of a Quentin Tarantino movie, his images have an authentically seasoned look with the kind of...
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#bottomrightcorner – september week 02
Alright, alright! For this week’s #bottomrightcorner, we are going digital… As many synths, Charlie Brown teacher wubs and echoes as we can stand, we’d like to throw in a little wonk, a little glitch and a little dub just to keep things fresh… With new releases from the likes of our very on Spoek Mathambo,...
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Stark On Spokes: The Interview
Shane Cooper better known as Card On Spokes took the time out to contextualise, for one small seed, the upcoming release of the song ‘Disguises’ as well as his new EP set to drop early 2013. There’s something about the melancholic synths and the pitter patter of the hihats building into the drop just before the distorted...
