December 2009
5 posts
The last party of the decade
This last Saturday night was the last party of the decade, or the last one for me, at any rate. (Before you suggest that 2010 is part of our decade, it isn’t. See: the year 2000 not being part of the nineties.) The party was for the long-awaited launch of the Us Kids Know EP: Friendship Test, which Ben has written about frequently and excitedly over at So Many Animal Calls.
Good news is...
Green was for turbo
In 2007 Greenisforturbo emerged from the burgeoning party scene in Joburg. They wrote crazy dance/rock songs about dinosaurs and supposedly about tigers and sparrows. And the kids loved it. It was an exciting time for live music in Joburg, but sadly it did not last very long. By mid 2008 Matthew was living in Cape Town and GIFT were no longer gigging regularly. The photo’s in this post are...