Gig Guide

So that was the festive season, then. Jirre! Back at work but at least a paycheque has landed and we still have weekends and a lingering sense of what might be possible. 

Music

If you’re fast enough, you can catch local jazz maestro Hilton Schilder playing a solo gig at Natural Mystic (92 – 94 Station Rd, Obs) tonight, Friday 31 January at 9pm.… Read more

Hold on to your wallets peeps, it’s December holidays. Okay, let’s be real: you’re gonna have to shell out, but try not to hand it over to those capitalist bastards who would take the last 5c out of your credit card account and then sell your kidney to a muti mafia for the interest if they could, without even a single disturbed dream about it.

Woordfees, out in Stellies is wragtig impressive. It’s giving the National Arts Festival a runs for its money, and is much, much closer (but tickets are much, much pricier). Check it out if you can.

Theatre

An unusual love story, apparently, is It Went Above Your Head at Theatre Arts on the corner of Wesley and Milton roads in Obs.… Read more

Jirre! It’s been a kak cold winter. En allie reën? Ny! Kannie soweesie. Spring uit! Here’s some soetlekkers to get you vuurwarm.

Literature

The most wonderful festival of literature, Open Book, is happening this month. Taking place over three days, from 6 – 8 September, at the Homecoming Centre on Harrington Street, it’s a programme of about 60 overlapping discussions from 10am until 9pm each day during which we can let our intellect out for a welcome airing and meet the authors we’ve been reading while huddled under blankets next to heaters during this frigging cold winter past.… Read more

Boo! is back, and some of the best shows from Makhanda (Grahamstown) Fringe are coming for a visit.

Music

Boo! Were the antidote to the Springbok Nude Girls in the 90s. As hard and loud as the Nudies rocked, Arno couldn’t help getting a bit adult contemporary at times.… Read more

Summer is here. Work is a drag, drag, drag but the holiday – that most bourgeois concept – beckons. Whatever! Life is about to get lekka, and we’re spoilt for choice when it comes to jols. Be wys.

Music festivals

If you are desperate to get out of the city this weekend (2 and 3 December) we strongly suggest the Shifty Oppie Weskus Koppie music festival.… Read more

So ja, the weather came and klapped us. This is what happens, and it’s gonna happen again, and more often, because we’ve taken most of the carbon the planet spent aeons accumulating and storing underground and then just released it back into the atmosphere in the eye blink that is 200 years.

Like, spring is coming. You think? GET OUT AND DO SHIT

Theatre

There’s been some antici……..pation titillating the nerve endings since the announcement a couple of months ago that SA author Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Promise would be adapted for stage.… Read more