This one’s for the gear geeks. This was a first for me, and therefore worth a blog. Normally i use two very different sounding amps in stereo, a vintage Marshall, and a modern Fender and sometimes as on our last CT trip i used and AC 30 Vox and a Fender twin and was super happy with the sound. When we played Kirstenbosch Gardens, for the first time, i used two Vox’s. A 1963 AC 50 Vox + Cab, as well as a modern AC 30 Vox…and surprisingly it happened to be one of my sweetest sounding tones. I loved it, and Roger (best backline/monitor guy ever) solo’d my channels and listened to it most of the set which was cool. The first pic is of the two beautiful Vox’s and the second pic is the beautiful Kirstenbosch Gardens right before they opened the gates. Just under 4000 people piled in that day, and i absolutely loved the show.

This article/review was run in the sunday times a year ago today, and it sure made me laugh. they referred to darren and I as the ‘crack-rhythm section’ and ‘world class musicians’…..woah?!um…. well its a cool article and we won a SAMA for the DVD that was reviewed.

our Zebra & Giraffe album launch took place at the Johannesburg Millitary Museum, which could have gone down much better if the manager hadn’t pulled the plug on our performance as we were a little louder then the Howitzer in front of us. Nonetheless we gathered a lot of press around this, and everyone stayed and partied. We also did AMP with Herman Pretorius this evening, in front of this tank where Marcus shot the photo above. We have you in our thoughts constantly Herman!! Vrede!!

so about 3months ago, i was contacted by the guys from Cassette to play for them. it was pretty crazy, and i had the opportunity to go to Japan, and do a whole bunch of crazy stuff. anyway the last month has been crazy, and we played every night except sun evenings for a full month, which means im dead but i absolutely love the road and love what i do. marcus shot these photos, and i love them. check it out.

beautiful minstrel soup show that we played at the wits theatre. we spent hours building this set and it looks really rad now that ive actually seen a photo of it. we folded tons of those origami things and they were really effective.