South African Music Magazine
Gad is rad. He likes candy, Stanley Kubrick and he juggles so many bands and instruments, you’d be forgiven for thinking him an indie wizard. Or, more accurately, a whiz kid. From our brief babble, it’s clear why he thinks jezebel’s VPL stands for ‘Variable Personality Logistics’… Jezebel: Gad de Combes, I can’t keep up. Read More »
Somewhere in the summery Durbanville Hills, there are boys and girls waiting for you to show them how to dress normally again… The problem with a ‘review’ in a conservative town like Cape Town is that you’ll likely never see the bestest photos or hear the baddest lines, because they could compromise someone’s carefully manicured Read More »
Alright, yes. Let’s-call-her-Mary did offer me her lacy panties in exchange for a drink of water, granted. And I do recall not being exactly sure whose hands were tracing my navel in the dark at beer-for-dinnertime, agreed. And there was that sweet guy who just about made out with me because I was wearing pleather Read More »
Meet Zolani Mahola, lyricist, vocalist and face of Freshlyground. On stage she is expressive and invective, channelling emotion into an ocean of souls through a voice buoyant with love; in person, she is honest, gentle, jovial and humble. In a word, magical. Jezebel: I want to talk about legacy. You must have gained some perspective by Read More »
SCEPTICAL IDEALIST Zolani and Zoid. It struck me at first as a brilliant marketing tactic – the blonde, the brown; a braai of babes that I knew immediately would appeal to a paying market deep in cultural debt.Hosted by the fine Fugard Theatre, nogal, the venue added an air of the elite and the eccentric Read More »
“As a listener you go with what you need at the time, and I understand that.” Musicians can be mothers sometimes, selectively ruthless, and unstintingly attentive. Then again, they can also be children, nascent with new energy and open to discovery. Most of the time they’re bits of both and Michelle Breeze is a marvellous Read More »
If there’s one thing that suggests to me the relative illiteracy of Cape Town’s supposedly diverse cultures, it’s the lazy propensity of media and its consumers to turn anything more than a two-word title into an acronym. It’s digestible that way, yes, but take it from a writer and a thinker, this also divests it Read More »
Who said gingers aren’t popular? Local musicians of note come together for a bumper benefit gig-cum-album launch this Sunday at Mercury, Cape Town, to support Gerald Clark. What do artists with sounds as diverse as Natasha Meister, Lua Union, Karen Zoid and Jon Savage have in common besides guitars and bars? They can all be Read More »
The voice is the last thing you’d expect from Lucy Kruger and the first thing you remember. Shy lass? Cutlass! Maybe it’s her mane. Certainly it’s the only sign of wildness about the dulcet doe-eyes of this tall, quiet maiden until she lets loose in the most frighteningly beautiful way on stage. Lucy Kruger has Read More »
“It’s fun to work with other musicians who think differently and create differently. You can learn from that.” Louis (mobile) Louis, I think we need to talk. Shit, why? I know what you’ve been doing. I’m surprised. I’m a little confused. What have you heard? Do the others know? You’re freaking me out! Don’t play Read More »
