Glastonfurry is comfortably the loudest thing anyone in Cape Town will do for stray cats and dogs all year. On Heritage Day, the fundraiser lands at Woodstock Brewery for its seventh edition, a day of metal and hardcore with BEAST at the top of the bill, every cent going to the Cape of Good Hope SPCA. The noise is the easy part to write about. What happens to the money once the last band packs down is worth noting, and it goes even further than you might expect.
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