The best Cape Town music events don’t just happen to you. Someone books the room, talks the venue round, pays the sound engineer and loses a week of sleep over a lineup nobody will thank them for. The DJ gets tagged and the venue gets the photos. The person who made the whole thing exist usually stays off the flyer.
Most Cape Town DJs come up through club culture. Tshegofatso Kwele (DJ name Kwele) came up through a piano. Before…
We were at Youngblood on the last Friday of June, in a room thick with familiar faces, when espAfrika set…
The Cape Town eight-piece built a devoted live following long before they released a note. Their debut single, recorded at…
When Olivia Rodrigo announced Daisy Chain Fields last week, an all-women festival in California with the proceeds going to women’s…
Writing about VERVE Magazine turning two is strange in the best possible way. On paper, they are technically a competitor.…
Cape Town’s SIDEPIECE are a punk band with a sense of humour and something to say, and Faux Confidence is…
There is a particular kind of advice that gets handed to emerging artists in Cape Town when a brand finally…
Cape Town doesn’t get a steady stream of international tours. It comes in waves. A few quiet months. Then suddenly:…
This piece is about a campaign, a document, and a growing movement that could meaningfully shift how live music works…
