One thing we've notice here: there are very few good bands from Joburg.
We started this blog as a mouthpiece for the music-scene of South Africa's largest city, the hub of the continent's economy and the place with the biggest Nelson Mandela statue. But week after week we seem to be seeing great bands, from everywhere but Joburg.
Is the pressure of living in this place draining the creativity of its citizens? Is there such a thing? And surely bigger cities - London, New York, Tokyo - have more people, and more congestion and more soul-sucking - but that hasn't stopped awesome bands from emerging, has it? No.
Five Men Three Missing (now Five Men Five Missing) were the premier local, nay, national band. But they too have disappeared - lost to the ever multiplying hoards of Pretorians and Capetonians. Not to say that I don't dig those people, I do - my reviews of Cabins and Kidofdoom were more marriage proposals than anything - I just want to see more indie bands from the places I know. I'd like to walk around Wits or a shopping mall (How wonderful! How spiritual!) and see people in bands that enthralled me that weekend.
But alas, it is not to be.
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13 years ago
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Yeah dude, it's the saddest thing.
5M3M - RIP
Us Kids Know - RIP
At least Tail of the Sun have come along, but overall it's pretty pathetic that the only time there's a good show in Joburg it's almost strictly Pretoria bands rocking it.
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