Category Archives: music

The 6000 miles… James Blunt review

By 6000 | 6000 | May 30, 2008

So we went, we saw, we listened and it actually wasn’t anywhere near as bad as I had been fearing. And I’d been fearing a lot. James Blunt came onto the stage a distinctly Capetonian 25 minutes late, to what I can only really term as “polite applause”, looking like a slightly rougher, scruffier version of my [...]

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Serves you right

By 6000 | 6000 | May 29, 2008

Fresh from yesterday’s Cape Times and it’s sister paper, Pretoria News: An agency that sold tickets for a Celine Dion concert in March and a cancelled Josh Groban concert in April has been placed under final liquidation. An application for the liquidation of Ticket Connection (Pty) was yesterday brought before Judge P Burton-Fourie by the agency [...]

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Musical matters

By 6000 | 6000 | May 15, 2008

Thanks to the wife Skypeing friends in the UK, when I came to use Harold this evening, I found the chunky Skype headset still plugged in. Bonus. Whilst I look pretty daft beneath said headset (but there’s no-one here to see me anyway), it provides surprisingly good sound quality and since I don’t get as much chance to [...]

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The 6000 miles My CokeFest 2008 review

By 6000 | 6000 | March 25, 2008

Snappy title, eh? Once again, I was blown away by the differences between UK and South African concerts. People here are so conservative. To be honest, I’m glad I did things this way around. I’d be bloody terrified if I found myself down at the front at Glastonbury if I’d only ever done SA gigs before. There’d be [...]

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My CokeFest 2008 Pictures

By 6000 | 6000 | March 25, 2008

…and my mini review will follow on this blog a little later today once my recovery is at least semi complete. Subscribe to our RSS feed and you’ll be the first to know. Now. Back to bed and dreams of Matt Bellamy. (Not like that – get your minds out of the gutter) EDIT: Now [...]

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