Category Archives: music

Paradise?

By 6000 | 6000 | October 19, 2011

After Snow Patrol came down to see us in 2009 and ended up making this here and Kasabian did their video for Fire in Piketberg, Coldplay have also shot (bits of) their video for their new single Paradise here in the Western Cape and Jo’burg and some other places in SA. No word yet on whether [...]

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Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concert Schedule 2011/2012

By 6000 | 6000 | October 18, 2011

The Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concert Schedule has been released which does mean that summer is just around the corner, but sadly, looking at the line up it’s much of the same-old, same-old but this time with an R80 or R100 price tag. This is, of course, ignoring the Parlotones, who demand a R125 entry fee because they didn’t make enough [...]

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“If nobody’s listening, you can say whatever you want”

By 6000 | 6000 | October 17, 2011

There was an interesting article in the Grauniad this weekend entitled: “Jarvis Cocker: the secrets of Pulp’s songs” and featuring an except from his new book “Mother, Brother, Lover: Selected Lyrics”, which is out later this week. Pulp were/are a Sheffield band and during their commercial height in the early to mid 90s had 5 [...]

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Infra-Red

By 6000 | 6000 | October 9, 2011

This week’s lab work has mainly been accompanied by Placebo’s back catalogue, which worked nicely. Please, no jokes about the Placebo effect. My experimentation and research is based on sound scientific foundations. Herewith Placebo’s Infra-Red from 2006.   I played this track so loudly on Friday morning that it broke my earphones. True story. Meanwhile, [...]

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The 6000 miles… Coldplay review

By 6000 | 6000 | October 6, 2011

So, after months of waiting, last night was it. Me, Mrs 6k and 53,000-odd others seeing Coldplay at the Cape Town Stadium. I’ve done several concert reviews on here before and I’ve learnt that that people like the whole package, so let me share my experiences with you. Don’t care for words, and just want [...]

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