Category Archives: music

Indie Songs for Public Holidays

By 6000 | 6000 | April 27, 2011

Number 1 in a series of 1. So far, anyway. Hands up if you remember the Soup Dragons. Indie one hit wonders in that great era of the late 80s and early 90s, they are often confused with Jesus Jones, although Jesus Jones had three hits and the lead singer had much floppier hair. Anyway, The [...]

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Z&G: The End of the Road

By 6000 | 6000 | March 25, 2011

Music post ahead: meaning, apparently, that my Dad will not be reading any further. His prerogative of course, but he’s missing out on Zebra & Giraffe’s latest offering, The End of the Road, supplied here in full for the clamouring multitude of overseas 6000 miles… readers who do choose to lap up South African music [...]

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Can You Dig It?

By 6000 | 6000 | March 8, 2011

Not a lot of time tonight, so as I have found myself craving British indie music from the early 1990s and with a huge variety to choose from, I hereby present the Mock Turtles with their biggest hit Can You Dig It? This, along with anything by the Inspiral Carpets, The Farm, Happy Mondays, Soup [...]

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Blip on a Screen

By 6000 | 6000 | March 4, 2011

More from The Streets’ Computers and Blues (I’m going to end up putting the whole album on here if I’m not careful), and this one will strike a chord with currently expectant fathers (you know who you are) (I hope, anyway) and all those of us who have been there and done that. It’s a [...]

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Credit where it’s due (but only where it’s due)

By 6000 | 6000 | March 3, 2011

I’m not South African, but I like to think of myself as an honorary Saffa. I do my bit for the country, I pay my taxes, I’m optimistic in a realistic sort of way and I try to buy South African goods and products as well as punting them on my blog if they’re any [...]

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