Posts Tagged ‘ Gig ’

Thank God for 5 day work weeks

Thank God for 5 day work weeks

After a weekend (and preceding week)  like this one needs to recover properly Lets start with last Sunday: The boulder hunting expedition (“aka Things to do while you’re trying not to worry about whether she likes you or not”) I had Monday off, thus making myself a nice long weekend (Tuesday was Woman’s day). I...

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Simply the best

Simply the best

What a killer weekend! I was pleasantly surprised on Thursday to learn that we have a long weekend, it somehow passed me by that today (Monday) is a public holiday, and there just happened to be a stunning array of gigs to go see over the weekend. Following last weekends rather embarrassing excursion to...

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Wrapping up the week

Wrapping up the week

Went to the bouldering cave yesterday after work and had a blast, looks like I’ll be able to hook up with some nice fellows for climbing if I hang around a bit. The only downside was I finally got around to testing my pull-up power on the bars they have there – shocking!!! We’ll need...

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Friday night’s sticky situation

Friday night’s sticky situation

Since early in the evening I've been experiencing a feeling of emptiness. Not unlike that feeling when you're trying to quit smoking and you want to do something, anything, keep yourself busy, yet you're not quite sure what it is that will scratch your itch.

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Of Rock and hard places

Of Rock and hard places

I've had the good fortune of having my car smashed up and making a little money by playing the insurance companies and panelbeaters off each other and then having it fixed privately. Lucrative.

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rammstein amerika

...Rammstein tickets? Yeeeeeess!!!!

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Wolmer Blues Bash

Wolmer Blues Bash

From now on my motto is "Don't miss a Wolmer event!!". It's been a blast every single time, with such a variety of music and one of the best live vibes ever. I just wish the events were a tad more frequent.

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All work and no play…..

All work and no play…..

…..makes Jack a dull boy ( that’s a bad thing, I think ). Sooooo, I finished up my little private job despite some, shall we say, “challenges” wrt to my work environment - tonight it’s me and the boys from Metallica. My project entailed updating software I wrote some 6 years back called “Problem Solving and Decision...

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The Slashdogs

The Slashdogs

I once heard someone say that during times of hardship great music is made -judging by what I’m seeing on the SA circuit we’ve had a pretty shitty couple of years I just came across this clip from the band The Slashdogs : How are those beards ?!

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Down by the train tracks…

Down by the train tracks…

…there’s a gem of a little pub called Steak and Ale, and a band called “Black Cat Bone” played a gig on their stage. A fitting description from their profile page:  “From the Silverton Swamps in the Far East of Pretoria comes Black Cat Bone. Born from a Muddy Waters lyric and raised amongst the patriot...

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