weekend

What a flippen fantastic good weekend! Friday we lay about watching movies and eating pizza till we couldn;t move, Saturday we had an amazing picnic for my friend Terence's birthday, at Kirstenbosch Gardens. Amazing food, prepared by a friend whose a Chef! salmon, carpaccio, etc and lay about in the winter sun till it went over Table Mountain. Kirstenbosch is such a beautiful place, we dont utilize it enough. Took some great pics.

Saturday night we went to Hout Bay to Nicki's farewell, she's off to South Amercia for 2 months. lucky bugger. and yesterday i was in the Recording Studio for the whole day with my violinist, Carly, laying down some tracks. After which we then went to the Melting Pot in Muizenberg and jammed all afternoon. some really wonderful musicians. After which i went home to the best supper ever, braaied snoek with lemon, garlic, butter and coriander, fresh asparagus and brucetta with camembert, heaven!

Joshua Grierson

Joshua Grierson is the bees knees. A wild old soul from a time before. He’s a master singer/ songwriter and balladeer. He could easily share the stage with the greats, Crosby Stills Nash and Young. David Grey should open for him. He opens your heart and commands your attention and before you know it you’re encaptured. He reels you in spinning tales of magick and revolution. He makes you believe. He echoes sounds of love, loss rock and roll, great open plains, and the South. Joshua Grierson is too young to be this good. You better believe it. this my album of the year. You can listen to him here.

Marie Hochhaus

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Photography

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Start by doing

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Hello World!

So i took Friday off with the persuasion of my friend Terence and we escaped the Cape Town rain to the Warmwaterberge Hot Springs with my camera in tow. it was divine. i met new people and let the healing powers of the hot springs restore my mind and body. Thank you Terence.

Mid Winter & the World Cup is finished!

It's the coldest day of the year so far, 8 degrees, and Spain won the World Cup! I can't believe it's over. i hope our visitors had a good time and that the spin off will be amazing for our country. We deserve it.

This weekend i: spent some time in Hout Bay, watching the rain and eating good food and babysitting 4 jack russels, 1 baby beagle and 1 'African Special' - 6 dogs is definately too many.

LAst weekend i did the fan walk and took a day to recover.

Tonight: i am playing at the Barleycorn, and at Alma Cafe on Wednesday.

At the moment: i'm listening to Regina Spektor, a great remix here.
i am saving up for: Ableton Software and a home recording studio which i hope to buy in august.

that's all for now.

Sensing Owls

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The Middle East

i have to tell you about my Most Favourite Song of all time. This is an Australian band. called The Middle East. they sing a song called The Darkest Side. i suggest that you go and listen to it here. It's one of those songs that you can listen up to 10 times a day and not get sick of it. i wonder why it resonates so deeply with me? Is it because it's about Israel and so strongly reminds me of the time i spent there, of the people i loved and lost. is it just because it's structured so beautifully? or is it just because of the perfect balance of harmonies? i don't know. probably all of those things.

Lyrics: The Darkest Side

Love
It’s the air in your mother’s lungs
When her fathers tore her fences down
Plastic bags and the panadol was out

Love
Was a sold Gibson 335
And your father’s dream died that night
Just to keep that electricity on

And it’s the darkest side of my heart that dies when you come to me
And it’s the golden ticket I win when you kill my enemies
I hear the farthest cry and the softest sigh when I’m empty
But if you leave me I’ll hide in a game like SimCity

Oh when I die I’m alive
And when I lose I find
My identity

Son
If I died on my bedroom floor
Would you cry on your bedroom floor?
And tattoo my name underneath your arm

Love
That was alive in the olden days
Been put to death in this golden age
By our colour TV

And it’s the darkest side of my heart that dies when you come to me
And it’s the golden ticket I win when you kill my enemies
I hear the farthest cry and the softest sigh when I’m empty
But if you leave me I’ll get me gone and drown face down muddy in the water

Oh when I die…
When I die…

Die I’m alive
When I lose I find
My identity

Love
Was those dark clouds on the Friday
It was a holy shaking earthquake
And you were stuck up the tree

And it’s the darkest side of my heart that dies when you come to me
Oh it’s the golden ticket I win when you kill my enemies
I hear the farthest cry and the softest sigh when I’m empty
But if you leave me I’d hello goodbye and I don’t shine at night look I’m dead man

Oh when I die…
When I die…
When I die…

When I die I’m alive
When I lose I find
My identity

HOME

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Christmas in July

This weekend we're running away to the sleepy coastal town of Hermanus. (famous for its shark cage diving and multitude of Whales) And we're celebrating Christmas in July (actually, yes i know, it's June) i will be sipping on buckets of gluwein. and maybe egg nog? hmmm...anyway i wish you all a very Happy Weekend!

A Tiny Victorian House

Fox Fire..

Fox Fire

In case you were wondering, Fox Fire is the name of my band. I usually play solo, but have decided to take on some instruments and musicians and create a different sound, violin, bass, lead guitar and drums. Let's see.

Alma Cafe

Alma Cafe is a great street corner cafe forgotten by time. Where people used to wander in and sit down and have a bite to eat and glass of wine and listen to some real folk music. They have asked me to play next Wednesday and I'm super excited. Here is my band teaser: