This is what a concert should look like

There was a time…

A time when rock stars were rock stars and excess was their playground. When hard living was their career, and they weren’t supposed to be seen as role models to kids. They were what they were, and watching their descent and all out drug fueled lifestyles were part of the fun. It’s these stories that we now see being played on E! True Hollywood Stories. It’s the lifestyles of the gods of rock ‘n roll excess that now make for awesome biographical books that we read. The rock stars of today hardly have stories to tell! We have a few of them trying to hold down the fort, like Pete Doherty, who was recently arrested for smashing a cars window with a pint glass. Apparently he was downing shots and kept asking where he could buy cocaine. Awesome! Not quite a role model to kids, but that’s not what he’s supposed to be!

Pete Doherty — Keeping the dream alive

Musicians today are all trying to do good, save the planet, heal the sick and feed the hungry, when this is not what they’re supposed to do as rock stars! I blame Bono on this trend. Rock stars and musicians are supposed to be put on a pedestal for hard partying and trashing things, trashing hotel rooms, going on the road and living a lifestyle unlike anything else.Then they’re supposed to fall from grace. They are supposed to crash and burn.

What happened to the days of tour buses hitting the road and the band members just packing a whole load of drugs and blasting down the desert highway, in search of some sort of crazy dream? Now they’re traveling in bio-diesel buses with solar panels. I long for the days of INXS and Motley Crue. I want to be able to say that in my lifetime, I saw rock gods on a stage. But it hardly seems likely that I will.

It’s almost as if those days died with the days of the big 5 supermodels (Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Claudia Schiffer & Linda Evangelista) But now all out concerts have gone ‘green’, and we’re recycling stuff and band members are taming down their acts. Look, it’s a good move on behalf of the general health of people and the planet, but don’t you wish you could see an all out spectacular with fireworks, band members off their tits on drugs, breaking all their equipment on stage? Don’t you just wish they wouldn have a concert in South Africa to rival the old days where Motley Crue actually ruled the world?

Motley Crue — Killing it!

I mean, all the local concerts are awesome, but can’t someone just fund an all out rock concert? Some billionaire needs to fund a concert in South Africa to give us a taste of what the old concerts used to be like. I just feel that I read of all these crazy stories by the likes of The Rolling Stones, KISS and Motley Crue, but I’ll never experience it. The world has gone too eco friendly and stuff.

And it makes me sad!

I say bring back one all out concert, where anything goes. The worlds greatest gods of rock, no worries about the environment and make it all about the old school experience.

What I’d pay to be there.

Hmmmm…cocked that up a bit Mr WOODs

I’m getting millions of e-mails from people  sending the latest news of Tiger Woods and I don’t really care to be honest. To recap for those of you who are interested:

This from TMZ:

UPDATE: 7:45 AM ET: Here’s what we now confirm as the latest. A middle-aged, blond woman was taken to the hospital early this morning. We have now confirmed the call came from Tiger’s address. The spokesperson for Orange County Fire initially said the 911 call came from Tiger’s home but for some reason she later backed off that statement and said it might not be the same address. But, it is indeed Tiger’s address. We also know a younger blond woman followed the ambulance to the hospital. And, as we reported, Elin’s mom is in the U.S. to be with her daughter. Read the rest HERE.

And then Tiger was also admitted to hospital the day after Thanksgiving for an overdose of some pills. Read more HERE.

All of this is updated on a regular basis on TMZ.com, click here for that.

So now you know!

Manny Pacquiao

Floyd Mayweather Jr

On the 13th of March 2010, “Pretty Boy” Floyd Mayweather Jr is set to take on Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao in what is going to be arguably one of the greatest fights in recent history. Both men have been named the best pound for pound boxers at their peak, and the match is going to be one of explosiveness as two of boxing’s recent champions go head to head, in a battle that no one should miss. This is going to be the biggest fight many of us have ever seen live. It has been said that the fight will be a $50 million split between the two champions.

The fight will take place at the welterweight limit of 147 pounds (66 kilograms).

You honestly have NO idea how excited I am for these two guys to fight! Pacman and Pretty Boy, there is nothing better. Floyd, by the way, is known for flamboyance as he has a slight love affair with money:

Granted, when no one in the world can touch you, you do develop a bit of a God like aura about yourself. One of my great dreams in life is just to see these guys fighting in real life, or even training. They whip the speed ropes so quick that hurricanes form, they punish the speed bags so fast that all that is left is a blur. Their speed is absolutely phenomenal, ducking, diving and weaving their way away from punches. When they train, it’s not merely training, it’s a performance spectacular. Let’s have a look at Manny Pacquiao in action, Speed Kills:

If that’s not working, click here to view it directly on YouTube. Remember, press play, and then pause, wait for it to load, and then play again.

And here is Floyd Mayweather Jr in training, ferocious (Note: The video takes a while to load and is very high quality. To load it directly in YouTube, click here):

Now tell me you aren’t excited for March 13th, 2010?!

This is going to be one of the greatest, most star studded events you’re ever likely to see. Expect a spectacular unlike anything in recent history.

This is going to blow your mind.

So I have a couple of feeds on my iGoogle (Never Google yourself — That is now why I have a lazy eye) and this is what they’re showing:

Awesome!

Wait…is…is…is Russell going to marry my Katy?

NO ONE PUTS MY KATY IN A CORNER!

I haven’t had too many celebrity crushes lately, other than Kristen Stewart, Megan Fox, Dakota Fanning, Sienna Miller, Taylor Swift, Lily Allen, Miley Cyrus, Nikki Reed and Emily Blunt. So for a while I thought I was over the whole celebrity crush thing that threatened my wellbeing…and then I saw Katy Perry’s cleavage!

I must say, that was the ice breaker for me, and the fact that she is brunette as well (Aaaaaaah…they always get me!), but then I popped on over to her Twitter page and Katy Perry is basically just one of the guys! There is one small problem, she is dating former hell raiser Russell Brand. Which is a problem, because you know when you know the most awesome girl, and she’s dating the biggest doos in the world? And then you kind of think “But why?”

Well I don’t personally know Russell, but I’ve read My Booky Wook (HERE) and he is awesome. So when Katy eventually leaves him for me, I’ll feel a bit bad. I’m using this to get over it though:

That’s a similar smile she’ll have when we buy our first island together. Or when I motorboat her for the first time. But I just cannot get over how cool she sounds, like one of the boys! Check out some of her Twitter messages below. And I remembered why I originally signed up to Twitter, to stalk celebrities! And it’s working an absolute charm. Although in this case I fear ’stalking’ is the wrong word. ‘Love’ might be closer to the truth. No really, I actually love Katy Perry. I don’t love many people/things but I can state that I’m in love with Katy Perry. I don’t think it’s weird at all that we’ve never met, or that this is a one sides love relationship. I’ve watched The Secret and I’m fully ocnfident that if I think about her enough, I’ll no doubt be with her one day. We cannot, and will not, dispute science and the alignment of the planets:

Beautiful!

One of the boys!

I. Love. Her.

Honestly, how shattered is your heart? Mine is broken! Pass the superglue!

Weep in silence.

We’ll all cry together.

My tears will run down my immaculately toned and waxed chest.

You’ll be dehydrated, and lick the electrolyte solution off my tits.

You’ll in effect suck my man tits to save your life.

You’ll start crying, knowing I saved your life.

You’ll fall in love with me.

I’ll bat you for 6, and elope with Katy instead.

But I still love you.

You’ll in a way always be my Rose.

I’ll be your Jack.

Wanna Jack me off?

Wow, sorry, killed the romantic note there a bit.

I love you so.

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I’ve never claimed to be clever, not even to impress a girl who is more intelligent than me. Well, whether girls like intelligence, or money, or a bit of a big…well I’ll never know. You need to have all of those things I guess, to be a good judge.

I dropped accounting and science as soon as I could in high school, because I knew if I carried on with them, I’d end up failing high school. I would have dropped maths as well, but apparently you need it for every job in the world (Kids, if you’re at Master Maths, don’t listen to them! You don’t need maths to be awesome) So I carried on with it to make the folks happy, as well as to give my maths teacher some sort of evil amusement at continually seeing the lowest marks in the world. Between my teachers and Master Maths, they said I would pass. I got 31% for SG maths in matric. FAIL. EPIC FAIL in fact.

So I’m not a clever guy, but I don’t let it get me down too much, because when I see the shit that clever people do…I could quite easily go mental.

There was something a few weeks back about NASA sending something crashing into the moon to blast a hole, in order to find if there are traces of water on the moon. Now why on earth would we want to do this? I mean, come now, let’s lay off the crack. Even if we were to find traces of water on the moon, it would be a touch difficult to actually live there.

In fact I’d rather be a one legged crack whore living in a trash can than being a fully able sober and sane person on the moon. I mean, there would be bugger all to do on the moon. “Oh cock…” you’d moan, “…left the toothpaste at home, let me just nip back 10 BILLION MILES back home to grab some”

Also, it’s all very well finding microscopic traces of water on the moon, but when you’re blowing a crater in the moon to find this, it’ll be bloody hard to grab a glass of water on the moon, won’t it? Unless of course if you drill into the moon, you can pump Coke, or Pepsi. Or cane. Or vodka. Or gin.

And it’s difficult enough to hook up some sexy times action on earth, now what are we expecting on the moon?

“Yeah babe let me just grab a condom. Damn, forgot it those at home, see you in three years…”

“No worries honey, I’ll just wait here! Nowhere to go…no one else to shag Mr Austin Powers”

I know Al Gore is not happy with us and they predict hell for the future, but the fact is, even if things get really bad on earth, we’ll still have things like drugs, gambling and easy scores in Claremont night clubs. Fire can be raining down outside, but what’s to worry about when you’re tripping balls in an air conditioned Vegas casino? Or pulling a straggler at Tinners at 4am, with the cops busting down the door?

At least when the earth is raining fire, you can still step outside and not get hit by fire. On the moon, you step outside and you’re sure to float away. Have you ever wondered how big the universe is? Like, where does it stop? If you carry on going, how far can you go? How can it never end? And even if it hit a brick wall, what’s beyond that wall? I am still perplexed that the universe never ends. What is beyond? Now this is fine, because as soon as I start thinking these thought I know I have gone too far with my thinking, and I simply take a walk outside, read some useless celeb gossip and message some girlfriends to see if they have broken up with their ‘boyfriends’ yet. But imagine you’re on the moon, you’ve cocked up the oxygen ratio in your suit and you start to feel a little high, so you step outside the ‘house’ and…whoopsie daisies! You’ve floated away!

Now you are surrounded by nothingness, ALL THE TIME. Instead of just thinking about it, you’re living it. Imagine how that would mess the mind up?! I’d go totally insane! Which is why every person wanting to stay on the moon should carry an emergency sheet of acid, for an emergency lethal overdose should they float away.

So nerds are all very good at inventing cool things like rockets, and moon stuff, but they really don’t think about things that well. They invent something on the internet, and then think “Well that was a bit of a balls up” and then try improve on it. Microsoft have been trying to fix mistakes for years. Blogging came along and it was cool, then Facebook popped in, awesome times…then nerds tried to make it better by making Twitter. Then Tumblr. Crisis, do we really need “micro blogging”? What is micro blogging? Isn’t there too much information now? We should all keep our eye on the ball and try stick with something. I don’t have a clue what micro blogging really is, but I do know that I hate Twitter for the most part!

This Latin lothario lover caused this:

The internet is hard enough to navigate what with all the rubbish on it, now we literally have average people “Twitpiccing” photos of what they are about to eat, drink and shag. So this is all meant to make the world better, but I think it’s clear to see a trend where as the popularity and ease of access of web based activities rises, so does the earths temperature rise. All the information on the internet needs to be stored on servers, and these use energy which most likely comes from bad sources like coal and all that.

My estimate is that half the worlds servers are storing a lot of rubbish! Every self involved rater goes to Tiger on a Thursday, get’s phuza’d (This is all fine), and then decides that their frineds need to see how drunk and awesome they were the next day. So they post the photos on Facebook, and every week the photos are the same. Group of girls posing, in the same places, at the same club, with the same people and the same drinks, and yet every week they upload a new album usually with stupid code name like “Eat your heart out DAAAAAVE!” usually referring to the last boyfriend, who they are convinced is missing out on their awesome life. Don’t worry Dave, you’re not missing out on much! Other classic names for these albums are:

Movie lines “The clown has NO penis!”
Rhyming “Getting loose with Grey Goose” (No spice, this happens…join Facebook and see)
Song names “I kissed a girl and I liked it”

There really is so much rubbish to write on and I don’t have all year, but more importantly, the original plot of this story has been lost. Let’s try get out of this uncontrolled hand brake turn and ease the viper through this corner…right…

Yeah, so, we’ve got servers loaded with all this rubbish and this is causing major overheating of the planet, firstly by these servers requiring electricity to be run, then by the heat they generate and the air conditioners required to cool them. And this can be blamed on two things. Nerds for writing such awesome code that makes programs like Twitter and Facebook so easy to use.

And this my young ones is why we have global warming!

Glad to be of assistance!

NOTE: I woke up this morning and found this written as a draft on my desktop, and have virtually no recollection of writing it. Weird.This is completely unedited, found it, posted it. POW!

Alright alright! Other than my usuals (Right hand side bar, scroll down, “Reading”), this is what I’ll be reading today:

Jeremy Clarkson’s columns: I was watching him on the Jonathan Ross show last night, and he is just too brilliant! Oh and I also spent the better part of yesterday watching Top Gear, and Jeremy is always the same. It was interesting seeing how much more relaxed and down to earth he is, compared to American actor Laurence Fishburne. The English are just TOO funny! Click here to read Jeremy Clarkson’s columns for Times Online.

I found this link on Twitter through Adii, which I think I found through Chris (Who got engaged via his blog, congratulations again!), and it’s a guy called Derek Sivers. It starts off like this:

Two friends were at a party held at the mansion of a billionaire. One said, “Wow! Look at this place! This guy has everything!”

The other said, “Yes, but I have something he’ll never have: enough.”

Basically, Derek Sivers founded and wrote all the code for a website called CDBaby, which is an online distributor of independent music. He sold it for $22 million, and then proceeded to give virtually everything away. You can read that post HERE, entitled “Why I gave away my company to charity”

It’s a phenomenal post, and story, about how Derek lives his life. A quote from that story:

“I live simply.  I hate waste and excess.  I have a good apartment, a good laptop, and a few other basics.  But the less I own, the happier I am.  The lack of possessions gives me the priceless freedom to live anywhere anytime.”

Awesome times. Now if only I could start a $22 million business!

After watching the 2010 World Cup draw on Friday night, I was reminded of how far Makhaya Ntini has really come, from his early days where I used to think that he was the worst fielder ever! But he truly has grown beyond the sport, as seen in this article — HERE.

I’ll also be reading Luxist.com because it is awesome! (Try out an iPod for $231,776 –HERE)

And those are the additions to my regular list of must reads, sick!

I’ll be honest, I don’t go into town that much, in favour of just living my life instead. But when I do go, I like to make it quick (Like…many…other…things)

While there is still a speed camera coming into town, the one going out of town has now been removed and I’ve been quite naughty, always pushing towards the 120km/hr mark coming out of there, but that’s slow seeing as what the other drivers are doing! Not that I condone speeding, but it’s not speed that kills. It’s coming to a sudden halt that kills. If Jeremy Clarkson were in Cape Town, I have no doubt he would punish a good 160 km/hr there.

All gone!

So I’m not telling you to speed, but if you happen to have a bit of a heavy foot coming past there, you don’t have to worry about a surprise in the post a few weeks later.

Nice one guys, two of the triple threat turned out to be great ambassadors of late.

Do you ever watch Tiger play? Virtually every time he tees off, some dude shouts “Get it in the hole!”

There is nothing more genuine than a man who listens to his fans.

Jsut some links that I don’t have time to write on. Jokes, I just don’t feel like writing because the weather is too awesome! Chill time.

1 — An illegal projection was launched onto Table Mountain two nights ago. Apparently it is illegal, but it is awesome! Check out the photo HERE.

2 — David Beckham and Charlize Theron are going to be around Cape Town for the World Cup draw tomorrow (HERE). If anyone knows where they are staying, let me know and we can go for free lunch with Charlz, Posh and Becks. Sickie woo!

3 — Cape Towns Grand Cafe & Beach opens next week (HERE). Looks quite sick if you ask me, we’ll see how it turns out in real life.

I think that’s it for now, let me know which beach you’re hitting today.

While I’ve read the 4 Hour Work Week (HERE), I don’t necessarily think it’s going to change your life unless you really, truly work on it. Most of the time though if you’re in an office job, the tasks are impossible to do. If you’re at an ad agency and you only reply to your e-mails twice a day, or every few days, you’re going to get fired. If  you work at a company where clients book things with you, and you don’t reply immediately, they’re going to go elsewhere. Depending on the industry you’re in, many things in the 4 Hour Work Week are out of your grasp. However, if you do find yourself working for yourself, then there are definitely some tips worth looking at. E-mails and Twitter are no doubt locking us into some serious computer addictions, and I don’t like it. I almost never use Twitter now as I find it particularly useless and you  end up trying to catch up on everyones Tweets, wasting hours and hours of time on stuff that really doesn’t enhance your life.

And people also expect you to always answer e-mails immediately, or answer your phone immediately. I’m hardly ever available on my cellphone but if you do call me or sms me, I will probably get back to you…if it’s important. Otherwise I’ll see you around town sometime and we can chat then. What’s the rush? I’m not on call 24 hours a day, and unless I was born as an answering machine, there is no reason for me to be in contact 24 hours a day.As I say, you can’t quite implement the 4 Hour Work Week all at once, but there are certain ways to incorporate some of the rules into your life, and one is not worrying about being on call all day. It’s this fear of missing something that always has our minds elsewhere, which means we’re now living in the now. We’re always thinking of something else, instead of concentrating on what is happening right now.

You’ll see loads of people living in the past and the future. From the past they’ll say “I wish I had been born into better circumstances” then they’ll quickly go into the future saying “In 5 years time when I have more money things will be better” And they miss the whole point of life, living for the moment, living for the now. They stress about the past, about being hurt in relationships and having hard times, then they dream towards the future when they think things will be better. But you’re never in the future or the past, so why is your mind always there? Why are your thoughts always in the past and future, instead of the present? This is the power of now, and there is a book entitled The Power Of  Now by Eckhart Tolle which I’m currently reading, with a few pages left.

I’m not one for business books and I’ve read Rich Dad Poor Dad and in my honest opinion, it’s the biggest load of rubbish in the world. Except for the author, who has made some awesome money from it. I actually don’t know of any of my friends who have read it and put any of the plans into action. In fact let me ask you, do you know of anyone who has used it and become wealthy? While the 4 Hour Work Week offers some good choices, I think it is best combined with a book that actually gets to the root of the problems of the human mind, which is what The Power Of Now does. It allows you to live for the now only. So when you’re reading e-mails, you’re not thinking of anything else. When you’re eating, you’re not worrying about relationship problems. When you’re watching a movie, you’re not stressing about work. It is this constant ‘fear’ that most people live on that is damaging us. And also The Power Of Now teaches you to not become attached to material things and wealth. There are loads of people whose identities are based on what they have and not based the people that they really are.

I’d highly recommend The Power Of Now over any other book currently on the shelves, and I would really recommend it over any other business book. Business books just look at acquiring wealth and assets and don’t deconstruct the true problems of the mind that nearly everyone is afflicted with. Without realising the full potential of the mind and actually finding out where the true meaning of life lies, material and financial wealth is nothing.

It’s not to say I don’t believe in financial wealth, but you also need to use your financial and material wealth in the correct ways. There are too many people who let their wealth define them, and will walk all over others just because they have more than them. Combining financial wealth with intelligent thinking and a peacefulness is the way to go. There are a lot of people with money who are not happy, but that’s because they always seek more, when life is really all about enjoying the present moment and the simple things it offers.

Obviously like any book, you need to use it with a degree of open mindedness. It is obviously quite difficult to be happy if the bank is repossessing your house and you have nowhere else to stay, or if you’re out of a job and have no money. It is all about not focusing on the material things in life, but naturally we all need the basics such as food and a house, but it’s an awesome book that can really make your life much better than it is right now, just through changing the way you see things, and what you think about. You don’t need to acquire anything more to make you happier, which is the exact opposite of many business books.

If you are interested in these books, they’re available at all good book stores as well as online.

Click here to buy the 4 Hour Work Week safely and securely online.

Click here to buy The Power Of Now safely and securely online.

I’d also recommend reading the 4 Hour Work Week blog, you can start off with these two great pieces for becoming more efficient with e-mail:

How To Check E-Mail Twice A Day…Or Once Every 10 Days

and

10 Steps To Become An E-Mail Ninja

Click here to book your tickets

Just Jinjer are playing at the stunning Paul Cluver Forest this Saturday, 5th December 2009 which is awesome. I found this bit of information on another one of my favourite celebrity websites, PopEater:

Who: Just Jinjer

Album: ‘Can I Have More’ EP

Single: ‘Can I Have More’

Hails From: Johannesburg, South Africa

For Fans Of: Fuel and Nickelback

Why They’re About to Pop: The members of South Africa?s Just Jinjer — Ard Matthews (vocals/guitar), Brent Harris (drums/vocals), Denholm Harding (bass/vocals) and Sandy Chila (guitar/vocals) — have reached double-platinum status in their native country, and are now ready to make their mark on the U.S. Coming from a strict religious family, Matthews was exposed to very little mainstream music, but discovered an innate talent for singing and drumming in high school. Establishing himself as a solo artist in the Johannesburg area, Matthews soon met Harris to form Tri Funk Era, whose popularity came in handy when the group transformed into Just Jinjer. With the addition of bassist Harding, the band was signed to BMG and opened for the likes of U2, Counting Crows and Elvis Costello. Curb Records gave the band a home in the U.S., and hired Chila as the producer for Just Jinjer?s debut album in the States. Their chemistry was so great that Chila joined the group as their guitarist.
“Not to sound cliche or conceited, but we feel like we have this duty,” Harding tells PopEater. “The music is positive, and there’s not enough positivism out there these days. We almost feel a responsibility. When people come up to us after a gig and tell us how our music helped them and affected them in a positive way, that’s a massive thing and something to be taken seriously. And we do.”

Seven Questions with Just Jinjer:

What’s the story behind your interesting band name?

We basically made it up with the intention that it was to mean the same as “just dandy,” “just fine,” etc. It actually caught on in South Africa, and one of our earlier sticker campaigns simply read “Everything’s Just Jinjer!”

What inspired the songs on your new record?

The songs have always been inspired by he same thing — love, life and loss of both of them. What He Means? is the first song that directly speaks about peace and about how no God would ever ordain the killing of an innocent person. It’s as relevant now as it was since we were claiming land “in the name of God and country.”

Does the country you are in affect your songwriting?

No. These issues are very universal, so what piece of dust we’re on bears little relevance.

If your American fans were to visit your homeland, what’s the first thing they should do in South Africa?

First of all, they should hang with us. There’s nothing like seeing a place through the eyes of locals. Once that rule is firmly in place, we would gently guide them around the charming beauties of our country — game parks, traditional food and, of course, our fine women. [They are] arguably some of the most impressive specimens know to kind man.

Do you guys perform any rituals before live shows?

In Mexico it may be a ritual, but for us, it’s just a pre-stage warm-up tequila.

Which artist has been your favorite to play with so far?

U2 were by far the most humble group of legends we had the honor of touring with. The Counting Crows chaps are not afraid of participating in pre- and post-aforementioned rituals

What’s your goal career-wise for the next year?

We would like to start touring even more extensively based on the response people have once they get to hear the music.

Awesome, so you can catch Just Jinjer at the Paul Cluver Forest Amphitheatre this weekend.

Tickets are R290, unreserved.

Click here to book.

Well well well! Another year has come to a glorious end and that means summer baby!

Greasy tanning oil? Check!
Cheese grater abs? Check!
Gauloises cigarettes? Check!
Dirty porno Italian accent? Check!
Sipping an espresso? Check!
Moose knuckle visible from the cycling shorts? Check!
Driving a Citroen? Check!
Cocaine, crystal meth and strippers in Vegas? Double check!

This brings us onto the Old Mutual Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts, which you might be keen to go to, so let’s have a look at the schedule (Click here to book your tickets):

• 6 Dec – 17:30 Jesse Clegg

• 13 Dec The Johnny Cooper Orchestra

• 17 Dec Carols by candlelight. Start: 20h00, gates open at 17h00. Tickets are available at the Information Centres at select Pick ‘n Pay stores in the Western Cape.

• 18, 19, 20 Dec Carols by candlelight. Start: 20h00, gates open at 17h00. Tickets are available at the Information Centres at select Pick ‘n Pay stores in the Western Cape.

• 27 Dec Ashtray Electric and Pretty Blue Guns

• 31 Dec – 17:30 NYE: Flat Stanley, Loyiso, Loading Zone and Chad Saaiman

• 3 Jan – 17:30 Josie Field, Dan Patlansky and Farryl Purkiss

• 10 Jan – 17:30 Freshlyground

• 17 Jan – 17:30 Zebra & Giraffe
• 24 Jan – 17:30 Fokofpolisiekar

• 31 January – 17:30 Lira and Friends (Old Mutual Encounter)

• 7 Feb – 17:30 aKING

• 14 Feb – 17:30 Jamali and Friends (Old Mutual Encounter)

• 21 Feb – 17:30 Just Jinjer

• 28 Feb – 17:30 Prime Circle

• 7 Mar – 17:30 Goldfish

• 14 Mar – 17:30 The Dirty Skirts

• 21 Mar – 17:30 Cape Philharmonic Orchestra

• 28 Mar – 17:30 Watershed

• 04 April – 17:30 Tidal Waves and Tumi Molekane (Old Mutual Encounter)

Old Mutual Summer Sunset Concert Information:

At the Venue:

Tickets go on sale on the Tuesday preceding each concert, from the Visitors’ Centre Ticket Office only.
On the Sunday of the event, concert tickets can be purchased at all entrances, and includes entrance to the garden if arriving early (keep your ticket to gain entrance to the concert area later).
Concert tickets are limited, but garden entry tickets will still be available if the concert venue is sold out (visitors can picnic on the lawns outside the cordoned-off concert area).
Kirstenbosch is open from 08h00 to 19h00 (Sep – Mar), 08h00 to 18h00 (Apr – Aug).

Telephone Bookings:

Tickets can be booked via telephone from the Tuesday preceding the event – R10 per ticket administration fee applicable. Your tickets will be available for collection from the Visitors Centre.

Ticket Bookings: (021) 761 2866 / 799 8782.
Ticket Information: (021) 799 8783 / 8620 / 8773.

Online Bookings

Online bookings can be made at Webtickets (Click here to book).
When you buy an e-ticket on-line your ticket will be delivered directly to your computer. Not only will you get your tickets right away, but you can print them out anytime before the event.
Each e-ticket has a unique bar-code on the top right of each ticket. This is used to identify the ticket and ensure only valid tickets are granted access into the event. It is important that the bar-code has been clearly printed on the ticket as this will prevent any delays when entering the event. Print your ticket(s) and bring to the event where the ticket(s) will be scanned.
Redeem your e-ticket(s) at the Kirstenbosch Ticket Office from the Tuesday before, or on the concert day.

General Information:

Telephone: (021) 799 8783 / 8620 / 8773.
Gates open at 15h30. Concerts are held between 17h30 and 18h45 and go ahead irrespective of the weather. Refunds are not issued.
No refunds will be issued for any of the concerts.
Free entry for all children under 6 years old.
Special parking is available for the physically disabled – enter at the Top Gate, also known as the Rycroft Gate or Gate 3, and proceed to the workshop area off Camphor Avenue for parking.
Refreshments are on sale at all concerts – picnic hampers can be ordered from the Silvertree Restaurant (021) 762 9585; or from the Tea Room (021) 797 4883.
There will be a Kids’ Zone at the top of the concert lawn with entertainment for your kids during the concert. This area will provide supervised activities for children to participate in, but is not a child-minding service.

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