So we all know they like to klap some eye drops in the birds drinks…you know…to make things easier for them. It’s hard to impress a dolly at ‘The Hat’ when all you can tune is like gym and pec decks and lats and like protein bru.

But when they not klapping the Eye Gene in the birds drinks, they need to see themselves.

Not only are the ‘roids making their peckers smaller, they’re also shrinking their eyes or something so they need contact lenses. But what’s the point, when their contact lens solution is robbing them of their soul, their personality, their life force…PROTEIN!

Jussus my bru, how are the okes surviving now that these Chinas are removing their protein?

Un-bee-lievable!

So you all know we’re hitting up the Halo Future Heroes party at The Temple (Chevelle) this Friday…but with the Future Heroes being the name of the party, what are they?

Who are they?

What’s it all about?

The concept is to bring two up and coming trance artists into the spotlight at an event, giving them time to play live to some of trances craziest people (Kreg) at a killer venue. The two Future Heroes are Aavi and Dale Rother, let’s check what these guys are about:

AAVI

“Born in Cape Town, I’ve been playing exclusive live sets for many years bringing all kinds of electronic dance music to the floor. It’s tough to describe my musical style, as electronic music is always changing and moving with the times, but if it had to be summed up in a phrase, I would call it ‘Club Trance’.  I’m a multi-format DJ, spinning mostly CD’s and sampling sounds and tracks from software-based interfaces. I am also known to make use of vinyl turntable decks, in true classic DJ style.

The best thing about being in the electronic dance music scene is the positive feedback one receives from clubbers, fans, friends etc.  Ask any DJ/Producer and they will have a story of their own to tell.  I consider myself a people’s person and I feed off the energy in the crowd or even in the studio.

As a founding member of the production team, The Audio Impressionists, I’ve set myself apart from most DJ’s, in that the presentation of my live sets will incorporate many of my own written work.  The Audio Impressionists (aka A.I.), have a large selection of music ranging from acoustic lounge to hard trance.

After doing a course in DJ’ing in 2003, I was immediately asked to be a part-time tutor at Cape Audio College.  Here I met many influential people in the music industry. Two years later, I studied Sound Engineering at Damelin. This is where I met the other members of ‘The Audio Impressionists’.  I consider my DJ skills to be second to none and am equally happy with a crowd of 10, or 10 000! Well versed in the technology of DJ’ing, I run my own syllabus based training course, tutoring aspiring DJ’s.  Many of my students are now actively involved with the club scene in Cape Town, paving the way to their own bright futures.

Through word of mouth and The Internet (Facebook and HALOLive.co.za), I was recently invited by the guys @ HALO HQ, to participate in their ‘Future Heroes’ Project, aiding in their drive to increase the entertainment level and standards, of the current electronic music scene. Seeing that we all share the same goal, it’s sure to be a fruitful collaboration.”

And our other Future Hero, Dale Rother:

“I began DJing in 2001, at the age of 15. I can’t say when exactly I became aware of electronic music, but it was probably around the year 2000. It was around then, that I realised it was the music for me, and it rapidly became the overriding passion in my life.

Moving to Cape Town from my childhood home, Port Elizabeth, in 2002, I found myself being increasingly drawn towards the sounds of Trance & Progressive as championed by European luminaries, such as Paul van Dyk and DJ Tiësto. This provided me the opportunity in my late teens, to be exposed to visiting international performers, while learning my craft and developing my skills as a DJ.

In 2004 I turned my hand to production as a means of further developing my own sound, but I’ve always thought of myself as a DJ first and a producer second.

Although my sound has changed and grown as the genre of has evolved over the years, I’ve always maintained a commitment to the ideal, that each set should be a journey to be enjoyed. I strive to make each mix an experience, trying to draw the listener in deeper with every track.

Stay tuned for more, as I continue to refine my sound in the blossoming Cape Town Trance Scene.”

If you’re still trying to get an idea of what this Halo scene is about, Scotty (Scotty’s on fire!!) put a little something something together for us, a promo mix if you will. Clear your desk, take your pants off, throw your coffee at your boss, quit your job and rock out with your…here’s the mix!

Howzit? Siiiiick!

Remember, I will be at the event as well and sightings of me in Cape Town are rare, so here is a chance to see me (Live) before I retreat back into my world of secrecy and Cape Town Boy-ism. Oh did you know that Mitchell and Stack are going to be there as well? Big time!

Bring plenty of lube!

Hey?

Jokes…seriously ladies…chill…you’ll get your chance, you just need to form an orderly queue.

Once you have your tickets for Friday.

Buy your tickets for Halo Future Heroes HERE.

So the Nikon D7000 has come in and is a higher spec than the D90 so you can probably expect a few sales coming up on the D90, which is an awesome camera. And this is a decent price!

Available now at Makro

If you’re interested in what a professional photographer think of the Nikon D90, Chase Jarvis tests it out here:

Pretty cool stuff!

Click here for more images taken with the Nikon D90 with Chase Jarvis and friends.

So as we chatted about it the other day, we all know that the Halo Live crew are doing everything they can to progress trance music in South Africa, and Friday night it set to be one of the craziest nights…of your life.

I haven’t seen the MyCityByNight crew since the 2oceansvibe Radio Launch, so I’m pretty excited that they’re also collaborating with Halo Live on this project, Halo’s Future Heroes. The premise behind Halo Future Heroes is to seriously progress trance music, and the concept is to have two sets during the night dedicated to up and coming trance superstars, AKA Future Heroes. A pretty unique concept and another way they’re giving back to the trance community to help grow it. You know what they say, if you want something done properly, do it yourself, which is exactly what the Halo Live crew are doing.

For Friday nights performance at The Temple (Chevelle), the future Heroes are:

Aavi

and

Dale Rother

Halo Future Heroes takes place at Chevelle, this Friday, 1 October. Tickets are only R50 and doors open at 9pm.

Buying tickets — It’s pretty easy, simply click here to buy through Webtickets.

On the night the UCT Film Society will also be filming, so there will be footage of you completely losing your mind! MyCityByNight will also be covering the event, so immediately you know…it’s going to be ridiculous!

Here are the links you need for the event:

MyCityByNight

UCT Radio

Chevelle

Come Down Monday

Halo Live

We will be looking at the full bios of these artists later in the day. But for now…

WIN TICKETS TO HALO FUTURE HEROES

So, we have three sets of VIP double tickets to give away this week. You just need to answer a simple question, where there is no right or wrong…Having brought some of the finest trance acts to South Africa already, including Richard Durand, who would you like to see Halo Live bring in next?

Simply leave a comment below this to win!

Now I know what you’re thinking, “You can’t really buy that much gold and cocaine for my living room for R100000″

And while this is true, think of what you can do with R100000. Plasma screens, Playstations, speaker systems , amps, record players and crazy chairs to relax on. And as a guy, this is all you need really!

It’s a decent amount to be given to spend on a room, I won’t lie. And besides, we’re at the good end of a recession, so ‘if it’s free, it’s for me’

And if you win and you’re married, just imagine how stoked the wife will be. She will be thinking you’re going to be buying stupid scatter cushions and faux fur throws and persian carpets. Seriously, what is it with chicks and scatter cushions? Like those uncomfortable beaded ones that you can’t put your face on without scraping a layer of skin off?

“But it looks nice”

Well a bloody lion looks nice too! But it will kill you, just like your stupid scatter cushions. So while the wife is thinking of this:

The kak the wife is thinking of

You’re thinking one thing. You and your mates! You’re thinking like this:

The awesome you are thinking of! Just enough space for you, your best mate, and the wife your other best mate

Well she is going to have to settle for record players, Playstation, a plasma TV that can only screen sport and Bear Grylls and a chair that can put your beers in. Such is life!

Click below to enter and win:

It’s  a pleasure!

The new GQ South Africa website launches on the 18th of October 2010 and I’m quite amped to see what is going on with it. The local website has been useless ever since it’s been up, and they are obviously taking some notes from the international GQ website at GQ.com (HERE). This means that it will have it’s own unique content and you will actually benefit by reading it. So the website, in conjunction with the magazine, will have you looking sharp! Here is a screenshot of what GQ.co.za is going for:

I mean, not that fashion really means anything anyway, you can’t buy cool. You’re either cool or you’re not. Here is a cool vs not cool scenario.

Cool is Dean.

Dean smoking = cool (Via)

Not cool is Lloyd.

Lloyd with smoking axe = not cool

So keep an eye out on GQ.co.za, launching 18 October 2010. Sweet!

I was watching a movie with the girlfriend over the weekend and this ad came on for Johnnie Walker…stop.

If you watch at Cavendish, there is a small cinema upstairs, on the opposite side from where Neville normally stands. ‘Going The Distance’ showing there, so don’t actually watch it because the cinema smells like piss. Awesome!

Anyway, this ad is like 6 minutes long and while everyone was losing interest, I’m actually quite a nerd and was enjoying it! It’s more of a shirt film featuring Robert Carlyle…Robert Carlyle from Train Spotting. What an absolute legend! What fascinated me most about the advert was that is was shot all in one take, and at nearly 5 minutes of talking, that’s quite impressive from Robert! Check it out on Vimeo:

I don’t know why I enjoyed it so much, I just think it’s really cool, and you learn a little something something about Johnnie Walker. Plus, Robert Carlyles accent is awesome, and it makes you want to go out and have a Johnnie Walker.

Or Jannie Stapper as our boerie curtain folk might like to call it.

Click here for an interview and write up of the making of the short film (Via Chris Rawlinson)

I always like to spell it ‘Il-LUST-rated’ in these instances.

See that? Ja!

Clever for a Monday morning!

Anyway, Sports illustrated are having a little online war to see who is the hottest WAG. WAG referring to ‘wives and girlfriends’ of the sports stars of the world. I’m voting Adriana Lima. For the feeling.

Currently we have the likes of Adriana, Brooklyn Decker (Belter) and Tigers ex, Elin. It’s the quarter finals. Do the semi’s come after that?

I’ll surely be rocking a semi by then. Seriously though, enough of the childishness-ness-ness.

Click here to check out the WAGS, and get voting!

So like, had a FAB weekend with my bitches. Went to the beach. Took photos. Lomo obviously…you aren’t cool in Cape Town unless you’re doing lomo. Plebb.

Made some FAB cupcakes. Because that is the most important thing in the world, with world hunger and global warming coming in a close second and third.

Ah, must tell you! I’m not sponsored by them or anything, but I wearing these new jeans that I’m not really trying too hard to promote. CAPE TOWN BOY SPONSORED BY NUDIE JEANS. But they really are fab, and I’m not just saying that because they’re free. Does my bum look fat in these?

Thoughts? Muffin top?

Anyway, popped down to get some sunglasses, totally forgot that they sponsor me and that all my blog content suddenly revolves around sunglasses. Well other than those silly cupcakes and those photos of me NOT POSING in the mirror and taking photos of myself.

Took this beautiful picture.

Pretty shoes!

All the cool kids are taking photos of their shoes. But you’re not cool unless you’re feet are pointing inwards like this! I mean, all the kids at the Biscuit Mill in the We Are Awesome galleries have their feet pointing inwards like this, so it must be cool, right?  Besides, makes such a deep and insightful FB profile pic. Absolutely gorgeous.

Anyway, that’s quite a bit of deep and meaningful content I’ve written there, so that’s enough to keep the sponsors happy this week.

Happy shopping and cupcaking.

XOXO

Cape Town Boy

SUNDAY UPDATE

Oh-em-gee!

Cupcakes and my ADT/electric fence. Yippee! (Plate by Boardmans. Dogs coat by Science Diet. Paving by Boss. Fingernail lacquer by Mac)

Had an absolute cupcake orgasm.

Hair by Redken For Men. Skin by Elizabeth Arden. Contact lenses by Bausch + Lomb. Personality by PET 5, now recyclable into Ken and Barbie. Cupcakes by Spar (Plebb). Wall paint by Plascon. Light by Philips. Chest by lack of testosterone caused by too many cupcakes and Sex And The City re runs.

It would have been a macaroon orgasm if I had any.

Sipped cocktails. Searched for vintage clothes. Went to the Biscuit Mill yesterday. Crazy energy there! Almost like a pure, organic energy to the place.

Anyhoo, toodaloo.

XOXO

So now that we’re rolling with MWEB uncapped (AWESOME!) I have no problems watching videos, and because it is available so cheaply, I trust you are all on uncapped as well. Well you better be, because I’m loving videos at the moment! I have no problems watching 20 minute long HD videos on Vimeo anymore because I can’t run out of bandwidth! Victory!

So Jerry was round showing me this awesome video of Travis Pastrana rolling his car a number of times. But that’s no the best part, the best part is how PUMPED he is after crashing, check this out:

How awesome is that? I love it

“That was a helluva rude! Woooohoooooo!”

That is what happens when you are wealthy and doing awesome stuff, you are pumped all day! Kind of like Steve Ballmer, who is worth about $14.5 billion. So as you can imagine, he is pretty chilled. Except when he’s pumped! Okes in Joburg must be like this all the time after ’sealing the deal’ Here is Ballmer, amped for life:

You see, money is all you need!

So we ran a competition last week for a Smirnoff hamper and congratulations Josho on winning, with this awesome entry:

Okay, Project X is all about Smirnoff giving away two double tickets for four people to travel to one of the strangest places of the world to experience the biggest party of their lives. How it works is that Smirnoff order each of the winners to sample a variety of Smirnoff cocktails dished up the the gorgeous and delectable Smirnoff ‘Ice Maidens’ at the Diners Club lounge of the Cape Town International Airport. Each winner will then get spun around 21 times and given an aeroplane ticket to an unknown destination. During the flight they will each be allowed to have any Smirnoff drink of their choice and given a pair of Smirnoff 4D glasses. In their completely ecstatic states, they will be parachuted onto an extremely secret island, which only the Smirnoff pilot knows the position to, right in the middle of the Bermuda triangle. Upon landing, the winners will be met by thousands of other Smirnoff winners from all over the world to go berserk and joll in one of the craziest parties that mankind has ever experienced. DJ Benny Banassi will be pounding thunderous beats into their ears, while a pumping one-hundred meter Smirnoff bar will be flowing with drinks. And equipped with their 4D glasses, the winners will experience mind blowing visuals like no other, they will be encapsulated in a world that they could never have imagined, the Smirnoff world.

Now you’re probably wondering what Smirnoff Project X really is, and we have the answer. Great success!

This has absolutely nothing to do with this article, but this is what George Clooney taps and she’s flippin’ decent to look at!

Here is the press release:

Smirnoff launches the world’s first nightlife exchange project

In an ambitious move set to break new ground in nightlife experiences, the world’s leading vodka brand Smirnoff has unveiled ‘The Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project’. Continuing on a mission to inspire and enable more one-of-a-kind experiences, this bold attempt will see 14 countries work with respected nightlife figures to discover and celebrate the best elements of their country’s nightlife. These ideas will be captured online, packed-up in a crate and transformed into exciting event experiences. In an epic finale on 27th November, the world will swap nights, with each country exchanging the best of their nightlife with that of another.

The Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project puts these fans and the general public at its very center. Participants are invited to make suggestions for what represents the best of South Africa’s nightlife which will be captured via a dedicated hub on Facebook, www.facebook.com/SmirnoffSA. These suggestions might be a specific type of music, a locally-conceived cocktail or a fashion trend unique to our country. Once the suggestions are in, it will be up to the local expert Curator in each country to decide what will represent the very best of each country’s nightlife in the exchange.

Smirnoff South Africa will be working with DJ Fresh and DJ Euphonik as South Africa’s curators. Both are well respected personalities in the South African nightlife scene, and will work to discover and celebrate the best elements of South Africa’s nightlife and create the one of a kind South African event that will be exchanged with one of the other countries.

DJ Euphonik says “It’s an honour to be asked to represent something as huge as The Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project. In the last year or so I’ve had the privilege of travelling to Miami, London, Ibiza and New York and I from what I’ve seen, South Africa has more to offer than the rest of the world anticipates and being part of the team responsible in exposing that is an amazing feeling.”

The Nightlife Exchange Project will take place in 14 countries located in six different continents and they include: South Africa, USA, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Lebanon, Poland, Thailand, Ireland, Great Britain, Australia and Venezuela.

The ingredients of South Africa’s nightlife will be revealed on 22 October 2010. Once revealed, South Africa will exchange with crates with one of the other countries to experience on November 27. South Africa will exchange its nightlife experience with one of the 13 other countries, the big question to be answered… which country will it be?

Starting 13 September, South Africa’s crate will tour 4 cities – Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town – collecting participant’s ideas to be sent to the exchange country.

This project is expected to surpass the enormity of the much revered Smirnoff Experience MashUp Street, headlined by world #1 DJ, Tiesto, in Johannesburg earlier this year.

Adrian Petersen, marketing manager for Smirnoff says, “The Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Project is a display of Smirnoff’s continuation in staging original events of global scale. We believe in pushing boundaries and have taken things a notch higher since the aftermath of MashUp Street. Smirnoff will connect the world in a shared cultural exchange of the best nightlife experiences from around the world and the result will be memorable night that is emblematic of the current global nightlife culture.”

Submit your ideas to help shape this unique global experience and find out how you can join the worldwide party on 27 November 2010. Visit www.facebook.com/SmirnoffSA and make your suggestion as to what makes South Africa’s nightlife unique.

Smirnoff is not for Sale to Persons Under the Age of 18. Drink Responsibly.

So there is some pretty cool stuff Smirnoff is working on right there! I’ll be keeping you up to date with all the news on this, but it’s looking awesome and I have a raging boner thinking of what the party is going to offer.

Good? Awesome? Excellent?

Oh that’s rad, I spent mine with the horses over the weekend.

Horsey horsey horsey you make me randy baby! I probably shouldn’t be allowed around horses anymore…

Will it ever be time to grow up properly? Or should we just keep to this Peter Pan type vibe? Ja, I think so!

Never have I ever in my life seen a company throw their name away in Cape Town as fast as Marine Taxis did on Friday. It all started with Shaun Oakes and a piece he wrote about Marine Taxi’s two years ago.

If you go onto Twitter and search Marine Taxis I counted some 80+ Tweets about Marine Taxis and their horrendous public relations effort that happened on Friday. I was following it straight from the beginning and saw it explode on Facebook and Twitter within a matter of hours. By the end of Friday Marine Taxis name had been obliterated on the local scene. I think when Dave Duarte mentions it, you know you have made a right cock up.

Oooooh I DO HOPE I’m allowed to use their logo, as they have not given me the right to advertise on my website! FAIL!

It’s funny though, because you can see the shit about to happen, and Marine Taxis could have saved it, but they just completely blew it.

I loved the following few lines:

Shaun wrote:

“I can go onto Twitter right now, and publish how heavy handed you are being, and in a matter of minutes hundreds of people in Cape Town will be posting tweets about Marine Taxis. Are you then going to contact each one of them and demand that they get signed off approval from you first?”

Ursula, Marine Taxi’s  PR person, replied:

“Regarding thinly veiled pseudo threat, please, be my guest, twitter away or go on to Facebook or whereever else you wish, have fun and do your worst…We too have access to these (and other) social media platforms…so, off you go then….and type to your heart’s content. Maybe the rest of TWITTERDOM would be interested to learn the real reason behind your vindictave story…….. or maybe not……..
Also, if you had any sort of actual contact details on your website, a mere telephone call could have cleared up this issue far more effeciently.”

And from there, it was literally like a hurricane, it was in fact a shit storm! If Ursula knew anything about social media in SA, she would know how good Shaun is at his job and the people he mingles with. That’s like social media suicide right there.

To those of you who missed it, catch the story HERE on Shaun’s blog. Seriously, it is THE funniest thing I have ever read. It’s actually bordering on completely bizarre and the utterings from a PR agent actually sound more like those of a meth head smashing her head into a brick wall. If the blog awards were just a bit later, we would have needed to reinstate blog post of the year, and this would have won.

And that everyone, is how to completely blow your brand. I for one, will never ever use Marine Taxis in this lifetime, or any other lifetime.

Cheers to that!

Because I’m a rock star (Surely?), about five months ago, maybe six, I decided that I needed a pair of rocking shoes to go with my Nudie Slim Jim Dry Broken Twill jeans. I already had a pair of Converse All Stars which are awesome but I just find them too narrow at the toes. I don’t have wide feet by any measure but I always take a half size on my shoes (Half size always refers to the width)

My Converse All Stars are a 9.5, but after two or three hours in them, my small toe is aching in pain! And that’s not because I inject heroin between my toes, Doherty. So while looking for new shoes I was on the verge of a breakdown as I couldn’t find anything that just fitted in with my lifestyle. I was basically looking for a pair of styling shoes that would allow my feet to be as close to barefoot as possible. I even looked at Vibram FiveFingers because I was so desperate for that barefoot feel. I’m part of the crew who believe that too much padding in modern shoes, and modern running shoes especially, are to blame for the number of injuries and pain that people experience.

I’ve given up on any shoes that have padding, instead going for a minimalist feel in all my shoes. And my feet have never felt better, no pain and no needing to take my shoes off in the middle of the day because they are sore.

When I walked into a store on that Saturday afternoon a few months ago, I knew these Feiyues were going to be my new addiction. I worried when buying them, that because of their minimalist design, they’d break easily. I was especially concerned about the soles because they are extremely thin, so they are not going to survive walking on pieces of glass. Tin Roof would thrash them! But then again, what was I doing in Tin Roof?

The sheer comfort offered by my Feiyues is unparallelled though. They are simply the best and most comfortable sneakers I’ve ever worn in my life. And you can call these sneakers, because you can sneak around in them without them making a noise. Although when I first started wearing them, they squeaked for weeks! Which was irritating, but once that wore off, my love affair with these shoes deepened. At about R900, they’re not too cheap, but they’re not exactly expensive either. I’m happy to pay decent cash for shoes that I wear all day. Because I don’t work in a suit like you do, I’m in jeans and sneakers all day.

Compared to my other shoes though, the Feiyues are expensive. I have a pair of Tsonga which cost me R600 and a pair of Docksides which cost me R1200 and those are both better quality shoes I suppose.

But then again, all these shoes are for a different purpose. There are no other shoes that I can find that match my Feiyues in what I use them for.

And because I don’t get paid to write these reviews, my word is based on my usage of these shoes.

You can ask anyone I know, and look at all the photos of me recently…I have basically not taken these shoes off since I bought them. I know you’re supposed to alternate shoes, but I can’t wear anything that compares to my Feiyues.

I bought the size 9.5 and the width on them is amazing, with my toes able to move freely. It is the closest to barefoot I have ever come with a pair of shoes, and for this, I’m willing to pay. While the width is comfortable, they are not too wide looking, like I’m wearing a boat. The leather is super soft which is awesome as well, so your feet can move around as they like.

There is one problem, because they are high tops and I sometimes put them on in a rush, I need to open the top up to get my feet in. From just pulling them on in a hurry (Like rockstars do) and not loosening the laces properly, they have started to tear…quite badly…like Paris Hilton on the weekend. (See the top photo)

This is something Feiyue need to look at and fix. But even with this problem, I asked myself honestly, would I buy these shoes again. And the answer?

F*&% yeah!

Look, they have their downsides, but for comfort and style, these are the only shoes I can wear.

You may not think so for R900, and neither do I at times, but overall, I wouldn’t want to wear any other shoes.

Get them at a store.

Ben Bridwell — Band Of Horses

You’ll obviously have already heard the song ‘The Funeral’ by ‘Band Of Horses’ but I just can’t seem to get over how amazing this song is. I was listening to The Funeral in my car yesterday and it adds this weird, surreal effect to life, like nothing can touch you and you can do anything. It feels like you’re in a movie, or a dreamland, or like someone is photographing your life for some sort of amazing photo essay.

I found a live version so it’s not as crisp and clear as normal, but it conveys the feeling better if you love the grittiness of live music (I’m a whore for live music like this)

One thing I really dig about Band Of Horses is that even with with their huge success, they still play cool gigs like the Nudie CCTV Sessions. Nudie is a brand of denim that I wear exclusively (Imported from Sweden, thanks!), and they have musicians come play in small gigs in their stores. Band Of Horses have played twice for them at their Nudie Stores and it makes for a really amazing intimate acoustic session. The videos take quite a while to load, so I won’t embed them here, but instead I will give you a link to the Nudie CCTV page, and you can view the videos there. Click here to view Band Of Horses live in the Nudie Jeans stores.

You’ll see Ben has gone from the full beard to something a little more suited for the upcoming Movember. Nice!

And if you ever get the chance, do yourself a favour and invest in a pair of Nudie jeans. I’ll be chatting about those soon.