Welcome to the Birdcage! Introducing the fine cast:

No but jokes aside, I was contacted by the MCQP crew and asked ‘Would you like to disco with the disco stick?’

‘Um…this isn’t where I parked…my car…’

‘Well we’d like to park our bikes…in your trunk…I hope you’ve got a big one’

‘Huh?’ I replied.

I’m joking, they didn’t do this. They did however want me to make a mention of the Mother City Queer Project and that it’s not only for the gay population. They’re aiming it at everyone, as Africa largest themed festival. It’s at the Cape Town Stadium, so you can only imagine…how big it is.

No seriously I must stop ha ha! It’s just too tempting though…

So they’re going with a flower power vibe this year! Think…DISCO! Think WOODSTOCK!

“I take you to the candy shop…”

Here are the details:

The theme and venue for the Mother City Queer Project has been announced and the event promises to be bigger, better and greener than before – both literally and figuratively. ‘Flower Power’ sets the scene for this year’s MCQP on the 18 December 2010 and where better to go green than at our new Cape Town stadium in Greenpoint. As the first post-World Cup lifestyle and entertainment event to be held at the stadium, the MCQP are setting the bar very high and party-goers can look forward to five separate indoor levels with nine different areas, each with its own unique sub-theme:

The Mercedes Benz, Red Bull “Red Carpet” Entrance,
A main house dance floor,
A 70’s Dedicated Disco dance floor,
A live bandstand stage hosting, among others, Flash Republic from Johannesburg,
A Gay Anthems Caberet dance floor,
An X factor – Live stage,
A dedicated Smokers Lounges,
Chill out lounges and wine bars,
A VIP Lounge with dedicated parking, entertainment, snacks and loads of bubbly,
And – another first – a Hippie trance dance floor.

VIP ticket holders will be treated to full access to all areas, secure parking underneath the stadium, a Mercedes Benz drop off at the red carpet entrance and a exclusive VIP area with its own dance floor, snacks, bars, entertainment and toilets.

Tickets are available at Computicket.

Click here for the MCQP website.

GO COUGARS!

YEAH!

So you know where myself and MyCityByNight and Halo Live and the usual suspects will be tomorrow night…that’s right…at Atmospheer sweating our FACES OFF while Ferry Corsten drops it. From the response to the competition and the e-mails and Tweets we’ve been receiving, people are going off their faces for Ferry Corsten.

Our ticket winners have been announced so a huge congratulations goes to Zayne, Junaid and Zoey…you’ll all be receiving a set of double tickets for tomorrow nights event in Cape Town. Thanks to everyone for the re-tweets and comments, we appreciate the support!

If you didn’t win though, I would still love to see you there, come over and say hi if you see me. Tickets are available on the following link:
Click here to buy your tickets at Computicket

So we’ll see you all there, I hope Cape Town cools down a little before then. Look I’m not complaining about the heat, but it would be nice for it to be a little cooler! I don’t want my face exploding from heat and radness.

And I also hate sweating on my fans…they think my sweat will heal them, but it won’t. It’ll just make you salty.

Click here to listen to some banging Ferry on Beatport.

And Gareth from Halo Live is playing tomorrow, hell yeah!

The Kings Of Leon South African tour dates have been confirmed by 5FM, and here they are:

Johannesburg on 27 March 2011 at the FNB Stadium

Cape Town on 24 March at the Cape Town Stadium.

PRICING:

Golden Circle = R590. General Field Standing = R390. Seated from R215

Yes please! I can’t wait until March 2011!

Tickets go on sale this Saturday, 4 December 2010 at 9am through Computicket and prices start at R215.

I cannot believe that next Thursday, in Cape Town, we’ll be seeing Ferry Corsten live! Honestly, prepare to have your mind and face blown apart as Ferry touches down and tears Atmospheer down. The last time I was at Atmospheer in Cape Town was for Paul Oakenfold, and I was front right sweating my face off amongst the crowd and I’ve never had such an awesome time. Oakenfold did kill it that night, and Ferry Corsten is set to thrill us on Thursday 9 December.

I’m not into the detailed and technical side of music, I either like it or I don’t. And I’ve been jamming some sick Ferry Corsten over the net today, and you’re going to love it (If you don’t already), here’s a little taste of what the man does:

Howzit?!

The details of the event:

THURSDAY 9 DECEMBER 2010 – ATMOSPHEER

Address: Corner Castor & Pollux Road, Lansdowne

Time: Thursday, December 9 at 20H00 – December 10 at 05H00

Venue Website: www.atmospheer.com

The Black Hole Recordings & Flashover Recordings South African Tour 2010

Legendary EDM Label, Black Hole Recordings kicks off the second leg of its Black Hole Stars world tour with a 3 city tour in South Africa, December 2010.

3rd Eye Productions is proud to present Black Hole Stars & Flashover Recordings South African Tour 2010 featuring the world’s top 10 DJ Ferry Corsten, Richard Durand, Andy Duguid and female vocalist/performer Julie Thompson who has written for and performed with Tiesto and Armin Van Buuren, amongst others. The tour also includes the official Black Hole Visuals, lighting and set production crews. This tour is bound to be a massive production spectacle, and will be headlined by Ferry Corsten. South Africa is the second stop on the world tour.

MAIN ARENA

20H00-21H00: Jason Van Wyk (Live)
21H00-23H00: Andy Duguid (United Kingdom) & Julie Thompson (United Kingdom)
23H00-01H00: Richard Durand (Netherlands) & Julie Thompson (United Kingdom)
01H00-04H00: Ferry Corsten (Netherlands) (3 Hour Exclusive Flashover Recordings Premier)
04H00-05H00: Scott Small (Halo Live)

TICKET PRICING

GENERAL ACCESS:

Pricing: R250 Presale / R300 Door

VIP: Includes an exclusive comfortable and stylish lounge area. A dedicated bar facility will be available featuring sexy flare bartenders pouring your drinks in style while sexy hostesses will attend to your drink order requests. Safe, secure and convenient parking area available to all VIP ticket holders.

VIP Pricing: R300 Presale / R350 Door

Tickets are available at all Computicket Outlets nationwide from 8 November 2010

ARTIST INFORMATION

Ferry Corsten (Netherlands) – www.ferrycorsten.com
Richard Durand (Netherlands) – www.richarddurand.com
Andy Duguid (United Kingdom) – www.andyduguid.com
Julie Thompson (United Kingdom) – Julie Thompson

Tickets are available at: Computicket

What? You want free tickets? OK, just hang on a moment…until later in the week

CLICK HERE for the official Kings Of Leon South Africa Tour Dates.

The South African tour for Kings of Leon has been confirmed! Yes please…Big Concerts are set to announce further information on 5FM on Thursday for this epic South African tour date…This is what Big Concerts had to say about the Kings of Leon South Africa Tour:

“At last we can confirm that the Kings of Leon are coming to South Africa! For all the tour dates and ticket details catch the 5FM Breakfast Show on Thursday morning. Be sure to put this one your Christmas shopping list!”

Got a little live clip here from the Kings Of Leon hit ‘Sex On Fire’ Seeing as though we’ll be seeing them live, makes sense to pose a live video. Hmmmmm…I’m clevererer than you think!

This is awesome news, I can’t wait!

I’m pretty bleak about this, but Duran Duran have cancelled their South African Tour. We’ll be missing classics like ‘Hungry Like The Wolf’

This from iAfrica.com:

With only one week to go, Duran Duran have regretfully had to pull out of their upcoming South African tour dates (which were slated to take place from 7 to 12 December) because the show promoter defaulted on the contract, leaving the band members with no other option but to cancel the shows.

The four band members (Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor and Roger Taylor) are extremely sorry to be disappointing their fans, having spent months planning for the tour.

This trip would have been Duran Duran’s first in many years and the start of the release campaign around their new studio album, All You Need Is Now.

Lead singer Simon Le Bon said of the cancellation: “The worst part of this for us is disappointing our South African fans who we were really excited to be performing for again. ”

“We had planned to debut some of our new record on this run, as well as playing many of the familiar songs from our catalogue. We haven’t been to South Africa for a long time – and were looking forward to reconnecting with the audiences there.

“Our hope is that we are able to reschedule these dates shortly as part of the World Tour next year.”

So you thought your week was off to a good start, then this happened. Don’t worry, I’ll give away some tickets to another awesome event happening next week in Cape Town.

As one does, to make up for your pain!

Jesse Jane…not kak

I’m not going to lie…this weekend is going to blow your life apart! See what I did there? Ja, I do that all the time here. So I’ve been to Sexpo before and there was that chick on the curtain things hanging from the ceiling spinning about and unravelling herself from the ceiling. That was awesome. But if there’s one reason that you should go to Sexpo this year, Jesse Jane has to be it! I mean, not that I’ve heard of her! I was just told…you know…to do some research ahead of Sexpo. What we know about Jesse Jane is that she is absolutely fine and a little minx. You don’t really need to say much more than just see her photos and ahem…videos. If you’re a scholar and a researcher. She is actually a MILF as well because she has a child, which is amazing. Wikipedia tells me she’s been in 67 films, and she also appeared in an episode of Entourage, as part of the Pussy Patrol. I watched that episode and I must admit, I thoroughly enjoyed it! People are going to be going mental over her this weekend because she has no doubt done some crazy stuff in her lifetime. Probably stuff we don’t even know exists yet. And I bet you she is also lank chilled, because, well, she bones for a living. Imagine that, being paid thousands of dollar, to bone. It’s a bit too much for my mind. But she does it, so get aroused.

So Jesse Jane will be at Sexpo in Cape Town, and so should you. Click here for the Sexpo website. You could also sneak a look at jessejane.com, you know, in the interests of journalistic quality and research.

Then we have Synergy Live this weekend, taking place at Boschendal. With so many awesome bands lined up, you’d be a fool to spend this weekend watching Only Fools And Horses.  Click the banner on the site to check that out…

And then on Saturday night, we have the Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange happening in Cape Town, where we will get to experience Berlins nightlife. CRISIS! It is going to be a weekend of amazingness-ness!

I just need to make a mental note to actually pack my Nikons battery this weekend, unlike the weekend past at Above & Beyond where my camera sat in the car with no battery. Major schoolboy error!

I hate to say this, because life may be boring after this, but this is going to be the weekend of your life.

Take your pants off, let the breeze cool you, because you’re going to need to keep a cool head this weekend.

See what I did there?

I told you, that’s just how I do things around here.

The day actually arrived, I never thought it would! I found this in an envelope with my name on it:

And these are the guys we’ll be listening to:

We have a photo op with them at around 11pm tonight. MyCityByNight, Halo Live, BPM Life, Cosmo…I’m pretty sure the whole world is going to be there! Feel free to walk up to me and touch me should you wish. I don’t bite…hard.

And if you’re a fool, and you don’t have tickets, buy them HERE.

See you inside the Boombox! INSIDE!

INSIDE MY FACE!

Two days everyone! That’s not a lot of time, but it only takes you a few minutes to enter, so before you clock out at 1pm today (I know the Cape Town crew who cause the 1pm traffic jam out of town…naughty naughty!)

It’s the Smirnoff Experience, the biggest things that’s happened to your life since you got that sneaky handski at the school social for the first time in Grade 9. Imagine how good this is going to feel!

Click here to stand a chance of winning tickets to this music and performance spectacular.

I do hope you’ve got your tickets for the Godskitchen BOOMBOX! Normally, for the sake of continuity, I never write article while hard. It kind of feels bad and in a way I feel weird, because I wouldn’t talk to you, face to face, with a raging boner. But I’m not going to lie, I am  a little hard thinking about this. Don’t let it freak you out, it’s just this one time, I promise I won’t do this again. Wait, there is still Synergy and then also the Nightlife Exchange Project. Ok, so this isn’t the last time I’ll write while aroused. I’m just saying.

Be there.

Want to know how to be there?

Buy your tickets HERE

Ah so this is whats happening! I won’t lie, this doesn’t look too kak! I’m in.

Probably just bikinis, cocktails, awesome views…but you don’t have to go if you don’t want to.  No ones forcing you.

If you haven’t been to the Paul Cluver Forest Ampitheatre then you’re seriously missing out on one of the most beautiful setting just outside of Cape Town. It’s a sort of summer wonderland where music and food and wine and people come together to celebrate the greatest summer ever lived. Because let’s be honest, every summer in and around Cape Town is the best summer ever. The forest ampitheatre is the most beautiful setting you’ll ever see, and they’ve matched some unbelievable bands to this setting. The 2010 Summer Schedule is out and it’s set to be phenomenal as usual. Here are the details:

The Parlotones — 4 and 5 December 2010. The show on 4 December is already sold out, best you book for the Sunday then before that is sold out as well.

Nataniel — 8 January 2011

Arno Carstens — 29 January 2011

Imogen Heap — 4 and 5 February 2011

Watershed — 12 February 2011

Stef Bos and The Februarie Susters (Hey? No idea either!) — 26 February 2011

Freshly Ground — 12 March 2011

Click here to book your tickets.

As if life isn’t bad enough already, not living in Cape Town with all the dream people…you then get the news that the Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange is not even happening in your city.Bad News Bears!

Well that’s what we thought…until now…

Smirnoff, the champions of party that they are, are making sure that you’re not stuck out on the Highveld listening to Steve Hofmeyer and going to gym and chowing those PEK DEKS. You can be a part of the dream now too! Check it:

Smirnoff launches inter-city competition to get out-of-towners to Cape Town for the Nightlife Exchange Project

Yes, this is correct, confirmed and cast in stone!

Smirnoff, the number one spirit brand in the world, is going to fly some very lucky fans to Cape Town for the most ambitious global initiative to discover and celebrate the best of nightlife from around the world.

Lucky winners will not only receive awesome, highly-sought-after, as-valuable-as-gold tickets to Cape Town’s Nightlife Exchange party, but will also be privy to return flights to Cape Town, a night’s accommodation at 15 on Orange, meals and ground transfers while in Cape Town!

To enter, go to www.facebook.com/SmirnoffSA today!

Sweet!

I don’t know what this is…but I’m guessing chicks in bikinis, Patron, sunsets, sports cars…I like it already!

We’ll keep you updated.

Zoopy were all over it on Friday, and the footage is naturally up already. Wowzer, those guys and girls work quick! Check it out:

I’m so excited I might need to change my panties!

Hey? Nothing. Sorry, I’m just a bit of a tired little boy today.