The Cloof Wine Estate is pretty massive which means that there was a lot of walking. A lot.

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The Cloof Wine Estate is pretty massive which means that there was a lot of walking. A lot.

All the signage around the festival was hand-painted, which was pretty cool.

It was well over 30 degrees by midday on Saturday. The dudes riding the bicycle rickshaws must have been suffering.

Canucks representing!

Hanging out at the dam.

The Shnit Short Film Festival tent provided some very, very welcome shade and entertainment.

Getting some falafel steez.

Shade hunting with local photographer Sam Clark.

It was pretty dam nice getting into the water.

The Rescu.

Photographer Jonx Pillemar rocking an Enjoi tee. Good taste.

Peachy Keen’s set was definitely a highlight.

Midday crowds gathering in the crazy heat for Peachy Keen.

These guys threw down a super rad improvised set of weird afro-celtic / accapella on the Converse stage.

Not a fake duck. Believe it or don’t.

Belleruche from the United Kingdom.

Super nice graphic on this Manouche tee.

Suitably blinged-out merch from Jack Parow.

The scenery was really amazing to take in.

Finding solace, shade and beer at the main bar.

Local ska musician gets accosted by Stormtroopers.

Tumi and the Volume played a great set on Saturday afternoon.

Shade hunters.

Looking into The Red Bull stage aka The Electro tent on the Saturday afternoon.

Fair enough, everyone is entitled to their own opinions and perceptions of these sort of events.

Yesterday’s Pupil / Peach van Pletzen behind the decks in the electro tent.

Tommy Gun featuring Danielson was super, super rad.

aKing crowd shot.

More crowd and more landscape.

aKing in that awesome early evening light.

Strange projections on the main stage.

Despite this picture looking like it was taken in Egypt, it wasn’t. Sunset looking really good.

The Red Bull tent looking suitably space-age.

Main stage crowds going off.

More horn throwers.

The Nu World Beat Barn banging Balkan style.

The Red Bull stage on Saturday was madness.

The Redbull stage looking the part during Hyphen’s set.

Homegrown heros, Civil Twilight had some mad sound trouble, but still put on a really great show.

Narch and Mike from P.H.fat.

P.H.fat were a crowd favourite in the electro tent.

Sound guys: Dexterous.

Dust and balloons.

Main stage crowds.

Main stage headliners, Band of Skulls.

Band of Skulls’ Emma Richardson.

Band of Skulls’ Russell Marsden and Emma Richardson belting another one out.

Band of Skulls.

Russell Marsden from Band of Skulls dwarfed by the stage.

The headliners doing what they do best. Drummer, Matt Hayward, on the big screen.

Band of Skulls.

The morning after the night before.

This was some sort of an anti-drink-driving pledge wall. It looked really rad by the end of the weekend.

MK had put up a really rad exhibition of South African music photography.

The hopeful masses about 20 minutes before South Africa bowed out of the World Cup.
The screening of the game was hands doing the biggest crowd-puller and the biggest disappoint for most.

Photos by Justin Polkey

How would you describe The Dirty Skirts to someone who doesn’t have the first clue »]]>

Photos by Justin Polkey

How would you describe The Dirty Skirts to someone who doesn’t have the first clue about music?
You mean a music critic? The Dirty Skirts is four guys who love creativity, making music and performing. Our music has impulsively emerged and at different times occupied the indie, pop, electronic and alternative quadrants of rock music. Our current offering “Lost in the Fall” is heavier and darker than the last album, and takes the listener on a journey from man’s earliest rebellion against God to the joys of aged incontinence.

How have you found people’s reactions to your new album, “Lost In the Fall”? What can people expect from it?
Surprise. Confusion. Delight. Depression. Everything we hoped, really. Some people have called it our best. Others won’t get the leap we have made. That’s just how it goes.

Who or what are your influences as a band?
As individuals we draw inspiration from different sources. That’s what makes a collaboration like this interesting and unique. But to answer the question, all examples of free and inspired creativity such as architecture, technology, photography, illustration, music etc. but also individuals and even natural phenomena such as the alluring power of the ocean. It’s all there in our music.

Explain the idea behind your new music video, “Don’t Throw Away Your Dancing Shoes”. The visuals obviously tie in with the new album artwork?
That is not the music video for “Don’t Throw Away Your Dancing Shoes”. We used the visual language that supports our live performance as the backdrop to the song so that people can ‘listen’ to it on YouTube etc. We plan to release much more content in support of “Lost in the fall”. There will be music videos but these are still being planned at this stage.

You guys have done some extensive touring, playing SXSW in the States, the UK, United Emirates, and obviously around South Africa. Do you have any good tour stories?
Indeed. Some stories are not suitable for public consumption. We are not exactly Motley Crue, but we know how to enjoy some good ol’ rock ‘n roll. The boys moved a police car once and they locked up some innocent guy for it. Er, perhaps I should stop there…

Do you have any pre-show rituals?
Tequila. Hugs.

Who are your favorite SA bands right now?
We are big fans of the SA music scene. It has enjoyed a massive explosion of talent over the last while from electronic music to rock. There are too many to mention… But we LOVE Jack Parow en sy PEP store broeke.

What does the future hold for The Dirty Skirts?
We aren’t sure. There are no plans to start writing another album. We will appear at select performance opportunities, and will focus on making sure the current album gets heard, because we love it and are proud of the achievement.

We checked in with Jack Parow to see what his favourite albums and videos are… this is probably »]]>

We checked in with Jack Parow to see what his favourite albums and videos are… this is probably the most amazing selection that you will ever see on this website.

Band: Motorhead
City: Cape Town
Vice: Vinyl Toys
Meal: Braai vleis
Past-time: Drinking

Top 5 Albums:
1. Snoop Dogg – “Doggystyle”
2. Major Lazer – “Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazers Do”
3. Wanda Jackson – “Queen of Rockabilly”
4. Dawid Kramer – “Classic Kramer”
5. Karoo Guitar Blues

Top 5 Music Videos:

This is the best music video EVER MADE!!

Look at when AB Hands the kid a stetoscope… the end of it is in his pants… whats up with that

Check out this video edit of some of the skating, BMX and FMX that went down at the »]]>

Check out this video edit of some of the skating, BMX and FMX that went down at the Ultimate X in Cape Town this weekend.