Groover’s Gig Guide!
Mar23

Groover’s Gig Guide!

Wachu doin tonight? Check out our gig guide and get in where you fit in! The highlight this weekend though, is the long awaited Blacks Only ‘Black to the Future’ Comedy show going down at Centre Court, Emperors Palace on Saturday! Check out what else is happening in and around Jozi! Friday 23 March 2007 Hip Hop Heavyweights Vol.2 Date: Friday 23 March 2007 Venue: Bassline Line up: Tumi and the Volume, ZuluBoy, My Man and support acts, DJs Time: 20:00, Show Starts at 21:00 Cover: R50 Femme Fatale (Josie Field, Laurie Levine, Ménage A Trois) Date: Friday 23 March 2007 Venue: The Bohemian, Park Road, Richmond Line up: Josie Field, Laurie Levine (2007 SAMA Nominee), Ménage A Trois Time: 20:30 Cover: R40   Jim Neversink Date: Friday 23 March 2007 Venue: The 88 Lounge, William Road, Norwood Line Up: Blk Jks, Jim Neversink Time: 20:30 Cover: R50 non members, R30 members   The Slashdogs Date: Friday 23 March 2007 Venue: CARFAX, JHB Line-up: The SlashDogs, ATFN, The Vendetta Cartell, City Bowl Mizers Time: 20:00 Cover: R50 Jam On Tuesday Date: Friday 23 March 2007 Venue: Sundowners (Klipriver Drive, between Mulbarton and Brackendowns) Line-up: Falling Short, Jam On Tuesday, Aion Truth, Chromium Time: 21:00 Cover: R30 Wonderboom CD Launch Tour Date: Friday 23 March 2007 Venue: The Firkin, (The Firkin, Boksburg: Cnr North Rand Rd & Rondebalt, Boksburg) Line- up: Wonderboom celebrating the release of their new album ‘City of Gold’ Cover: Tickets at the door The Comedy Guild Date: Friday 23 March 2007 Venue: Theatre @ The Pavilion (Old IMAX) Line- up: Gino Fernandez, Marty K, Pierre Malherbe and Mark Palmer. Time: 20:00 UWC Aids Awareness Bash Date: Friday 23 March 2007 Venue: University of the Western Cape Line- up: DJ Cleo, DJ Mbuso, Dr Duda and many more. Cover: R20 24 March 2007 Blacks Only Comedy (Black to the Future) Date: 24 March 2007 Venue: Centre Court, Emperors Palace Time: 20:00 Line- up: Host David Kau, Comedians, Marina Franklin (USA), Riaad Moosa, Krijay Govender, Trevor Noah Cover: From R120 Hip Hop Heavyweights Vol.2 Date: Saturday 24 March 2007 Venue: Bassline Line up: Tumi and the Volume, ZuluBoy, My Man and support acts, DJs Time: 20:00, Show Starts at 21:00 Cover: R50 OLMECA TEQUILA VIP BASH III Date: Saturday 24 March 2007 Venue: Odds Nightclub (531 Fehrson Street, Brooklyn) Line- up: Models as hostesses! Cover: R20 at the door plus Free Olmeca pours on the night! People’s Party Date: Saturday 24 March 2007 Venue: The 88 Lounge, William Rd, Norwood Line-up: Aris B, the people’s DJ Time: 20:00 Cover: R40 non members, Members FREE   Fuzigish CT All...

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Represent DIARY: MY FIVE SENSES OF JOZI CITY
Oct31

Represent DIARY: MY FIVE SENSES OF JOZI CITY

As you all know the city of Johannesburg is alive and kicking, as developers continue to finish off their buildings and plans, more and more working people are moving into the heart of the city to live in slick accommodation. Represent has sent one of it’s writers, Sisiwami, to give living in the inner city a bash, over the next few weeks and months, she will be documenting her stay in th… e inner city of Johannesburg. Scroll down for updates. See our Flickr pics here. October 2006 Do you know that at night you can hear the sea in Joburg city? It rocks and sways you as if your body were adrift on an ocean, quietly gliding you through midnight and gently into dawn. You can only hear it once the phuza-face stragglers have settled down to a restless sleep in a doorway, once the garbage collection trucks have stopped clunking and the glow of the office blocks fades into the backdrop of a pulsating night. It’s the late-night soothing sound of the united rhythms of city air conditioners and generators, colluding to form a constant hum and drone that washes over your thoughts as you concede to the comfort of Johannesburg blackness. And yet all too soon it is gone. Replaced with the daily discord of a teenage city coming to life, coming into itself, finding its feet for another grueling day. It is with sadness that my sojourn in the city has come to an end but it is through my 5 senses that I shall always be able to zoom back to this time of change and excitement. “I can’t believe you’re leaving us already” laments our favourite security guard, “it won’t be the same without you.” And my life will never be the same since the successful city seduction that wrapped me up in a disjointed world for 6 months leaving me lustful and longing for more. It was an all-embracing sensual seduction, her curves, her lines, her shape, her strength constantly captivating my eye – I found myself looking up, up and away, looking here, there and everywhere where she reigns and moves – her visual superiority holding court over the province, the nation, the continent. Fumbling and humbled, I tried to capture her light, her colour and her changing moods, but no picture nor words can do her presence justice. A cold lift door, a warm spring wood, hot summer glass, smooth cool steel, rugged high walls, soft new carpet, slippery wide screed – her textures call out for your hands to stroke, to feel, to hold onto. Layers of life, layers...

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