My lash lady layers another 12mm extension onto my natural ones as the last notes of Little Things lower into silence.  When I’m ill, you’re what I take/Breath of fresh air when I suffocate…  Manana and his stack of vocals taper off. My eyes are closed, ears are open and I sense, from the stillness in […]

Bad Hair has a good run. Thandiswa makes jazz, bringing her mother into public consciousness. Anatii barely loses his composure to respond that, actually, the beat is 150.  ‘Ngud breathes new life into quarts. Mandoza dies, reportedly from cancer. Black Coffee bags a BET and SAMA back to back.  Politics goes pop when Mabala Noise […]

By the time we’ve shuffled past a pack of patrons and plonked ourselves into our seats, Zoë Modiga is already on stage. I ask my friend, who was saving our seats way ahead of showtime, if what Zoë is singing now is her first song.  She shakes her head no, her eyes looking sorry for […]