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Exporting Tuareg Culture to the world: The Festival in the Desert
Manny Ansar, the founder and organiser of Mali’s legendary Festival in the desert is an incredibly humble man, this is born out by the fact that he still wonders why all these foreigners want to travel close to eighty kilometers into the Sahara desert Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 1:24 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Oppikoppi 2008: We came, we saw, we left!
Ok so once again my Oppikoppi review is late, I know there is no excuse but it feels like I walked back into a shit storm of work when I got back and any spare time I have had, I have needed to chill the fuck out, So here it goes. Despite the line-up Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:21 PM by Lloyd | 6 Comments
The Future has arrived!
One of my favourite moments in Julian Temple’s 2006 documentary Glastonbury, which traces the festival’s thirty-something year history, is a scene where a bunch of guys had set up a sign that said, “sign up here to complain that festival is not as good Read More...
Posted Friday, August 15, 2008 12:22 PM by Lloyd | 3 Comments
Fuck yeah Oppikoppi!
See you there! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2008 5:29 PM by Lloyd | 2 Comments
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Africa shows London how to rock!
So on my last day in London, I headed down to Finsbury Park for the Rise Festival, I mean hell it was free. We arrived Justin time to catch The Aliens. The Aliens are John Maclean, Robin Jones and Gordon Anderson, who once went by the name of The Beta Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 6:20 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
My face R melting or How we survived Oppikoppi Easter
COPYRIGHT: Lisa Skinner I known it’s late and I am going to keep this short, because I have already written an opinion piece on the Not Quite Easter Oppikoppi Festival. Friday Day One AKA Friday didn’t present to many attractions so I spent most of the Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 2:27 PM by Lloyd | 3 Comments
The emperor’s new clothes
COPYRIGHT: Lisa Skinner [Here is a piece I wrote about the Oppikoppi Not Quite Easter Festival for that newspaper that pays my salary, my full festival review will come later in the week. Sorry it's late but the long weekend kind of delayed me] Oppikoppi's Read More...
Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 6:26 PM by Lloyd | 1 Comments
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Splashy Fen 2008: Better late than never
Hello there, so this review is very late I know! I got really lazy about editing my pictures from the festival. In fact I still haven't done them. So here is my review with some photos from Lisa Skinner and I'll put up my pictures later. Update: OK so Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 7:45 PM by Lloyd | 15 Comments
Unyazi Wrap Up
Here are some images from Lisa Skinner taken at the Unyazi Festival. The highlight for me was watching Sudden Infant, a truly amazing performance. Sudden Infant (CH) Joke Lanz aka Sudden Infant creates an unique blend of physical sound-poetry and dadaistic Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 1:46 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
Imagination Explosions: The Unyazi 2 Festival
As Celine Dion jets out of South Africa with a small fortune in her bank account, a horde of noise terrorists are jetting into the country to share their latest works in experimental sound. The stage is the Unyazi 2 Festival, a touring roster of extreme Read More...
Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 12:03 PM by Lloyd | 1 Comments
Dust-bowl euphoria
I know my previous review pretty much covered it, but here is the M&G Oppikoppi review I wrote. Once again, South Africa’s most debauched music festival was a riot. Oppikoppi is possibly the worst place in the world to wake up with a hangover. Depending Read More...
Posted Friday, August 17, 2007 2:33 PM by Lloyd | 1 Comments
Oppikoppi 2007 : The way of the dassie
After a whopping two hours sleep we all got up, piled our shit into the boot of the car and hightailed it across town to pick up our last passenger. There was me and three Oppikoppi virgins, they were excited to say the least, not knowing what to expect. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 14, 2007 2:57 PM by Lloyd | 13 Comments
Oppikoppi 2007, Fuck Yeah!
Hello there all. So I am back from the Koppi and although I feel rather vacant and deranged this Monday lunchtime, I had shitloads of fun. So this is just a note to say that I am still processing my thoughts and sifting through the loads of pics I took Read More...
Posted Monday, August 13, 2007 3:35 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
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Oppikoppi 2007 - Woohoo!
While I must admit to pangs of jealousy when a number of my friends recently attended the Latitude festival in the UK and reported back with glorious tales about Arcade Fire, The National, Clap your hands say yeah, Herman Dune and Elvis Perkins, I have Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 01, 2007 5:52 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
They're Coming!
So it looks like it's true, the Violent Femmes will be playing Oppikoppi this year, woohoo! Check out this tour page on their website. Tour Page No more news on international acts, but there have been rumours involving the Pixies too. To be quite honest Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 1:41 PM by Lloyd | (Comments Off)
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