Archive for April 2010

It was like top scoring on a sticky wicket…

It was a sticky pitch. That’s my line and I’m sticking to it. It had been raining the week before and the pitch was laid with dark, loamy soil. It was almost black, that soil. A black and sticky pitch, that day the Under-14N team drove out to play Westering. […]

I should be DJing tonight

I should be DJing tonight at Taboo or Zanzibar, or Latinova, or Moloko or wherever the kids of today are jolling. I should be being flown all over the country by promoters and so I can play at dodgy events and then spend the night on their couches… I should […]

Get hip to that kind of trip

The daily commuter flight from Joburg to Cape Town departs at 6am every day. We call it the 4.30 Special, because that’s when you need to wake up, if you want any chance of making your flight. If you’re neurotic, you’ll probably be safer setting that alarm for 3.57am. After […]

The tip

It’s about two, which is always the watershed time of the evening. Zouk was never going to get super packed tonight, but it’s a nice comfortable kind of full. There’s room to dance, but enough interesting people to make the face-browsing fun. There’s French okes. There’s always French okes. These […]