‘is julle met my!?!’ – levis young guns, may twenty-second

where the fuck is this venue?

well it was a strange night – never frequented a hiphop scene in my life and this was something entirely new to me. martin – documentarian of the etc crew – was there, someone i went to visit partly and to see the etc people themselves perform (they’d recently been well-received lightly in roma and italy among other places, i hear – good for them!!? it surprised me nonetheless (although it shouldnt) that capetonians take their hip hop /rap seriously. its refreshing to see other people than the usual hips and indie skinny-jeans (indie in CAPE TOWN BRU!!?!) kind who i avoid more than episodes of family guy.
the entire setup was in a boxing ring, and the opening performance was by jitzfinger – a coloured guy who seemed very into what he was doing. i lost track about halfway through his act (martin was distracting me with social commentary) and returned to see jitzfinger was suddenly accompanied by other people with guitars. they began to change mood with more folk type songs, i think this didnt work as well as the rapping.

however i think etc stood out better as an act – em-see logikal involved the crowd in rapping with, ’step up if you want to keep the rep up’, ‘etc the most ominous threat’ and so on and so forth. i liked this stint they did with a dial-tone telephone, called ‘mcmission’ i think, during which dj white knight (??!!) receives a ‘fone call’ from the mc’s, who recount some or other anecdote over the song’s beat.

(maybe my memory is getting fuzzy, at least i think it was in that order)

am going to see them again – i think they are worth watching.

dala calitz tjailatyd

next venue at assembly august fifteenth