We spent an awesome Saturday night taking photos of some of South Africa's most talented musicians performing at F*ROCK, an indoor rock festival held at Ratanga Junction. I had a really hard time choosing just one shot for the main post (we ended up with 253 photos of 8 bands, which you can see in our F*ROCK photo albums), and I even enlisted the help of my Twitter friends to help me choose at one point.
I eventually settled on this shot of Etienne Janse van Rensburg, the bass guitarist for the hugely popular CrashCarBurn. It was the first time I'd seen them perform live, and I was pretty impressed - in addition to their own original material, they played a medley of cover versions, which the crowd absolutely loved, and to make it all even more fun, they tossed out a flock of giant (no, really, GIANT) balloons for all of us to play with while they performed. Too cool for words, that was.
Check out all our photos from F*ROCK here (and visit the bands' websites to have a listen to their music):
- When Karma Sleeps (MySpace page)
- The Undefind (Website)
- Chasing Friday (MySpace page)
- Taxi Violence (Website)
- CrashCarBurn (MySpace page)
- The Dirty Skirts (Website)
- The Parlotones (Website)
- aKING (Website)
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Beverley
Well I’m seeing this post ok Paul…great angle of the photo!
jelb
Bonjour,
Nice instant capture..Good angle..Bravo!
Paul
Thanks Beverley & jelb – the stage was fairly high up, hence the interesting angle.