#favourite 5's

1.) Local Bands Caves Future Primitives Beach Party Bone Collectors Desmond & the Tutus 2.) Live Shows Bone Collectors: Synergy 2010 Lark: Rocking the Daisies 2012 Band of Skulls: Rocking the Daisies 2012 U2: Greenpoint Stadium 2011 Halloween party at Assembly 2010.  3.) Places to Travel I've never travelled outside of South Africa, but my favourite place to go is definitely the garden route. Also far up the West Coast is a life changing experience. 5 places I would like to visit are Morocco, Indonesia, Italy, France, Oregon. 4.) Music Videos  Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook http://vimeo.com/3987450 Tyler the Creator - Yonkers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSbZidsgMfw Grimes - Oblivion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtH68PJIQLE Spoek Matambo - Control http://vimeo.com/19522002 MIA - Bad Girlshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYs0gJD-LE 5.) What makes you feel Liberated?  Being in the ocean or any water mass Being on the road Getting lost in a wilderness Loving Seeing one of my favourite bands live.

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Photo: Liam Lynch

1.) Local bands:

- a skyline on fire

- fulka & jacob israel (they're married, so I'm counting them as one!)

- yesterday's pupil

- desmond & the tutu's

- simply dead (Toast Coetzer's new band with Jon Savage and Jon's wife Jane)

- lark

- tumi molekane

- yo grapes...wait, is that more than 5?

  2.) Live acts:

5 best live acts I've seen, off the top of my head (I know I'm leaving lots out. that's why I'm doing 6):

- Rahzel in Rotterdam, 2005, 3 hour set, I've never seen or heard anything like it before or after. I was mesmerized for 180 minutes straight.

- a skyline on fire, The Bioscope, 2011, the Queen cover nearly killed me.

- Jacob Israel featuring Justin Badenhorst on drums, Tings, 2010, I burst into tears at one point, it was too beautiful.

- Blindside at Foundry Fly Lounge (now Arcade Empire), 2006, my favourite band in the universe came to SA, I watched 4 of their 5 shows in SA (saw them again in JHB later that week, and then drove through to Durban to watch them at Burn the following night). At one point in the show Christian, the singer, jumped off the balcony into the crowd and then started "walking" on the people, barefoot, still singing.

- Isochronous, Ramfest CT, 2011, amazing musicians nailed it that night with great sound. Peach and Louis and I were all blown away.

- Desmond & the Tutu's, Moonlight Film Festival, 2006, it was love at first sight. 3.) Places to travel:

- Santiago, Chile. I turned 18 there, in the year 2000.

- Granada, Spain, was there for an amazing week in 2005.

- Leuven, Belgium, my parents lived there for 3 years. Awesome little university town, tons of coffee shops.

- Schaffhausen, Switzerland, saw Europe's largest waterfall (which is remarkably tiny) in 2008, pretty town covered in snow.

- Torun, Poland, toured there with Yesterday's Pupil in 2008. Birthplace of Copernicus.

  4.) Music videos:

- Yesterday's Pupil - Mechanisms of the Universe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmpBTkm9hJE

- Jacob Israel - Her Narnian Horse Analogy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1MJ3WGArOc

- Listener - Ozark Empire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-J-1CkokQk

- Fire Through the Window - Long Gone (wouldn't be able to sing the song along, but that video blew my mind)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jakZJ7zmD8g

- Simply Dead - It's Less Dangerous (check out the guy in the yellow shirt's epic dance moves)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DefEt4_aOw

  5.) What makes you feel liberated:

- an epic view from a balcony, preferably at night.

- destroying bowling attacks for my action cricket team.

- when the monitors are doing what they're supposed to do on stage.

- writing.

- road trips.

Photo: Sean Brand

- photo: Adriaan Louw

1.) Locals bands: Beatenberg Holiday Murray Bed On Bricks Tidal Waves Bataleur 2.) Live acts: Foo Fighters TV On The Radio Red Hot Chili Peppers The Band - Last Waltz (1976 Concert Film) Elbow 3.) Places to travel: Prague Amsterdam Berlin Karoo Argentina 4.) Music videos: Everlong - Foo Fighters  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBG7P-K-r1Y  Buddy Holly - Weezer   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4  Sabotage - Beastie Boys  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE In Bloom - Nirvana   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbgKEjNBHqM  Tribute - Tenacious D  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lK4cX5xGiQ

5.) What makes you feel liberated: Taking my longboard all the way from Jonkershoek (at the top of Stellenbosch) down to the CBD at 01:00 in the morning. Touring with the band to new towns or countries we haven't been to. (Unfortunately we've only toured England and Mozambique, but we've seen most of RSA). Diving at Hangklip or Betty's Bay. Going to Afrika Burn. Kloofing at Suicide Gorge, getting lost, and following the river all the way back to some form of civilization.

- photo: Lupa Photograpy