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Writer Kurt Duvel was on the frontlines for Johnny Marr’s 52nd-and-final show of his Call The Comet tour. Here’s his account of the intimate send-off, seeing stars and guitars up close and personal.
Read MoreWriter Kurt Duvel was recently tagged in a Facebook ‘challenge’ called "10 album covers. 10 days. No story." Here’s the story that he was instructed to leave out as he posted pictures of album covers for nearly a fortnight, now finally getting to go behind the artwork and talk about the music.
Read MoreWriter Kurt Duvel got a whole lot more than he bargained for when he recently saw Bruce Springsteen live in Cape Town. Welcome to the world of Superfans; where intercontinental tours of duty spent following one’s favourite artist(s) are the norm, and the front row is the only place to be.
Read MoreWriter Kurt Duvel looks at two up-and-coming South African rock bands that have drawn inspiration from the Palm Desert Scene in California, and its particular brand of ‘desert rock’.
Read MoreWriter Kurt Duvel attends City Soiree's first publicly crowdfunded music event in Cape Town and discusses the concept of crowdfunding the arts in South Africa.
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