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TRMB’s Weekly Event Guide.

Nash Mariah — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:26:44 +0000

There’s quite a lot going on this week (especially around the public holiday), so if you needed help deciding where best to spend your time you’ve come to the right place.

Tuesday: First up is this week’s Untamed Youth, which is teaming up with the UCT Film Society to make their student night even more exciting. The lineup includes Mudblud, Sexual Tension, Elu Eboka and We-Are-Awesome. Oh, and if that wasn’t enough Tequila, Castles & Black Labels are R12 AND entrance is free before 11.

For the event page, go here.

Wednesday: You’ve really got your work cut out for you on Wednesday so deciding between all these parties is going to be pretty tough. My advice – start early and go to them all, tomorrow’s a public holiday FFS. First on the list is See You Next Wednesday ft Haezer. If you’re in the mood for something really wild and sweaty, this is where you’ll want to be.

For the event page, go here.

Wednesday: If you get bored at Assembly, guess what? City Bowl Sessions is happening across the road! And it features TRMB favourites Ryan Gosling, Mudbud, Einstein Adonis, Daddy Warbucks and Das Kapital. You can also party guilt-free because you’re gonna be getting trashed for a good cause. A win-win really.

For the event page, go here.

Wednesday: Lastly, if you wanna travel a bit off the beaten track, you can head on down to The Manila Bar for YOH!’s “last event in a while” (ominous) and will feature some of the best acts that have made this party great.

For the event page, go here.

Friday: Discotheque will be teaming up with My City By Night to bring you Ryan S vs Helmut J, Hyphen vs SFR, JakobSnake, Grimehouse and AweWolves (VJs).

For the event page, go here.

Saturday: At this point if you aren’t broke, lying in a gutter or getting your stomach pumped you’ll be quite pleased to know that it’s time for After Hours! Yes, they really did save the best for last, and this time around the theme is ‘Winter Wonderland’ so you can expect an old man shovelling snow, air conditioning, waking up in an igloo and possibly even… polar bears?

For the event page, go here.

Event: Discotheque | Sedge Warbler & Hyphen

Nash Mariah — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:39:44 +0000

If you’re looking for something to do tonight, I’ve got just the thing! Sedge Warbler is making his long-awaited return to The Assembly’s usual Friday Discotheque and will be accompanied by Hyphen who you can expect a special trap-heavy set from. You can also expect music from the man behind the beats of PH.fat – Narch – plus Einstein Adonis and RVWR. To give you a better idea of what’s in store, this is what you could be hearing in some of the headliners’ sets.

Sedge Warbler:

RVWR:

Einstein Adonis:

For the event page, go here.

TRMB’S Weekly Event Guide.

Nash Mariah — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:44:59 +0000

Sometimes it’s tough deciding how best to throw your money away. Allow me to ease that process.

Tuesday: David Gabriel Thorpe (Beach Party, The Dollfins, Gateway Drugs) will be doing a solo show at &Union for @texxonfire Tuesdays, starting at 7.30pm.

For the event page, go here.

Tuesday: Once that’s done you can head over to this week’s Untamed Youth at Fiction, which is all about Youngbloodz and is based on a regular segment in Sideshow’s radio show, where she provides a platform for young/up-and-comers to show what they’re made of. This week features Bhashkar, Bombardier, Daddy Warbucks, DDE, Einstein Adonis and Mudblud.

For the event page, go here.

Wednesday: This week SYNW at Assembly will be collaborating with YOH! for the first time and promises performances by Jakkals, Nicolaas van Reenen (Bateleur), Al Bairre, Stone-Age Citizens, Diamond Thug, Sexual Tension, Rakkie (The Frown), Young Supreme, Einstein Adonis, Ryan Gosling and Boyz2Men. If that wasn’t enough to get you excited there’ll also cheap drinks and giftbags for the first 30 people through the door.

You can check out behind-the-scenes photos for this week’s poster here, which was shot by Aiden Tobias of VagabondYouthClub and features the super attractive Mia and Ali, aka Ryan Gosling.

For the event page, go here.

Thursday: “it’s a house” will be hosting #itsatextile – a clothing sale, which features items from Miss T Jewellery, Tigerlily’s Vintage Collection, Ankha, Burrow Apparel, Nap Backpacks, Puppy Club, Dopei, Soul Connexion, Beach Cult & more.

For the event page, go here.

Saturday: Nothing says Summer quite like a rooftop party and this particular rendition is one of Cape Town’s best. Doors open at 3pm and there will be DJ sets by Miss CJ, Emlyn Williams, Kaelem Fakier.

For the event page, go here.

Saturday: Last, but definitely not least is the next installment of After Hours at Assembly. The theme this time around is ‘Treasure Island”, so expect bilgewater, scurvy, Booty Beyond The Stars, free shots, waking up in a dead man’s chest, Sexual Treasure, and obviously a whole lot of feathers.

For the event page, go here.

And if you haven’t been before, take a look at what you’ve been missing out on.

After Hours Promo from After Hours on Vimeo.

Competition: After Hours

Nash Mariah — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:06:35 +0000

I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since After Hours (everyone’s favourite party) first started. For one night a month we’ve all consistently thrown our names away, woken up with feathers in the weirdest places and experienced True Romance, an Endless Summer, and a House Party like never before. This Saturday we’ll all be celebrating their first birthday and what’s been promised so far has been cake, prizes and a completely non-subtle hint about the mainstage of Assembly. Yes, this one is going to be the biggest and best After Hours yet and to get everyone excited I’m going to be giving away 3 GUESTLIST SPOTS to 1 WINNER for themselves and 2 of their friends.

To win, all you need to do is:

1. Prove you’re the biggest fan of After Hours by TWEETING/POSTING A PHOTO ON TRMB’S FACEBOOK TIMELINE of yourself at one of the previous parties.

2. Mention @_TRMB and @AfterHours_Show in your tweet.

The more cracked out, weird, embarrassing, or sexual the photo is the better your chances of winning.

For the event page, go here.

Playlist: Christian Tiger School

Nash Mariah — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:10:38 +0000

It’s been a while since I featured a South African artist on TRMB and who better to end that proverbial local drought with than one of the most exciting acts in Cape Town at the moment – Christian Tiger School. Chances are, if there’s a cool party happening in town they’re playing at it and that’s probably why everyone you know and their mother is going to it in the first place. The duo is comprised of Luc Veermeer and Sebastian Zanasi, who I got to interview for Assembly’s website recently, and here’s a taste of what went down:

How’d you come up with the name?

“It was thought of on the spot randomly. We just threw random words around until we came up with something, until Christian Tiger School was born.”

You opened for Little Dragon recently, which was pretty great. Who would you like to open for next?

Seb: “It was an incredible experience, I’ve really enjoyed them for the past few years so yeah it was great. As far as dreaming goes, opening for Nicolas Jaar, Gold Panda, Teebs, Slow Magic or James Blake would be amazing.”

What’s in store for the future of CTS?

Luc: “We’re working on doing a smaller EP for the future that’ll hopefully at least have one singer and one MC, that’s the main goal I guess, to try and collaborate with some people we really enjoy.”

To read the rest of the interview you can head over to Assembly’s website, here, and if reading an interview isn’t a good enough way for you to get to know an artist better, how about listening to their 10 favourite songs at the moment?

Seb’s Playlist:

1. “A friend recently put me on to this. He said he was going to play it for his baby when its in the womb, a great analogy for all the music that Lemon Jelly did.”

2. “A lot more down tempo than LD’s usual stuff and melodically beautiful.”

3. “Too much great.”

4. “The master of solo jazz guitar off the incredible album ‘Virtuoso'”

5. “The Lo-fi beatsmith. Super forward thinking producer and bad speller. The guitar sample in this is crazy.”

Luc’s Playlist:

1. “Blu and Flylo what more could you want.”

2. “Goodest goody.”

3. “One of the best musicians ever.”

4. “Killer Duo, good beats good rhymes straight up NY music.”

Oh, and in case you missed it, here’s CTS’s amazing debut album, Third Floor.

Playlist: James Conde Rutherford

Nash Mariah — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:54:39 +0000

Playlists are designed to introduce all of you to relevant people and their relevant tastes in music. For this installment I’ve got James Conde Rutherford, former UCT dropout who spent his time making music, throwing parties and reading comic books. He now works for The Assembly handling marketing and promotion as their OPM (Online Presence Manager) and is also a DJ/producer, who goes by the stage name, Einstein Adonis. With the launch of Assembly Radio, he’s begun producing programming and also co-hosting the SYNW show with Stone-Age Citizens. Rutherford has been featured on TRMB previously for an Einstein Adonis mixtape, called “Ferngully” (go here). I LOVED the mixtape so much that I had to get him to share more of what he’s been listening to with me (and with all of you of course). So, here are the 10 songs that Rutherford is currently obsessing over:

Einstein Adonis is scheduled to play alongside Wildebeats and the Glow LDB crew at Kool Turkey TONIGHT at Zula Bar on Long Street. So if you want to hear even more great music from him you should definitely be there! For the event page, go here.

Photo by Stewart Innes, courtesy of The Assembly