Cape Town Daily Photo

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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