It might seem an odd way to spend the first night I am back in Cape Town. For good. But since I have no time pressures, I figured chilled catch up time with the parents was a good choice. Followed by TV. Good old SABC viewing pleasure.
And I was not disappointed, what with Top Billing now moved to a Tuesday night, as well as a few snippets of SA bands scattered between programmes and across channels. And the magazine lifestyle programme of Top Billing featured not one, but two SA bands this week. Bonus. They must have known I was coming home!
First up was Tamara Dey in a photo shoot in the uber trendy Arts-on-Main in Joburg. She is one part of dance group Flash Republic who released a new album a couple of weeks ago.
Previously made up of Tamara and two well-known SA DJs (Craig Massiv and Ryan Dent), they have since added a drummer and a guitarist to this new album.
There was also a feature on Cape Town's all girl group, La Vuvuzela, with their World Cup friendly name - and plans to officially support the Springbok Supporters Club this year for the Rugby World Cup, including performing in New Zealand! Nice!
And then, as a cool music sandwich, where Top Billing and Afro Cafe would be the fresh home-baked bread, I discovered a fab filler between the two time slots... a seemingly debut episode of SABC 3 series called Cashmere Mafia...
Think Sex & the City for the 21st century girl (well, not Lipstick Jungle, but close). Four New York career women - with ex-Ally McBeal star Lucy Lui as well as two married girls in the group, and one girl currently exploring her sexual desires, all adding up to a fab little foursome of high-flying career women set to lead high-flying lives in the big city. And despite their ambition and top notch jobs, they do seem to lead fairly balanced, calm lives. But this is TV land afterall. Time will tell how real the characters reveal themselves to be, or if it is just more good escapist TV. Tuesday nights, me and the couch will be hanging out more!
Following this I watched Afro Cafe, horizontal on the couch, as Claire Johnson and her husband and band member, John, sat upright on their interview couch. They chatted bout the 13 year gap since they last had all their fame and acclaim, and now with latest album, Bang the drum, they performed a few new tracks. Claire was decked out with a decent dose of leopard print and it was only when they showed videos from back in the day that one realised just how many hits Mango Groove had which still reverberate in one's dusty storage systems upstairs!
So all in all for a first night back in Cape Town, I was fairly pleased to see three SA artists on my telly within a few hours!
Rock on Tuesday TV couch night in SA,
x
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