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Jaco Haasbroek just carries on and on, but we will not complain about these Untamed Youth posters. Ever.

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Ram Jam and Rouleaux van der Merwe teams up again. We hope these don’t ever stop.

Simon Berndt want’s you to party on a Wednesday night with Bilderberg Motel. I say yes.

Listen to Centre Point by Bilderberg Motel below.

Hanno van Zyl never ceases to amaze. Great poster for Sons of Settlers.

Click below to listen to “Climb on my Back” to get you excited for tonight.

Luke Cannon made this rad poster for the new venture out in Jozi called Dead City Radio. Swing by and have some fun. Click the image for the facebook event as always.

No week can go by without Bruno Morphet it seems. Here’s your fix.

Simon Berndt is on a roll in terms of posters, and this time you lucky guys and gals are able to buy these as screenprints. They will be sold for R80 each or both for R150 on the night. The lineup is also super impressive.

As always, click the posters for the facebook event.

BrentBlack Studios for the latest Park Acoustics coming up this Sunday with Yo Grapes, Captain Stu, Napalma, Vana & the Oh So Serious and Albert Frost.

Dustin Holmes with the best poster of the year I think. I wish this was screen printed.

Luke Godfrey uses nice clean colour and text for the Juke Royal gig poster with Matthew Mole and Al Bairre.

Clean poster by Marie Van Rooyen for Stoker playing an unplugged session at The Shack. Be there.

Johann ‘Witbrood’ Botha for the next YOH! party this weekend.

Zayn Opperman made this pretty poster for Tomorrow Never Happened.

The Latest work by Bruno Morphet, I love this series so much.

Two nice posters by Hanno van Zyl this week. Are you ready for Rocking The Daisies yet?

Rouleaux van der Merwe teams up with Ram Jam once again.

Baden Moir for Body and Soul 2.

Jaco Haasbroek educates the masses. This is not a logo.

Louis Minnar. Enough said.

You should be here tonight.

Johann Witbrood Botha from Bok and the second YOH! party.

Michael dos Ramos kills it again.

Louis Minnaar is responsible for the individual elements and Brendan Groenewald brought it all together. All aboard for Grietfest 2012 Cape Town and Jozi.

Another pretty poster by Louis Minnaar for the awesome Bittereinder. Getting excited for ‘DieDinkDansMasjien’ being released soon. Promo clip below.

The latest poster by Andrei Pereira for aKing looks impressive.

Michael dos Ramos worked on the latest monthly flyer for It Came From The Jungle at Fiction.

We missed this poster by Bruno Morphet and liked it so much we had to feature it. This was for last weeks Fiction Fridays.

Lekker poster by Andre Pereira.

Bittereinder and The Frown designed by Louis Minnaar. I might start crying. Why is this in Pretoria and why can I not teleport yet?

Marchand plays with shapes for the new aKing poster. Pretty stylish.

The Untamed Youth logo has travelled quite a bit this season thanks to Jaco Haasbroek. Also, this weeks UY is free.

The new Adam Hill poster. He probably needs no introduction but you can view the video interview we made quite a while ago here.

Andrew Ringrose is getting some attention today with his awesome poster for the Diplo tour.

You should be here.

The Home Movie Factory is coming to South Africa and you are asked to Swede your favourite movie for the next Rebel Alliance.

If you have loved ‘Be Kind Rewind’ I am sure you would love to get involved in the art of Sweding your own movie, and then have it screened at the next Rebel Alliance. How super awesome. Here is Ben’s invite to get involved.

And if these posters aren’t enough to get you going, the poster for ‘Rebel Alliance: Need For Swede’ is below. Please check out the event here for detailed instructions and more info.

Jean Lombard works some magic with his latest poster.

Another great poster by Matthew Pullen for what is set to be a great gig.

Just saw this little gem on the interweb by Hanno van Zyl and had to share it before we start our weekend.

It is clear that Stathi Kougianos is back in action.

The latest gory poster by Michael dos Ramos for Uber Cool Events. What else do you do on Friday the 13th?

Everybody reading/looking through this blog knows I am a huge Bittereinder fan. They just released this trailer for the new album dropping pretty soon and I am going to explode with excitement.

For those of you in Bloemfontein this weekend, get ready. Bittereinder will be playing at the Vryfees. Louis Minnaar worked his magic on both the flyer below and teaser video above.

Simon Berndt (One Horse Town) worked on the Live Charge album from The Stella’s and it really looks good. Catch them on the tour, they will be in Durban this weekend. Hopefully we will have some pics of the album artwork soon.

Poster by Graig Wilson from Easthouse Design.

It’s pretty cold and it looks like Jaco Haasbroek knitted a blanket for you Jozi folk. Join in the Untamed Youth fun at Great Dane.

Here is a larger image of the Fiction Fridays poster no 4 by Bruno Morphet. It forms part of the #FictionIcons range and they are giving away the whole set. See details for the competition here.

Marchand again. This gig is a charity event raising funds for the JAG Foundation, which in turn will contribute to entry for two hopeful Cape Epic cyclists. Rather them than me.

Bruno Morphet again, and I bet you can’t guess the icon in this poster. If you can i’m guessing you are old like me.

Very cool and exposed poster by Andre Pereira for Beast. Loving the margins and the neat type.

Another gig poster by Andre Pereira and I am loving the pace at which he is pushing out posters at the moment.

Lovely poster from Peachfish for what looks like a mighty fine Sunday gig. Make sure to attend this one.

Inanimate Object is the latest exhibition of illustrations by Gerhard Human, hosted by Searle Street Post in Woodstock and Masters and Savant.

I just love this poster. The illustrations will be printed on archival paper and presented as limited editions of only 30.

As always click the poster to go to the facebook event.

I stumbled onto this beautiful poster last week and was blown away with the illustration and work that went into this. The illustration was done by Ree Treweek and the typography by Thea Nicole De Klerk. The benefit gig for Flying Needle Project at Mercury is bound to be a hit, and you are supporting a good cause.

It’s Andrew Ringrose! Clean, pretty and awesome.

Mr Haasbroek again. Untamed Youth Again.

Michael dos Ramos blows us away again. Awesome colour and style.

Ben Rausch still has an unhealthy obsession with animals it seems.

It has been a while, but luckily for us Mary-Anne Hampton made this poster for Cake or Death with the Anti Retro Vinyls playing on the night.

We love this colourful poster by Anthea Duce for the upcoming Step Up 4th birthday celebration at The Assembly. Together with Discotheque the night will feature D3ADL1NE & Jonny Miller from the UK.

Jonny Miller made this mix to get you in the mood.

Another clean and beautiful poster for Gary Thomas, this time by Gary himself.

This poster may fall in my top 10 posters ever. Good work Michael Tymbios.

Another Thursday, another Doktrine gig poster. Loving it.

Andre Periera sent me this beautiful poster he made for Arcade Empire. This is when you wish posters are screen printed and sold, so you can hang it on your walls.

Simon Pocock and Cassandra Johnson made this awesome looking gig poster for Cape Town’s Christian Tiger School playing in Joburgh tonight.

Great gig poster for Third World War featuring Cable Stealing Gypsies, Dead Alphabet and The Black Cat Bones, by Warwick Rautenbach.

Another Andrew Ringrose gig poster, once again for Discotheque.

Another Tuesday night at Fiction, and Jaco Haasbroek asks you to make some choices.

Michael Dos Ramos was busy this past few weeks with a few great gig posters, and here’s another one.

I know you have seen this poster a lot these days, but a different colourway and a huge gig deserves another mention. The Apes must be pretty tight after their tour and Splashy Fen main stage performance, so pop in tonight.

Doktrine is always busy, and the work is always good.

The Untamed Youth parties at Fiction has started and that means weekly awesome work from Jaco Haasbroek. Here’s the first one.

Wish we could be at Splashy Fen this year, but at least we have this cool poster by Michael dos Ramos for the Dance Valley at Splashy.

The River is opening tonight at Salon91 in Kloof Street, Cape Town. A collaborative visual narrative by Louis Minnaar and Maaike Bakker, with words by Jaco Van Der Merwe. Sounds epic.

If you felt like following these guys around the country, now is your chance. Artwork by Simon Berndt.

With the relaunch of Fiction quite a lot is going down. Bruno Morphet invites you to the official afterparty of the Cape Town Electronic Music Festival.

Nintento days for Arcade Empire and we can thank Doktrine for this fun flyer.

Bruno Morphet made this beautiful series of posters for ToyToy and We Are The Noise, the latest of these is for Alex Smoke playing Friday night. Be there.

I think Cape Town has been waiting for this for a while and finally Fiction is ready. Andrew Ringrose pulls the coffin from the grave and introduces the first night of mayhem with.

Andrew Ringrose rips out another poster for Discotheque at The Assembly tonight.

Rebel Alliance is on again.

Rebel Alliance 5 Trailer from Ben Rausch on Vimeo.

Collective Suburbia made this poster for The Pretty Blue Guns, Machinery and Joshua Grierson playing at Mercury Live.
What do you guys think?

Andrew Ringrose as usual with the striking poster for Discotheque and Graham Kennedy has done a stellar job with one of the cleverest posters we have seen in a while. So awesome.

Another great poster by TwoShoes design for The Flamjangled Tea Party, and that lineup looks fantastic!

I love what the guys from WorkingClass has done here. Be sure to support this great exhibition starting in Durban and then off to Joburg, with talks in progress for Cape Town.

Click the posters to go to the facebook events pages.

As part of the Design Indaba Youth series of workshops Jarryd Kin presents a poster workshop on the 4th of March. We will also feature the posters right here. So exciting.

Two awesome nights at The Assembly this weekend, first up Mike Zietsman’s poster for P.H.Fat at Discotheque and then Hanno Van Zyl for Lark with The Great Apes on Saturday.

wwwiT Februarie made this interesting poster for the We Like Bass party happening over the weekend. Pop in.

Adam Hill made this cool poster for The Sleepers, steering clear of the usual clean open spaces.

Get ready for a great night with some of the best afrikaans bands around, and a cool poster by Andre Pereira too.

Durban based blog ‘Durban is Yours‘ is having an event this weekend and it looks awesome. Love the poster by Luke Smith too.

Very nice poster by Chris Slabber (our creative force) made for We Set Sail’s upcoming release. How awesome?

Have you seen that heading? Forget about the great line-ups this week, we get the mighty Kronk with his first gig poster in about a year, Andrew Ringrose as usual on the Discotheque poster and the SYNW combo of Adriaan Louw and Graham Kennedy,

I’ll leave you to it, click the posters to go to the facebook events, and pick that jaw up from the floor please.

This is a bit late to actually make the gig, but could not let this poster by Lisa Ting Chong go by.

It’s been a while since we were able to feature some of Shane Durrant’s work on this blog, and we are delighted to show you these two beauties. Perfectly set type as you expect from the man.

Enjoy the gigs.

Christi du Toit (Crunch Illustration & Design) made this cool illustration for the RubaDub event hapening at Mercury on Saturday, and it should be a killer.

The latest Forget About Friday poster by Doktrine, and the lineup is looking sick. This is the Thursday party you do not want to miss.

If you are looking for something to do on Sunday, here you go.

How do you like this poster for a School Night party? Doktrine doing what they do best, awesome illustrations of crazy characters.

Bruce Mackay has been a favourite of mine for a while now, so we are glad to see that Wolves is hosting this exhibition. His lino work is beautiful and his tree branch illustrations needs to hang on my wall.

You can see more of his work here, and make sure to be at Wolves this Friday to see his impressive work.

The next installment of Rebel Alliance and another great poster by Ben Rausch, again featuring cats.

This time round they are taking on a Sci-Fi theme with a music and film mash-up. Make sure to join in the fun at The Bioscope, by the sound of it the last few were epic.

Also check out the trailer for the event right here.

Rebel Alliance 4 Trailer from Ben Rausch on Vimeo.

Get ready for the upcoming foam party by Dogbox (Griet and Hotbox) at the Hotbox studio. Nice bold fonts, Rock and Roll horns. What more do you want?

Poster by The Helix Kid

Poster by Andrew Ringrose

Poster by Riaan Botha

Poster by Daniel Bradley and Daniel Malan

We hope you have your Synergy bags packed, but here’s a few things to do before we get to the weekend.

Poster by Nicolaas Van Reenen

A few very good shows to get you ready and in the mood for a very good weekend, but first make sure to catch Gary Thomas at The Waiting Room tonight.

Drawing by Farah Hernandez Martinez

Poster by Jean Lombard (New Hope Designs)

Poster by Michael Tymbios

Poster by Louis Minnaar

As we head towards Halloween weekend, with so many awesome posters and bands playing all over the country, this School Nights post is pretty empty and we are sorry about this.

Be sure to come back on Wednesday for a bumper post featuring some of the best work we have seen for a while. Truly epic.

Poster by Illustration by Cassandra Johnson, Design by Catherine Nicks

Illustration by Cassandra Johnson, Design by Catherine Nicks

Poster by The Assembly, Photo by Adriaan Louw

Poster by Jaco Haasbroek

I’m sorry for the late and slim post, with birthdays, etc. I was quite lazy and thought I might put my feet up. See you next week.

Poster by The Assembly, Photo by Adriaan Louw

Poster by Louis Minnaar

Poster by Adam Hill

Today we have something special to get you in the mood for Gil Hockman’s album launch tomorrow. Follow the link here for a free mp3 off the new album titled “Too Early In The Journey”

Poster by Niall Bingham

We would like to encourage more bands and artists to make beautiful posters for all kinds of events, be it gigs, film festivals or art exhibitions. It looks great on the dull walls of your city or our living room.

Something exciting happening, but without a great poster, is the Isochronous Inscape album launch tour starting in Pretoria this week. More about that here.

And onto the posters:

Poster by Farah Hernandez Martinez

I’m still a bit pissed off about not being at Oppikoppie this year and reading all the good and bad reviews on the blogs does not help.

Thanks to all the good reviewers for giving me some idea of what I missed this year.

No thanks to all the PR whores who are forced to mention (brand name here) 1000 times to pay for their tickets.

Poster by One Horse Town

You might have seen these posters by Fanakalo on our Oppikoppi special on 10and5 but for those of you that have not, witness the awesomeness.

Poster by Jaco Haasbroek and Jean Rene Onyangunga

Poster by Jaco Haasbroek

Better late than never, even if it’s just a small post today. Cape Town weather got me in bed with the flu, and you know how men are when they have the flu (my sister calls it Man Flu).

Maybe we won’t see you at the gigs this week, but you don’t have an excuse.

Poster by Jaco Haasbroek

Quite a quiet week so far, so we will drop these two posters and give you some more on Wednesday. Clever work from Haasbroek once again. Hope you had a hectic weekend.

Poster by Jaco Haasbroek

Not so much happening this week, but we sure need the rest after last week. It felt like it would never stop.

See you at the gigs.

Poster by Shane Durrant

You have been holding your breath, and it is time to inhale. School Nights are back, and what a comeback.

Depending on your city, you have a busy week ahead of you. Hope you have enough cash lying about. Come back on Wednesday for your weekend poster fix.

Poster by Jaco Haasbroek

By now you should have entered our competition for tickets to the Ashtray Electric album launch on Saturday and Discotheque on Friday, it’s gonna be huge.

We have a lot of talent in South Africa and today’s post just confirms that. Artists, bands and venues are working together to bring you some of the biggest and best lineups, and you end up having to choose, or just go to all of them in your city.

If you like what you see, be so kind and tell all your friends, post it on your Facebook wall or tweet about it. Promoting great art and great gigs will see our music scene thrive, and we all benefit from that.

See you at the gigs!

Poster by The Assembly, Photo by Adriaan Louw

Poster by Jaco Haasbroek

Poster by The Assembly, photo by Adriaan Louw

Poster by Jean Lombard