Waxed Scene Mixtape: A South African Food Relief Fundraiser by We Did This Records

This mixtape was made in support for Food Not Bombs Jozi, and Locked Out! who will split the proceeds equally.

These food relief programs operate in Johannesburg and provide much needed support for people in dire situations, all made worse through the pandemic and recent unrest.

We deeply thank each artist who contributed material for this project.

And thank you for donating to this initiative, or sharing it online!

Food Not Bombs Jozi operates in Durban Deep- a region cut off from water and electricity for more than 10 years. We prepare delicious healthy meals for the community every Saturday, and conduct mobile runs to the homeless, and suffering communities. We try to answer the call for aid and solidarity where we can, but we need supplies, brave and committed volunteers, and spare cash for petrol and vehicle maintenance in order to keep this operation going. - www.facebook.com/groups/foodnotbombs.jozi

Locked Out began during the Covid19 lockdown to assist the homeless facing both police brutality and starvation. We are committed to providing food to these vulnerable individuals, to tell their stories, and to inspire you to do the same. - www.facebook.com/lockedoutjhb/

Cover illustrations by Sandy Little

Featuring:

Shameless Band SA / FUZIGISH / haunts / Her Stems Spiral / The Dumpies / Julia Robert / Seru / Hated Related / Monday Morning Justice / Guilty Survivor / THEE SMØGS / Fake-bit PoZeurs / Laserchrist / All These Wasted Nuts / Omen Harm / Doom Scroll / Virtual Bird / Contort / Make-Overs / Apostles / Soundz of the South / Aragorn23 / SNOWFLAKE / Return to Worm Mountain / Jon Shaban / Da Beach Boyz / Write Off / Brickface / The Lebowski / Ugly Boyfriend / Gassfella / Vampire Slumber Party / Wolfgang Marrow / A Reptile Dysfunction / Matt Vend and the Tender Ten / 2 Cardigans & Bowtie / The Loose Ends / Colour Bone Black / Crumbs / isadora​:​dustmite

This mixtape features mostly local artists, but with significant support and solidarity from abroad!

South African DIY Punk Rock Touring with We Did This Records and The Dumpies in RaZorcake #117 / Covid-19 Lockdown and Folk Punk Tour Meltdowns in South Africa with Brett Newski and Jon Shaban

Kevin Dunn [author of Global Punk] interviews The Dumpies and Sacia [drummer of The Dumpies] interviews WDTR in RaZorcake #117 [a prolific non-profit DIY punk zine]. The article photos are from The Dumpies South African tour. Top: The Dumpies at Zoolake Bowls, Johannesburg by Christelle Duvenage. Bottom: Shaun & Conley representing We Did This Records and performing as All These Wasted Nuts [folk punk] at Pool City, PE by Pitts Holli.

We Did This Records had the amazing opportunity to be included in an article for the new issue of RaZorcake magazine. RaZorcake is a total institution in D.I.Y punk. This was all thanks to The Dumpies, a punk rock band from Texas. The article as a whole is Kevin Dunn, the author of Global Punk, interviewing The Dumpies (Joel, Mark, and Tim... minus Sacia, because she was busy working in the ER) about their various back water tours, and then Sacia, asking us some questions. Below you can read an excerpt from the article, followed by a podcast chat between Cape Town folk punk musician Jon Shaban and Brett Newski from Milwaukee.

Kevin: That's hilarious. You mentioned South Africa, which you guys just got back from a couple of weeks ago. How was that different from the rest of the tours?
Mark: It was racially the most intense place I've ever been because Apartheid only ended in 1994. You could pretty much feel it everywhere we went. They always say, "It's touchy." Before I went, I was like, "You just don't want to talk about it. That's your cop-out." After I went there and we went to the Apartheid Museum, we talked to so many people at length about it. I was like, "Wow, this is touchy, Holy shit."
Tim: That's why Shaun and Conley were great. They're very cognizant of that. They will point that out, even little things you'd see on the street. They would connect things, showing us where apartheid is still continuing, but it's more of a financial racism now. It was definitely something which seemed much more prominent than in all the other countries.
Joel: I'm still trying to wrap my head around why it felt so drastically different. Tim was talking about income inequality. It's not that dissimilar to what the situation is here, but there is a different flavor. There's something different about the situation there. It was a really intense learning experience being there.
Tim: In America, we got this picture of, "Apartheid's gone. Everything's great. Everybody loves each other. We're past that." You go there and it's still raw, and it's still very much a part of the country.

Kevin: Can you just say who those two people are that you were talking about?
Tim: Shaun and Conley from We Did This Records which is a D.I.Y collective throughout the whole country. They put out a lot of politically motivated music, playing in a couple of bands. (All These Wasted Nuts, Monday Morning Justice, Sloppy Folk, and so on.)

Kevin: I've been there many times and it's probably my least favorite country to visit because of that income inequality and the institutionalized racism. It's just so in your face and it's so hard to navigate coming from the outside. How is the D.I.Y punk scene dealing with that in South Africa, based on what you guys saw?

Joel: They're just as affected as the rest of the country. In fact, it was a big point of contention. On all these bills we're showing up on, we realized ninety percent of the bands were white. We were talking to Shaun and Conley about it and it's a very segregated scene. There's the Soweto scene and then there's the white scene. Once we realized that was happening, we tried to reach out to a bunch of bands and try to get the shows more integrated - with varying degrees of success - but it was noticeable. I can't imagine living and booking shows in a scene like that.
Tim: The openness is what's different in the U.S. In every show there'd be one or two black musicians and people would be, "Oh, there aren't enough black people here," or, "These bands are all white." In the U.S., you don't really say that. We did have a show in Soweto, but we realized that the bill was all white bands. Shaun was saying, "This really isn't that cool. We can't do this."

Kevin: You didn't play the show?
Joel: No.
...

Sacia: How did you guys get into punk?
Conley: Local ‘zines had a massive impact on exposing us to punk rock, both local and international. Me, growing up in a rural area, even I got a chance and went to my first show when I was fourteen just because of a local zine called Blunt that used to put out comps and list gig guides. It changed my life forever! It made everything I loved tangible and attainable.
Shaun: My cousin Kim was a metal head and when I got my first Walkman at the start of middle school she copied some Nirvana, Green day, and Face To Face albums for me. The chain stores Look and Listen, and CD Warehouse would also stock Epitaph and other biggish label releases. After going to some of my first local shows I learned about Croak Room Records, that was stationed in Pretoria, which used to do mail orders for some local punk records as well as some bands from Canada. Some kids at my high school were also doing distribution for Profane Existence magazine.

Sacia: how connected is the South African punk scene to the rest of Africa?
Conley: Numerous bands from the southern parts of Africa do frequent South Africa. Some festivals hosted in neighbouring countries like Mozambique and Swaziland have South Africans involved in the organizing as well. Most of the African underground scene is dominated by metal, which we aren’t that involved with so I can’t offer much more, unfortunately.
Shaun: There was a film produced called Punk In Africa that focused on some of the apartheid-era punk bands, then took a massive leap to the big names in early 2000s ska punk, and ended with a few minutes about bands in the rest of Africa. I don't know if any of those bands mentioned are still going or if new ones have popped up. I haven't heard of any since.
From my introduction to the local scene, there has been some sort of a connection with American, European, and Australian scenes. We've had numerous bands tour here on there own steam, from hardcore to crust and garage rock. Many bigger bands tour here with support from festivals like OppieKoppi or from groups like Punk Safari, who existed in the early 2000s and were all about bringing Fat Wreck Chords bands over. When i was in high school in Cape Town christian hardcore was massive and church groups were helping little local and overseas bands tour churches and high schools. We even had Underoath here. Though it's debatable weather any of that is "punk", it was probably the height of people being involved in the scene, whether that be with gig attendance or people making zines and stuff. A number of local punk bands have done European and Southeast Asia tours.

Sacia: can you explain the split between the Soweto scene and the rest of the country?

Conley: The rest of the scene had a huge jump start on the Soweto punk scene, or at least the one we are familiar with. This established scene enjoy privileges such as fully equipped venues, accessible location, and active booking agents, to name but a few . In our involvement in Soweto shows, it's amazing to see how any effort for a show or rehearsal always involves family member, neighbours, and friends regardless of the genre which is unfamiliar to the big city scenes. Racism and fear does play a role and keeping these scenes apart, but we have been actively trying to combat that by playing each other’s venues and houses.

Shaun: A few years ago some friends of ours helped start up Soweto Rock Revolution, after hearing about and chatting to folks in Soweto who were into punk and metal. This resulted in the first punk gigs at a skate park by Dube Station. The shows were a mix of acts from Soweto, Joburg, and the addition of some touring bands. There was quite a bit of publicity surrounding these shows from the get go, with numerous videos and articles being produced.

 Not long after the first handful of shows did we hear about interest in the Soweto scene from the likes of Afro-Punk, and later Red Bull Music, Vans, and Converse. For a little while we had another collaborative effort in Maboneng, a gentrified arts street in town, called Punk Fridays. Unfortunately the last few Soweto Rock Revolution shows have been a white invasion of Soweto, as the sponsors and corporate interests had made it difficult for the Soweto scene to represent itself there.
As of recently, there's been a bigger fallout between Soweto Skate Society, who manage the prominent Soweto bands, and Soweto Rock Revolution. Currently, we're finding it difficult to collaborate with the Soweto scene due to not wanting to cross battle lines and due to our shows being DIY unsponsored shows where we split the cash made at the door between the bands, with no guarantee or pre-payments.

Sacia: Is there a presence of white nationalists within the South African punk scene, like we see elsewhere like Eastern Europe?
Conley: Yes there is, but I wouldn’t say it’s proud and in the open. Most people get called out or get ostracized by the scene, so they don’t have much of a presence at shows or in bands, but every now and again a right-wing nationalist punk band would show its ugly face. In the '80s, we had quite a few bands that would wave the flag of the white nationalist party, but I’m proud to say that venues, agents, and bands are all on the same front when it comes to getting rid of this kinda trash.
Shaun: I had the unfortunate experience of playing a show once with a band from Pretoria called Chaos Christ, who i did not know at the time. They turned out to be a Christian chaos punk band who were LARPing as members of the SS. Aside from that, a globally known anarchist author (Michael Schmidt) from Johannesburg, who had books published by AK Press, and who had frequented shows, was exposed for being an undercover white nationalist and having a Stormfront account in 2015.

Sacia: What are some of the things bands and punks in the U.S. and Europe can do to help out scenes like theirs?
Conley: Just come and visit us! Folks are always welcoming and excited to do things with touring acts or fans. Download our mixtapes and open up to what we have going on down here. There's so much talent and unique and interesting expressions of art and music.
Shaun: I think that for many people overseas, there's some aversion towards the idea of a South African punk scene, outside of the resent popularity online regarding the Soweto scene. Leftover Crack, for instance, were flooded with comments like, "why are you going to white Africa?" when they came here. It's kind of a tricky thing and i think many white people in bands here, especially punk bands, struggle with being white and South African. The legacy of apartheid is still very visible and a lot is unchanged due to the post-apartheid government's devotion to neoliberal capitalism over and above societal and structural change.

Sacia: You guys have a very DIY ethos that seems to intertwine with every aspect of your life, music, and label. Where did this come from?
Conley: South Africa has a very small music scene mostly dominated by country and goslpel music punted by Sony and BMG, so the alternative scene was forced to establish itself by means of  DIY. this sprouted into zines, independent labels, and a lot of groundwork . This being intertwined with skateboarding, surfing and so on.
Shaun: While I do think we do DIY out of principle, it's also the reality of the alternative music scene in South Africa.

Copies of RaZorcake issue 117, featuring the full article, will be available at shows post pandemic. Alternatively you can book one in the comments section and we can send one to you... if things don't get better...

Strangely enough, Brett Newski was on tour here at the same time that The Dumpies were. We helped him out with one of his first shows in Johannesburg years ago, but this time, The Dumpies and Brett had a show booked the same day, in Melville, just a street apart, and we missed each other. Jon Shaban and the Shabs, as usual, did some shows with Brett, and while The Dumpies and Brett both finished their tours here, and made it back home, the Shabs finished up with Brett and went to Europe for a tour that got pulled out from under them by COVID-19

Brett Newski's podcast.

SOUTH AFRICA part one | full lockdown, tour meltdowns in S Africa, life of an artist in Cape Town

Jul 28, 2020

Jon Shaban (the SHABS) sits in to discuss the intense lockdown in Cape Town, as well as what it's like to tour and make a living as a South African indie artist. 

More on the SHABS: https://theshabs.com/

If you would like to do something to help out the South African punk and alternative scene during this pandemic please follow, stream and share our new Spotify playlist

Special Attack! Album Launcher! 29 June @ Zoo Lake Bowls Club

Five live bands, for what was originally booked as a launch night for the new MMJ & Mislead split album, but, due to Mislead not being able to perform on the date, now re-purposed as a general launch / promo event for some new releases, and to hopefully get people hyped on the new We Did This Records mixtape coming out! (Tracks from the mixtape will be played between bands...)

"We Did This Records presents an act of catastrophic and indiscriminate low grade destruction. A last ditch effort to redirect the finishing blows of capital, and master the ancient mystic arts of marketing. Special Attack! Album Launcher! is an in canon installment where the tiny meat creature primates at We Did This Records attempt to sell you shit! A plot twist that will send you spinning! ...and a cliff hanger involving the fate of all worlds.

In consequence of the anarchic nature of particle attraction the following releases have been selected and highlighted:

- firstly, the newly released MMJ / Mislead split album - https://we-did-this-records.bandcamp.com/album/the-ol-reach-around

- secondly, the recently mastered and uploaded ATWN EP - Electric Dreams - https://we-did-this-records.bandcamp.com/album/electric-dreams-ep

- thirdly, the new Apocalypse Later single - https://apocalypselater.bandcamp.com/track/happy

- fourthly, the new Mad God album dropped end of last year - https://madgodza.bandcamp.com/album/grotesque-and-inexorable

- fifthly, the latest record from Caution Boy - https://cautionboy.bandcamp.com/album/spastic-plastic

In the spirit of mutual aid, and with devotion to the sacred air vibrations, the following live action demonstrations will be held:
(*In a safe and friendly environment ideal for carbon based lifeforms!)

- All These Wasted Nuts
- Apocalypse Later
- Caution Boy
- Mad God
- Monday Morning Justice

50 rand per life form
29 June
7pm till late @ Zoolake Bowls
(Zoo Lake, Prince of Wales Dr, 2196 Parkview, Gauteng, South Africa)"
- Text by Shaun (me) on the gross facebook event!

A Politically Charged D.I.Y Punk Rock EP Tackling The Class Politics, Xenophobia, and Structural Racism Of Post Apartheid South Africa [Electric Dreams by All These Wasted Nuts]

On December 6, 2018, We Did This Records uploaded the Electric Dreams EP by, Johannesburg's D.I.Y folk punk underdogs, All These Wasted Nuts. The songs are all dated. Most of the recording was done in 2015 and the song Occupy Cape Town was originally written for Sloppy Folk circa 2012. Electric Dreams is an adventure away from the guitar and washboard setup that ATWN is known for and features six noisy political punk rock tracks.

The cover art is based off of a Crass records design and is considered by the band to be an anarchist punk record... even though it's listed on anarcho-punk.net under Non-punk Anarchist Music... the nerve!

Find Electric Dreams on:
Spotify
YouTube 
Bandcamp

Recorded in Middleburg (Mpumalanga) @ AtomicGarden Studios

Tracks & Notes:

1. The Price Of Bread /
      Politics Of The Apocalypse** 00:53
2. Xenophobic Dystopia 02:11
3. I Benefited From Apartheid* 01:12
4. insert 02:01
5. Occupy Cape Town 02:25
6. Noisy Song 04:13

* “Nqobile Nzuza a 17 year old girl, a grade 9 learner at Bonella High School and an Abahlali baseMjondolo supporter was gunned down at around 5:00 a.m. this morning. Nqobile was shot twice from behind with live ammunition. Luleka Makhwenkwana was also shot in her arm with live ammunition and she is in King Edward Hospital. Thulisile Zide fainted and went unconscious, she is also in hospital. This is shoot to kill policing. This is the crackdown that the police and politicians promised on protests. This is policing that is willing to murder to suppress the struggle for real justice and real freedom. This is policing that is used to oppress the people in the interests of the ruling party… ANC members openly threaten us with death and the police never act against them… The police are claiming that they had to shoot with live ammunition to save their lives. This is a simple lie. We note that some media are repotting the police statement on this matter as if it is the truth. We would like to remind the media that the police in Durban have a long history of lying. Remember Marikana! Remember how they lied about the attack on our movement in the Kennedy Road settlement in 2009! Remember how in 2006 they lied and said that they had shot Monica Ngcobo, a 19 year old woman, in the stomach with rubber bullet at a protest in Umlazi and yet the autopsy showed that she was shot in the chest with a shotgun. We have exposed police lies in court on many occasions. We will expose today’s lies in court too. The police are not to be trusted.” - Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement, 30 September 2013

** ”No War But The Class War (NWBTCW) is a motto expressing opposition to capitalism used by anarchist and communist groups.[1] It is also the name for a number of anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist groups… As a slogan, "No War But The Class War" has been used by people not necessarily linked to any of the above groups. It is widely used by diverse Marxist groups as a means of underlining the priority of class struggle above other political aims and as a general anti-militarist slogan.” - wikipedia

Ignoring the "above other political aims" part, I feel the word "priority" can and should hold more nuance as it does have a plural form. Someone can understand the importance of something and have that help inform their actions without having it dictate a hierarchy. This song, by intention, aims at alluding to the necessity of divorcing struggles from neo-liberal politics... This song does not intend any delegitimisation of struggles against racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, nationalism, speciesism, and so on. - ATWN

10th March: All Age Show at Thrashers Skate Park, PTA

Mr Conley has been up to stuff. He is a good boy. As a result there is an all ages show happening in PTA march 10th. All ages shows are very few and far between nowadays so COME DOG FUCKING DAMN IT!!! You fucking fucks need to understand that youtube and netflix will not save you! There is no god and your primitive monkey asses gotta run around in a circle and lose your shoes like the homo sapiens did back in my day... BECAUSE REASONS!

"My friends ain't all that bad. We play all ages shows and we'll start on time if you decide to go"... - Bomb The Music Industry

...Oh look! Show info and mutterings below!

We Did This Records and Thrashers Skatepark present this thing that is happening. The Soweto Skate Society are going to be doing cool things (AKA a skate demo)... that is if you believe in a concept like "cool things" and have not been beaten down by life so much that "cool things" are nothing but childhood delusions and painful lies... I'm fine... really.

The skate park opens normal time and the demo will kick of at 14:00. It will go on, and of, throughout the day and to keep the skaters / non skaters minds out of the dark and scary places we will have people playing guitars at an above average tempo... which if non of you have realized should be the actual dictionary definition of awesome... after the show, and in the absence of above average tempo guitars, I recommend doing as little work as possible and watching Ren and Stimpy till you die...

Noise by The Slashdogs, Misled, Monday Morning Justice, TCIYF, Slippery When Wet, and All These Wasted Nuts.

Tickets at the door :
Under 18's R50
Over 18's R80
Over 18's with cooler R100

Merch will be available

Post by: Shaun Richards

Some video from Punk F*@k Stay Home [SEP 17, 2017] DIY punk in Soweto!

So above is a collection of some video we managed to get of Punk F*@k Stay Home, mostly thanks to Kelvin Kapp from No Comply.

The Soweto Rock Revolution shows are D.I.Y all ages shows that are booked in houses, alleyways, and skate parks in Soweto. They are by far the most interesting punk shows in the Johannesburg area of late. The larger punk rock community for many years now have almost exclusively been booking over 18 shows at the ever decreasing number of live venue bars around the country. This has seen smaller and smaller shows with less and less interest. Gone are the days, circa 2000 - 2010, of new bands popping up from kids in high school that make you wish you could play better, or bands booking shows in big community center halls with kids packed in so tight that the circle pit hits the walls. Gone are the days of looking around to see people excited to be involved and a sense of something special happening, that you were lucky to be a part of, or to have even known existed. Kids making zines and cds. Kids picking up instruments and shouting their voices hoarse. For years now the majority of shows have felt like a dying gasp for air; a prayer to be the tolerable backing track for the disinterested Good Night Out. But... something is alive and breathing in Soweto...

Post by: Shaun Richards

Jesse Moya's Review: No Gods, No Masters, Just Cats! by All These Wasted Nuts

‘No Gods, No Masters, Just Cats!’

All These Wasted Nuts

Coming all the way from South Africa, All These Wasted Nuts brings a collection of folk and punk-inspired gems to the table with their unique blend of the two. The album compiles songs from the band to include several themes similar to American folk-punk and adds a cat theme throughout the album.

While the entirety of the album is a fun listening experience, “The Domestic Song” is a wonderful example of the overall feel of the album. The interesting situation of being caught between a rock and a hard place, but accepting that fact is an interesting way of attacking a song. With a brief salute to a former pet and a look into the housing situation of most musicians, the song is an excellent way to laugh, cry and make the best out of any situation.

“Cage Madness” is another example off of this album that can reach the ranks of a good folk-punk song and explores the difficulty of working at a part time job while longing to write that perfect folk song. Bringing Johnny Cash’s songwriting into question is a bit off kilter for many bands in the states, but we’ll let it slide because of the creativity of the album and the energy present in this particular song. “Cage Madness” expresses what musicians the planet over have had to deal with and the hell many often experience waiting for inspiration to strike while working jobs needed only to pay the rent.

“No Gods, No Masters, Just Cats!” is a fun look into the mind of a wonderful artist who has something to say and a future to create. So many American musicians attempt to reach the level of songwriting in this album yet fall short of getting their point across. With a variety of different styles present in the album, this is a great example of a collection that was well put together, well thought out – and we will all be looking for the next installment in this band’s future.

Check out “All These Wasted Nuts” at allthesewastednuts.bandcamp.com/album/no-gods-no-masters-just-cats-collection.

Source:
THE TAOS NEWS: Taos, New Mexico
Music review: From the outlands
A taste of sounds from South Africa and beyond
WHAT'S SPINNING COLUMNIST: JESSE MOYA
Posted Monday, November 27, 2017 7:23 am

  http://taosnews.com/stories/music-review-from-the-outlands,44564#top-carousel

Below: All These Wasted Nuts - Some Parts Repeat @ The Huntsman - Keg Witbank. Saturday, October 10, 2015. Opening up the lineup for a show with BOLLERIA INDUSTRIAL from Spain.

Videos From Our friend Dewald de la Rey!

Dewald has a comedic animation channel. His art style is like a dark and more awkward Adventure Time. Check out the following music videos he made!

Music video of Domestic Song by All These Wasted Nuts

Christmas Carols by Monday Morning Justice

George Bacon Tribute

So I grew up in Cape Town and the Hogs were a big feature of anything not boring happening anywhere close to the old age home by the sea where i lived (Fish Hoek).

Time and the fragility of life is cruel.

We recorded this tribute last year.



RIP George.
Thanks for the circle pits.

Thanks to Shaun Hillary for a fun night, rad jam and for recording and producing the track.

- Shaun

Cats Not Bombs by All These Wasted Nuts

A little guitar and washboard collection.

All songs were live takes with guitar and washboard (no overdubbing)

released 28 September 2015

Shaun - guitar / vocals
Conley - washboard / vocals

Cover Art by Liz J Vogt
Recorded in Middleburg (Mpumalanga) @ AtomicGarden Studios
Here

A South African DIY Folk Sampler

This is an extended digital release of a compilation CD made for Matt (AKA Beard), as a keepsake as he tours outside of South Africa.

We wish him well and hope he can make some cash from sale to aid his travels....

released 30 October 2014

Artists from.
- we-did-this-records.bandcamp.com
- groundsweeprecords.bandcamp.com
And some folks we like :)

Pick it up here - A South African DIY Folk Sampler

A Cat In The Gears by All These Wasted Nuts

A Cat In The Gears is a short burst of folk, punk and anti-folk. A sad, lonely, out of place, apathetic attempt at a "fuck the system" with a hint of misanthropy and the phenomenon of white male privileged 3rd world working class despair.

Recorded at Atomic Garden Studios in Middelburg Mpumalanga with:
Christina Papakyriacou - Melodica, vocals
Conley William Annandale - Bass, vocals, box drum
Shaun Richards - Guitar, Vocals, kazoo
Pieter Reyneke & Zane Boenk - extra backing vocals

Released 25 June 2014
Here!

"Listened to this album while drinking my breakfast beer and it was good. Short, concise, catchy folk punk, some thoughtful lyrics. I'm not a folk or a punk but I liked it and I don't like much. Download it." - Zaid Spade 

MMJ / ATWN TOUR SPLIT 2013

A four song tour EP that was quickly recorded and put together just before going on tour in December 2013.

Premium Original Folk-Punk Recorded In Middelburg Mpumalanga!!! 

50 copies were burned that got sold at a cost price sliding scale.

released 20 November 2013

Recorded by Conley
Cat photo by Christina

MMJ / ATWN TOUR SPLIT 2013 <-Grab a digital copy here
by Monday Morning Justice / All These Wasted Nuts

Vinyl Printed We Did This T-shirts

Vinyl Printed We Did This T-shirts

R80 - Shirt

R80 - Print

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R160 Cost Price

Email us @ wedidthisrecords@gmail.com

The 2013 Cape Town Anarchist Bookfair and After-party!

Our friends at Bolo'bolo - anarchist infoshop and vegan café, with the help of many other fine folk, are putting together an Anarchist Bookfair and After-party. This will be on Saturday, December 7, and located at Wesley St and Milton Rd, Observatory, Cape Town from 10am-7pm, and then at bolo'bolo (76 Lower Main Road, Observatory, 7925 Cape Town) till late.

*** NB: Check http://www.anarchistbookfair.co.za/ for full info ***

CALLOUT:

You are called to vote by many parties.

Feel disgruntled by them? Think their promises are empty? Wondering what you can do to really make a change? Come find out more about daily revolutionary action at the 2013 Cape Town Anarchist Bookfair!

We won’t be promising anything except good books, interesting talks and conversations, amazing vegan food, a chill-space, a Really Really Free Market (where you get to donate if you want and take whatever you need) and a rowdy after-party (at the bolo'bolo infoshop around the corner).

Interested yet? If not, think about this for a moment: is it really so unimaginable that you should be able to have a real say in what your community should look like and how you want to live your life? Are you tired that you and the people you love are forced into dead-end soul-eroding jobs just to pay the bills (if they're lucky), living month to month and sapped of the energy to live the life you feel sure should be possible for all of us? That you aren’t allowed the time to understand yourself and what you want from life – this one, beautiful, crazy, scary, wondrous life you get to live for a period of time you have no control over? Are you concerned that the planet is speedily being destroyed by people seeking profit over the well-being of the environment?

If any of this resonates with you, come join us at the bookfair. You’ll get to take part in discussions and think collectively about new ways in which we can live in a way that allows us to be free without impinging on the freedom of others and is environmentally sustainable.

Come on, take off those horrible disciplinary restraints of ‘how you should act and be’ and allow yourself a day of being the person you dreamed of being when you were a child climbing trees and hanging upside down, looking at the world from another angle.

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WHAT TO EXPECT:

• Stalls selling radical books, zines, clothing, vegan food, coffees, drinks and more.

• Lots of talks, workshops and open conversations.

• A Really Really Free Market.

• Food Not Bombs.

• A radical art exhibition.

• An after-party at bolo'bolo with All These Wasted Nuts, Cami Scoundrel, Monday Morning Justice, Morning Pages, Soundz of the South and friends...

• Lots of fellow anarchists, activists, radicals and deviants :-)

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DETAILS:

• No entrance fee

• Open from 10am-7pm (and then at bolo'bolo till late)

• View full info at http://www.anarchistbookfair.co.za/ or contact us at us@anarchistbookfair.co.za if you'd like to book a stall, do a talk, suggest a conversation, exhibit or find out more.

• The venue is the Theatre Arts Collective building, old Wesleyan Church, cnr of Wesley and Milton in Obs.

• OUR VALUES
The bookfair has a policy against authoritarian, oppressive, racist, sexist, queer-phobic, ableist, speciesist and other disrespectful behavior that works against collective liberation for all communities. Leave the prejudice, intolerance and domination at home! Actually, get rid of it altogether!

• ACCESSIBILITY
The venue does not have dedicated wheelchair access but there are very few steps and all areas are accessible via one of the two main entrances. If you're concerned about this, drop us a mail and we'll send you some photos of the venue.

• CHILDREN AND OTHER ANIMALS
The venue will be child friendly and there will be some entertainment available for younger anarchists, although there will not be a dedicated single area. The venue would prefer if people did not bring companion animals of other species along, but we encourage you to use your discretion in this regard.

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Love and anarchy,
The bookfair organising collective

A Folk-Punk Abduction Presents Jon Shaban & All These Wasted Nuts @ Rumours Lounge, JHB

The recordings from the gig Jon Shaban played in Jozi a few weeks back are up on Last Fm!
Check them out! He is AMAZING!
Like a South African Andrew Jackson Jihad / Paul Baribeau but different!!!

There are some All These Wasted Nuts ( Shaun from Sloppy Folk ) songs at the end also.

 http://www.last.fm/music/Jon+Shaban/A+Folk-Punk+Abduction+Presents+Jon+Shaban+And+All+These+Wasted+Nuts+At+Rumours+Lounge,+JHB

Here is Jon playing at the 2012 White Mountain folk fest just outside Durban

Bootleg recording of Jon Shaban and All These Wasted Nuts playing open mic at Armchair 
(November 2012)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?363f7f3r904o0wc