{"id":290,"date":"2006-02-09T03:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=290"},"modified":"2006-02-09T03:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T09:20:00","slug":"cassette-a-new-band-fronted-by-jon-savage-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/cassette-a-new-band-fronted-by-jon-savage-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"CASSETTE, a new band fronted by Jon Savage — awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"

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S<\/a> and I went off to the Bassline in Newtown last weekend with her buddies Paul<\/a> and Justin Dempsey<\/a>. Justin’s here from London, and he’s a pretty hot muso and producer. He’d heard a track by CASSETTE<\/a> on the radio, and thought they might be the freshest South African band he’s heard.<\/p>\n

So when we heard they were opening for SQUATTA CAMP, we had to go check em out.<\/p>\n

I can say this… CASSETTE is pretty much the best South African band I’ve heard. I can say this… I’m listening to their first cd, ‘Welcome Back to Earth’ on repeat, and I’m loving it. They sound a little like late Manic Street Preachers, mixed with a bit of Pulp’s attitude. I dig them. Deluxe.<\/p>\n

Their stage presence is delicious. Attitude. Angle. Real skill. Jon Savage has a killer voice.<\/p>\n

And when he punched the punching bag with Robert Mugabe’s face stuck to it while singing ‘Get in the Ring<\/a>‘, and the bag mashed off the stage and beaned a photographer almost slicing her head open but not quite and he didn’t apologise, I thought, ‘Hmmm… there’s a chance we might actually have a South African rock star here!’<\/p>\n

(Unfortunately, his conscience seems to have gotten the better of him, and six songs later he did apologise, but in a low key way. So maybe he CAN be a rock star.)<\/div>\n

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S and I went off to the Bassline in Newtown last weekend with her buddies Paul and Justin Dempsey. Justin’s here from London, and he’s a pretty hot muso and producer. He’d heard a track by CASSETTE on the radio, …<\/p>\n

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