Wednesday Guest List: Eat This, Horse

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Guest posts are going to be a new thing we are going to start doing around here on a regular, well, more like fortnightly basis with some of our local artists who we believe to have respectable musical tastes. They're gonna tell you sheeps what made them the musicians they are today. Baa.

For our first installment I got hold of John from Eat This, Horse!, self-quoted as "probably the 3rd most gangsta band in Cape Town". I can only assume that they are tailing the only other "birthed prodigies" of our land besides me and Digital Disko, the razor sharp lyrical wonderland know as Kallitz. Some sarcasm.

Now for some cast-iron downloadable music cleverly stolen from various Nigerian cigarette vendors on Sea Point Main Road. Hey, who's complaining at R15 a box...

Top 5 Albums: "Heard in the last year, in no particular order"

1. You Can't Hide Your Love Forever - Orange Juice
2. Ys - Joanna Newsom
3. 69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields
4. Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? - of Montreal
5. Night Ripper - Girl Talk

Top 5 Songs: "Of all time (Because my favourite songs of all time are sort of interchangeable and transient, you knows?)":

1. This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads
2. Only Skin - Joanna Newsom
3. Blueberry Boat - The Fiery Furnaces
4. Sister Ray - The Velvet Underground
5. Ballad of a Thin Man - Bob Dylan

"A whole lot of other shit, actually, probably. I guess it doesn't matter THAT much? It's quite hard to succinctly distinguish what has led you to do ANYTHING, and the creation of music is sort of the same, I think. Or no different, rather."

MP3:

The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat [MP3]
Of Montreal - The Past Is A Grotesque Animal [MP3]
Joanna Newsom - Only Skin [MP3]
Girl Talk - Minute By Minute [MP3]

And finally, our guests

Eat This, Horse! - Come Dance [MP3]

Here are some dates when you can catch Eat This, Horse! live:

Nov 24 2006 11:00 EVOL Cape Town
Dec 19 2006 10:00 Indie Armchair (with Desmond & the Tutu's) Cape Town
Dec 20 2006 10:00 Upstairs at Mercury Live (More Tutu's) Cape Town
Dec 23 2006 12:00 SECRET POOL PARTY (More Tutu's, Secretly) Cape Town

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