This winter The Fishwives set their songs on a story-stream which they say “plunges to their morbid depths and emerges to thaw in the sunshine.”
As a band they’ve performed as a two to five-piece on various stages – beginning humbly on the streets and stages of The National Arts Festival (with revisits almost every year since), to Oppikoppi (2014, 2016), The Hugh Masekela Heritage Festival (2016), Rocking the Daisies (2014, 2016), The Great Zululand Music Festival (2017) and last year, the hallowed City Hall for The Cape Town Fringe Festival. For the Fringe fest gig latter they constructed an award-winning, narrative-driven show.
Fresh and familiar material
Now the ensemble is revisiting the narrative concept with the storytelling cosiness of the chilly season, and they invite punters to the perfect venue to experience The Fishwives live – the intimate Alma Café. Here the trio’s winter’s tale will be woven through fresh, as well as familiar material. The much-loved, excellent acoustics of the venue should allow good access to soak up the band’s multi-instrumentalism and vocal harmony.
Subterranean sounds
For this Saturday, 29 July gig the players will be Celery Burger on guitar and ukulele, Lizzie-Lou Gaisford on guitar and accordion, Strato Copteros on percussion and Chris Tokalon from the Deep South “to raise the back-of-your-neck-hair with extra-terrestrial and subterranean sounds.” Jonathan Tait will double bill on the night.
Steve Kretzmann’s Fishwives take
“Through song and dialogue, they peck at the crusted shoreline of the current human condition, sharing first-hand nightmares, local superstition, soured suburban bliss, romantic paranoia and revenge in all its satisfaction.”
“Lyrics twisted and dangerous as tentacles, the ‘wives drag us willingly into their musical lair and slay us, sitting there.” Steve Kretzmann, Critter.
Who: The Fishwives, Jonathan Tait
Where: The Alma Cafe, Rosebank, Cape Town
When: Saturday, 29 July, 2017
Info: 021 685 7377
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