I very nearly bought a couple of golden circle tickets for this year’s Coke Zero Fest in Cape Town after my G-Man reminded me it was taking place on Monday.

You see, as I was about to book tickets for The Muse and me, I found out that it wasn’t in it’s usual place (Kenilworth Race Course), but rather somewhere in Somerset West. Jesus. Maybe it was because I had driven so many recent N2 trips (Plett, as well as Jennifer Arniston a couple of times) that the words “Somerset West” sent me reeling. The idea of dealing with the now famous Somerset West traffic mayhem, combined with a rock festival, parking and 30 degree heat, triggered the fuckshow sensor in the section of my brain that deals with that kind of stuff.

It’s been quite some time since I saw them last at The Met Bar in London and I’m mortified that I’m not able to see Oasis live, let alone our boys, The Dirty Skirts; but I just don’t think I would have coped. It’s my own fault and by all Twitter accounts, the festival was a raging success (see live blogging by 6000 here).

Granted, the Coke Zero Fest only comes around once a year and I could do this anytime I want, but still…[tractor beam sound]… it sucked me in..

Beta Beach, yesterday, Monday 13 June, 2009
Don’t judge me

CLICK HERE to check out a short clip of Oasis singing Lyla at this year’s Coke Fest in Cape Town(thanks @nieldlr).

That reminds me, Corneile sent in this video from the Johannesburg Cokefest. It’s a video of local band Cassette and their fans telling overseas bands The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Bullet for my Valentine, to fuck off; after it was announced (here) that they had pulled out of the festival at the last minute.

Jeepers Hudders!

Harsh, but fair.

Here’s a still of that moment from The Times Multimedia:

Click here for more images from JHB
Cape Town pics to come, I’m sure..

By the way, for those of you travelling to Plett from Cape Town , you should leave on the N1 and change over to the N2 at Swellendam. This avoids Somerset West, as well as the stop/go points along the N2 on the other side of Sir Lowry’s Pass.

2oceansvibe – fine tuning you to perfection, one day at a time..