Hog Hoggidy Hog at Mercury Live

Skank it up in celebration of this Cape Town music mecca’s 10th birthday

In honour of a decade as mother to Cape Town’s sometimes measly sometimes magnificent live music scene, Mercury Live is hosting a tenth birthday party on Friday, 5 October 2012 with a few rough-and-ready familiar faces: punk rockers Hog Hoggidy Hog, Half Price and Grassy Spark.

Groupies, goths, metalheads, moshers, hipsters, booze hounds and more are invited to celebrate ten glorious back-alley years with the iconic music venue, the host instrumental in growing and nurturing both up-and-coming and established local artists. 

Known for luring some of the city’s biggest bands to its stage and for throwing the hottest parties this side of the southern hemisphere, Mercury Live is a helluva institution, and an appropriately out-of-this-world jol is certainly in order.  Thus, to celebrate a decade of dancing, downright debauchery and legendary tunes, the Cape Town based hogcore pork rockers Hog Hoggidy Hog will perform with Half Price and the up-and-coming band Grassy Spark for some mosh-up mayhem.

The independent – not indie – band, Hog Hoggidy Hog, blends together punk and ska (as well as a range of other influences) to produce a unique sound fuelling mosh-pits since the late 90s, and, like their seasoned host, they show no signs of slowing down. With George Bacon as lead vocals, Amos Keeto on electric guitar, Sean Snout on electric bass, Sean Devey on percussion, Lee Lips on trumpet and Ross McDonald on the trombone, the band has four albums under their belt and is performing on the heels of an exuberant European tour.

Founded early in 2012 by veteran musos Josh Riley and Yanick Bathfield, Grassy Spark have taken audiences by storm. While the Mother City’s unique cultural diversity inspires the band’s music, this born and bred Capetonian band is becoming increasingly well-known for their eclectic reggae-rock, funk, ska, Latin sound.

For the last decade Emo Mawk, Kyle the Machine, The Corporate Homo and the DFG from Half Price have been ‘terrorising’ (as they so aptly put it) the music scene with their insane stage performances. While the band boasts a make-up that’s ‘90% politically incorrect and 10% politically incompetent’, their message is simple: “Embrace your vulgarity! Be filthy but intelligent!”

Line-up for Mercury Live’s 10th Birthday

• Hog Hoggidy Hog
• Half Price
• Grassy Spark
• DJ Robfather

Tickets are available at the door and cost R40p/p before 10pm and R50p/p thereafter. Strictly no under 18s, IDs will be requested.

Hog Hoggidy Hog - "Sherry-Anne" Hogmosh Music Hog Hoggidy Hog & Terrible Twinz - African Sons (Jam Sandwich)

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