The dirtyoldDisco got invited to play at FestiVAL 2010 in a small town called Val in Mpumlanga… We made a road trip out of it… here is the story…

It’s really small, even on a map!

I rolled through to Game to get a nifty little tent (they were having a special… it was fate), packed my stuff and loaded up the gear into T-Bones car…On the way to Caryn Paryn’s flat we got to see some Eugene Terror respect art outside the University of Pretoria…

Eugene Terror!

Bravo Pizzeria!

We got Caryn, picked up some Bravo’s pizza (it’s the shiz niz… find it on South Street, Hatfield, Pretoria) and finally made it onto the highway. Check out the shenanigans after the jump!

Tea Baggins!

Caryn Paryn and I!

The R23…

We drove behind this truck for a while… it was the most exciting part of driving to Mpumalnga.

The most eXciting part of the trip…

Finally after about 2 hours we rolled into Val, set up my new bitching tent and checked out the scenery. T-Bone even pushed a hoe.

Welcome to Val!

My bitchin’ new tent!

Pushin the hoe!

The local bar, the Moeggeploegkroeg, was pretty rad. We got some drinks there, watched some bands outside there, ate some sarmies in there, rick-overed after getting too wasted with drinks from there, took crotch shots there, drew in the guest book there and welcomed the bears there.

Moeggeploeg Menu!

Rick-overing…

Crotch shots… From left to right: Myself, Caryn Paryn,  T-Bone.

T-Bone adding to the guest book…

Nice, we were there!

Chuckles and Will!

T-Bone and I played a cool set to those that were still awake enough to party with us, there were no photos, no one could see.

Saturday morning arrived and everyone felt like sh1t. I walked along the train line for a bit, checked out the town a bit more and then sat in the bar until we left. I ignored the drive home.

Feeling less than awesome…

Walking…

More of the town...

Even more…

And even more!

FestiVAL is a pretty rad little festival, it’s not too far from Gauteng and the get a way is good! I’ll see you there next year! Goodbye!

Kay bye!

^5!

So everyone that comes here knows that I’m really bad at doing the regular blog thing and I always have these “catch up” posts… Here is the latest one! I just trawled through some old photos I got off my camera and this is what I remembered… (read it after the jump!)

Lego rocks! It’s not scary, but it still makes a great halloween costume! Caryn Paryn and I totally rocked the build on these bad boys. Andrew Mohawk and I suited up in the blue blocks, with Caryn Paryn and Nelia Face in the black corner. We partied it up at the Hotbox Studios halloween party, did some docking and got raucous! Neil went all out and looked the most bad ass!

Team Lego!

Lego docking!

Neil being badass!

Get me out!

I also got around and watched some bands, hit up +27 Design Cafe (most awesome iced coffee ever!), went to RAMFEST (the lame JHB one), got cooked for and generally misbehaved.

Wrestlerish!

Jacob Israel!

Leaving RAMFEST!

Andrew Mohawk even wore shorts!!!

Caryn Paryn cooking up some food!

Mmmmmmm!

At some point people dressed up as zombies for Aliswans party… I didn’t, so I just rode the exercise bike…

Zombie Andrew Mohawk…

Riding the bike!

T-bone and I have also totally been rocking out as the “dirtyoldDisco” with loads of gigs and what not. Check out the dirtyoldDisco blog over on at dirtyoldDisco.blogspot.com and give us love, thanks.

Yeah… exciting… yeah!

^5!

Witty – perhaps a bit offensive? – e-cards… worth a laugh

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