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According to the front man of Billy Talent, Canada makes the best beer….well after last night’s concert it’s clear that the country has much more to offer than just cold beverages.

Durban was the last leg of Billy Talent’s South African tour, and the energy that the band, and the supporting act, The Dirty Skirts, brought to the stage could have fooled anyone into thinking it was the first concert. There was no holding back, no tailing off, every minute of each band’s set was explosive.

The supporting band, Cape Town band The Dirty Skirts, took to the stage earlier than expected at around 7pm and proceeded to warm the crowd right up. Personally I’m a fan of the band, so it was pretty hard to stand still and take pictures when they played some of their catchier songs. Though looking back, and from chatting to people at the event, I’m not sure they were the best choice as the sole supporting act. The Dirty Skirts sound is very dance and radio friendly, while the fans attracted by Billy Talent tended to be into a harder sound. But to give credit to The Dirty Skirts, I think they won over alot of the non-believers during their set, the crowd was really getting into it. They also put on a very energetic show which leads into Billy Talent’s set perfectly.

When Billy Talent took over the stage the crowd really went wild. Their set was just amazing from start to finish. The lead singer had enough energy to power a small country and he used every inch of it. The whole band was very professional in their execution of their songs, and the whole set flowed flawlessly. The crowd showed their adoration by sacrificing shoes, bras and even panties to be thrown at the band, whom loved every second of it. At one point the lead singer even tried to start returning the lost shoes; who doesn’t love a band that can rock your socks off, and then have the kindness to return them. All in all it was probably the best live show I’ve ever been to, well worth braving the freezing cold weather.

Review by Samantha Dawe

So with all the drama that surrounded Akon when he performed at the IPL game here in Durban, you think that he would have decided to actually sing at his “One Night Only” show on Sunday?  WRONG!

Don’t get me wrong, it was an amazing performance complete with sex, scandal and fire, but surely when people are forking out R1500 for a VIP ticket, you at least get to see live singing? Within the first three songs, it was clear that Akon had fallen into the Ashlee Simpson, Britney Spears trap of lip syncing.

Saving grace for the show goers was the amazing show… Picture this You’ve been standing for over an hour and a half listening to Liquid Deep (odd combination – house and hip hop but anyway…) performing when the stage goes dark, music comes streaming through the speakers, suddenly there is a giant screen showing a scene from a movie, there is  fighting and *BOOM* Akon on screen goes flying through a window and magically lands on stage amid fire and sparks and everyone start screaming…

So it was a great show (notice I don’t say performance) complete with a full band.  Bass player, DJ sporting a Mr T hair cut and kilt, drummer and keyboard player. The sound and lighting for the show was top class – at one stage I thought someone was going to throw up from the vibrations of the bass  and Akon gave a performance of a life time…

Crowd surfing, girls taking the shirts off, grinding in the crowd, girls in underwear on screens – it was everything that a Hip Hop music video is but in real life.

If you missed the show, you missed out on most probably one of the best live performances I’ve been to in the last year.  Yes we stood in line for 45 minutes to get a drink, had to endure the longest set by a house DJ and had to watch a man pretend to sing, but wow what a show it was!

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Overtone chats with the guitar guru Guy Buttery, a man who discovered the guitar “like a young Scotsman discovering the bellowing bagpipes”

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When did you start, what sort of music do you perform, who works with you, what is the best show you have played? Are you signed to a record label? What albums have you released?

I picked up the guitar at the age of 10 learning the inevitable “Smoke on
the Water” riff like millions of other guitar players. Like a young Scotsman
discovering the bellowing bagpipes, the sound of the instrument pulled me in
like nothing I’d ever known before. Learning countless rock and folk tunes,
getting heavily into world music and more recently into a lot of nu-folk,
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