In the run-up to the Cape Town Military Tattoo 2015, the Expresso morning show on SABC TV interwiewed our Production Manager WO2 Charles Canning, the Director of Music of the Tattoo Captain Vernon Michels, Major Asim Hussain, the Instructor of Music of the Pakistan Army Band and Major Dalene Coetzee. The video is finally available…
On Saturday morning, while I was writing the blogpost about that evening’s final performance (see Tonight is the Final Performance), I was frantically trying to upload photos at the same time. But multi-tasking like that doesn’t work so well in WordPress, and in fact it took so long that I thought my computer had hung.…
After an absolutely rocking Opening Night at the Cape Town Military Tattoo 2015, I realised that I must have been beaming from ear to ear all the way home, humming the tunes of Band of Brothers, Highland Cathedral and The Prayer out loud. I felt like I was floating on a cloud! I had missed…
Tuesday was a long, looooong day. When I eventually returned home, totally whacked after 12 hours of dashing about with camera stuff, Miss Tuffy-Cat didn’t know whether to scold me for neglecting – yet again – to bring home some fresh chicken, which meant that she would be fed dry pellets yet again, or to…
After the Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph in Adderley Street on Sunday morning, a couple of the bands participated in a mini-Tattoo at the V&A Waterfront on Sunday afternoon. The South African Army Band Western Cape and the Pipe Bands of the Cape Town Highlanders, Cape Field Artillery and Cape Garrison Artillery were joined…
Grains of Sand 