the 8-bit era

This is the final call.

2009-06-04T16:00:00.002+02:00

cevroncity formerly known as 8-bitcity has come to an end. I have found that not only is the trouble of other people keeping this a secret too much, but it is also too much of an effort to maintain this blog for no good reason (especially whilst some smartass is hacking friends Facebook accounts, Twitter accounts and blogs - no, we don't understand why either).
I will be honest, as always, Cape Town and "the scene" is not worth it. To all you hipsters, posers, wanna-be musicians and DJs, you're a pathetic bunch to try and work with. Your music is always the same, you dress like the person next to you, and you always strike the same poses trying to compete for the most original pose.

I understand that other parties, such as we-are-awesome, the Assembly and a few selected DJ's have receieved positive attention from cevroncity being around, but this idea of a blog was not meant to be a fucking advertising space for you and it sickens me to shit that it turned out this way.

cevroncity will not be returning via new blogspot or Twitter. So lower your wayferrers, talk about it over lattes at vida, talk to your hairdresser at scar about it, write about it on your blogs, express the loss over Facebook statuses. Do what you must. The email address however will still exist for those of you interested in contacting me for whatever reason you may have: cevroncity@gmail.com.

To the indie kids, good luck with finding out the definition of "indie" and trying to relate it to yourselves.

To the 30-something year old salesmen in swanky (yes, swanky) shops on Kloof Street (and now Vineyard Road apparently?), I hope you one day do get a decent job, even if it is in retail.

To the DJs, good luck with trying to make heartless kids feel your music.

To the musicians, I hope you one day move out of Bellville if you're going to continue taking yourself seriously (a flat in Gardens does not count as moving out).

To the rest of you, Assembly, Fiction, Kloof Street and the Biscuit Mill is not the way forward.

GAME OVER

dear we-are-awesome, we-need-more

2009-06-03T12:51:00.000+02:00

I've seen some new albums been put up... nothing interesting, as usual. There's something about the blog that has gotten a little boring, it just seems like the same stuff week after week, kind of like what I've been doing on here lately.
Anyway, I wanted to give you some advice through pictures, because clearly you do that best. It's a little show, kind of like the we-are-awesome awards, but it's what I think we need more of...and of course, what we need less of in the albums.

We need less posers standing around.
We need more of this nerd breaking it down (I've seen him get naked at Get Nasty once, we need more of that too).

We need less pimp shots.

We need more Asians...even if they're just sitting on the side doing nothing.

We need less Emma.

We need more tequila.

We need less of people just sitting.

We need more people pretending to sit while actually being passed out.

We need less Michael Jackson interpretations.

Unless you look like these guys.
We need more of these guys.

We need less of that fucking hand sign.

We need more fat people wanting to be superheros.

We need more boobie action.

We need less underaged manlove... infact, we need less underage.

We need more girl on girl.

We need less pictures of people's shoes.

We need more of Phil's biceps.

We need less wastage of beer.

We need more police raids.

We need less of whatever that middle girl is doing.

We need more biting ass.

We need less middle aged crew doing what was cool when they were cool.

We need more transvestites.

We need more people on acid trips.

We need more half naked people eating on street corners.

We need more.
And we need more to work with.

hacker alert

2009-06-02T22:20:00.003+02:00

Word has it that a few of our friends accounts on Twitter and Facebook, friends who have been accused of their association with us have been hacked as well. This person has been leaving notes about cevroncity on the pages of these people and sharing links from their names as well.
It's not the first time this has happened apparently.

Twitter may not be the safest place to be. Guarding one account from hackers is bad enough as it is, so we may not put up another Twitter but will be enabling the comment box soon.

Whoever hacked it, nice try, you're not fooling anyone.

To the rest of you who were affected by this, we're sorry.

Twitter account.

2009-06-02T21:46:00.002+02:00

Someone hacked the Twitter account and started posting messages that was not part of cevron. I noticed now as I just logged on. Sorry to those who were involved in those posts and conversations.
To the person who did it... you are an idiot.
New Twitter may go up sometimes.

"you're my arab" "you're my jew"

2009-06-02T15:33:00.002+02:00

It's a happy story really. Former New Loud's boy John Seth and his lady Kelly are back together. Most will frown upon this (and by most I mean 9-out-of-10), but I'm rather glad. Clubs were getting strangely quiet without John off-his-face screaming that he was in love with her and was going to propose to her the day he graduated. I know you've all heard it. I'm not close friends with the guy and I've heard it. Besides, it was getting a little creepy watching him make out with other girls...or other girl. I only saw one, but there could have been more. What can you do? He's a handsome man.

Oh, and John, what ever happened to the New Loud Prophets idea? No go? Yeah, to be honest it was a crap name.

And for those of you who get offended when I mention religion... the title - they'll know what I'm talking about.

someone took my advice

2009-06-02T14:18:00.002+02:00

So since my post about "parties that die", Daydream Nation has been the first one to get its act together. They're playing tonight with Untamed Youth at Fiction. It should be interesting, to say the least.

Lapse, Dario and Tommygun (from Untamed Youth)

vs.

Orlando Doom and The Sound (Daydream Nation)

They've already started the battle by having a photo war on the Facebook event. Lame? Slightly. But Mr. Lapse himself did surrender to Daydream Nation. It will only be expected if the night continues this way.

[Facebook Event]

"There isn't a Zulu on my stoep, it's a cevron."

2009-05-31T20:44:00.003+02:00

headlinepayoff...what can I say?! I've been a regular reader of their stuff since...well...since. Anyway, as the search continues for my identity there have been a few more...well, a lot more names thrown into the bowl. It is interesting. I got a message from the headlinepayoff guys on Twitter the other day with this... an accusation of being Tom Selleck's moustache, Joost van der Westhuizen and of course... you.

In the interests of being akin to a locally applied cream, rather than orally administered medication, I have delved into my spy network (not unlike a farmer artificially inseminating a horse) to find the answer to a question that has been burning through people's fingertips here in Internetland.

That question is not: How does Noel Fielding get his hair like that?

That question is: Who is cevron?

For anyone who hasn't been touched by the flames pulsing through local IP addresses, cevron is the founder and writer of a blog called 8-bit city. 8-bit city has recently caused a slight furore amongst the hipster set in Cape Town, with its snarky comments and social commentaries. Towards the end of last week, it disappeared – causing much wailing and gnashing of teeth over lattes at the Vida in Kloof Street. I have heard unconfirmed reports that some people even lowered their Rayban Wayfarers to show their darkened, hungover eyes while discussing it.

Rather than disappearing forever, cevron has reinvented him (or her) self and started a new blog. Think of their absence as a pause to straighten their hair, or browse for clothes in second hand shops in Cape Town. Just so you know, the new blog can be found at:

http://cevroncity.blogspot.com/

Without saying anything that might incite a flame war, let me now share the knowledge that popped out of that metaphorical horse's ass after my sperm-questions had formed foetuses. While (hopefully) we will never know who cevron is, we can always speculate. Indeed, it would be a little boring if we found out who they were. It's like finding out that the tooth fairy is just some drag-queen who studied dentistry.

So, without further ado, here are some possibilities for cevron's identity:

Joost van der Westhuizen: Joost has been very quiet lately, what with doing-coke-and-going-down-on-some-girl-gate. As far as I know, it hasn't been proved one way or the other, but it has been suggested that he has moved to Cape Town and reinvented himself as a hipster (otherwise, how could he infiltrate all the parties?)

Dame Judi Dench: When last did you see her in a movie? All you need to see is how she can make her mouth look so mean to know that there is a huge possibility that she could be cevron.

Tony Leon: Poor Tony Leon, he gave up being the leader of the official opposition in South African politics and now he has nothing to do. Helen Zille has taken his job and is now premier of the Western Cape. I'm sure I've seen a middle-aged, democratic looking man in a suit sitting in the booths at The Assembly before.

Heath Ledger: (Is it too soon? Ah fuck it.) Elvis? John Lennon? They're not really dead. Ditto Heath Ledger. He finally shaved his head to hide his baldness, put on an 80s inspired teased wig and some spray on jeans and has been moonlighting as cevron ever since.

That little tokoloshe girl/boy thing that hangs around Leon Schuster: There isn't a Zulu on my stoep, it's a cevron. You may have thought that strange looking person with the soul-chilling laugh and the seventy centimetre platform boots was a fashion icon, but they could also be the elusive cevron.

Kim Jong-Il: Not only the dictator of North Korea, greatest player of the piano ever, wearer of the silliest spectacles ever, donner of the most inappropriate military garb ever, best tiddly-winker ever born (ever), grand prince of rice paddies, eternal protector of communism and all-round nice guy, but perhaps also a certain blogger from Cape Town?

Tom Selleck's moustache: When last did you see it? It could be living on anyone right now, sneaking off at night and writing blogs. Don't scoff. Stranger things have happened. Like Lady Gaga.

And finally... you: It could be you. Or even you. Maybe not you. Probably not you. But very possibly you, with the dirty smile and knowing looks. Or someone else.

Yours yoursly,
Hp

P.S. If you would like to follow us on twitter, point your Internet-ship in this direction: http://www.twitter.com/headlinepayoff and if you would like to follow cevron, point it in this direction: http://twitter.com/cevroncity

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i said "swanky"...make a fucking blog about it.

2009-05-28T16:50:00.005+02:00

Some of you may know about this blog already, "This guy said swanky!" [whoiscevron.blogspot.com]. It's an interesting blog dedicated to finding out my identity...kind of like the new Baseline posts "WHO IS CEVRON?"... but this blog is funnier. The person who runs this blog has 2 others that are based around "cevron" - "cevron-comments" and "cevron-sexy times", which is dedicated to finding out who all wants to have sex with me.
If you're at all interested in any of the above mentioned blogs, the writer is willing to make you admin... I don't know what the point of it is, or why someone would want to make a blog about finding out who wants to have sex with me. This person must be A. very disturbed or B. be as much of an "idiot" as I am.

The most recent post on "This guy said swanky!":
"Hopefully by this time you have figured out that this blog was created to explore "the state of being an idiot" by using our anonymous friend, cevron, as a subject. But this got us thinking. Why does We-are-awesome mainly feature photos of events at Assembly, "the night shoot" and their "day shoot" seems to feature "social characters" at the biscuit mill. And now we have a new social figure called, cevron, that mainly uses these sources to base his/her "rants" around. Is there a link? Are we suppose to believe, that the only "cool shit" that this town has to offer happens at assembly, and omg, if you don't go to Assembly then you won't be featured in We-are-awesome...(and are we really awesome?), and if im not featured in We-are-awesome, then shit, will cevron ever think Im important enough to write a "rant" about...and if I'm not really important to feature on cevroncity, then!? fuck, who am I...the vicious circle continues...Does Assembly pay We-are-awesome? for advertising? Does cevron get paid by We-are-awesome to create awareness, that we all are truly awesome. Is there a christian connotation to all of this? "

Dear Mr. whoiscevron.blogspot.com

I'd like to inform you that cevron has no connection to we-are-awesome or to the Assembly. I must admit, I'm sure it makes great advertising for both parties, especially we-are-awesome as I constantly use pictures of theirs to slate them. And the reason I do this, and only use we-are-awesome is because, if you haven't noticed, there isn't another fucking site in Cape Town that has pictures of all these "incredibly cool indie people". You must admit, the site is full of easy targets, kids who think they're cool and take themselves too seriously, why would I want to give up an opportunity like that?
It is however a wonder why we-are-awesome don't venture outside of the Assembly, even if it does just follow the crowd down the road to EVOL or Fiction... now, there you might be on to something. Is someone doing some kind of favour to someone else? A sexual one perhaps? Because I'm pretty sure there is no money involved, and if there is, it can't be very much. How can you pay someone in cash to come to your club, drink your alcohol, watch your bands, dance to your music and then take pictures for their own blog. Curious.
I know that I am not being paid, I have yet to see money or be offered sexual favours from the we-are-awesome crew or from the Assembly management.
Maybe one day though.
But for now, I'll continue to use easy targets. And you can continue to blog about me...infact, why don't you write a little post about this post? There's some good old homework for you.

Yours in idiocy,
cevron.

pull my hair hard

2009-05-21T22:32:00.003+02:00

I had to share this blog with you. It's the single coolest blog I've ever found to walk the streets of Cape Town.

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deleted posts and booty calls

2009-05-21T22:17:00.002+02:00

Richard Cole King sent me a twitter message the other day about deleting the post he had written telling everyone I was back and saying how sad he was when I left, thank goodness I copy-pasted the post onto this blog or else it would have been lost to cyberspace and I would have never had evidence of his confession. To be honest, I was a little heartbroken. Although, it did give me some insight, just about people and where they're taking this whole 8-bit blog thing to. I'd like to thank certain members of twitter who have admitted to wanting to have man sex with me. To Kate Roux, this random kid whose blog I was shown because of a post claiming she'd do me, and to someone named Big Brad who commented on an article on "Between 10 and 5".
Your personal information is saved onto speed dial.

Also, to those of you who are uneasy about me following you on twitter - suck it up.

what the fuck is wrong with you people?

2009-05-21T22:14:00.002+02:00

...not all of you, just those who sign up on websites with the name "cevron" and post comments about things making it seem as if it were me. I found a site about 20 minutes ago as well that someone signed up where they just took quotes from some of my posts to comment on other people's posts about bands and tracks.

You are pathetic.

we have twitter

2009-05-20T20:00:00.002+02:00

Be our twit.

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Gigs, events, updates and "pointless slander" that doesn't deserve an entire post will be put up daily.

Send us messages, links, love, sexual proposals and death threats.

twitter...twitter...twitter

2009-05-18T22:05:00.002+02:00

So, I clicked onto Richard Cole King's blog just after I typed up that last post to read this charming post about me, along with a nice link to a nice song by a nice band (which I thank him for).
Anyway, the content of the blog went something like this..

So by now you should know that cevron's 8-bit city was lost to the blog reading community of Cape Town late last week. People grieved, people wrote Facebook statuses about it and people made 8-bit a major theme on twitter. But have people actually had a chance to miss cevron yet? Have people been able to move on to better and bigger things? I think not. I hadn't got over the shock of his disappearance yet. People said to me, "You blogged cevron off the internet!" I cringed at the thought of being responsible for such a travesty.

But, to my delight...HE's/SHE's BACK! I used to be offended by him/her, now I realise that's just silly. Shock, horror and disgust is how cevron gets so much attention. Now he or she is back with the 8-bit era. The You/People magazine of the Cape Town music scene is back to satisfy your urge for industry gossip and Scandal, although somewhat less personal. It turns out cevron has a conscience, who would have thought? Alternatively, death threats have reached him/her. Check out cevroncity.blogspot.com.

In commemoration of this exciting post (possibly the best of the month!), here is a remix of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs song Heads Will Roll, off the album, It's Blitz, which is new by the way. I like it.

I laughed... alot. As I said I began to notice the rapid increase of viewers toward the end of the last blog, but something just gets me about it... I not only enjoy knowing that people read it but I like to know who these people are aswell (and I'd like to know if there is anything to slate about them and if there is, why I am not doing it). So to find out more I took Richard's hint about Twitter and typed in "8-bit city" into the search engine to see what came up. I was curious. I found all these posts from people I've never heard about in my life and never seen either. I read some of the messages and I have some replies.
Here goes the responses to the posts I've found so far...

"10and5 8-bit city is back over here: http://bit.ly/tpxH7" - thanks for spreading the word.

"brauteseth was just looking for 8 bit city blog and it's been shut down/ moved / flagged ? http://8-bitcity.blogspot.com" - clearly you're not a regular checker... the sign saying it was going to be moved was up for a while.

"johannschwella Damn, 8 bit city Cape Town fashionista insider blog has been removed. Wonder if his/her identity was discovered..." -identity wasn't discovered... "fashionista insider" blog huh? That's almost as charming a comment as Richard's "The You/People magazine of the Cape Town music scene" comment.

"brauteseth @Unodewaal guys behind 8-bit city are Ian and Malcomn skene (a.k.a. grave danger... a.k.a ian from atore next to vida kloof )" - I'm actually glad someone finally accused the Skene's. But no, I'm not either of them. I am not worthy to be accused of being them. Nice try though brauteseth... I however encourage you to keep your mouth shut until you know for sure what the fuck you're talking about.

"liliradloff @Unodewaal. 8 bit city is befok! Hahaha!" - Dude, who the fuck is this "Unodewaal" guy and why is he on my case?

"Unodewaal must.. find.. out.. who.. is.. behind... 8 bit city... must..." - you... will... never...

"headlinepayoff @alicegnodde I just saw that Cevron/8bit blog thing today. It's kind of amusing but it's a little mean. You aren't he/her are you?" - The accusations continue... I think I should just allowing a posting list that everyone who has ever been accused of being cevron can attach their name to. It'd be interesting to see I think.

"alicegnodde @DamianBurke I love how ppl are accusing each other of being Cevron! This is juicy!" - I'm with her.

And my personal favourite...

"countsabel whoever does 8-bit city ... i wanna have man sex with you! I love you! lets mate!!!! hahahhahah ... " - Don't go running when I take you up on that offer.

8-bit WILL BE ON TWITTER WITH IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS
You can send me love mail, hate mail, sexual offers and links to your bands and shit there... oh, and death threats are more than welcome.

night of the electric

2009-05-18T21:45:00.004+02:00

I'm in the mood to carry on about my we-are-awesome rant. The other night at the Ashtray Electric CD launch Richard tried so hard to help the cause of getting the CT party scene going. Every time I saw him he was dancing his pants off...so much so that even when I left he was still going at it. Good on you Mr. Cole King.

But here's my issue... it's about the we-are-awesome guys. Andrew and Sean were there taking pics...as usual but managed to leave just as things got crazy on the dancefloor? How can you expect to make a change and make the Cape Town scene look like "something" if you're leaving before the party even starts? Ashtray finished playing just after midnight and after that you guys were no where to be seen. Shame on you. You should've have kept Richard going on the dancefloor. I know you can dance Andrew... I've seen it. I know it.

Anyway, I thank Mr. Cole King for making a start.
I thank we-are-awesome for your contribution... I see you even got one awkward picture of girls pretending to make out...

...better luck next time at trying to make it look more natural.

Oh! One last thing before I leave you and forget about it. Congratulations to John Seth. I didn't even know that him and that Kelly girl were over but I think he's better off without her. I haven't seen that guy breakdown a dancefloor in ages and most say it is because of her... I'm not sure, I can't judge, but I have heard these things.
Good on you Mr. Seth. I appreciated your dance moves and hope to see them more frequently in the future.

parties that die

2009-05-16T21:41:00.002+02:00

Has anyone else been noticing the absence of all those electro parties that were once around?
What, do you guys only play around in summer?
I understand that Get Nasty have a "season" which is over now. But what about Dark Side of the Boom and Daydream Nation? I heard something about a little ego getting in the way of Daydream Nation wanting to have their parties at the Assembly again because Get Nasty got to support the Bloody Beetroots when they came down... which was funny I guess because those Daydream guys claimed to hate Bloody Beetroots anyway. Testosterone huh? That shit will eat you.
But what about Dark Side of the Boom? It's not like any body "cool" or "hip" ever went to those parties because they were so scared of being mugged walking down to the Rhino Room. I actually never saw more than 100 people at a DSotB party.

Listen guys, winter is coming, it's been pissing with rain all weekend, the bands in Cape Town at the moment are shocking and to put it nicely, are becoming rather stale. So bring back the fucking beat, nobody else is doing it. Nobody in this city, except for the Skene's are doing anything and those guys literally play everywhere. I mean, KINK? Is that what it has come to? You can't find a party so you land up at a boutique bar that's full of the larny near middle-aged crew?...but that's almost your crowd isn't it? Not just the Skene brothers, but the Daydream Nation and Dark Side of the Boom guys too. You're all almost 30. So is this it? Is this the retiring age for an electro DJ?
If not...
Get a venue. Get a set. Get a Facebook event. And let's get this shit started...again.

everybody wants to be like me

2009-05-16T20:32:00.003+02:00

I've been witnessing this very shameful comment board conversation over the past few days. I admit, I typed two posts, the two that made sense (second and fourth ones). Basically, it turns out that people are using the name "cevron" to comment on other blogs, such as the we-are-awesome one.

I don't have a problem with this as I think it's quite funny that the person (or people) behind it possibly has more free time than I do - which is a sad thing.

Have you ever been onto someone like Chris Brown's fanpage and you get those woman, hundreds of them who send in messages about how they got with him behind Rihanna's back or that they were secretly going out, you know the typical "he's my man!" story, it kind of reminds me of that. It's as sad and pathetic as that.

I'll make a point of saying this now, do not take any comments posted under the name "cevron" seriously, especially when there are about 3 people claiming to be the same person on the same comment board.
What is said on this blog is the only thing that public should take seriously.

I do not use multiple exclamation marks.
I do not type "cevron" with a capital C.
I do not use abbreviations such as "FGGT" for "faggot" - (degenerate English, what can I say?).

Post in question: More from Cameron. 'Where To From Here' - on we-are-awesome.com blog.

miss me much?

2009-05-16T00:27:00.004+02:00

The last time we spoke, I told you I wasn't associated with Baseline Studio. I still stand by that. If you haven't read the comments on the post they sent out declaring their lack of involvement with me, you should read it - it's a good laugh. I'm glad to see people do actually take this as a joke.
Baseline post : "once and for all ... 8 bit city IS NOT US"

Only after I shut down the previous 8-bit blog did I realise how many people actually read 8-bit on a daily basis. In the last few days before the previous blog was shut down we were getting up to 600 hits a day, everyday, whether there was a new post or not. Anyway, my last words among all this boring information is that, these stats pretty much prove that you fuckers are mentally unstable and even though you love to bitch about me and how "crap" this blog is, you still love it and you'd still secretly miss me if I was gone. Ask Andrew Berry, he knows.
we-are-awesome post: The End of an Era. R.I.P 8-bitcity.blogspot.com

The new 8-bit will be more PC (I admit that some of the things said were unneccessary). But we will still be maintaining the same level of bullshit, the same amount of slating and the same honesty...even if it's not what we going to think tomorrow, it's what we wanted to say today.

Mr. Andrew Berry, be disappointed no more. The "pointless slander" continues.

Please note: This blogs new location will not be advertised widely over the internet. Only a select few members of the public will be notified of the new location so it is therefore up to you to let the city know that we're back in action.
It's just because adverts are like so not cool right now...but, maybe oneday... oneday soon.