Night of 1000 Drawings

The Night of 1000 drawings was such an awesome experience. It was very different in a sense that you don’t spend many weeknights moving between three floors of a building in the middle of Joburg town. There were all different types of people there, but all with the same intention – to have a good time and to support charity. In true YBSA style, we had no idea what charity it was for, but we had contributed by submitting our pictures and made our way down town to see what was happening. In short, for The Night of 1000 Drawings anyone, regardless of your talent, can submit A5 drawings – each of which get sold for R100, and the money is donated to charity. So what were we doing there? They had invited bands to play – for free – our weakness.
After pushing through the crowds (I wish more events could draw this many people), we found our way to the far side of the roof where the stage, lights and sound were set up.

First up were Desmond and the Tutus – a strange group of extremely skinny guys who we had heard once before…and were not very impressed with. We’d been hearing their name around over the last few weeks, so decided to give them a second chance. This is one of those situations where we clearly have a very different opinion to many other people, but we found them just as strange – in a bad way – as before.

We wondered around and looked at some of the drawings before facing the crowd again to see Fuzigish. We loved them earlier that week at the NOFX concert and were looking forward to seeing them again in a different setting. They were just as brilliant and energetic as they were on a bigger stage and their band has a certain character that is very rare. They have become a favourite on our list and look forward to seeing them again soon.

Last but not least…okay, kind of least, were Cassette. Yet another band where our opinion doesn’t relate to most. They still did not impress us at all. Sigh. Their style and retro vibe is great, but their music doesn’t match the look. Added to the fact that we really don’t like their sound, they just seem really miss-matched which is pretty disturbing. After a few songs we headed off to Back2Basix to see what was going on there. It’s a tough life being Steve…