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Gunshot Blue + Bachus Nel + Tea & OrangesFriday 6pm Sowaar Bar, Pretoria

Tea & Oranges are an Indie/ Alternative Trio from Pretoria featuring Jaco Mans (Tidal Waves, Die See, Coelecanth) , Dominique Dicks & Dylan Thomas Graham (Die See). Somewhere in the soundscape of a Tarantino or David Lynch film, you’ll find some of their inspiration there.

Bacchus Nel is not just a poet, singer and songwriter. He’s a storyteller. It might be his painfully dry wit that cracks like a whip. It might be his unasuming authenticity. It might be because he’s “…a dark man under the midnight moon”. To quote from “where the dice falls”. Bacchus has released 4 albums up to date: Die Arms Van Die Nag, Tussen Junk & Jewellery, Twee Ster Hotel & Ou Blou Skoene. Listen to his latest EP “Vaalrivier” (released in 2023) on all major Digital streaming platforms.

Gunshot Blue is the fermentation of many uniquely different, yet strangely familiar stories, distilled, steeped and soaked in myth, legends, folklore and tradition. A hypnotic blend of gentle folk and psychedelic infused blues that occasionally meets the explosive high energy, electricity of rock and roll head-on. The band was forged on the road, playing many a bar, restaurant, hotel, museum, backpackers, lounge, fundraiser, birthday, park, holiday resort, barbershop, biker rally, music festival and even a prison. Gunshot Blue is not just a spirited live performance. Gunshot Blue is a rousing psychoactive baptism.