Good news folks Swing Cafe will be reopening soon!
We are for new friendly fun loving professional people to join our team...

If you think you would be suited to join the Swing team, please inbox me with your contact details & I will contact yo to set up an interview. :)

Charmaine Immink - charmaineimmink@yahoo.com

Graham Gillot Band” is a highly enjoyable Contemporary Musical Extravaganza performed by some of South Africa's top musicians: Graham Gillot, Duncan Combe and Jeane Combe. By combining catchy original vocal songs with virtuosic instrumental music, this act is defining its own sound.

The band captures the attention of its audience from the first note to the last, with its impressive original songs and surprising variety of style changes.

Classic original rock songs (a mix in the style of John Mayer, U2, Foo Fighters, Goo Goo Dolls and Bon Jovi) with vocals to match, are accompanied by the exceptional talent of guitarist Graham Gillot together with outstanding support from the rhythm section played by Duncan Combe on bass and Jeane Combe on drums.

Friday, July 8 at 8:00pm - July 9 at 2:00am

Line up: Wednesday 16th, Friday 17th & Saturday the 18th June 2011 - DJ Porky playing funky house beats! till late, free entrance!

Special for this week: Jose Cuervo Buy 2 for R22.00, Soco & Lime Shooter 2 for R20

Coming Soon: 24th June 2011 - Evolver 1 - R30pp

Swing Loyalty Cards now available! contact us for more info ....

Since getting together over a jam session at a military base in June 2004, Taxi Violence have gone on to stake their rightful claim as one of South Africa’s most prized independent rock acts, rocking crowds, winning awards and gathering a legion of ardent followers wherever their music is heard. With an attitude towards their music that shuns conventional record industry practices (sign to a major label, release an ...album, break-up), the band have managed to singlehandedly, and independently, achieve in four some years what a lot of bands don’t achieve in a lifetime, whilst still retaining their artistic freedom and integrity......

From the get-go, everything about this hard working rock band that hails from Cape Town has been stamped with a sense of the unique. Not content to follow the herd and belt out the popular sound of the day, Taxi Violence chose the path less travelled, adopting retro rock ‘n roll/ Southern swamp blues as their medium of artistic expression.

When the front covers of South Africa’s daily entertainment newspapers throughout three different cities announced the arrival of “The next BIG things!” early on in 2006, it was with a sense of uncanny prophecy, for in the months that followed, Taxi Violence would, through sheer dedication and solid musicianship, rise from relative local obscurity to being a band in national demand.

From radio to television and in print, Taxi Violence are that band whose songs take up welcome residence in your mind for days on end. Raw, unprocessed guitar, driving bass, powerful drum beats and in-your-face, yet melodic vocal styles are the fundamental elements that define the sound of Taxi Violence.

Live, on stage is perhaps where the music of Taxi Violence is best experienced. Regardless of whether playing all acoustic on stage in a small club to a handful of fans or at full throttle in a stadium to thousands, Taxi Violence’s music is a tangible force that is as palpable as fine Southern bourbon, and as equally intoxicating. No music festival in their home country has dared not have them appear somewhere in the better part of their draw-card line-up.

In boldly ploughing an independent route Taxi Violence have been an inspiration to a lot of new bands that seek to follow in their footsteps.

Taxi Violence is inspired by bands that created, shaped, or otherwise influenced the sound of rock:
Queens of the Stone Age
Future Sound Of London
The Rolling Stones
Jimi Hendrix
Led Zeppelin
Sonic Youth
Radiohead
Pink Floyd
Brian Eno
The Orb
Muse

Sounds Like: Interpol, Muse, Queens Of The Stone Age, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Wolfmother, Audioslave, Incubus, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Sonic Youth, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, AC/DC, The Killers, Iggy Pop and the Stooges,…Taxi Violence!

Righto! Cover-charge is set at R30 p/p and they kick off at 9pm!See More