JHB South East - Sep 2020

Wish list
Are we going bright for Spring? Hell yes!
Dreams, drugs and stardom
make for one helluva tale
Have you heard of the British band Utopia
Avenue? ? Don’t worry ... neither had we. Made
up of folksinger Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean
Moss, guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet and jazz
drummer Griff Griffin, who were part of London’s
psychedelic scene in 1967, and who created a unique
sound, with lyrics that captured their turbulent times.
The band produced only two albums in two years, but
their musical legacy lives on.
And this is their story. One of
a brief, blazing journey from
Soho clubs and draughty
ballrooms to the promised
land of America, just when
the Summer of Love was
receding into something
much darker. It’s a multifaceted
tale of dreams, drugs,
love, sexuality, madness and
grief, of stardom’s wobbly
ladder and fame’s Faustian
pact, and of the collision
between youthful idealism
and jaded reality as the
sixties drew to a close. It’s
a story that celebrates the
power of music to connect
across divides, define an era
and thrill the soul. Hodder &
Stoughton, R355
Dinner from a tin
If you’re anything like us, you’ve gone through your regular recipe
books a few times during this lockdown period ... so meal options are
getting a little tired. Add to that the dilemma of how many times you
should be going out grocery shopping, and suddenly dinner’s a palaver.
Hello Take One Tin. A collection of quick, versatile meals, straight from
the storeroom cupboard, with just a couple of added ingredients that
you’ve probably got on hand anyway. We admit, we were sceptical
(thinking baked beans on toast), but Lola Milne has given us recipes
for sweetcorn cakes with green chutney, flageolet bean and artichoke
gratin, peach mango and passion fruit pavlova. Recipes you can cook
every day ... and ones that won’t break the bank. Bonus ... less food
wastage and fewer trips to the store. Great stuff. Octopus, R340
Even a Spring
shower won’t bring us
down ... we’ll whip out our
Tropical Tangerine umbrella.
R621 from rosehipdesign.co.za
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