Ella Mental Acoustic Live at Triggerfish Brewery

ABOUT

Join us on Saturday 26th Jan at 20H00 to see two incredible artists are coming together to bring you a show that hasn't been done in the Cape for ages.

If you can recall watching Heather Mac was unlike watching any other lead vocalist of the time. Poised dramatically under strong lights that isolated her from the rest of the band, strong arm movements reminiscent of pre-war Berlin performance art, it was only her voice that kept on reminding you that you were actually listening to a rock band.

How it started

Tim Parr first spotted Heather Mac doing a cover of No Woman No Cry at a folk club called Mangles in Braamfontein in 1981. Tim had already tasted the rock star life with Baxtop, but that was now a thing of the past and he was looking at doing something else. Tim wanted to know if Heather was interested in singing a few songs he wrote. A month later, with Heather still doing mainly backing vocals, they tried out a few musicians like Robbie Whitelaw and Larry Friedberg but eventually settled on Punka and Gary Khoza from National Wake.Gary was committed, but Punka liked reggae more than EllaMental as he was replaced by Herman Eugster. Say hallo to the first incarnation of Ella Mental, surely the first South African rock group ever to be named after a D.H.Lawrence poem.

Tim and Heather will be performing

On the night

Tim and Heather will be performing an acoustic set featuring Ella Mental songs as well as some newer original material. Music will start just after 20:00 and we'd like to end food service before the start of the show.

Those who know Triggerfish will be familiar with our seating arrangements. We can't pre-book tables and seats are allocated based on your party size and layout. We have tables seating 6, 8, 10 and 12 and all seats have a view of the stage.

**No table reservations.

***Food to be ordered before 19:45 the show starts.

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