Seether's Shaun Morgan live at Kirstenbosch Gardens

We arrived early enough to a sold-out concert and barely managed to find a patch of grass to rest our butts on. Overheard amongst the crowd were a couple of OZ and UK tourists. It's a known fact, Seether have made it big and done us proud. With the weather in our favour, the show kicked off with the all time classic “Gasoline”, followed by the equally brilliant “Fine Again”; In what can best be described as grunge acoustic in its finest form. Accompanying Shaun on stage was Garth McLeod on drums from popular Rock legend band Sugardrive. With the bass, cello and violin instruments lending to a more classic acoustic feel.

You have to love Shaun for his honesty and not letting the rock stardom go to his head. While changing
song and having to re-tune his guitar by ear, he openly admits that he's not good at it and usually has people who do it for him. A little comforting thought for us beginner guitarists out there.

Joining the band on 2 songs was the ever popular Inge Beckman, famous for her classical operatic voice, and also from the band Lark. After the intermission Shaun had the crowd on their feet as he belted out a brilliant cover version of the song “Nothingman” from Pearl Jam. Wow- so glad I got to see that bit.

All in all a fantastic show. With 2009 marking Seether's tenth anniversary a new release seems imminent. If you're a fan like myself, keep up to date by visiting their official site at www.seether.com. Thats all from me. Rock on!

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