Monday Morning You Look So Fine: Springbok Nude Girls

Something strange I realised at this year's Oppiaarde fetsival in Potchesfstroom... my memories of the Springbok Nude Girls go back quite a long way, yet I had never photographed them live, until that night. Arno (the bass player, not the singer) wanted to know if there was a way that I could get all five members in a shot doing what they do best in one way or another... not exactly the easiest thing to get right on a stage the size of the one they were on, but I remember being quite windgat to Wynand once I got the above shot. Another good moment of that night (and I only had three songs to get anything) was the fact that Arno (the singer this time) was rocking it in black jeans and a tee and running shoes; not as suave a figure as he cuts when onstage with his solo project, but a big part of what always appealed to me in the case of the Nude Girls: that "I-could-care-less" attitude.

That attitude seems to be held by some of their fans as well though... while refreshing myself on the lyrics of a song that always used to stick in my head (and a true crowd pleaser live) I had to wonder: are there not some mistakes in these lyrics?

" We're gonna grow you up slowly
We're gonna chain you steal
Sand in the hand
We'll tell you in the end
Nester things and slumber
While I feed my arms for love murder..." - Springbok Nude Girls

Later.