Splashy Fen’s more than just a lineup of bands in a glossy program. It’s a quarter-year escape from the world. A no-questions-asked opportunity to just untie, unplug and go feral. It’s an adventure.

The 20th addition was no exception and I quote Yusuf Laher who wrote:” Splashy Fen 20, just like the nineteen before it, was always going to be the weekend the earth stood still (and stupid)”

Here are some pictures of this awesome festival:

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All roads lead to the southern Berg this Easter for the annual Splashy Fen Music Festival, which is geared up to celebrate its 20th ‘Big Splash’ with a fantastic four-day programme of more than 90 live acts on two stages. 

Supported by East Coast Radio and Tourism KwaZulu-Natal, the festival is held near Underberg and runs from Thursday, April 9 to Monday, April 13.

Acts to look out for include Goldfish, Watershed, Syd Kitchen, Dan Patlansky, Squeal, Sugardrive, Hot Water, City Bowl Mizers, Stealing Love Jones, Tony Cox, Nibs van der Spuy, Chris Chameleon, Madala Kunene, The Rudimentals, Shawn Phillips, The Simon van Gend Band, Cofield Mundi, The Arrows, Avatar with Steve and Tara Fataar, Napalma, Guy Buttery and Sheep Down.

But music isn’t the only reason to get to Splashy!  Other draw cards include a host of fun outdoor activities for the whole family – from swimming, tubing and fishing in the river or dams to hiking, paintball, horse trails, nature walks and visits to nearby tourist attractions, as well as a full children’s entertainment programme and crèche run by Ocean View Montessori School.  A new annual tube race will also be introduced this year, and people are encouraged to bring along tubes and other inflatables.  Prizes will go to the winner and the most imaginative entrant.

For more info visit : Splasy Fen

Versus, is one of the sponsors at Splashy Fen which is South Africa’s longest-running annual music festival, and will have a hospitality tent near the secondary stage.

We invite festival goers to send their best photos of 2009 Splashy Fen Music Festival.

Send us plenty of pics of you and friends enjoying Versus wines, and you stand the chance to win great prizes.

First prize is enough Versus wine for a year. There are also a number of Versus hampers as consolation prizes.  Email info@thecompanyofwinepeople.co.za with Versus/Splashy Fen in the subject line to enter.

For more info and the competition rules visit: Splashy Fen / Versus Competition

From its early beginnings back in 1990, Splashy Fen has evolved into one of South Africa’s premier music festivals which nowadays sees thousands of people making the annual pilgrimage to Underberg in KwaZulu-Natal for what is regarded by many as the ‘ultimate outdoor experience’.

Over the years, this much-loved festival has built a strong reputation as being a financially viable, responsible and well-organised event that continues to reinvent itself so as to stay relevant. Although continuously adapting to changing trends, Splashy Fen has nevertheless managed to retain its unique character and appeal; that special ‘something’ – the people, the vibe, the sense of family – which has allowed it to endure for nearly two decades to become the longest-running music festival in the country

The 20th Splashy Fen Music Festival from 9-13 April 2009.

Versus  is one of the sponsors at Splashy Fen and will have a hospitality tent near the secondary stage.

 For more info visit: Splashy Fen

Join the 2009 Splashy Fen Facebook Group:  Splashy Fen Facebook Group

First there was David Hasselhoff, then Chuck Norris. Now everyone is talking about Vernon Koekemoer.

Vernon Koekemoer, who sports some rather unusual fashion items, has shot to virtual stardom after a photograph of him at a Boksburg party was posted on the Internet.

Versus, is one of the sponsors at Splashy Fen which is South Africa’s longest-running annual music festival, and will have a hospitality tent near the secondary stage. SA’s muscular marvel, Vernon Koekemoer, will be a special guest in the Versus tent on Friday 10 April. Be sure to participate in the Vernon look-alike competition, and also have your picture taken with him.

Meet Vernon Koekmoer

Vernon Koekemoer makes onions cry

Vernon Koekemoer can delete the Recycle Bin.

Ghosts are actually caused by Vernon Koekemoer killing people faster than Death can process them.

Vernon Koekemoer can build a snowman….. out of rain.

Vernon Koekemoer can strangle you with a cordless phone.

Vernon Koekemoer can drown a fish.

When Vernon Koekemoer enters a room, he doesn’t turn the lights on, he turns the dark off.

When Vernon Koekemoer looks in a mirror the mirror shatters, because not even glass is stupid enough to get in between Vernon Koekemoer and Vernon Koekemoer

Brett Favre can throw a football over 50 yards, Vernon Koekemoer can throw Brett Favre even further.

The last digit of p is Vernon Koekemoer. He is the end of all things.

Vernon Koekemoer does not know where you live, but he knows where you will die.

Bullets dodge Vernon Koekemoer

A Handicap parking sign does not signify that this spot is for handicapped people. It is actually in fact a warning, that the spot belongs to Vernon Koekemoer and that you will be handicapped if you park there.

The Vernon Koekemoer calendar goes straight from March 31st to April 2nd, no one fools Vernon Koekemoer.

If you spell Vernon Koekemoer wrong on Google it doesn’t say, “Did you mean Vernon Koekemoer?” It simply replies, “Run while you still have the chance.”

Vernon Koekemoer can do a wheelie on a unicycle.

Once a cobra bit Vernon Koekemoer’ leg. After five days of excruciating pain, the cobra died.

When Vernon Koekemoer gives you the finger, he’s telling you how many seconds you have left to live.

Vernon Koekemoer can kill two stones with one bird.

Vernon Koekemoer was once on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune and was the first to spin. The next 29 minutes of the show consisted of everyone standing around awkwardly, waiting for the wheel to stop.

Leading hand sanitisers claim they can kill 99.9 percent of germs. Vernon Koekemoer kills 100 percent of whatever he wants.

There is no such thing as global warming. Vernon Koekemoer was cold, so he turned the sun up.

Vernon Koekemoer can set ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night.

Vernon Koekemoer has a deep and abiding respect for human life unless it gets in his way.

It takes Vernon Koekemoer 10 minutes to watch 60 Minutes.

Vernon Koekemoer once shot down a German fighter plane with his finger, by yelling, “Bang!”

In an average living room there are 1,242 objects Vernon Koekemoer could use to kill you, including the room itself.

Behind every successful man, there is a woman. Behind every dead man, there is Vernon Koekemoer.

Vernon Koekemoer destroyed the periodic table, because Vernon Koekemoer only recognises the element of surprise.

Vernon Koekemoer got his drivers licence at the age of 16 Seconds.

With the rising cost of gasoline, Vernon Koekemoer is beginning to worry about his drinking habit.

The square root of Vernon Koekemoer is pain. Do not try to square Vernon Koekemoer, the result is death.

When you say “no one’s perfect”, Vernon Koekemoer takes this as a personal insult.

Source: thetimes.co.za

After a long night of dancing and partying at the hottest nightclubs, especially if you like to let loose Studio 54 style, there’s nothing worse than having to walk home in the high-fashion heels or stilettos that you started the evening with. Fashionable and convenient vending machines popping up all across the UK to give club goers (and those suffering from other emergency shoe dilemmas) the convenience of comfortable shoe dispensing when they need it most.

 In the spring of 2008, Japanese sports brand Onitsuka Tiger placed its first automated selling device on one of London’s high streets to bring the convenience of sneaker dispensing to the public, without ever having to set foot inside a store. The Onitsuka Tiger shoe vending machines fit 24 pairs of shoes, which retail for the equivalent of $60 to $80 USD. The sneaker vending machines continued their journey around the UK to bring convenient dispensing of their six sizes of trainers to vending machines around the UK.

 Do you think this idea will take off in other countries – on campuses and outside clubs?

 Source: inventorspot.com

Valentine’s Day can be so predictable. A card, a fancy restaurant and a red rose…

Maybe this year it’s time to surprise your Valentine with something unconventional. Here are a few tips:

1. Love notes

Go back to the basics by ditching SMS and e-mail for the day. Prepare love notes or quotes (see below for a few ideas) and jot them down on these pieces of paper.

Now trace his/her steps for the day, and at each stop, arrange for someone to deliver the notes. Think: One under her door in the morning, at the breakfast table, one for each lecture (you can be brave and ask an actual lecturer to give it to her) etc.

The second to last must have directions to where he/she can meet you – and the last one you deliver yourself can say “I love you”… trust me, they’ll believe you this time.

2. Balloon tied to radio aerial

This is good one if you want to be a anonymous Valentine. If you want to break the secret mms a picture of a balloon (form your phone) later that day.

3. Write her/his name on the black board before one of her classes

This may take some planning, but it possible. The quicker way is to make a small poster and just paste it on the board.

4. Candle light dinner – the student way

Ask him/her if you can collect their dinner for them from the res dininghall.

Set up the candles on the blanket outside. Every campus has an open field or lawn…it’s time you used it!

Once they start wondering where their food is, they’ll call or SMS you – that’s when you send the directions to your romantic set-up!

You could perhaps pick some flowers along the way (make sure you don’t get caught), or even ask him/her for a dance beneath the stars!

Tell us about your unconventional Valentines Day

Tell us about your original / unconventional Valentines Day plans and stand the chance to win a wine hamper (to be share with your Valentine, of course)

Leave a comment or e-mail versuswines@gmail.com

Valentine’s quotes:

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.

- Albert Einstein

A kiss is a pleasant reminder that two heads are better than one. – Anonymous

Are we not like two volumes of one book?  ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.  ~Swedish Proverb

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.  ~Robert Frost

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.  ~Voltaire

Source: studentvillage