'So, what have you heard about Oppikoppi?" I ask Narch, Mike and Disco of Cape Town-based rap-electronic outfit PH Fat. It's four o'clock on a Sunday afternoon and it's their first time at Africa's biggest rock festival. It's my first time too, except I've already been in camp for two days and have the dirty boots and hangover to prove it.

"Uh, we heard it's really dusty and cold. The messiest, biggest festival in South Africa," Mike, or maybe Narch, says. "We heard it gets messy in a brandy and coke kind of way," Narch, or maybe Mike, adds. "And that everyone shouts 'Oppikoppi' a lot," they finish.

~ Nechama Brodie

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