For those of you creative, mad, fun people heading off to Up the Creek Music Festival, remember to start building your floating masterpieces for the Lilo Anything that Floats competition. If it floats and its cool, bring it to Up the Creek!  Boats, lilos, inflatables, swirling zoos, colourful crates and balloon-driven-boudoirs - anything is welcome. Let your imagination go wild in creating the ultimate winning water feature.   Lilo is making a splash at this year’s UpThe Creek music festival. Literally! They`ll make sure you have a ball. Literally! They`ll keep you afloat on the river too. Literally! Lilo will be handing out lilo’s (jip, double take that) and beach balls at the festival. So you and your friends can float, play catch and make a splash. They are also running a super fun competition where you can stand a chance to win 2 full weekend tickets + a VIP paddle...

As a self proclaimed festival junkie, I rate my Up The Creek festival as the best party ever. Only at Up The Creek will you find yourself waist deep kicking it to a beat in the Breede River whilst two guys paddle past in a Victorian style bath tub. Ships Ahoy. Up The Creek, the best fun in the sun every year. See you there 2013    Matt Lotz . HUGE FAN  ...

The 4th Street sweet life is about being at places and being seen at those places, about good times, good tunes and good friends. That means any girl who knows how to live the sweet life will be making their way to Up the Creek this year. And just because you’re roughing it under the stars, it doesn’t mean you can’t live it up like the superstar you are. 4th Street brings you a few tips on how to make sure you have the sweetest camping experience. Location, location, location Get to the campsite early to pitch your tent where you can be seen, and where you can do major people watching. After all, that’s what the sweet life is about! Also, you don’t want to walk too far to get to the action. Comfort is king! Rocking up ready for the weekend, only to realise you forgot your tent, is...

It was at one of those stuffy, post-Christmas, post-New Year, post-anything-exciting family gatherings. My cousin, Katie, and I had snuck down to the swimming pool for a dip. She told me how excited she was for Up the Creek Music Festival and I told her how I wished I could go, but the bank balance of a student just wouldn't stretch the width of the Breede. That's when the clouds parted and the golden sun shone its rays upon me: My cousin offered to buy me a ticket! A few weeks later we were on the open road, blasting the tunes, cracking open our first beer and fast approaching the turn off on the R60.   We'd bought full weekend (Thursday - Sunday) tickets which meant we arrived before the crowds. To the river!" we cried, as soon as the tent admin was finished. We were by no means as...

At the moment you're either one of two people, you can't be both at the same time. You either have the Big Issue Collectors edition (on sale from vendors now) or you don't. If you're part of the latter group, when you find yourself in your car next make sure you hand over R30 to the vendor at a robot near you and ta-da you're now part of the first group.    With the Collectors edition in hand you can now enter the Up The Creek competition that Big Issue is running... Snap a photo of your magazine with something which or someone who means Up The Creek to you and send it via one of three ways: 1. Tweet it to @BigIssueSA and make sure you include #UpTheCreekCompetition 2. Post it on the Big Issue South Africa Facebook page. 3. Email it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  with the subject, Up The Creek competition....

Think you’ve got some good photos? Think 2 of them tell a great story? Want to see your story displayed on the stage screens at UTC2013? Well it’s simple…   Here’s how it works: -Choose 2 photos that you think tell a story about Up The Creek (no matter the year) -Send your photos to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by Friday 30th November.   The best ‘story’ portrayed by 2 photos will win a voucher for 5x Titanic cocktails that can be collected at UTC2013. *A winner will be announced on Tuesday 4th December.  ...