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Remember a while ago I mentioned 4AM's collaboration with CrashCarBurn to raise money for Rescue-SA? Well, it's finally here... The music video for Hold On!
Thursday, July 7, 2011
News From Die Heuwels Fantasties
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An Alternative Flavour At Huisgenoot Skouspel 2011
Die Heuwels Fantasties will be dusting off their finest suits to take their boundary-shifting sounds to the Huisgenoot Skouspel stage at Sun City on 8, 9, 15 and 16 October. Hunter Kennedy sums up the group's excitement about this honour by saying, "It feels like a dream! We can't wait!" DHF will also perform at SkouspelPlus at Grand West Casino in Cape Town on March 17, 2012. Tickets for both events are available at Computicket.
Ek Joke Net
Ek Joke Net is a modern candid camera movie at its best and can currently be seen on the big screen. Dries Scholtz from The Film Factory (who also produced Roepman, Bakgat! and Superhelde) needed a theme song for this film and they guys couldn't pass up on this opportunity. They roped in popular rapper JR to record the theme song entitled Ek Joke Net. "A beat, a few weeks and a joke later we made this song for him," says Hunter.
Listen to Ek Joke Net HERE, watch the trailer for the movie HERE and watch the music video HERE.
Huisgenoot Tempo Nominations
2011 has been a firecracker for DHF so far. They have re-written history books with their second album, Wilder As Die Wildtuin's success and they walked away with four MK Awards - to name but a few highlights. The group recently received two Huisgenoot Tempo nominations for Alternative Music Video Of The Year with MK for Noorderlig and Headshift Album for Wilder As Die Wildtuin. On July 19 we will find out if they will have to make more space on their mantelpiece for another award or two.
Catch Die Heuwels Fantasties Live
14 July: MK Sessions, Vryfees, Bloemfontein
31 July: Old Mutual Music In The Gardens, Pretoria Botanical Gardens
3 August: Hoërskool Diamantveld, Kimberley
15 August: Hoërskool Lichtenburg
20 August: Hoërskool Vereeniging
27 August: Hoërskool Malherbe, Port Elizabeth
17 September: Hart Van Windhoek Festival, Namibia
23 September: Vredefest, Cool Runnings, Fourways
24 September: Vredefest, Hatfield Square, Pretoria
8, 9, 15 & 16 October: Huisgenoot Skouspel, Sun City
21 October: Pendoring Awards
4 November: Parys Adventure Festival, Parys
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Ashtray Electric Introduces New Album
Ashtray Electric's new album, Measured In Falls was released in June 2011. The launch will be celebrated with a nationwide tour from July 15 -30 during which the band will be performing in Bloemfontein, Pretoria, Potchefstroom, Durban, Stellenbosch, Grahamstown, Port Elizabeth and East London.
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Winner of MK's Best Newcomer Award 2009 and voted to have the potential to be SA's next musical export, Ashtray Electric have been leaving their gutsy footprints at venues and festivals nationwide. Their music is laced with engaging melodies and packed with galloping riffs and attitude. Add to that their signature sleazy-slow-motion sexiness and you'll find this unique package of four musicians that have skillfully made their mark.
Ashtray Electric first unapologetically gallivanted onto the SA music scene three years ago. Their debut album, Bonjour received rave reviews from fans and media alike. Music journalist Atiyyah Khan commented: "Ashtray Electric is in fashion. They most certainly ignite something electric on stage."
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Measured In Falls introduces Ashtray Electric's new musical progression. It is not merely a collection of songs; it is an album in the full sense of the word. The new tracks are warm, luscious and extraordinary. The album contains 11 brand new tracks, as well as their popular single Release (with Gazelle) as a bonus track. Release enjoyed high rotation on 5FM and national campus radio stations and the video reached number one on MK.
The album cover shot features actual DNA strands of the band members. Each band member had the inside of their cheeks swabbed with an ear bud and the epithelial (skin cell) tissue extracted from each member was lysed (breaking down of the cell wall) to expose the entire genetic genome into the lysed material. The DNA was then purified from all other cellular bodies and amplified using PCR technology. Each sample of DNA was then cut using a cocktail of enzymes and run in separate lanes on an Electrophoresis Gell giving rise to the 4 smears witnessed on the image. The broken bands in the 5th lane is a simple molecular weight marker.
Ashtray Electric's tour line-up is as follows:
Saturday, June 11
Where: The Assembly, Cape Town
Time: 22h00
Cover: Limited presale tickets (R40) available at www.webtickets.co.za, R50 at the door
Friday, July 15 with Jack Parow and Frank Freeman
Where: MK Sessions at Vryfees, Bloemfontein
Time: 20h00
Cover: R60 at www.computicket.co.za
Saturday, July 16 with Wrestlerish
Where: Arcade Empire, Pretoria
Time: 21h00
Cover: R30 before 10pm, R40 after 10pm
Thursday, July 21
Where: Memphis Rock, Potchefstroom
Time: 19h00
Cover: R25
Friday, July 22 with Wrestlerish
Where: Town Hall, Johannesburg
Time: 21h00
Cover: R40
Saturday, July 23 with The Stellas and Scarlet Hill
Where: Unit 11, Durban
Time: 21h00
Cover: R40
Wednesday, July 27
Where: Klein Libertas Theatre, Stellenbosch
Time: 21h30
Cover: R40 before 10pm, R50 after 10pm
Thursday, July 28
Where: The Union, Grahamstown
Time: 20h30
Cover: R20 before 10pm, R30 after 10pm
Friday, July 29
Where: Raggies Bar, East London
Time: 21h30
Cover: R30
Saturday, July 30
Where: Pool City, Port Elizabeth
Time: 21h30
Cover: R30
Winner of MK's Best Newcomer Award 2009 and voted to have the potential to be SA's next musical export, Ashtray Electric have been leaving their gutsy footprints at venues and festivals nationwide. Their music is laced with engaging melodies and packed with galloping riffs and attitude. Add to that their signature sleazy-slow-motion sexiness and you'll find this unique package of four musicians that have skillfully made their mark.
Ashtray Electric first unapologetically gallivanted onto the SA music scene three years ago. Their debut album, Bonjour received rave reviews from fans and media alike. Music journalist Atiyyah Khan commented: "Ashtray Electric is in fashion. They most certainly ignite something electric on stage."
The album cover shot features actual DNA strands of the band members. Each band member had the inside of their cheeks swabbed with an ear bud and the epithelial (skin cell) tissue extracted from each member was lysed (breaking down of the cell wall) to expose the entire genetic genome into the lysed material. The DNA was then purified from all other cellular bodies and amplified using PCR technology. Each sample of DNA was then cut using a cocktail of enzymes and run in separate lanes on an Electrophoresis Gell giving rise to the 4 smears witnessed on the image. The broken bands in the 5th lane is a simple molecular weight marker.
Ashtray Electric's tour line-up is as follows:
Saturday, June 11
Where: The Assembly, Cape Town
Time: 22h00
Cover: Limited presale tickets (R40) available at www.webtickets.co.za, R50 at the door
Friday, July 15 with Jack Parow and Frank Freeman
Where: MK Sessions at Vryfees, Bloemfontein
Time: 20h00
Cover: R60 at www.computicket.co.za
Saturday, July 16 with Wrestlerish
Where: Arcade Empire, Pretoria
Time: 21h00
Cover: R30 before 10pm, R40 after 10pm
Thursday, July 21
Where: Memphis Rock, Potchefstroom
Time: 19h00
Cover: R25
Friday, July 22 with Wrestlerish
Where: Town Hall, Johannesburg
Time: 21h00
Cover: R40
Saturday, July 23 with The Stellas and Scarlet Hill
Where: Unit 11, Durban
Time: 21h00
Cover: R40
Wednesday, July 27
Where: Klein Libertas Theatre, Stellenbosch
Time: 21h30
Cover: R40 before 10pm, R50 after 10pm
Thursday, July 28
Where: The Union, Grahamstown
Time: 20h30
Cover: R20 before 10pm, R30 after 10pm
Friday, July 29
Where: Raggies Bar, East London
Time: 21h30
Cover: R30
Saturday, July 30
Where: Pool City, Port Elizabeth
Time: 21h30
Cover: R30
Old Mutual Music In The Gardens: 10 July
The Old Mutual Music In The Gardens Concert Series will host a line-up of phenomenal South African artists for the month of July. These concerts are suitable for the whole family. Come and enjoy a relaxing Sunday afternoon in a beautiful setting with Zebra & Giraffe on July 10 at the Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens in Johannesburg.
Zebra & Giraffe has enjoyed nothing short of a whirlwind journey of success. Their debut album Collected Memories produced top ten singles and achieved numerous number 1's on the biggest national and campus radio stations around South Africa. In 2009 they won a SAMA for Best Rock Album and an MTV African Music Award for Best Alternative, beating Coldplay and Green Day to this top honour.
After the successful release of their second album, The Inside in September 2010, Zebra & Giraffe began 2011 in fine style with the release of the second single, Terrified. The song reached the Top 20 on the 5FM Top 40 and number one on various campus stations. The band also scooped another SA first by filming a video for the song entirely on the iPhone4. The video also graced the top spot on the MK Top 10.
Known for their eclectic sound and great live performances, Zebra & Giraffe will be ready to deliver a magnificent show on Sunday.
Tickets are available at Ticketbreak from R80. Pre-sale at the gardens will be R90 and on-day sales at the gardens as well as Ticketbreak will be R100. Children under 13 enter for free. Gates open at 12h00 and the show will start at 15h00.
Facilities available:
Restaurant and tea garden available on site. Alcohol will only be available in the restaurant. The Kids Zone is available from 13h30 - 16h30.
Picnic baskets and blankets are allowed, but no glass, tin cans or cutlery will be allowed - please use plastic instead.
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Zebra & Giraffe has enjoyed nothing short of a whirlwind journey of success. Their debut album Collected Memories produced top ten singles and achieved numerous number 1's on the biggest national and campus radio stations around South Africa. In 2009 they won a SAMA for Best Rock Album and an MTV African Music Award for Best Alternative, beating Coldplay and Green Day to this top honour.
After the successful release of their second album, The Inside in September 2010, Zebra & Giraffe began 2011 in fine style with the release of the second single, Terrified. The song reached the Top 20 on the 5FM Top 40 and number one on various campus stations. The band also scooped another SA first by filming a video for the song entirely on the iPhone4. The video also graced the top spot on the MK Top 10.
Known for their eclectic sound and great live performances, Zebra & Giraffe will be ready to deliver a magnificent show on Sunday.
Tickets are available at Ticketbreak from R80. Pre-sale at the gardens will be R90 and on-day sales at the gardens as well as Ticketbreak will be R100. Children under 13 enter for free. Gates open at 12h00 and the show will start at 15h00.
Facilities available:
Restaurant and tea garden available on site. Alcohol will only be available in the restaurant. The Kids Zone is available from 13h30 - 16h30.
Picnic baskets and blankets are allowed, but no glass, tin cans or cutlery will be allowed - please use plastic instead.
Monday, July 4, 2011
Dance, Youʼre On Fire Secret Chiefs Winter Warm Up Tour July 2011
After the release of their debut album, Secret Chiefs in February this year, Dance, You're On Fire has been receiving rave reviews for their first offering to South African music appreciators.
This July they will be taking Secret Chiefs across the country on their Winter Warm Up Tour through South Africa. Be sure to catch them in a city near you!
Tour Line-Up:
8 July: Mr Price Pro, Ballito
8 July: Unit 11, Durban
9 July: Hatfield Square, Pretoria
14 July: Muso's, East London
15 July: Pool City, Port Elizabeth
16 July: The Mexican, Jeffrey's Bay
20 July: Memphis Rock, Potchefstroom
21 July: Barbas, Bloemfontein
22 July: Klein Libertas Theatre, Stellenbosch
23 July: Mercury, Cape Town
24 July: TBC, Cape Town
28 July: Tin Cups, Witbank
29 July: Stones, Edenvale
30 July: Arcade Empire, Pretoria
31 July: Botanical Gardens, Pretoria
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Their latest single, Michelle has been play listed on 5FM, KFM, Jacaranda and many more. Dance, You're On Fire will be launching the music video for the single at the end of July.
This July they will be taking Secret Chiefs across the country on their Winter Warm Up Tour through South Africa. Be sure to catch them in a city near you!
Tour Line-Up:
8 July: Mr Price Pro, Ballito
8 July: Unit 11, Durban
9 July: Hatfield Square, Pretoria
14 July: Muso's, East London
15 July: Pool City, Port Elizabeth
16 July: The Mexican, Jeffrey's Bay
20 July: Memphis Rock, Potchefstroom
21 July: Barbas, Bloemfontein
22 July: Klein Libertas Theatre, Stellenbosch
23 July: Mercury, Cape Town
24 July: TBC, Cape Town
28 July: Tin Cups, Witbank
29 July: Stones, Edenvale
30 July: Arcade Empire, Pretoria
31 July: Botanical Gardens, Pretoria
Their latest single, Michelle has been play listed on 5FM, KFM, Jacaranda and many more. Dance, You're On Fire will be launching the music video for the single at the end of July.
Wake To Wonder To Embark On European Tour
Local rock band Wake To Wonder will embark on a European tour on July 10, 2011. The band will perform in Estonia, Latvia, Germany and Finland during their 3-week tour.
The Vanderbijlpark band has enjoyed a rapid rise in popularity, both locally and internationally, over the last 18 months. They have featured extensively on South African airwaves and three of their tracks have been in the Top 10 of 94.7 Highveld Stereo's Homebrew charts - one of which spent 8 weeks in the Number One position. Their music video for Cold has enjoyed extensive airplay on MK and the band has features in numerous radio and television interviews.
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The Vanderbijlpark band has enjoyed a rapid rise in popularity, both locally and internationally, over the last 18 months. They have featured extensively on South African airwaves and three of their tracks have been in the Top 10 of 94.7 Highveld Stereo's Homebrew charts - one of which spent 8 weeks in the Number One position. Their music video for Cold has enjoyed extensive airplay on MK and the band has features in numerous radio and television interviews.
Wake to Wonder has toured throughout South Africa, and has appeared in numerous notable festivals, such as Seasons Wither and Aardklop. They have appeared alongside some of South Africa's leading acts, such as Fokofpolisiekar, Kinky Robot, Alter Irving and others. During 2010, the band established close links with the motocross racing industry, and particularly so with Tyla Rattray, a South African who became motocross World Champion in 2008. The band's growing exposure in this high-intensity extreme sport environment led
to rapid recognition in numerous international markets, including that of USA, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Latvia, Estonia and Finland. The band has featured in an extensive interview in Motocrossplanet, Europe's leading online motocross publication.
The 2011 tour will include 3 appearances at major motocross events, including at the Latvian Motocross Grand Prix. The band has been invited to provide the theme song for the 2012 German Motocross championships. This series is sponsored and run by ADAC, the German automobile association which has close to 20 million members.
The band has secured sponsorships form a number of international companies, including No Fear (USA), Ice Watch (Belgium), Beltiez (Germany) and Tytan Group (International). Negotiations are under way for the band to appear in the 2011 edition of The Great Outdoors, an extreme sports video produced annually in the USA.
The band's provisional tour program is as follows:
13 July – Adrenalin Arena (Estonia)
16 – 17 July – Latvian Motocross Grand Prix
23 – 24 July – ADAC Masters Event at Tensfeld (Germany)
29 July – 1 August – Headlining at the Faces Etno Culture Festival in Finland
Jon Savage Launches SA Music Industry Podcast
This week will see not only the launch of Jon Savage's new website, but he also launches his weekly SA Music Industry Podcast - a guide and tool to help South African bands, artists and industry people understand more about the music industry.
"I can't tell you how much I wish something like this existed when I first got into this industry. Every musician in SA knows that this is a gruelling industry, and in Cassette's life, we had huge ups and huge downs! When I look back now and see how we played the game and how we were a band, I wish there had been some sort of guide as to how to make your band work. I've only started to figure it out now!"
Each episode will be 30 - 45 minutes long and will be released every Monday morning on http://www.jonsavage.co.za/... for free! Some of the highlights include manager of The Parlotones, Raphael talking candidly about the methodology around the rise of The Parlotones, 5FM music compilers on exactly how they choose music for on-air, an interview with legendary photographer Ross Garrett, Red Flag's Caroline Hillary on mistakes bands make in PR and much, much more!
The podcasts will consist mainly of two elements: The first a candid interview with SA music professionals (Jon will look at the many different things that are going on in the industry) and the second a "demo crit". "Every week I get CDs from bands asking me to play their songs on my show. The good ones get on, a lot of them don't, and a whole stack of them go on my 'undecided' pile. For this, I will play a song from one of the bands on my podcast to whichever industry professional is in the studio with me. And they give constructive criticism as to why or why not they think the band will work," says Savage.
A podcast is essentially an Internet programme; they are generally free to download and even though we don't officially have a fully working iTunes in South Africa, you can download them from iTunes. All the links and information will be available on http://www.jonsavage.co.za/ under 'podcasts'. You can download a free programme from the site with a different guest every week - for free!
"In between the 20 or so top bands, there are literally hundreds of bands struggling to get their name out there. And a lot of the time - and I include Cassette in this category - bands are just making really bad decisions, unaware that many bands before them have made the same bad decisions! I think these podcasts will really help serious bands get ahead."
"I can't tell you how much I wish something like this existed when I first got into this industry. Every musician in SA knows that this is a gruelling industry, and in Cassette's life, we had huge ups and huge downs! When I look back now and see how we played the game and how we were a band, I wish there had been some sort of guide as to how to make your band work. I've only started to figure it out now!"
Each episode will be 30 - 45 minutes long and will be released every Monday morning on http://www.jonsavage.co.za/... for free! Some of the highlights include manager of The Parlotones, Raphael talking candidly about the methodology around the rise of The Parlotones, 5FM music compilers on exactly how they choose music for on-air, an interview with legendary photographer Ross Garrett, Red Flag's Caroline Hillary on mistakes bands make in PR and much, much more!
The podcasts will consist mainly of two elements: The first a candid interview with SA music professionals (Jon will look at the many different things that are going on in the industry) and the second a "demo crit". "Every week I get CDs from bands asking me to play their songs on my show. The good ones get on, a lot of them don't, and a whole stack of them go on my 'undecided' pile. For this, I will play a song from one of the bands on my podcast to whichever industry professional is in the studio with me. And they give constructive criticism as to why or why not they think the band will work," says Savage.
A podcast is essentially an Internet programme; they are generally free to download and even though we don't officially have a fully working iTunes in South Africa, you can download them from iTunes. All the links and information will be available on http://www.jonsavage.co.za/ under 'podcasts'. You can download a free programme from the site with a different guest every week - for free!
"In between the 20 or so top bands, there are literally hundreds of bands struggling to get their name out there. And a lot of the time - and I include Cassette in this category - bands are just making really bad decisions, unaware that many bands before them have made the same bad decisions! I think these podcasts will really help serious bands get ahead."
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