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From The EditorYou Look Like You Could Use A Little Volume...The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Still in FruitThe Red Hot Chili Peppers - Still in FruitRoyally Bangin'Royally Bangin'Lenny Kravitz: 'Cos It Doesn't Matter If You're Black Or Whitejezebel's VPL: Hey Meister!Terminatryx: Iconoclasts In AfricaTerminatryx: Iconoclasts In AfricaMark Haze: South Africa's Next Rock Idol?Deity's Muse: Decade of DestructionThe Wild Eyes: Fun (E) Spelt Backwards Is (E) nufThe Wild Eyes: Fun (E) Spelt Backwards Is (E) nufInside The Machine: Music NewsInside The Machine: Music NewsJazz Legend: Moreira ChonguicaTribute: Jane Marie ScottNew AlbumsNew AlbumsGame ReviewsVenue Guide & Live EventsVenue Guide & Live Events
t what point do we as part of the South African media stop whitewashing our beloved music industry and start asking some hard questions about the state of things here?
Now clearly our mission statement at Muse Magazine has always been to promote music in South Africa, first and foremost by
creating a platform for bands and artists to be featured and to promote their albums, tours and generally raise their collective profiles. In so doing we also have to be mindful of remaining interesting in what we write so that you, our beloved readers, don’t find us boring and pointless. This in itself can be a challenge, trust me.
Even on the international front there is a serious shortage of newsworthy misfits to interview about wild antics and crazy rock ‘n roll mayhem. Okay sure, Amy was a wild-child but I kinda felt sorry for her. She never looked comfortable in her own skin. But who else?
The Red Hot Chili Peppers [our cover feature] are all grown up and whilst they’re still a bunch of mad characters and a formidable group of performers, if you watch the series of interviews we’ve put together @ museonline.co.za you’ll soon see the clean cut Anthony Kiedis and Flea talking about their new album which is great, but not the wild crazies of yesteryear. To be honest RHCP deserve to be clean and responsible these days – they’ve certainly paid their dues and given the music press years of great stories!
Now don’t get me wrong – I’m not advocating drug-fuelled mayhem by local bands – that would be, ahem, erm... irresponsible of me? But what I am saying is that there is a serious and worrying sense of predictability and responsibility that belies what crazy creative music is all about and with that we, the music fans, are being left with more and more homogenous, too well planned radio music that just sounds so done!!!
It’s not just the bands in SA that are playing it too safe though. It starts with the crap on the radios – even college radio stations all sound the same – and the major record labels who have no real clue how to deal with the modern business model of how to sell music. So they simply stick to the safe and tried formula to eek out the last drop of revenue from an ever shrinking money pot. You will find it said within the pages of this here edition of Muse, not by me, but by band members (The Wild Eyes) and journos (Eliza Day) – music is being made to sound like something successful and not being made to sound like a mad collective of creative force.
So where does this leave us? Well, last summer saw the music festival season really flourish attendance wise – but the one thing the promoters will no doubt find challenging this year – booking enough interesting and diverse bands that don’t all sound the same or sound like something already done!
‘Cos let’s face it... the fans are going to start looking for their entertainment elsewhere.
Or is it just me that’s missing something?
Dave Mac
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EDITOR’S NOTE
A EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS:Feature Writers and Columnists
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Mickdotcom – Features WriterStrange he may be at times but that’s why we love him so. Mick has an extraordinary talent with words and an even more extraordinary taste in music. He brings a much needed eccentric edge to MUSE.
jezebelWordsmith and worldwide wanderer, jezebel now makes her home between the lines, writing for print and pixel. She enjoys dissecting the arts and their contribution to (sub)culture(s) as well as encouraging critical inquiry into everyday existence.www.wwwordup.blogspot.com / www.facebook.com/jezebellll
James Rose-MathewForever roving around UK and Europe, the restless James has an eye for a good story and an ear for good music. Whether he attends a massive electronic outdoor festival, or the heaviest of heavy metal shows, you can be sure James manages to somehow balance his mind between having the party of his life and actually getting the story.
Hugely passionate and equally adept we always look forward to his next venture abroad as he give us the lows and highs of some of world’s best indie artists around today.
Kurt Slabbert – Play Better Guitar Kurt completed his studies at the Guitar Institute in London in 2003, and moved back to SA to take up a teaching post at COPA. He also runs his own production company called Bluenoise productions that writes for radio and television. He currently plays for Sama nominated band, Jam, on Tuesdays and does various live sessions and studio work. Kurt endorses line 6 gear. Check out www.bluenoise.co.za and www.realguitar.co.za
Alistair Andrews - Play Better BassAlistair is a professional bass player, music technologist and producer. He specialises in 6 and 12 string bass (preferably fretless). He has performed with international greats such as Phil Driscol, Efrain Toro, Alvin Dyers, Winston Mankunku, Merton Barrow, Errol Dyers,
Robbie Jansen, Harold Jephta and many more. He also lectures music technology with one of Africa's top Jazz and African music programs at The University of Cape Town. Alistair endorses WARWICK Basses and strings, MEC pickups, SWR amplification and DIGITECH effects. He also runs the high-tech & digital section at Paul Bothner Music. Http://www.alistair.co.za
Jonathan Pike - Your Private UniverseJonathan currently works as an Audio engineer and instructor at Cape Audio College. He has also in the past managed a theatre and worked as a Lighting and Sound engineer at the University of Kwazulu Natal Pietermaritzburg.
Alan Ratcliffe - Software Reviews & TutorialsAlan is the author of the Electric Guitar Handbook
and is busy writing a book entitled Hotrod Your Electric Guitar. Find out more about him at www.ratcliffe.co.za or discuss all things guitar with him at www.guitarforum.co.za
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COLUMNISTBy Eliza DayPhoto: Valentine Celliers
YOU LOOK LIKE YOU COULD USE A LITTLE
VOLUME...
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When did hanging around outside on the pavement become an option?
ou know you’re bored of unusual little drum rolls with your pen been around for ages but the your company when you and Google pictures of very big cats, I performance was damn cool and start noticing split ends in have been trying to do something proves there is still a high standard in your f r inge and are different and go places for different SA music without a doubt. The set the combing them out all over sonic experiences. It’s a bitter pill to DJ played afterwards was practically your face and lap. Or when sometimes swallow but I figure feeling worth going for in itself. Give me some you blink one eye at a wall out of place like a douche is better than psychedelic rock and roll and I’ll dance and then the other, just to sitting at home and wishing I’d made till dawn. Says a lot about me and how get a different perspective the effort while listening to Grinderman open I am to innovation, doesn’t it?
of whatever you’re looking at. 2 on repeat. I believe in dissidence to keep the Personally, the music scene in SA Most recently I went to a DJ set in strong, strong and the fire alive in
has become a little dull. The company Cape Town where the vibe was hard everything, especially music. However, of some of my most favourite bands 80’s anthems remixed. I’m sorry. I did I don’t think this is the case with SA over the years is still there but what else dance. I didn’t mean to but it was funny. music. I think it’s all a little wishy-washy is there? If I really think about it, I haven’t For five minutes. Sometimes I feel like and has no significant direction as to been introduced to anything new or the music at clubs is just elevator music where it’s going or what they are trying exciting to emerge from the industry to those inside getting wasted and to do. It feels copied and characterless the entire year. Usually I’m the one looking to get laid. The night ended at times and could do with some radical amongst us who is always optimistic to early and felt like a waste of time. intervention. say the least about local bands and Before that I’d gone to a couple of With the festival season fast sure, there is a lot of music coming out fairly underground events where the approaching (I can feel it. My bones of the culture but I feel like the glitter of beat was mostly commercial hip-hop, tingle) I hope to feel rejuvenated after creativity is waning. Now, I’m looking at 90’s ecstasy inducing club crap and this dreary winter of soupy music the line up for the weekend and well... then occasionally with some sincerely experiences. I’m not going to be will it be a case of showing face so as interesting dance tracks. I felt weird, checking the polls to see who’s in the not to be boring or will it be boring to imagined my face gave away my running for Daisies or anything else. simply show face? feelings as it always does but still had a See what happens and hope to be
Disjointed as our music scene is little jam on the dance floor and left surprised. Perhaps summer can and disappointed as those may feel, I politely. produce something new, hard and solid am not one to just bitch and complain Paying a trip to Durban a couple of that kicks us in the face and stops the because I only watch the same three weeks ago did leave me feeling slightly dialling tone.bands every month. So, just as when more optimistic after watching Tumi you are bored at work and start doing And The Volume at Unit 11. The band’s
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RED HOTCHILI
PEPPERS: Still in Fruit
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COVER FEATUREBy James Rose-Mathew
he Chili Peppers have been mapped onto so many recollections ubiquitous sound of Dani California (the around for as long as I have from days gone by. Some examples - group's fastest selling single), which for walked the Earth. 28 years. my first true rebellion in the face of that me now smacks of resignation. The They have not only survived psychic nightmare called High School track was the new big thing on the but indeed thrived through was soundtracked by RHCP amongst airwaves as I was squaring up to the thick and thin. Their history others: bunking school for the first time frighteningly wide world of career reads like the Shakespeare of to go watch the Beavis and Butthead prospects, adult responsibility and that
rock ‘n roll drama and they reside movie, the Peppers' Love Rollercoaster rest-of-my-life post-graduation feeling. comfortably alongside the likes of the championing my defiance in the dark And then the soundtrack stops. Rolling Stones, Metallica and Motley theatre. I hooked up with a lady or two at After a world tour supporting the Crue in the pantheon of rock royalty. house part ies, a l l nerves and sprawling record Stadium Arcadium,
Upon receiving this assignment, a excitement and clandestine alcohol the Red Hot Chili Peppers decided to flood of memories from my past arose consumption, where the Chili's most take an indefinite hiatus, spurred on that have had the Red Hot Chili Peppers o u t s t a n d i n g r e c o r d t o d a t e partly by bassist Flea's desire to get trademark sound stamped into them. It Californication seemed the only album some perspective away from the band, ended up feeling rather strange to take anyone cared to listen to. My first year citing that it had become something heed of the fact that many noteworthy post-matric - spent waiting tables, living dysfunctional, and the group's general moments in my history, swirling in dingy digs, pounding the unknown exhaust ion from near-constant somewhere in my grey matter, are streets of a new city and smoking recording and touring. It's been half a moving in rhythm to the funk swagger copious amounts of dope - everywhere decade since the last album and it's of the Chili Peppers. seemed to vibrate to that year's By The interesting to look at what each member
I'm not even that into the group and Way. embroiled themselves in while away yet their energy has been forever Fast forward to 2006 and the from the RHCP behemoth.
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COVER FEATURE
“Flea has spoken out about the album being a marked departure from previous outings whilst retaining the fundamental Chili Pepper magic.”
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Naturally, making music remained a Yorke's solo project when it finally marked departure from previous pivotal aspect in most of the band's time blossomed into a riveting live act, outings whilst retaining the fundamental apart, the only exception being vocalist eventually dubbed Atoms for Peace and Chili Pepper magic. He's gone on record Anthony Kiedis who spent the lion's performing a landmark show at the stating that he feels like this new music is share of his free time concentrating on Coachella Festival in 2010. comparable to what the Rolling Stones raising his son as well as developing a The mos t i n te res t ing did with Exile on Main Street. television series tentatively titled Spider eventuality of the hiatus was the Klinghoffer has been described by his and Son for HBO, loosely based on his departure, for the second time round, of new bandmates as a very textural, 2004 best-selling autobiography Scar guitarist and, many consider, musical sublime and poetic musician who has Tissue. shaman of the group, John Frusciante. been instrumental in creating their new
Drummer Chad Smith appears to He decided to leave the band in order to offering, bringing with him a distinctive be a machine, and one that has been again concentrate on his solo work. This voice and tone.p r o g r a m m e d t o b a n g d r u m s sparked debate amongst fans as to the And so it is that soon there will be a relentlessly. In his time away from the future of the band since its widely new soundtrack to swirl into my Chili Peppers, he has appeared behind recognised that Frusciante brought to memory as its fairly certain that the the kit of a number of outfits. Black the RHCP a particularly potent elemental album will be placed onto heavy rotation Sabbath bassist Glenn Hughes force. The album recorded during his around the world and will work its way employed Smith's stick-work on first sabbatical from the Peppers is into the landscape of some aspect of my numerous solo outings. In 2008, he regarded as their weakest effort to date. life that retrospectively will feel formed a jazz inspired improvisational In the time since his departure, he has markedly apt and oddly comforting.funk-rock group humorously titled Chad released a solo album, worked with The Check out a video interview with Smith's Bombastic Meatbats, which to Mars Volta, kick-started an electronic Anthony Kiedis and Chad Smith as they date has released two albums. He beats band called Speed Dealer Moms, explain the initial writing process and the skins in supergroup Chickfoot, a released several highly experimental Josh joining the band. I'm With You - band filled to the brim with talent in the works with Omar Rodriguez-Lopez [The coming 30 August 2011.guise of Joe Satriani and Van Halen's Mars Volta] and guested on numerous Watch the video on your phone by Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony. recordings. s c a n n i n g t h i s t a g o r g o t o Smith recorded drums for the five time For a time it appeared that the Red www.museonline.co.za to watch on Grammy winning album Taking the Long Hot Chili Peppers tenure as one of the your computer.Way by the Dixie Chicks and cut a world's most highly regarded bands children's album with Dick Van Dyke and might be coming to an end.Leslie Bixler which has recently been However, Kiedis and Flea were named the all-time favourite children's adamant that the Chili Peppers still have record by MTV. something to say musically and decided
Flea, who many hail as one to continue working on material. They of the best funk bassists alive, unable to announced that long-time friend and rest on his laurels, decided to enrol f r equen t RHCP s ideman Josh himself in a university music course, Klinghoffer would be taking up guitar studying music theory, composition and duties. Rehearsals and recording began jazz trumpet for a full year in an effort to in earnest and now the RCHP's have a greater understand his craft and unlock new album in the bag, called I'm With new possibilities in his playing. He found You, and set for imminent release. Flea time too to perform bass duties in Thom has spoken out about the album being a
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWBy Craig Wilson
Royally Bangin’
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Guitarist Sam Stratton has come a long way since joining Royal Bangs, an indie rock three-piece from Knoxville, Tennessee. More specifically, he’s gone a long way – all over the world, in fact. The band
has had three albums, as many labels, and more than a little good fortune along the way. We tracked down guitarist Sam Stratton between European shows for a little insight into how this American,
garage rock band have gone from intimate club shows to international tours.
oyal Bangs’ f i rs t that is so outmoded now has played City Slang, which also released the album came out on such a relevant part in this band's life.” bands’ debut in Europe the year after independent label Stratton says he thinks the main its launch.Audio Eagle Records. reason Audio Eagle Records is no Ci ty Slang specia l ises in Home to on ly a more is that “Pat was busy kickin’ ass distributing North American bands in handful of bands – in The Black Keys. He's a hard worker Europe, including the likes of Arcade most of them from and a good friend of ours, but it's hard Fire, Calexico, SA’s own Dear Reader, Ohio – its claim to to be the overseer when you’re Nada Surf and The Notwist. It seemed fame is that it was overseas. He helped us in a huge way a great fit for Royal Bangs’ sound and
founded by Patrick Carney of The and still continues to give us advice. ethos, so I ask Stratton how the label Black Keys. Carney signed Royal Patrick, like us, wanted the band to get ended up picking up Royal Bangs’ Bangs after hearing them on the now bigger. He's the one who suggested debut for the European market. “We’d antiquated, and largely abandoned, Glassnote.” driven up to NYC to play a showcase MySpace. Glassnote Records, home to at the Cake Shop during CMJ. It was
I ask Stratton if Carney really Mumford & Sons, Two Door Cinema really wild – everyone was trapped in found the band online? “Yes, he Club, and the solo efforts of Bloc this cramped, drunk basement by a contacted us through MySpace. We Party’s Kele Okereke, released Royal major downpour. I think it was the first sent our album to Audio Eagle Bangs’ third album, Flux Outside show our fourth, and last, bassist because Houseguest, another band (reviewed in Muse - Jun/Jul ’11 played with us too. The owner of City on the label, had played in Knoxville. Edition), in March. Their second Slang was there and really liked it and It's strange to think that something album was released by German label offered us a deal.”
Arguably, despite having a smaller getting larger and when we're home band just wants to keep touring, keep stable of artists, Glassnote is even the audiences at local shows seem to reaching more listeners, and keep better suited to Royal Bangs’ sound. I have doubled in size. There are more pushing themselves as musicians.ask Stratton what prompted the band’s festivals than there used to be. I want Finally, before letting the guitarist decision to sign with them? “They to believe that more people are going get ready for the evening’s show, I ask came highly recommended, they were out to shows.” him which single band he would small, they were experienced, and With the current culture of iTunes choose to listen to for the rest of his life they were genuinely sincere about singles and piracy debate I’m curious if forced to. I’m pleasantly surprised giving us creative control over our as to whether the Royal Bangs think it when, contrary to my classic or music,” he explains. “I'm sure that it more prudent to focus on singles or psychedelic rock expectations, he was the best decision we've made. The albums... “It's always more important simply says: “Sly & the Family Stone”.team is amazing and the president, to focus on albums,” says Stratton Perhaps in honour of the favour Daniel Glass, is a great human being.” seriously. the service indirectly did the band in its
One of the peculiar perks of being We talk about the stresses of early days its MySpace is still going – a band that’s doing well is that your touring, but Stratton downplays the complete with the novel genre idols suddenly become peers. I pressures of seeing his band mates description of “Japanese classic wonder aloud if any of Stratton’s almost every waking moment. “It's not music/ showtunes/western swing”. musical idols proved to be somehow hard. We've been friends for so long Make no mistake, Royal Bangs rock, disappointing in person. “No, not yet. and we know each other way too well.” however you choose to describe it. I Soon. All the successful musicians This intimacy seems to carry over to think it’s safe to say we’ll be hearing a we've met have been painfully decent, the bands’ performances – polished lot more of them in years to come. I, for so it's been a little frustrating. We but constantly reworking and fine- one, am delighted.haven't given up hope though,” he tuning. laughs. Stratton suggests that it carries Watch Fireball from their latest
Royal Bangs’ most recent release over to the songwriting too. He says album on your phone by simply was produced by Dave Fridmann, a the band generally writes the music scanning this tag...former member of Mercury Rev and collectively, with vocalist and multi-producer for all of their albums and all instrumentalist Ryan Schaefer writing but one of the Flaming Lips’ releases. all the lyrics.Fridmann has worked with legendary Flux Outside is certainly Royal independent artists like MGMT, Low, Bangs’ most successful album to date. Sparklehorse, Clap Your Hands Say I ask Stratton what the benefits are, if Yeah, and many others. any, of having a few albums beneath
I’m curious as to whether one’s belt before achieving a major Fridmann asked to work with the band breakthrough, as opposed to sudden or vice versa. “We definitely asked to and early success?work with him. He's been one of our “I don't know, we never had heroes since high school. He was sudden and early success”, he laughs. brilliant and very comfortable to work “It seems like it would have been with. We'd love to work with him awesome, but I can't say that I'd again.” change anything we've done. Things
Or go to www.museonline.co.za I ask Stratton if he thinks are going well at the moment, but we to view online.audiences for l ive music are are thinking about what's next.”
decreasing, increasing, or neither? “It's Next? “I hope we can do one hard for me to get a good perspective album per year and we are putting out on it. The audiences at our shows are some remixes soon.” Stratton says the
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FEATUREBy Sergio Pereira
H
Lenny has been a modern day prophet
of the power of reinvention…
‘COS IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU’RE BLACK OR WHITE…
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aving sold over 35 million adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ novel, The from his youth. “A lot of this record seems albums worldwide, received Hunger Games. to be influenced by what I was listening to 4 Grammy Awards, and quite in junior high and high school. Soul, R&B, often touted as the sexiest bands like Earth, Wind and Fire, Quincy rock star alive, Lenny Kravitz Jones productions like the Brothers
At 15, Lenny was already harbouring is somewhat of a living Johnson – these were the type of records
hopes and dreams of becoming a rock star legend. Over his 20-year that taught me so much about producing
and let nothing stand in his way as he left musical career, Lenny has and arranging music."
home, slept in cars, slept in friends’ cars, transcended genre, style, Although, it’s a rather used and
a n d e v e n r e c o r d e d a n a l b u m race and class to dabble in various abused cliché by musicians, Lenny does
independently when the labels told him his influences of '60s and '70s soul, rock and believe that Black and White America is his
music wasn’t “black” or “white” enough. funk. most seminal release. "I think it's the best
Perhaps, this race issue is one of the work I've done to date," he says. "It’s a
reasons why his ninth studio album, Black great balance of where I’ve been, where I
and White America, is so personal and am and where I am going.”
Whether he is summoning the duelling dear to Lenny, as he recalls his own family He adds that he feels this album to be
crunchy guitar spirits of Jimi Hendrix and history and the experiences of his parents a celebration and “anybody listening is
Chuck Berry on Are You Gonna Go My as an interracial couple in the ‘60s. "People going to feel it and be uplifted by the spirit
Way, grinding down his best Joan Jett used to yell obscenities and spit at them," of the music.” Come the end of August, the
impersonation on American Woman or he says, "and this was in New York City, not fans will be the judge of that. Personally,
even turning down the lights on the piano- in the South. So it's about me personally we hope that Lenny delivers another love
driven I’ll Be Waiting, Lenny has been a and about the situation with race in this revolution...
modern day prophet of the power of country. Maybe we are beginning to move To watch Lenny's new video for Stand
reinvention. on, but there's still a lot of people who want from the forthcoming album Black And
Much like Madonna or David Bowie to hold onto their old ideas."White America out in August go to
(one of his influences), his uncanny knack Even though the topic of racism is www.museonline.co.za or scan this tag to
of knowing when and how to redefine has one usually associated with anger and watch it on your Smartphone.
been one of the keys to his staying power sadness, the tone of Black and White and importance in both the pop and rock America is that of faith and hope, music circles. Undoubtedly, this coupled according to Lenny. “This world is a with his gift of being able play a multitude challenging place. The interesting of instruments has only facilitated his dynamic is when you are in the middle of numerous evolutions, as he not only looks chaos and you are able to find inner peace. good onstage – but he is also a true I choose to remain optimistic, even in the musician who knows what he’s doing. face of negativity and destruction.”Also, just like the Material Girl and Ziggy Stardust, Lenny has proven that his creative skills aren’t just limited to music, as he has appeared in the Oscar- Recorded in the Bahamas and Paris, Lenny nominated film, Precious, and has just admits to the music of his new record been cast in the role of Cinna in the film being inspired by the original influences
Coming Full-Circle?
A Modern Day Madonna
Another Love Revolution?
Hey, Meister! muse | sixteen
COLUMNISTBy jezebelPhoto : jezebel
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This baby's got the blues, Pop(pie), which is probably why she's smiling. To her, jezebel's VPL is a Vibrant People List. Pretty on
point, she proves it by being one herself, and that individual interpretation counts more than a metronome.
A girl with a guitar is one thing; halfway to maestro is something to sing about.
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es, Natasha Meister is shy, but Good feeling? So did you learn to play guitar before she has guts and good sense you learnt to drive?Definitely, they really followed me - they and man can this woman sing. paid attention. I haven’t jammed as much Yeah! At 13 I started; my dad taught me. At a less-than-legal 20, she as I’d like to with local musicians. There’s has her own solo album out a lot of shyness, and insularity with And he and your mum brought you to and a quiet, can-do attitude bands. I don’t know what it is, maybe it’s South Africa in 2008. that keeps her in fine a comfort thing; you're doing your own First we were living in Wilderness – company. So why, then, is she thing and you know it’ll be fine, but if singing about not wanting to you’re with another band, and something Soft landing.
be alone anymore? goes wrong… but once you go out there Yeah, that was really quiet; but I was like,' it’s so much fun. this isn’t actually working for me.' So my
Real life and true love come up in your parents moved to Cape Town, they knew lyrics often. Do you ever question the Out there… like Dubai with Jump Media, my music was very important to me. My themes you return to? Jimmy Thomas (who sang with Ike dad would come with me, downtown, I’ve been song writing for the past year Turner and recorded with Rolling and I felt like such a loser; but we didn’t and a half, so I guess the easiest subject Stones)and Michael Roach (who taught know anyone, and he said it wasn’t safe. is love, or feelings - emotional stuff. I’ve by Robert Lockworth Jr., taught by We would walk past places, walk in, and never written about anything political. Robert Johnson aka the ‘founder’ of tell them hi, I sing, do you have an open
blues). Wow. But was it weird in that MIC? synthetic, desert city?Bob Dylan sang about everything from It took me a while to feel comfortable; Hurricane to his breakfast, and he was Just like that? Or did you sing in Canada they are all guys; all older than me. It pretty political. before that? was a little scary, but they took care of Now is the time I need to start taking risks My sister and I started singing in church- me, and we got to know each other . with my song writing, and stop writing gospel music. I was six and she was They didn’t put themselves higher than about love. I guess I’ve just come out of nine. Then in senior homes, senior people me, they made me feel quite comfortable my teenage years, I just wanted to write seem to really enjoy young people. in that way. Even in my own headspace, I about me, but after that, it’s …how does felt a little intimidated, I remember putting the world feel... so that more people And you enjoy older ones. Your band myself down for some reason. I was relate. members, for example. kinda emotional. On a musical level we click. They’re
Speaking of relating and risk taking, almost twice my age. Sometimes I think Pressure does that. The feedback from you've jammed with Dan Patlanski. Tell young people in bands are mostly in it for the promoter was positive, though; the us! fun; I suppose that’s fine, but … word used was 'professional'. Not bad It was at Die Boer. During sound check for a beginner! we worked out two or three numbers - Most of those ones fall away. And the It’s a learning experience, being on the just covers - so we knew the songs, but music remains. road. his band was so tight, they worked it out It’s good to have fun, but it’s important to
first time. be serious.
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FEATUREBy James Rose-Mathew
TIconoclasts in Africa
here is an unfortunate wide range of genres with a flavour that South African showcase. They were one dearth of truly unique is very rare on the local scene. of only 4 bands invited. They have since bands in South Africa. It Paul says of the project, “it's an been invited to play at a number of SA's would appear that despite acquired taste, simply because it doesn't finest alternative festivals such as this country's 'rainbow slot neatly into the local scene” but its Ramfest, Noisefest and Metal4Africa's nation' affectation, the continued success and persistent Summerfest; as a live act, rounded out m u s i c s c e n e i s presence can be put down to the groups on stage by Ronnie Belcher on drums nevertheless filled to the 'stubborn' artistic vision and the fact that, and Patrick Davidson on guitars. brim with insipid rip-off as Sonja points out, they “just do it for Terminatryx is a very fluid beast and has
outfits doing their damnedest to imitate themselves.” Further, “we come from appeared in multiple guises over the the rock charts and each other. very diverse musical backgrounds, so years. Sonja explains that this allows
So often an evening out watching when we came together it was inevitable them “to slide into any kind of vibe and live music will end up feeling like a single that the sound was going to be work any crowd.” It’s this malleability song stuck on repeat. Diversity and something original.” This attitude of not that has seen them on some distinctly originality do not appear to be sought- pandering to an audience has clearly peculiar line-ups, alongside rockabilly after traits for an up-and-coming band worked wonders as Terminatryx has an outfits for instance, yet, as Patrick points and it’s a somewhat tragic state of affairs. illustrious history that only a handful of out, “they are great to play, as you find a Trying to pluck names of groups on the local bands can match. more open minded crowd and get circuit that buck the trend is quite a task Their very first gig, back in 2003, surprisingly positive feedback and and the list is woefully short - Lark, The was a support slot for renowned different perspectives on the show.” Wild Eyes, The Great Apes, Mr Cat and Darkwave outfit Diary of Dreams on their However, one drawback that Paul the Jackal, BLK JKS, Die Antwoord and SA tour. This fact alone cements the elaborates upon is how the band have Terminatryx are the ones that band’s unique standing in the industry been consistently limited by a lack of immediately spring to mind. but their achievements continued to facilities in local venues – “Terminatryx
Terminatryx, brainchild of Paul Blom mount over the years. Terminatryx also has always been a very audio/visual and Sonja Ruppersberg, are a performed as openers for VNV Nation, experience and we've got fantastic video particularly interesting example because one of the world's premiere EBM bands, feeds that sync with the music but have they've had incredible longevity in a as well as for Sheep on Drugs and Sigue found that venues simply don't cater for notoriously fickle local industry, one Sigue Sputnik's very own Martin Degville it.” It’s a shame considering how where when tastes change, bands once when he toured these shores recently. cinematic their sound can be and, in a popular can simply evaporate. They have featured notably over UK wider sense, as it ought to be a priority
Terminatryx began operating airwaves, garnering a slot on the bastion fo r venues to ca te r fo r such almost ten years ago and have of hard-rock reportage Kerrang Radio. performances and local bands could up maintained a unique position in the In 2006, the band was invited to their game if given the appropriate alternative music scene, straddling a perform at Berlin's PopKomm as part of a forum.
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Terminatryx have released a single critically acclaimed self-titled album and are currently working on a very ambitious, pioneering remix album. They have roped in the likes of Battery 9, NuL, Axxon, The Awakening, Mr Sakitumi, Sheep on Drugs and Martin Degville to reinterpret their catalogue. Paul says that the project is mostly complete and he is thrilled with the mixes that have been delivered, ranging from avant-garde renditions through aggrotech, dance and acoustic versions of the signature Terminatryx sound.
Also recently released from the band is a polished music video for their single Virus. Produced exclusively by the band and directed by Paul himself with the help of a number of generous and extra talented friends, the video is a superbly crafted horror-themed showcasing of their look and sound. Replete with its professional creature make-up and high production value, the video has been requested for screening by the Sci-Fi London Film Fest and EerieTube.com and has become the first South African music video to feature on LoudTV.net. They have also turned out an extended short film version of the piece.
Paul and Sonja have also both been instrumental in fostering the alternative scene in a unique and positive fashion. They have birthed numerous independent film festivals - a perfect platform for the weird and wonderful gems that seldom find their way to the mainstream - X Fest, Celludroid and Horrorfest have become fixtures on the calendar for many. Paul compiled the first-of-a-kind compilation album Kopskoot! - An Afrikaans alternative album from South Africa's finest. They also spearheaded a fascinating group called the Makabra Ensemble, consisting of Paul and Sonja along with members of Lark and various other musicians, who each year create a live soundtrack for classic silent horror films such as Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and Maciste in Hell at their annual Horrorfest. They have also taken this intriguing performance group to SA's largest rock festival Oppikoppi.
Terminatryx's strength lies in their iconoclastic tendencies and pioneering spirit, pleasing themselves artistically first and foremost and it has resulted in many important highlights within the South African alternative scene. There is little doubt that Terminatryx will continue to break new ground for a long time to come.
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FEATUREBy Sergio Pereira
Mark Haze South Africa's Next Rock Idol?
A
I may be a rocker, but I’m first and foremost a musician…
“Isn’t he the dude who used to sing for Flat Stanley?” “No, bru, I’m sure he was in One Day Remains.”
year ago, this was normally also found himself dealing with the would take care of everything, which could the kind of argument that whacky to the just plain indecent. possibly leave the artist in a bit of a rut people would have when “Many…oh so many! From marriage should taste change. With the invent of the they ’d see Mark Haze requests to band requests to hilarious digital age, artists have to not only performing with his band, things, like, "Please come sit in my room, perform, but also get involved in the 12th Avenue – yet now, after so I can stare at you ‘til I fall asleep". It business end of the music.”his participation in this year’s comes with the territory, though,” Mark edition of Idols, the Top 15 laughs, before adding that a grown man contestant is a pretty well- has also requested for him to sign his ass.
The one topic that we cannot avoid is the known name to many South Africans.
future of 12th Avenue should Mark win Chatting to Mark, I ask how he’s adapted to
Idols. Many have predicted that the band the almost instant fame and fan
As expected, Mark’s appearance on Idols will end, if Mark is crowned the winner. recognition. “Pretty well, so far. Without
has brought the wrath and criticism of the Mark, however, denies this, and says, the fans, you're nothing. So I know and live
rock elitists, who feel that entering the “12th Avenue will always go on. I started by that. The fact that people want to speak
competition isn’t really rock ‘n’ roll. “You the band and have no intention of stopping to me confirms that I'm doing something
call them elitists, I call them snobs,” Mark it. The great thing about this band is that right,” Mark says.
smiles. “Don't get me wrong - not all rock we've become brothers. They support me Nonetheless, it must feel strange that
enthusiasts are like this. There are just a in this.”he’s been in the music game for a decade
few out there who feel that if you don't play Finally, I have to ask Mark if he plans now, but is only really getting a lot of
rock, you suck. I may be a rocker, but I’m on becoming a “Bieber” or a “Daughtry”, if attention after his Idols experience. “Not at
first and foremost a musician, and that he wins the competition. “Daughtry from a all,” Mark states. “I knew what I was
means I love and appreciate all forms of musical perspective, but Bieber has more signing up for - bands need to work really
music. People need to realise that just ladies screaming for him and he has way hard to get recognition. There are times
because they don’t like a certain style, that better hair,” Mark jokes. “I reckon I have when you find yourself in the right place at
doesn't make it bad.” some thinking to do (laughs). Seriously, the right time, but most comes down to
Perhaps, this is intertwined with the though, I wouldn't necessarily follow any having the right team and straight-up hard
general misconception that professional particular artist's route. I like to think that I work. I have the team and the business
musicians are still earning millions of have something unique to offer.” Keep it know-how, so all I need is the exposure
dollars from album sales? “The general real, Mark, because, remember, Louis and insight from the best in the biz. From
public tend to think that we just sit around, Gossett, Jr. is watching you...then on, it's all about delivering the goods,
get wasted, do a show here and there, and being an artist, and hoping that fans will
live off the royalties,” Mark laughs. “It’s so For more information on Mark Haze, go to relate to me.”
much harder than you think! This is a full- www.markhaze.comWith all the good attention, Mark has
time job. In the old days, record labels
The future for Mark and 12A
Elitists or snobs?
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FEATUREBy Sergio PereiraDecade of Destruction
S We're not trying to be commercial or follow what other bands are doing…
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o, what do you do after you’ve Suddenly, bassist Alvin Boucher survived 10 years in the South springs to life for the first time (and only African music industry, whilst time) in this interview, puts his burger never compromising on your down, and declares, “I’d like to see hard rock/metal-in-your-face bands writing music that they want to approach? Well, if you’re hear and not following what’s popular Deity’s Muse, you go to a overseas. We’re always 2-3 years Samba café for some burgers behind, it seems; and bands are w i t h a c e r t a i n m u s i c copying each other and too many
journalist, who is always keen to unite rock bands sound exactly the same. I’d like with food; it is the true way of the to see guys come up with their own Defenders of the Faith, after all. style of rock and metal.”
Wayne adds, “I’d also like to see more professional venues. Like they do overseas, maybe they should be Sitting across from me, vocalist/guitarist, auditioning bands before they get onto Wayne Boucher, looks rather peaceful – a festival. That’s another thing: all these despite recently quitting his day job to day festivals, they’re just getting too pursue his rock ‘n’ roll dreams full-time. much. Everyone is having a festival Considering we are in South Africa, where nowadays. You have 5 bands on the bill rock isn’t exactly the number one - or even and you call it a festival – it’s number two - genre of choice, I would’ve ridiculous.”expected him to be a long-haired, goateed
version of Stressed Eric. “No, not really,” Wayne when it comes to business laughs. “I’m actually so between two people, it has chilled; it’s ridiculous. to help both sides. We’re The money thing is a bit advertising for them, and of a worry, but, at the they’ll be doing the videos same time, I don’t really for us.”care much about money. Sharing burgers and If I cared about money, I dirty Shania Twain jokes, would’ve been doing you cannot help but sense pop songs. I’m happy an air of realness to this that I’ve done it. I’ve band. They know they’ll already seen interest all never be selling a million over the place, just albums, yet they’re just because I’ve been more wanting to rock without a hands-on with the band. reason. I think, deep down, I don’t regret it at all. If we can all appreciate this you want to do this remarkable and sincere properly, you have to do celebration of complete it full-time.” freedom.
It’s quite interesting that Wayne mentions For more information on money, because I also Deity’s Muse as well as point out to him that some free MP3’s for your Deity’s Muse have existed for the past iPod, go to www.deitysmuse.com. Scan decade without any form of assistance Celebrating their anniversary, Deity’s this tag on your phone to check out their from labels, whereas most bands Muse haven’t exchanged diamond rings videos celebrating 10 years of rocking would’ve said eff this and quit long time and loving vows, instead they’ve released out!!!ago. So, what’s been the success to their their third studio album, New Trends in longevity? “The main thing is making Slavery, and decided to ambitiously music that you want to hear. We’re not release 10 live music videos over 10 weeks trying to be commercial or follow what via their YouTube channel. A project of this other bands are doing. We’re doing it for magnitude must cost a few pennies, so ourselves,” Wayne affirms. “We’ve also which bank did they rob? Wayne explains kept it as a three piece, which is always how they made this video project happen.easier to control.” “Through friends of ours, who used
to be in a band, but broke up, and started their own multimedia company. All we’ve done is approach them and “you scratch Having seen the changes in the industry our back, we scratch yours”. Obviously, since the turn of the century, I ask what they’re charging us for it, but we’re getting Deity’s Muse would like to see happen in it a lot cheaper than anyone else. Basically, the local music scene in the future.
Sticking it to the Man
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Kill The Clones
muse | twenty four
INTERVIEWBy Eliza Day
D“Fun (E) Spelt Backwards Is (E) nuf.”-Nikhil SinghThe Wild Eyesoodling whilst waiting for the night since they began but it’s clear “I guess I agree,” I think, “it’s just a rehash the three members of The that they only really work when all three of something done before but this time Wild Eyes to arrive to of them are there. with severed limbs.”meet me for our interview Gareth: “it’s this thing that we’ve got “Gareth coined the word,” Nikhil at Royal on Long Street where when one of us is out of the explains about the title of their EP, “It’s a was probably the best picture, it’s not The Wild Eyes. Each of us taboo against the symbol and it’s way to anticipate what can work on our own but even if it’s just occurring quite a lot in popular culture. happened next. When I the two of us working together it’s a The swastika has been around a lot looked up from my sketch completely different thing.” longer than the Germans have. There’s book, three illustrations “Like the Unholy Trinity?” I ask. They no reason why it should carry this taboo.
by John Galliano back from a bender for all stare at me with wide eyes. “We like What it really is, is a form of rebellion. It’s the Brothers’ Grimm had sat down at my that!” yells Len. like saying the swastika is pretty hot right table. Waiting on beers and braying about So what about Swastique? There’s now, we like it and it’s a rejection of four tracks, I prepared to ask my first already been some controversy amongst taboo... it’s really old. It comes from question about where this cultish trio had fans of the old stuff that The Wild Eyes ancient cultures that don’t exist been and why they were back in Cape have totally changed their tune not to anymore.”Town with their long awaited EP, mention swapping all their instruments Len: “It’s kind of weird for me Swastique. for a strange setup of SPD 20’s, a Slim because what I got out of it isn’t what you
The last time we saw them around Phatty, a Microkorg and other toys. Now guys are explaining at all.”these parts they were doing something of the title of their new release connotes Gareth: “He (Len) built a Nazi an indie, pop punk thing with Len anti-Semitic evil? They deny both submarine.”Cockcroft on drums, Gareth Dawson on accusations saying they’re still doing “Yes I did,” says Len proudly. “What bass and noise and Nikhil Singh doing what they were before, making music it (Swastique) was for me was when we vocals and playing guitar. They come they feel like making. There’s no real first got talking about it, it was about pop from the early 2000’s clique that change in that way and as Len says, they culture, about underage kids watching consisted of Inge Beckmann and Markus didn’t go electro because it’s hot right horror movies and the wealth of MTV and Wormstorm to name a couple and now. “We just get really fucking bored at black people eating at McDonalds. The somewhere during their proclaimed self the drop of a hat,” says Nikhil and Gareth disgust.”destruction after their album, Our Love agrees saying, “we’d forgotten the old Gareth: “It’s about taking it back into Has a Special Violence, they split up. songs and didn’t feel like playing them pop culture rather than it being Gareth went back to the UK, where he anyway.” What about direction? “There’s something that carries weight.”tells me he spent part of his earlier life no direction,” laughs Nikhil, “We make it Len: “It’s the glamour in 2011 that is squatting in a burnt down warehouse up as we go along, including lyrics.” so disgusting that it’s beautiful.”with his dog Chester trying to get TV My mind goes back to when I saw a Me: “Like post pop art?”reception. Len went to the desert and recent gig of them playing a song called “Popped art,” says Gareth, to which found snseJ while Nikhil went North (to Chainsaw in My Lover’s Hands. The Nikhil and I both shout, “POP TART!” London) and sent his latest creation, Taty enigmatic macabre atmosphere of this Gareth nods and sneers, “Children to the West. front man somehow makes me think it playing with My Little Swastika.”
They came back because, well they would be perfectly logical that his chosen Nikhil: “we’re not Nazis. Because I just came back... like a brain tumour lady friend would be into the darker side would be dead by now.”intent on changing the dull thought of S & M. Yet Nikhil insists the song is to Gareth: “Yet we are totally amongst pattern of South African music. The weird do with his obsession with 50’s and 60’s ourselves fascists.” magic of The Wild Eyes has been pop songs and how they were always All of them: “Fascists!”enthralling all the beautiful creatures of about getting together and breaking up.
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INTERVIEW
If waiting around for something exciting to happen to Cape Town is 'Fun(e)', I'm with The Wild Eyes. Welcome home boys.
It’s obviously just a bit of tongue in cheek radio friendly fraudsters, “Whether Watch the Wild Eyes’ brand new jest from these gauntly glamorous artists people like us or not, we don’t really care, v i d e o Va m p i r e Ra d i o o n y o u r which to be honest, is so great when Cape we just wanna be what we wanna be,” he Smartphone by scanning this tag or go to Town seems to have lost its sense of smiles. Nikhil feels it’s stopped being www.museonline.co.za to watch on humour down the arse end of Evol’s [local about the music here, “We’re just pushing computer.venue] couch. The good news is that boundaries to better ourselves as there are more creative folks out there musicians. Sure, we’re a parody but who are producing amazing things. Take because that’s just what we like.” Jenna Bass (also the creator of Jungle Jim The night went on and the stories magazine) who did their most recent and opinions that came out of the three video for Vampire Radio. It’s a straight up led me along moonscapes covered in pop video shot in the negative; a brilliant golden spiders, smacked up ballerinas and simple visual answer to their musical and a sweet ‘Fuck you’ attitude to the concept. world of commodity and those too boring
Their opinion on music in South to consider something different. Africa right now? Len reminisces about The EP will be available to download the old days of the underground music soon and I can’t wait as I feel these are the scene before social media blew up and glittering beginnings of a bloody fairytale everyone got a little too professional. where a war wages toward innovation Gareth comments on how it’s become a and the real artists will live happily ever commercial push to improve your after.lifestyle as a musician by selling out to
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You reading this magazine proves t h i n g w e something to the people who made it. really need – Apart from the Dave, like bands, we all money. We have day jobs. This column reaches for can’t challenge an industry that’s still learning how to the limits of inside scoops and news, but run.we can’t tell you everything. If we could, Patti Smith’s words, ‘we created it now let’s destroy we would. Backstage stories and the real it’, need not apply. We have bands, venues and a media. sex, drugs and rock and roll is saved for But we need lawyers, associations, guilds – cogs that early mornings in bars between the make any industry possible. And we need to tell kids, the
people who are in neck deep. Unfortunately... future fans and bands. Part of our duty is to report what goes wrong to If you like what I’m saying and anything in this issue,
ensure it doesn’t happen again. For example, when a give it to someone who might be interested, but venue spends fifty grand to put together a show and wouldn’t necessarily pick it up. If you have anything, tell something goes wrong, the damage causes a loss of the me: [email protected]
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MUSIC NEWS Inside
SAMA nominee has returned from The National Arts Festival in Grahamstown with a Standard Bank Silver Ovation Award and just released an album, Six Winters. According to the producer Dan Roberts, the biggest difference between this album and the last, is the lyrics. You can read our album review on Pg. 34
Laurie Levine
Headline Artists is on a quest to help bands elevate the quality of their product, with a new 3 month programme called The Headline Artist Boot Camp – and no, it’s not taking place in a forest. Originally for musicians, it also seeks to recruit managers, publicists and agents. Prominent industry insiders Brain Currin and Sean Wienand will be covering topics such as: industry entities, business models for bands, recording contracts, potential revenue streams marketing initiatives and technological developments. For more info: [email protected]
Pretoria based are hosting “A Series of Free Audio and Multimedia Workshops” with the purpose of creating a tighter community among artists. Founder Jacob Israel has invited several professionals from all over to offer talks on various topics. Most of the talks are recorded and available online from their Facebook page, where you can find more info, studio photos and rumours of sister projects starting in other cities.
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Cape Town have opened another shop in a basement in Oranjezicht called The Blue Trommel Basement, where they claim to keep all their “more valuable and collectable records”. The two-roomed basement shop has wide selection of rare LP’s, 10” albums, 7” singles, 12” maxis, rare CD’s, international and SA pressings sold which they sell on eBay to private collectors from all over the world. Viewing can be done by appoint only. You can contact Jacques or Stephen on + 27 (0) 21 423-7635 or by email: [email protected].
frontman Bruce Dickinson has been awarded an honorary degree for his contribution to music. He was given the title at London’s Queen Mary University, where he originally studied history in 1979. Bruce is currently taking his band on tour piloting a Boeing 757 – dubbed Ed Force One after their signature poster demon, Eddie. Check online for more dates, and while you’re at it, email Bruce an invitation to come to South Africa.
are making us an offer we’d be crazy to refuse, by selling copies of their debut disc On the Edge online, and letting you decide how much you want to pay. The four piece Afro Pop outfit from Durban, who have already played East Coast Radio with their happy go lucky fusion of Maskande and Jazz-Rock, recently won an online contest at weloveyoursongs.com for unsigned bands. The first prize ticket to the Future Music Forum, hosted in Barcelona in September doesn’t come with petrol money… but the band have come up with a novel way of raising the funds. You could very well play a direct part in the success of a band overseas, as well as making a worthy addition to your CD collection.
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MUSIC NEWS
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Grammy winner Swedish pop rocker is trotting the globe recording a new album in every Red Bull Studio that exists. He recently visited Cape Town’s Red Bull Studio and did a music video here. He’s currently busy with the long journey back home. In a recent interview he recalled meeting legendary funketeer Prince during his trip: “he’s the fucking coolest guy ever, dancing like crazy, playing guitar, you know, and the songs and the vocals. I don’t know how you can top that really”. www.redbull.co.uk
have announced a new album Th1rt3en set for release in November. According to online reports, the new songs see them moving in a new direction. www.megadeth.com
After a four year hiatus have released a reunion single online, Up All Night. The song will most likely be added to their set for an upcoming Honda-civic sponsored tour with My Chemical Romance on 5 August. No official launch dates have been confirmed for a new album, but they are recording it. www.blink182.com
plan to record a fourth album in September with Theo Crous at Bellville Studios. It will be the first time the band is in studio as a proper four-piece. The album follows an unsuccessful second album and a third that surprised fans with an uncalled for cover of the 80’s pop song Maniac. What to expect? god alleen weet. But to put a foot in the mouth of critics, the band have launched their Wie’s Bang? campaign leading up to the launch. Various artists are busy designing posters. Francois, if you’re reading
this, you know where I stand with you and what I have said in the past. Just give us balls to the wall, something you claimed i n a n i n t e r v i e w w h e n y o u f o r m e d K a r t e l . www.vancokekartel.co.za
Ex-Blur and Gorillaz frontman has confirmed plans for a new album in the Democratic Republic of Congo in collaboration with Oxfam – who will possibly receive proceeds from the project. Albarn aims to finish the project within a week’s time. Going with him is a team of producers, artists and indie rockers Franz Ferdinand. We’re all waiting to hear about plans for the reunion of Blur. Members Graham Coxon and Dave Rowntree stated in an earlier interview on the possibility of a new album.
will be releasing an LP later this year, titled Hunter. In a Rolling Stone interview their singer claimed it will promote public stripping and drunken behaviour.
As much as Norwegian’s are notorious for Black Metal, their Swedish neighbours are known for their uplifting music. Acts like ABBA, The Cardigans and The Hives to mention a few. One of the best bands the Scandinavians
gave us is – a four-piece pop punk outfit who started their careers in skateboarding. Their most well known album, Pennybridge Pioneers, is a celebration of skating and it’s the closest you’ll ever come to feeling the stoke of kick-flipping down a twenty stair set. Listen to: No Cigar, A-Ten
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JAZZ LEGEND
“I'm just a musician and I see it this way, I make music and play the sax. You choose to call it Jazz I say okay.”
eeting up with Moreira Chonguica at a trendy coffee shop in the heart o f A r t C e n t r a l i n Kloofnek, Cape Town he greets me with a ready and sincere smile; “Hello”, he says, a hint of Portuguese in his
accent. He is Mozambican born and a celebrated Saxophonist – a SAMA Award winner for ‘Best Contemporary Jazz Artist 2009’ and nominated for ‘Best Producer in 2007’.
As we get into the flow of the interview which instantly takes the relaxed form of an easy conversation, I get to know a highly intelligent and philosophical man. His confident demeanour and stylized approach in answering my questions reveals an insight into his most invaluable years of life and industry experience. The same year he was awarded his first SAMA in 2009, he received two of the highest honours in his home country. Radio Mocambique [the nation’s largest radio station] voted him ‘Cultural Personality of the Year’ and readers of ‘Jornal Noticias’ [leading Mozambican magazine] also voted Moreira as “The Best of 2009”alongside President Guebuza and the Mozambican Football team – The Mambas.
Moreira conceptualizes, develops and maintains community initiatives in both Mozambique and Cape Town, with the sole purpose of bringing music to schools and children. These children would otherwise not have been exposed to the culture and beauty of making or being a part of live music production and appreciation, specifically Jazz and the saxophone.
With his music he aims to create a niche for the ‘fresh ear’. I ask him which elements in production he incorporates to career since he graduated from UCT, career that shifts from one glorious high get exactly this. “To be honest I would be Chonguica has played at countless note to the next forming the beautiful lying if said I had a set formula. The best international Jazz festivals all over the melodies he has come to know as his life - part is that I don’t know any of it going in world. Considering of course that he is a after all the dust settles… I am curious as from the start of doing a song. If it’s a set Southern Africa based musician, I ask him to how he would like to be remembered. “I recipe it won’t be fresh anymore. I’m just a what about playing in Europe stood out would like to be remembered for my musician and I see it this way, I make the most for him? “I’d have to say the level music , for who I am and the things I music and play the sax. You choose to call of professionalism and discipline artists symbolise such as knowing where you it Jazz, I say okay,” he smiles. have for their work. The music come from and taking that wherever you
“Fair enough. But if I had to get in distribution infrastructure is so much go and naturally my contributions to there and make a quality Jazz song- what more fluid, it’s easier to get hold of all the society too.”could I not go without?” I find myself music you enjoy listening to. What also Moreira is currently working on the thinking aloud... “Honesty and the became clear to me is that in Africa we production of a third special album. It intention that has to come straight from tend to think our scene is smaller than pays homage and honours unsung the soul because good music is honest. Europe’s. I have learned it’s exactly the Mozambican artists who never had the Spontaneity, a sense of adventure mixed same, we just have less opportunity and opportunity to have their music heard.with just a little bit of crazy. The rest is God exposure on media platforms than they For more info on this intriguing artist willing,” he answers, smiling again. do. But we're getting there.” check out Chonguica’s website @
With the advent of his illustrious Now in the thick of his booming www.moreiramusic.com/
Zim's passing was a massive blow. He was arguably the most important contemporary figure in South African Jazz. The loss of a great artist like Mr. Ngqawana is twofold - first one laments simply the absence, the fact that a magnificent presence is no longer among us; secondly one mourns the fact that no new work will be produced in his signature. Anthology of Zimology Vol.1 offers brief but bright relief from the latter loss. The first of a series envisaged by
Ngqawana, the music spanning 'Anthology's two disks is arranged to emulate the arc of a concert performance - from hushed opening to rapturous finale'. What makes the release priceless is that it reveals how key compositions like Qula, Biological Warfare and Migrant Workers - familiar from the lush, polished biomes of his studio albums - have evolved into new creatures through years of live performance. Zim is in full flight here, crackling with energy and invention. A must-have for anyone who likes their Jazz potent and bristling.
Vocalist Alex Turner is most definitely the centrepiece of this group and remained the locus of the lion’s share of my attention throughout a couple rotations of this, their fourth record. His contribution to the fray, both lyrically and in terms of his delivery, is attention-grabbing in ways that the music simply couldn't match. Turner's keen eye for the ironic and deft hand at spinning unique turns of phrase often had me zoning out of the ruckus of the instrumentation and listening singularly to
his lyrics. That's not to say that the music itself is unaccomplished. There are supple grooves spanning the recording, the drum work and bass lines find their feet comfortably and are on occasions exceptional. The guitars jangle a bit much for my sensibilities, the Britpop edge being a little overwrought. However, sometimes a melodic line breaks free and soars over and above everything else, shimmering proudly. Overall, not sure I'll be coming back to this album all too often except perhaps to remind myself of particularly memorable phrases crooned out by Mr Alex Turner.
Opener Perth wells up out of the ground like a sonic volcano; it marches along effortlessly and swamps anything in its path. It saturated my attention, even at low volumes (damn late night listening sessions with paper thin apartment walls!!), and was quite overwhelming. There is magical music here - oft chill-inducing and certainly not the kinda stuff one can easily digest in just a few listens. I did have a rough time with the incredibly layered vocals that span the recording. My housemate described it as saccharine and he nailed it. The album is 40 minutes long and it begins to feel like your sensibilities get caramelized after perhaps the fourth track. Dunno about you but I cannot take that much sweetness in one sitting. In time I could only listen to a track or two at a time and in this fashion, one can yield to Bon Iver's divine meandering dream-like movements without feeling gorged. As a body of work though, I simply couldn't see it as a cohesive entity due to the treacle-effect.
I remember receiving Fink’s second album for review a few years back – it arrived along with his debut and was billed as something special, his first album already having attracted the necessary critical acclaim and creating the buzz of anticipation for his second. Released oddly on a label more aligned with electronic music, albeit very left of centre, Ninja Tunes, I’d love to be able to compare his earlier work to Perfect Darkness but unfortunately those 2 CD’s were lent out and never returned (thanks Sean). I do remember enjoying his voice thoroughly and appreciating the potential of his stark acoustic driven ballads. But I also remember getting just a little bored half way through each album. Perfect Darkness remedies everything that was lacking on those previous releases, both in musicality and songwriting. Here is a collection of 10 exquisitely crafted compositions (he’s known for his detail) that are fuller and way more accomplished from a singer/songwriter who has grown and matured considerably from a few years back. Perfect Darkness, complete with beautiful backing arrangements to compliment Fink’s guitar and voice, starts and ends perfectly with wonderful storytelling, intelligent lyrics and personal innuendos. Everything a good acoustic album should have. Fans of Yoav, Farryl Purkiss, and Laurine Levine, etc should definitely track this accomplished piece of work down.
I knew nothing of this lady prior to playing the record. I was struck by its maturity and soulful tone, its unfolding melodies and the exquisite innocence in the timbre of Levine's voice. Inspired seemingly entirely by the grand country & western voicing made famous by the output from Nashville, Tennessee - the songs pluck at the heartstrings without falling foul of the dreaded schmaltz. There are moments that had me transported into vivid landscapes - the violin lines and banjo picking along with magic Telecaster tones all placing me in expansive mental wildernesses, feeling slap bang in cinematic denouements, probably atop a stallion and packing a six shooter. Finding out that this is straight outta South Africa was something of an incongruous revelation and for a couple listens it felt somewhat disingenuous until I slapped my senses and just reveled in the textures, without a locale in mind. In that headspace, Six Winters is a startling accomplishment - impeccable production, sweeping song-writing and an often sublime capability to transport the listener. This coming from a veteran of the metal scene communicates buckets. Take a listen, people!
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ALBUM REVIEWS
1. ARCTIC MONKEYS - SUCK IT AND SEE
3. ZIM NGQAWANA: ANTHOLOGY OF ZIMOLOGY VOL.1 4. FINK – PERFECT DARKNESS
5. BON IVER - BON IVER
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3/5|JM
2. LAURIE LEVINE - SIX WINTERS
1 = Weak | 2 = Okay | 3 = Pretty Cool | 4 = Rocking | 5 = Demi-God!
DM – Dave Mac | MD – Mickdotcom | CW – Craig Wilson | JM - James Rose-Mathew | SP - Sergio Pereira | PB – Paul Blom
Journey – Eclipse Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Old boys of rock are back with a new Dam the Torpedoes <DVD>album of 70’s rock. Or have they An intriguing doccie on the making progressed to the 21st century? They of this ground-breaking albumhave plenty fans so let’s see what they deliver... Piet Botha – Spookpsalms
Botha’s first collection of new songs Whitesnake - For Ever More in 8 years using a host of traditional More old boys of rock but not nearly instruments.as old as Journey, these rockers from the early 90’s are still going Rodrigo y Gabriela - Live in Francestrong. Flamenco guitar maestros doing
what they do best... but Live this Chris Chameleon - As Jy Weer Skryf time.Chris’ 2nd interpretation of Ingrid Jonker poems...
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PJ Harvey - Let England Shake A to Z of Classic RockReminiscent of her earlier work, A few real hidden gems and some of Harvey returns with more tortured the real old classics.soul stuff...
Lanu - 12 FacesFucked Up - David Comes to Life Lanu, producer and guitarist of The A punk rock opera? Apparently! And Bamboos, Kylie Auldist, Cookin' On has received its fair share of critical 3 Burners, Randa & The Soul acclaim. Kingdom...
Danger Mouse & Danielle Luppi – Farryl Purkiss - Fruitbats & CrowsRome Remixed and repackaged with more Everything Danger Mouse touches is to offer for those who missed the gold, including Rome with Danielle original release.Luppi.
Bombino – AgadezThe Bad Plus – Never Stop A young Tuareg guitarist and The Bad Plus, a staggeringly gifted songwriter, who was raised during Jazz trio from Chicago and boy do an era of armed struggles for they kick! independence and violent
suppression by government forces.
So here I am reading Eliza Day’s column on Pg 6 – the word document she sent me is called ‘Bored,’ as the subject matter, if you have not yet read it, is about how boring the local live band scene has become and how there are no new and exciting bands out there, everybody seemingly settling to want to sound like someone else. I’ll need to give her a heads up then on Shadowclub. Big White Stripes fans, the trio decided to record their album in 12 days but did it in 9 which is fine if you’re Jack White and Co. with that M.O already, but for a local band not that well known we could all just laugh it off and say “yeah well it sounds like it!” But it doesn’t. Guns and Money is a very, very good debut album and whilst White Stripes fans will appreciate their bluesy ‘purposely fuss free’ rock ‘n roll as they call it, the 3-piece are no copycats exuding an authenticity that combines distorted guitars and often equally distorted vocals to deliver a fine collection of 12 very well penned songs. Musically adept and with a vocalist [Jacques Moolman] who can really use his pipes, Shadowclub have produced an accomplished debut release that for my money is easily the freshest thing I’ve heard from an SA band for now.
The world's Metal band with the most longevity has been at it for over 3 decades! And in this period, with some line-up juggling, their core personnel has remained intact and their focus has been a ve ry ded ica ted one , maintaining their unique flavour, sound and ever escalating world domination on the live stage, their mascot Eddie always present. This double disc follows collections like Edward The Great and Somewhere Back In Time, the latter covering the first chapter of their career from 1980-1989. Here you get a double disc with 23 highlights from the last two decades across 8 albums - quite a tome to pick from. There are studio - and some live recordings from the albums No Prayer for the Dying, Fear of the Dark, The X Factor, Virtual XI, Brave New World, Dance of Death, A Matter of Life and Death, and The Final Frontier. Naturally they couldn't exclude tracks from their low-point when vocalist Bruce Dickinson left for a stretch, replaced by Blaze Bayley, (but craftily) it is a live version with Bruce singing. Not that Blaze sucked, the Bruce boots are merely impossible to fill. It seems as though these guys will keep going at it eternally, and we hope they do. While my favourite period stretches across Number of the Beast to Somewhere in Time, losing them across the '90s, there's no denying the power and influence of Iron Maiden and the impact they've made, and are yet to make.
So the album cover of this recording is supposedly the DNA sequences of the members, a neat idea but one that unfortunately belies the contents of the recording. I found there to be little in the music as unique as something like a DNA sequence. I honestly dislike being derogatory about local music because I really do want native product to flourish. However, I couldn't help but feel something paint-by-numbers about this music. Safe would be an unfortunately apt word to describe what I hear all over Measured in Falls. The biggest struggle in my attempts to find an access point into the record comes in with the vocal delivery. There is something awkwardly dispassionate going on here and a persistent faux-gravitas that I found brick-walled any burgeoning interest in the tunes. On occasions the vocalist seems to forget himself and strikes out with abandon and then it rocks. These moments are unfortunately fleeting. Thankfully though, my opinion matters a precious little as its evident Ashtray Electric have found a fervent audience in SA and are successful in their own right so if you’re a fan please ignore me and find out for yourself.
I was quite seriously taken by Ben Harper's sound around the time of Fight for your Mind and The Will to Live. His musical direction subsequently lost my attention and I've paid little mind of his output since. This disc however finds him frequenting that same headspace that had me swept up back in the day. Harper sounds energised and full of inspiration for whatever reason and it translates deftly into stunning tracks like I Will Not Be Broken and Don't Give Up On Me Now. Elsewhere on the album sees Harper turning up the distortion and invoking Rock n Roll behemoth that strides, bucks and brawls with a fine swagger. Funnily, the biggest disappointment is a tune called Rock n Roll is Free, it just sounding like a self-conscious attempt to evoke a 60s-like camaraderie in the audience when it inevitably gets punted live. One thing's for certain, Ben Harper knows how the hell to write a great song, knows how to wrangle an effortless array of sounds from his instruments and surrounds himself with peeps that play the hell out of their respective instrument - see the rollicking jam that is Get There From Here as proof.
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ALBUM REVIEWS6. IRON MAIDEN - FROM FEAR TO ETERNITY: THE BEST OF 1990-2010
8. SHADOWCLUB - GUNS & MONEY <EDITORS CHOICE>
10. ASHTRAY ELECTRIC - MEASURED IN FALLS
5/5|PB
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It's readily apparent that Damon Albarn is in many respects a musical genius. His work with Blur and previous Gorillaz outings is testament to this. The Fall, however, comes across as an anomaly in the body of work. Recorded primarily using applica-tions on the iPad and finding its way into the world due to the boredom of touring, it feels somewhat flat for the most part. An exercise in keeping oneself entertained while stricken by the unfortunate rigours of life as a hugely successful musician. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails did the same thing with Year Zero, yet that record bristles with inspiration and a feeling that the confinement involved nourished the artist while here one senses the barren nature of what the creator endured during its creation. There are highlights: The Snake in Dallas and Amarillo are both tremendously evocative and remain somehow imbued with the ambience of extensive travel. In short, The Fall feels like an experiment and one that needn't have left the confines of the mobile recording studio as it neither adds substance to the Gorillaz catalogue nor does it stand up to repeated listens.
9. GORILLAZ - THE FALL
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7. BEN HARPER - GIVE TILL ITS GONE
RESIDENT EVIL: The Mercenaries 3DNINTENDO 3DS System / RESIDENT EVIL: The Mercenaries 3D
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GAME REVIEWSby Paul Blom
[5/5][4/5]
PS3: GRAN TURISMO 5
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Old-school and new generation gamers can both feel that the new 3D wave is simply another marketing ploy to galvanize consumers into a spending fit. But, once you pick up the new Nintendo 3DS portable
system, you'll wonder how you ever got by with its predecessor. The unique screen's 3D look is quite remarkable and highly effective, complete and without the aid of any glasses! Additional menu functions include the 3DS Sound option to record and play with audio, such Wii functions as the creation of Mii characters, on-line connectivity and syncing with other players. And, you can take incredible 3D pictures!
The touch screen stylus is now a more compact telescopic one. Face Raiders is an in-system game placing anyone’s face in the 3D action, your surroundings the background. More software can be added down the line, as with iPod apps. Another built in blast is the phenomenal Augmented Reality Nintendo (used in co-operation with the supplied cards). The software recognizes the card and from it sprouts totally 3D objects anchored in your real surroundings and reality popping up or sinking into your real world. You can move 360 degrees around these objects as they make a part of your surroundings.The health warning is not there to annoy you, as children under 6 can get vision damage. After my first bash, I had a bit of a dizzy result (not taking the recommended breaks!) The 3D effect can be adjusted to 2D.
With so much encapsulated in this system even before you get cracking on a game, the possibilities are far-reaching. Which brings us to RESIDENT EVIL - The Mercenaries 3D. Being one of my all-time favourite survival horror games, I was pretty damn excited to take the 3DS on its maiden cruise with this one. After some training levels to get to know your characters movements, interaction & weapon handling, you're off on a new eye-popping trip with this terrifying franchise. Series veterans like Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine are in the character roster (with more to unlock), and the expected range of firepower and villainous zombies & freaks are on hand to blow away, the creepy factor as high as always. Duo-play with another 3DS gamer has many advantages including resuscitating your partner and Internet play takes you global. (18 for violence).
Over the decades the beloved Marvel characters have leapt from the comic book pages into movies, figurines, games and more, becoming a part of our global cultural fibre. This fun 3D platform game
(aimed at the younger player) gives you pint-sized cartoon versions of your favourite heroes, from Iron Man, Hulk, Wolverine and Spider-Man, to villains like Dr. Doom and Magneto. You're paired in tag-teams to fulfil a range of tasks in trying to obtain the various gems that will give bad guy Thanos' gauntlet super powers. Additional content can be downloaded.
[5/5]
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Xbox : Marvel SUPER HERO SQUAD - The Infinity Gauntlet [3/5]
If you're still in that Clash of the Titans and 300 mood, this second PSP Ghost of War version will transport you to this vicious ancient world of living myths and legends. Kratos, now a God, is plagued by visions of
his past mortality and sets out to find its source. It takes him to the Temple of Poseidon within Atlantis, with a well stocked supply of enemies and gigantic beasts & sea creatures to battle along the way. With an epic cinematic scope and feel with the animated bridging scenes, you get to choose difficulty of Mortal, Hero, Spartan, or God. Machismo won't help you by going straight for the God setting, as it will take some quick fingers and patience to hack and slash your way through this.
I remember how impressed I was when the first Gran Turismo game arrived in the late-'90s, living in my PS One for quite a stretch. Placing it beside the current 5th chapter on the 3rd PlayStation generation, the
improvements are vast. Together with HD screen development over that period, we hardly envisioned these advances when we were grinding away the tracks, drifting before we knew it would become a legitimate style. Over a decade later and the improvements have multiplied beyond exponentially with each new instalment of this ultimate racing game exclusive to PS. The range & amount of cars to access, the jacked-up realism, souped-up performance, and on-line connectivity for a global race of real drivers as opposed to you against the CPU, sends it way out there. Production vehicles, racing models, F1 and go-karts, it’s all here with over 1000 cars from all manufacturers, across world renowned courses, city streets, drifting locations and respected rally tracks. Prepare yourself!
PSP: GOD OF WAR - Ghost Of Sparta
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Cool Runnings-Fourways | Shop 30, Wed 14 Sep | Wrestlerish: Album LaunchThurs 25 Aug | Haal Asem Kwagga Tour 2011 Riverbend Junction, 1 Riverbend Road, Fri 16 Sep | Playtime| Free State @ Mystic Boer | Van Coke Kartel Bloubosrand, Fourways | Die Heuwels Sat 17 Sep | Ashtray ELectric & Pretty Blue and Zebra&Giraffe | Cost: R50 | Doors open Fantasties | (011) 704 0987, Guns and La.Vi19h00 | Theuns: (051)4302206 [email protected] or Fri 23 Sep | Karen [email protected] www.coolrunnings.co.za
43 De Villiers Street Fri 26 Aug | Flip A Coin | PTA Sun 25 Sep | Prime Circle | CPT @ Cape Town, (021) 465 2106 or @ Centurion Theatre | 123 Amkor Road, Kleinevalleij Wedding + Conference Centre | www.mercuryl.co.zaLyttelton Manor, Centurion | Flip A Coin | Prime Circle, Gerald Clark & 3RD World 20h00 | R110 | www.computicket.com Spectator | 14h30 | R160 | Fri 5 Aug | Graeme Watkins Project | 21h00
www.computicket.com Fri 12 Aug | Gnolium, Lyderkane, Bicycle Thief Fri 26 Aug | Haal Asem Kwagga Tour 2011 | | 21h00JHB @ Town Hall | 66 Carr Street, Newtown, Elardus Park Shopping Johannesburg | Van Coke Kartel & Centre, Cnr Delmas & Barnard Street, (012) Cnr Ravenswood and Zebra&Giraffe | Cost: R60 | Doors open 345 3602, [email protected] or Trichardt rd, Boksburg, Devyn 071 351 6790, 20h00 | Gert: 082 332 5772, [email protected] [email protected] or [email protected] www.theblackdahlia.co.za
Fri 5 Aug | Michelle ShockedSat 27 Aug | Chromium, The Dead Will Tell & Sat 6 Aug | Jacques Terblanche Wed 3 Aug | Mid-Week Warriors: The Hammer More | JHB @ Memphis Rock | Relentless Wed 10 Aug | Die See + Gill Hockmam of Redemption, Red Helen, 40 Day Journey, Mercy, 7stukkesilwer, The Frail, Chromium, Thurs 11 Aug | Gerald Clarke + Henry Steele Adorned in Ash The Dead Will Tell | 083 444 4101 + Peter Hoven Fri 5 Aug | Through This Defiance (USA),
Fri 12 Aug | Deep Blue C + Joseph Clarke Reason to Live, Guns Go Bang, Die the Sat 27 Aug | Die Heuwels Fantasties | E.Cape with Blues Train Betrayer, Brainwreck@ DF Malherbe Highschool-Port Elizabeth | Sat 13 Aug | Classic Rock Show Fri 19 Aug | Chromium, Facing the Gallows, 7 Die Heuwels Fantasties | (0)41 581 3061 or Thurs 18 Aug | Naasveld stukkesilwer, Candi Black Sat 20 Aug | Sinister www.dfmalherbe.co.za Fri 19 Aug | Arno Carstens Carnival Themed night
Sat 20 Aug | Motel Inc + Totstilstand Fri 26 Aug | The Sunday Punchers, The Mean Sat 27 Aug | Glaskas | PTA @ Centurion High Wed 24 Aug | Marcia Moon Streets, Misled, The Carniwhores School | Selbourne Avenue, Lyttelton, Pretoria Fri 26 Aug | Black Cat Bone Sat 27 Aug | Isochronous – And more!!! | Glaskas, Bok van Blerk & Zan 3 | Gates Wed 31 Aug | Chris Chameleon Wed 31 Aug | Pigs Night (Free drinks before open 16h00 & Show starts @ 18h00 | R100 | Thurs 1 Sep | Marcato Midnight) Awesome Musicwww.computicket.com Fri 2 Sep | Dan Patlansky Fri 2 Sep | Green Party | Come dressed in
Fri 9 Sep | Koos Kombuis green and get free entry & prizesSat 27 Aug | Haal Asem Kwagga Tour 2011 | Sat 10 Sep | 80’ s Eve Sat 10 Sep | Beer Fest – Day festival – Loads PTA @ Arcade Empire | Van Coke Kartel & Wed 14 Sep | Elvis Blue of Bands.Zebra&Giraffe | Cost: R60 | Doors open 19h00 Fri 16 Sep | Deep Blue C|Robert Peirera: 072 020 6120, Sat 17 Sep | John Henry + [email protected] Fri 23 Sep | Jan Blohm
Sat 24 Sep | 6.9.1Sat 10 Sep | Fokofpolisiekar | JHB Wed 28 Sep | Gold + Gill Hockman@ Cool Runnings-Fourways | Fokofpolisiekar, Knave, Voodoo Child & Soul Cadillac | 20h00 | 6 Chenoweth R80 Pre-Sale & R100 @ the Door | (011) 704 Street, Durbanville, (021) 979 1911 or 0987, www.coolrunnings.co.za www.dieboer.com
Sat 10 Sep | Nimbus Experience | JHB Fri 19 Aug | Koos Kombuis | R100@ Tanz Cafe | Nimbus Experience | 19h00 | Sat 20-24 Aug | Jan Blohm Band | R110R100 | (011) 658 0277, Wed 31 Aug | Elvis Blue | [email protected] or www.tanzcafe.co.za Wed 7 Sep | Glaskas | R60
Sun 11 Sep | Wrestlerish | CPT @ Shop 7 High Park @ The Silver Tree Restaurant | Wrestlerish | Centre, Logan/ John Vorster Street, Highveld 18h30 | R100 - includes a welcome drink | 021 Centurion Pretoria762 9585, [email protected] or Happy Hour 8pm-9pm daily.www.kirstenboschrestaurant.com
Wed 3 Aug | War of the BandsFri 16 Sep | Heather Mac: Within | CPT Thurs 4 Aug | Craving Sanity@ Villa Pascal | 19h00 | Heather Mac | 19h00 Fri 5 Aug | Club Vamp - Best of Goth| R80 | (021) 975 2566, 082 569 4147, Sat 6 Aug | Renounce, Loathed, Adorned in [email protected] or Ash, Fragmented Children , All of Eternitywww.villapascal.co.za Tues 9 Aug | Womens Day Celebration
Wed 10 Aug | War of the bandsSat 17 Sep | Deuriemikke Karnaval: Westlife Thurs 11 Aug | Mind Assault, Bile of Man, The Live | PTA @ Supersport Park | West Avenue, dead will tellCenturion | Westlife, Watershed & many Fri 12 Aug | Broken Truce, Dea Matrona , more! | Doors open 14h00 & Show starts @ Caustic Bean , Craving Sanity15h00 | R250 | www.ticketbreak.co.za Thurs 18 Aug | War Of the bands
Fri 26 Aug | Chromium, 7Stukke Silwer, The dead will tell, Relentless Mercy
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