Show your love @ AFROTONIC
There are many ways you can show your love of all people African, shaking your touche to Afro beats is a cheerful option – try it out at AFROTONIC that takes place this Friday at Carfax featuring two of our favourite bands, 340ml and Max Normal as well as the eclectic Zong, all the way from Reunion. Organised by the French Institute as part of their promotion of cultural diversity, urban culture, nd artistic exchanges between South Africa, France and Francophone Africa, you know it’s going to rock… ALLEZ-Y!!! AFROTRONIC #1 Friday 30.05.08 @ CARFAX Featuring Zong – a Réunion (France) Max Normal TV – Cape Town (RSA) 340ml – Maputo (Mozambique) Cooked in the great African Pot with three spoons of hi-voltage electricity, a dozen of the hottest chilies, the juiciest melodic passion fruits and liters of pure sweat: AFROTRONIC is the new vibrating musical feast proposed by the French Institute of South Africa, and for its premiere, we picked up nothing but the freshest ingredients: Hailing from La Réunion, Zong is not just another electro band “with spice”. Indeed, even without electricity, Drean, Costa and Fever remain three accomplished musicians whose “savoir-faire” cannot only be reduced to “Machine-Made Music” and whose three strong personalities locate them far from the anonymous and sometimes dehumanized electro producer profile. If Jane Fonda had had a punk daughter, she would have been something like Drean: sculptural, enigmatically magnetic, dangerously charming, as smooth and burning as a shot of Reunionese Rhum. Playing the Kayamb (a traditional reunionese percussion instrument) with rock’n’roll attitude, Drean is Zong’s singer and muse, and her unique voice can awaken all the senses as well as kick bottom. By her side: Costa, the melody maker, and Fever, the drum machine. From his classical piano background, Costa quickly went into the electronic music. From dub to drum’n’bass (his influences go from Lee Scratch Perry to Roni Size), with ecstatic virtuosity, he pushes the limits of his keyboards and machines to a level only his “comrade” Fever can follow. As soon as he sits behind his drum kit Fever’s cool and almost shy temper turns into a fury. Fascinated by the Punk energy, the unbeatable Drum’n’Bass skips and the accuracy of Jazz drummers, Fever delivers rhythms that make Zong’s sound unique on the global music map: a combo of Dub, Maloya (reunionese traditional sound) Techno and Drum’n’Bass, bridging the gap between “electronic” and “acoustic”, “roots” and “post-modernity”, as on their latest album “Fractures” (to be issued in SA). Max Normal TV is back!!! And he is also about to release a new album entitled “Good Morning South Africa”: What could...
Punk, Indie, Rockers and Metalheads take note
We’re impressed with music management company Roadshock records, it’s refreshing to get such an informative and comprehensive newsletter update on their artists and their performances. They’re the management company behind Harris Tweed and the New Academics as well as the Stealing Love Jones and their pumping tour to the states side, make sure to catch the Love Jones as we know them, on their triumphant return- see below. They’re also the peeps bringing out an array of indie bands from Europe and other wild and wonderful places to our banging shores. Enjoy. (STEALING) LOVE JONES They’re South Africa’s most promising pop-rock act since forever. With an already well established SA and USA radio presence, a lead-singer possessed of a cracking voice, good looks, and the business savvy of a CEO, Stealing Love Jones are poised to become enormous. It’s time to meet the Joneses. 29.06.2008 (ZA) GRAHAMSTOWN, Die Taphuis 29.06.2008 (ZA) GRAHAMSTOWN, Rhodes Rag 30.06.2008 (ZA) GRAHAMSTOWN, Die Taphuis 01.07.2008 (ZA) GRAHAMSTOWN, Die Taphuis 01.07.2008 (ZA) GRAHAMSTOWN, Rhodes Rag booking: booking@roadshock.com current release: Special Edition band email: stealinglovejones@roadshock.com band website: http://www.stealinglovejones.com 4 AXID BUTCHERS —————————— Italians on the paper but fairly international in their attitude, the 4 Axid Butchers started to hit the road in 2004. Their 150 concerts took them to play in France, Germany, Austria and Slovenia, and they will be the first Italian band to play in South Africa. Pioneers of a new sound which ranges from psychedelic punk to a dirty funk with disco-dub digressions provided by the retro raids of a Farfisa Matador, the Butchers surprised more than one live: in the first part of the show, they focus everything on drums and percussions, supported by powerfull bass lines, then suddenly they change the stage set up and switch towards a sort of funky punk sound, where the freakytar replaces the timbales. With four vocals all along, the band brings up action and a loud whirl on stage, following the tradition of Mano Negra and squeezing an eye to Happy Mondays !!! Do not fasten seat belts and get ready to freakydance! ” 24.07.2008 (CZ) HRADEC KRALOVE, Happy Days OA 16.08.2008 (DE) RATHENOW, Musikbrauerei 04.10.2008 (DE) MOERS, Die Volksschule 08.10.2008 (DE) BERLIN, Duncker Club 24.10.2008 (DE) LICHTENAU-IMMELDORF, Weißes Roß booking: booking@roadshock.com current release: empTVsion (Quicksand Records) band email: kristof@roadshock.com band website: http://www.4axidbutchers.com BANDA BASSOTTI —————————- Banda Bassotti born in 1981 in the suburban yards of Rome by a group of comrades carpenters who supports the political causes of the Nicaragua, Salvador, Basque and Palestinian population. 30.05.2008 (DE) LINDAU, Club Vaudeville 31.05.2008 (DE) SCHWäBISCH GMüND, Esperanza 01.06.2008 (DE) HAMBURG, Hafenklang Exil 02.06.2008 (DE) HANNOVER, Béi...
Win Tickets to Goldfish this weekend
::We have FOUR pairs of VIP tickets to give away to the gig this Friday. Simply email Editorista and tell me which Spanish island Goldfish are heading to. Include your name, cell number and ID please. :: We’re delighted to see some quality LIVE music going down at Sutra at Wild Waters and hope you will get your bikini’s out one more time while the sun shines this Autumn in support of one of our hottest musical products of the moment GOLDFISH as they set off for the party island paradise of Ibiza – read all about their signing to Pasha here. We wish you all the best guys – MAKE US PROUD – hey who knows, we may even see you in Ibiza! Their only way is up, so make sure you get close to them NOW while they’re still within reach. On Friday 9th May, SUTRA welcomes one of the most exciting LIVE electronica dance acts in the world right now to the shores of Wild Waters.. GOLDFISH! Join them for what promises to be an unforgettable performance LIVE from Sutra’s infamous upper terrace as bid them goodbye and wish them well on their tour of IBIZA! DATE: Friday 9 May, 2008 VENUE: Sutra Nightclub ADDRESS: Wild Waters Complex 11 Margaret Lane, Boksburg, JHB DOORS OPEN 20h00 – 05h00 COVER CHARGE: Ladies only R60.00 – VIP all night Gents only R70.00 VIP R100.00 SUPPORT DJ LINE-UP SUTRA TERRACE Roger d’Lux Ricardo da Costa Kirsti Daniel Sun X-Ray CHILLI LOUNGE Cecil Mac J_Hazzard Jimmy Chronic Guy Herman Robin & Brands THE EARTH FLOOR Mike...
Win Tickets to Electric Circus
Win a pair of tickets to Electric Circus next Saturday night at Truth, simply answer the following simple question and send an email with your name, cell number and id number to Editor@represent.co.za. Name one DJ from each of the three dancefloors! On Saturday the 28th of April, Truth nightclub presents ELECTRIC CIRCUS: A wild night immersed in the marvel and mystery of the big top. JHB’s irresistable theatre of illusion, a seductive magic show of decadene audio enchantment and exotic decor…Low menacing bass, dirty disco sleaze, twisted funk and filthy ghetto beats will be roughing up your dancefloor. R80 entrance Doors open 10pm Main Floor: Pimp Squad, Roger D’Lux, Deepgroove, Ricardo da Costa, Nick Supply Minimal Floor: Karmi, Nick Lumb, Andy Dill, Jimmy Chronic Hard Floor: Speedy, Louis, Morgan, Eddie Virgo In the event of great weather, a 4TH floor will be pumping outside. Truth, Old Pretoria Rd,...
At last we get to use our Chris Rock photo
It’s not the first time he’s been in SA, we were *so chuffed* to get up close to our favourite comedian at the opening of Oprah’s school last year… We also watched his movie “I think I love my wife” the other day and loved it… you got to admit it, Chris… Rocks. SO DON’T MISS HIS UPCOMING SHOW IN SA – The tours’ Facebook group tells us he’s back in Africa this June… “Comedy legend and multi – Emmy and Grammy Award winner, Chris Rock, tours South Africa for the first time as part of his “No Apologies” world tour. Described by Time Magazine as “The Funniest Man in America”, this show promises to be the highlight of the 2008 South African Comedy Calendar.” Dates: Cape Town 4 June Johannesburg 6 June – Carnival City Get to computicket fast. Good luck. Here’s a quote from his interview with Vanity Fair on his visit to SA in 2005: “Driving the streets of Johannesburg can be a little depressing. Everywhere you looked, there were H.I.V.-testing signs up. The traffic lights flashed green, yellow, and then a picture of a syringe. As we continued to drive through Johannesburg, I kept looking for a sign that would connect me to my African brethren—something that would indicate that we were all one. Finally I saw it: the biggest Kentucky Fried Chicken I’d ever seen. As I marveled at the Eighth Wonder of the World, I also remembered seeing K.F.C. when I went to Jamaica the previous year. There was also one when I went to Haiti. Their slogan should be “Wherever black people are, we’re not...
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