Leap Year is round the corner
I don’t know if ladies proposing to their men makes Leap Year special enough for me. Most of the ladies I know would do it on anyday ’cause they’re liberated, free and just nje. Although if you do go for it girls, as lore aka Wikipedia tells us, “Supposedly (but disputed), in a 1288 law by Queen Margaret of Scotland (then age five and living in Norway), fines were levied if the proposal was refused by the man; compensation ranged from a kiss to £1 to a silk gown, in order to soften the blow.” So make sure if you do it and he says no he gets you a sexy Silk some’ing some’ing. Could be a great way just to get spoilt… even us liberated gals need some spoiling! Leap Year for me is special for it’s EXTRA day that it gives us – just think about how fast 2007 flew by – not to mention the whiplash I am getting this January. It also means a WHOLE lot more birthday parties for those peeps who only get to get down once every four years. Good news is the LEAP YEAR parties in JOZI are starting to pour in… First up is an Electric Workshop Reunion Party hosted by Euphonic and the SoulCandi crew – click on the flyer for a taste, and watch this space for...
Live in Pretoria/Tshwane? Get to UJU tonight!
This year is so UJU‘s year and you want to make sure you join in from the start. It’s a rare occasion to see UJU live in Pretoria/Tshwane – if you’re in the hood GO GO GO for some of the best rockiest smoothest most soulful African sounds around! Sounds like a mad mix of genres – it sure is. DO NOT MISS THIS. PS: Editorista is out of SA so she can’t be there – if you go please give Fifi (Drummer) and Mo (Bassist) a big hug from her and love & greetings to the whole band from Represent. Come and see UJU’s first performance of the year at Tings n Tymes in Hatfield Pretoria. Promises to be a great opener to a promising year. Tuesday 22 January @ 9pm – Tings and Tymes –...
Put some Fuel in February – Unsound System
Now that everyone’s finally back in Jozi let’s get back to all things dirty and delicious – SO all you beatfreaks, electronicas, bootyshakers and rhythmmakers or anyone wanting music thats *a little more complicated*, get to the first (?) of the now infamous Unsound System nights in 2000 & eita at Fuel Cafe – Sat Feb 9th in Newtown. Enjoy another Naughty night on the town as Premier League party promoter Lilo resurrects Unsound System for a further night of leftfield licks and techno tricks at Fuel Cafe this Feb. Pitch perfect party-starters Dexterity and Offbeat return to rock the house alongside special guests Pierre-Estienne (Midnight Men, Cape Town) and Berlin-based beat specialist DJ Naughty. Following rapturous receptions on two previous sojourns South, Naughty (aka Filippo Moscatello) returns to Jozi to fire off some cutting edge electronics. A prolific player, Naughty has passed futuristic tracks welding together the best bits of house, techno and disco to imprints like Gigolo and Eskimo, and lent supreme remix swerve to artists as varied as Herbie Hancock, Fischerspooner, Tiga, Laurent Garnier, Goldfrapp and The Gimmer Twins. A producer and DJ at the top of his game, Naughty is one of the dance game’s super-strikers – don’t miss a sweltering demonstration of his skills at a special one-off, limited entry, Fuel Cafe fireworks...
UBER – the new (music) Blog
*MUSICIANS TAKE NOTE* So unless you have some cash on hand or lots of time to work out how to make your blog beautiful, chances are your blog is pretty fugly, your videos and tracks are all over the place and your MySpace still takes half an hour to download… time to move on. Artists, personalities, musicians, people… get to Uber.com and build your own sexy blog in minutes. Some slick Ubers to check out – the famous Internet It girl Cory Kennedy or Timbaland !!! Get your music, video’s and voice out there – no need to scrap your FB, MySpace, Bebo or anything else, UBER is so easy to use, you can just add to your portfolio. While you’re at it, UBER are looking for up and coming muso’s – enter their UBER “You bring the talent” competition here . We haven’t read the smallprint but assume all nationalities welcome...
30 Seconds to the Coke side of life
So by now you’ve probably heard that the Golden Circle tickets for MY COKE FEST are all SOLD OUT more than 2 months before the concert! It’s been a while since there’s been such buzz around a big concert in ZA – nice one! Hope you got your tickets rockers – we’re sure the true fans would have been first in line anyway. Just in case you didn’t know yet and you need the extra push to get buying before the pleb tickets are sold out, Jared Leto and his band 30 Seconds to Mars have also joined in the mega show – what a treat! Here’s more: Coca-Cola South Africa (Pty) Ltd and 5fm are thrilled to reveal the latest addition to the mind blowing line-up of international and local bands performing at MY COKE FEST 08. The already epic festival, kicks off at Johannesburg’s New Market Racecourse on Friday the 21st, and heads to Cape Town’s Kenilworth Racecourse on Monday the 24th of March. In true “Coke side of life” standard, the 2-date, 12-hour, adrenalin fuelled festival, brought to you by Coca-Cola and official radio partner 5fm, in association with Big Concerts, features the hottest line-up to date. Already announced are SA favourites PRIME CIRCLE, US Rock sensation GOOD CHARLOTTE, Britain’s KAISER CHIEFS, Sound Garden and Audioslave front-man CHRIS CORNELL, “Supermassive” MUSE, and the Grammy-winning KOЯN. …And now, the platinum-selling 30 SECONDS TO MARS confirm their place on the coveted bill. In 2002, 30 Seconds to Mars released its self-titled debut album, offering up a bold experiment in atmosphere and imagination. Emerging seemingly overnight, the progressive-leaning, multi-faceted, art-rock outfit had actually spent the better part of a decade on the road and literally years in the studio with legendary producer Bob Ezrin, who joined the band in bringing their vision to fruition. With the release of this project, sometimes called “Welcome to the Universe”, they travelled the world, played over 300 shows and eventually began writing new material along the way. With 2005’s A Beautiful Lie, 30 Seconds to Mars explored a more confessional sonic landscape and progressive, multi-tracked passages gave way to leaner, far more impacting constructs. It wasn’t a concept album per se, but it was certainly conceptual, unravelling like chapters from a spellbinding novel about a man on the precipice of collapse who must confront his own humanity, overcome immense challenges and embrace inevitable change in order to move forward. Revolver praised its “echoing riffs, moody bass lines, and strong vocal melodies” while Alternative Press said, “they just might be rock’s best-kept secret.” The secret’s out. A Beautiful Lie has gone Platinum, unleashing a...
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