Francophonite 2007
For an instant escape from the city straight into a French country you need get yourself to the Francophonite 2007! The French Embassy in South Africa, the French Institute of South Africa, the Alliance Française of Johannesburg and Dibuka – Information Centre on contemporary France are presenting you will the opportunity to get a taste of some French culture… film, music, fashion, food and drinks… Friday 23 March, 2.30 pm, Free entrance LITERATURE AND THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA Round-table conference Hosted by Veronique Tadjo, with Antjie Krog, Ivan Vladislaviæ, Niq Mhlongo, Lebo Mashile. Hosted by Veronique Tadjo, with Antjie Krog, Ivan Vladislaviæ, Niq Mhlongo, Lebo Mashile. Round-table conference Hosted by Veronique Tadjo, with Antjie Krog, Ivan Vladislaviæ, Niq Mhlongo, Lebo Mashile. Hosted by Veronique Tadjo, with Antjie Krog, Ivan Vladislaviæ, Niq Mhlongo, Lebo Mashile. Friday 23 March, from 8 pm, Free entrance FRANCOPHONE FOOD AND DRINKS from France, Belgium, Lebanon, Madagascar R90 for 3 different dishes Book in advance: William – 011 646 1169 – events@alliance.org.za FETHITABET – World music – France Gathering musicians from France, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Cameroon, Senegal, Mali and Brazil, Fethi Tabet and his band offer a hot and powerful Andalusian-style dance music. Fethi’s incomparable voice sings life with emotion and humour, crossing different traditional and popular Maghrebian styles under the joint influence of Africa, South America and the Mediterranean. from France, Belgium, Lebanon, Madagascar R90 for 3 different dishes Book in advance: William – 011 646 1169 – Gathering musicians from France, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Cameroon, Senegal, Mali and Brazil, Fethi Tabet and his band offer a hot and powerful Andalusian-style dance music. Fethi’s incomparable voice sings life with emotion and humour, crossing different traditional and popular Maghrebian styles under the joint influence of Africa, South America and the Mediterranean. Gathering musicians from France, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Cameroon, Senegal, Mali and Brazil, Fethi Tabet and his band offer a hot and powerful Andalusian-style dance music. Fethi’s incomparable voice sings life with emotion and humour, crossing different traditional and popular Maghrebian styles under the joint influence of Africa, South America and the Mediterranean. MARYSE & NSEKA – Blues folk – Congo DRC Born in Kinshasa of musical families, Maryse Ngalula and Nseka Bienvenu met in Johannesburg in 2002. Deciding to work together, they formed an original duet. Maryse has a deep and warm voice while Nseka sings in a high-pitched voice. Their lyrics, sung in French, Tshiluba and Lingala, relate as much the stories of painful exiles as those of joyful family reunions back home. Maryse & Nseka are presently preparing their second album which, we already know,...
The best SA Music line up for My Coke Fest
Coca-Cola South Africa is thrilled to announce the SA line up of local bands performing at MY COKE FEST. Taking place in Johannesburg on the 27th of April and in Cape Town on the 1st of May, MY COKE FEST is already hailed as one of the biggest music festivals in the 2007 music calendar. Brought to you by Coca-Cola and official radio station 5fm, the twelve hour festival already boasts Hoobastank, Staind, 3 Doors Down, Evanescence and the legendary Guns N’ Roses on its sizzling stage… and now the highly anticipated local line-up has just been confirmed! SA LINE- UP:SPRINGBOK NUDE GIRLS THE PARLOTONES EVOLVER CASSETTE J THE DIRTY SKIRTS LOVE JONES TAXI VIOLENCE The Springbok Nude Girls and The Parlotones will be performing in both Johannesburg and Cape Town, with Evolver, Cassette and J performing in Johannesburg only, and The Dirty Skirts, Love Jones and Taxi Violence performing in Cape Town only. SPRINGBOK NUDE GIRLS The Nude Girls are: Arno Carstens (lead vocals) – a SAMA Award winner, with one of the most successful solo music careers in SA; Theo Crous (guitars and backing vocals) – renowned as ‘the most electric’ electric guitarist and one of SA’s top record producers; Adriaan Brand (trumpet/keyboards) – one of the most skilled musicians in SA. Arno Blumer (bass) & Francious Kruger (drums). The Springbok Nude Girls and The Parlotones will be performing in both Johannesburg and Cape Town, with Evolver, Cassette and J performing in Johannesburg only, and The Dirty Skirts, Love Jones and Taxi Violence performing in Cape Town only. The Nude Girls are: Arno Carstens (lead vocals) – a SAMA Award winner, with one of the most successful solo music careers in SA; Theo Crous (guitars and backing vocals) – renowned as ‘the most electric’ electric guitarist and one of SA’s top record producers; Adriaan Brand (trumpet/keyboards) – one of the most skilled musicians in SA. Arno Blumer (bass) & Francious Kruger (drums).The Nude Girls formed in September 1994 and almost immediately drew considerable attention from both music critics and music lovers country-wide. Over the next twelve years, this considerable attention turned to legendary cult status. During their 7 year live touring and recording career, this triple platinum selling band released 4 studio albums and 2 Best Of compilations, had 5 top 10 hit singles, won 3 South African Music Awards, toured locally and internationally extensively and explosively and shared the stage with the likes of INXS, The Beastie Boys, Lenny Kravitz, The Cult, Smashing Pumpkins, Hothouse Flowers, Goo Goo Dolls and The Offspring. In 2001 the band separated to pursue independent careers. Five years...
Online craze – incredible beatboxing
Further to our article last week on the phenomenal French beatboxer Joseph, we have a whole load more unbelievable beatboxing for you to lap up on a lazy Friday pm…. the world is going crazy over beatboxing and YouTube is the medium. First off we’re actually going to start with a group of (very hot!) acapella singers from New York called Naturally7 who perform entire songs with only the human voice. They were in Paris recently and caused a huge stir on the metro when they broke into song or as the French say performed a “concert sauvage” – see the YouTube video below… if you watch the public around them, initially everyone is a little uncomfortable and then they get into it! Check out their MySpace site here where they performed with Lionel Richie..inspiring. [youtube]UsVOLMpTXhM[/youtube] What’s amazing about these guys is not only the fact they can sing and beatbox at once, but how well they manage to sing and even more than that how brilliantly they do it – you can’t believe it’s just their voices. Then there’s “Roxorloops” – “The hottest beat boxer in Belgium” see him performing in the French Beatboxing Champs here. Incredible. Well worth it. Talking of French Beatboxing, some of you may be familiar with France’s awesome HipHop band Saian Supa Crew one of Represent’s mosfave French artists…here we see “Sly the Mic Buddha” from Saian beatboxing with a guy called Qbert – awesome if you’re into scratching and beatboxing. Click here. *MUST SEE* A Represent reader reckons “Beardyman” is the shizzle – we featured him and his kitchen cooking before on Represent over here but here is a link to him at his best. And last but certainly not least, the nerdiest looking beatboxer ever from the UK Faith SFX watch him here – love the UK accent!!! BRUVA! Enjoy…. share your mosfave beatboxers with us here! *****************************************Merci to Aquoibon for the lead… If you’ve been watching West African idols or American idols you’ll know just how much unbelievable talent there is out there. This dude has to take the cake though – he’s a French guy called Joseph who is 21 years old and whose ability to beatbox and sing at the same time is blowing the world up! See his French idols – or NOUVELLE STAR as it’s known in French – audition here on YouTube. MON DIEU! Incroyable!...
@ Represent, Everyone’s a winner!
Wssup Representers? Firstly, thanks so much for your all of your entries to the Mozambique competition sponsored by Kaya Kweru – after an exciting draw we finally have a winner and we’re proud to announce that the fabulous holiday for TWO to Mozambique has been won by …tara tataattaata …. the very excited…. 22 year old Bongani Khumalo from Johannesburg. YAY! Look out for his upcoming interview on Represent! I know, you’re sad, you haven’t won, but there’s no need to despair because we have two great ticket giveaways this week. Two double entry tickets to Splashy Fen happening on the Easter weekend and three double tickets to the return of the Classique Party! So you see, life is really like a box of chocolates- you never know what you gonna get! Voting for the SA Blog Awards ends tomorrow, we are finalists in SIX categories -we’re doing great thanks to all of you our darling supporters! If you love what we do – keep voting for your favourite blogazine, Represent TODAY so we can win! Just click on the VOTE FOR ME button on the site. Sharpile! Ever been to Tokyo? No? Okay, well our most fabulous Editorista was bopping around there last week and she wants to tell you all about the city that has captured her heart – the fashion, the shops, the doggy style, so go on, log on… This weeks Ed’s Top ten will cheer anyone up who might just be feeling a little bit down, it’s a collection of funny signs taken from http://www.innocentenglish.com/. Have a look at my list for some light relief – it might just cheer you up- or improve your day! *Miss P* ...
Doggy Dog Style in Tokyo
One of the things that gave us a good lag in Tokyo was the doggy obsession – many owners treat their dogs as their precious children and dress them up to the “nine lives” 🙂 and carry them in blinging bags every day when they go out on the town. We saw a number of shops selling sexy doggy fashion – check out our pics of a doggie hoodie, a doggie carry bag, a doggy pram to push the less energetic pooch around in and more – Paris Hilton would go banana’s. Click right here to see our Flickr photoset fresh from Tokyo… There’s also an awesome article in PingMag which we are delighted to have discovered – bookmark this site – it’s an ” online design magazine based in Tokyo. Defining the term design as broadly as we can, PingMag writes about ideas and inspiration coming from both world class designers, and from the little store on the corner. We look at everything; product design, packaging, architecture, web design, typography, illustration, photography, fashion, programming, graphics, video, art, toys, traditional crafts, graffiti, set design…. anything, in fact, that we consider inspiring and we think will excite you too. ” Spend a bit of time checking out some of Ping’s design features… inspiring. Ping’s doggy clothing article features the most awesome photo’s of dogs in bomber jackets, kimono’s, smart casual… the article also directs you to the Japanese website for doggy Haute Couture called Nahomilly that sells alice-bands, doggy wedding outfits and believe it or not inflatable swimming arm bands for dogs. We never managed to get a photo but we even saw a guy with three ‘souped’ up dawgs in hiphop gear in Aoyama with all three dogs wearing sunglasses! No lies. Then there are the magazines that feature the latest in dog fashion, readers send in pics of their dogs looking fly! We found one called ANIMAL PEP but we can’t find it on the net so we can’t show you. You can also check out this Japanese website Gon Puti with the latest in pooch accessories and gear… WOOF WOOF! ...
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