SOUTH AFRICAN MUSIC AWARDS – call for Entries!
Recording artists, producers and engineers… did you make music in 2005 for public enjoyment? Then you need to enter your sweet sounds into the South African Music Awards for 2006. – You’ve got to the end of November… May the best muso’s get through! Let’s hope there may be a break from boring old Sun CIty – come on guys, let’s get creative! … Click here for the SAMA’s website… The organisers of the 12th Annual MTN SA Music Awards announced that entries for this premium event on the South African music calendar can be submitted between the 1st and the 30th November 2005. Recordings released commercially in South Africa between January 1st and November 30th 2005 qualify for entry, unless otherwise specified in the rules. Taking place on the 6th May 2006, the 12th Annual MTN SA Music Awards recognizes the accomplishments of those individuals and groups that play a vital role in asserting the South African recording industry’s position as the most dynamic, creative industry on the African continent. Detailed rules for the event are available from the organising body, the Recording Industry of South Africa (RiSA). Entry is open to any recording artist, producer or engineer who is a citizen or has been a legal resident in South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia and Mozambique for the six months prior to entry to the competition. Recording artists, producers or engineers who were born in South Africa, but now reside outside of Southern Africa may also enter. As part of the organisers’ commitment to recognising the growing achievements of South African recording artists on the global stage, international collaborations and productions are allowed to enter, provided the collaboration is predominantly by South African artist(s) or producer(s) and such artist(s) or producer(s) has/have star or equal billing on the release. The call for entries is the first step in the roll-out for the 12th Annual MTN SA Music Awards. This year, entries to the competition will for the first time be submitted through a proprietary, online, digital entry system, specifically designed for the organisers by Prezence. Templated, easy-to-use electronic entry forms and instructions will be available on the MTN SA Music Awards website at SAMA AWARDS from 1 November 2005. Entries will be completed and submitted electronically via unique, online accounts available on application, to RiSA. RiSA staff will capture entries into the electronic system on behalf of those who are unable to make use of this system. Entry forms and rules are still available from the MTN SA Music Awards website or from the RiSA offices. Once it has been ensured that all entries are placed in...
Talking of Sexy South African Rock Gods…
Up Close and Personal With Arno Carstens This Sunday sees Arno playing a unique acoustic set with Albert Frost and Brendan Jury at the Liberty Theatre On The Square. This intimate and small venue will provide a unique opportunity for fans to get really close up view of Arno [Ed: loving that!], the songs off his new album, as well as older material. Tickets are Already disappeari…ng fast, so get on down to Computicket to avoid disappointment! Sun 4 Dec Liberty Theatre On The Square, Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton Up Close And Personal with Arno Carstens and Albert Frost, unplugged Doors open 7pm, R100.00 Book at Computicket FOr more info contact DCPM by clicking...
CAMAGU Cd launch 27 Nov @ 88
If you like catching ’em while they’re hot and upcoming before the masses get in your sightline at a packed out concert, get to 88 and check out Camagu before he heads off on tour… Don’t forget your lippy soul-seekers, there will be a live DVD recording! Camagu and Friends The 88 Lounge. Norwood Sunday 27th November 20:00 Show Starts Camagu is the latest hot… exciting new Soul Musician to come out of the country making his name in the music industry. He has recently released his Debut Cd titled Uhambo, which he launched at Bassline. He’s getting a lot of airplay on all Local and National Stations, His song has even made into the Metro Fm local top 20 and is working on his first video Camagu is growing in stature as an artist with each and every performance that he gives and he has already graced the stages with the Likes of Oliver Mtukudzi, Hugh Masekela, Ringo, Mahottela Queens, Thandiswa [Kaya Fm 5th Birthday Celebrations], Malaika [Music Series at Bassline: he had to come back on stage 3 times after the crowd could not get enough of him], Mxo [The Only Artist featured on his Album] Fly Paper Jet [Rock Band]. He is also doing a Tribute to Fela Kuti in December where he is going to be working with the cream of South African Musicians to pay a tribute to the Great man The Show: Uhambo means The Journey and that is exactly what Sunday is going to be all about at the Recently revampished 88 Lounge in Norwood. This will be one of his last performances in Johannesburg as he is set to hit the road and go on tour to promote his album all over the country He will be featuring his musical family that he has worked with in his time in the Music industry and the night will have an element of all the various genres of his music tastes like rock, Hip hop, Funk, Jazz, in one big sending of show. Watch out for surprise Artists on the night!!! Guest Dj: Milk Bar Kid Live DVD Recording on the Night Email Nceba for more...
PICS & Video : Violent Femmes – whitey delight
Not only do we have our usual pics on FLICKR [click here] but we’ve now hooked up a short video – so if you missed the concert click here for the video clip! OR here for another video! For anyone that thinks that young whit…e people have emigrated en masse from South Africa, think again. The wild bunch of proud and loud South African rockers at the Violent Femmes concerts this past weekend showed that young, enthusiastic whitey’s aren’t going anywhere… they’re en masse and they’re here to stay and loving it. GOOD FOR YOU GUYS – let’s keep up the positive attitude and great moods…. There were even some impressive dance moves… You go Whitey’s… Panda was there and she has a whole theory on why the Violent Femmes has such a huge appeal to the white children of the 80’s – makes for interesting food for thought… In her words: “We all knew deep inside of us that something was very wrong in our country, but we had been so well brain-washed and numbed out and cut off by the government that we didn’t know how to express it and do something real about it. Rock n Roll music like the Violent Femmes and their anti-middle class lyrics against lethargy and stinky values was one way we could let out the awkwardness. And boy did we rock out our bad intuition.” Here’s her review: It was a dark and stormy night. Fans rocked up in their thousands to stand in long queues, then wait, squashed shoulder to shoulder, while Barney In His Element Simon relived the old rock floor hits. There was the usual bar area dog show with an even more squashed twenty minute wait for a warm Castle in a plastic cup. There were faces I hadn’t seen since the rampaging mosh-pit club days when, bathed in sweat, we drank Black Label and wanted it painted black. The concert kicked off with the popular Parlotones. Fuzzy Gish graced the stage next with a rocking set of hard, heartfelt, boyish South African music. It was quite an accolade, I thought, to open for the Violent Femmes and the band very successfully warmed up (and in some cases overheated) the appreciative crowd. Then, amidst screams and dramatic lighting, the Femmes jogged onto the stage and played the first bars of Country Death Song. The crowd went wild. In an era of oppressive governance, the Femmes were amongst those who gave voice to a youth with an instinctual rebellion to white middle class values but all we knew in those days was that we liked it. On stage,...
Hot new HIPHOP talent – YOUNG NATIONS…respect!
Don’t forget we told you about him in June already – but we thought we’d remind you. So he’s all over the TV, he’s on radio and he’s playing live all over da place… this young South African that grew up in LA is back and he ain’t going anywhere… Welcome home Young Nations. We have our hands on his new album… Any hiphopheads or muso’s want to review it for us…? You get to keep th…e cd! You know what to do. Drop the editorista an email. Here’s Young’s story: The most anticipated recording artist from Unreleased Records, Young Nations, has finally been released. The South African music scene was initially introduced to this dynamic young artist in June 2003 on the classic “Win” track which exploded on stations across the country and was featured on CNN worldwide for its heavy lyrical content. Young Nations was inspired by his father, acclaimed author and poet Professor Mazisi Kunene who returned to South Africa after 36 years in political exile and recently received the first ever South African Poet Laureate Award as well as the 2005 M-Net Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. Young Nations has continued to pursue his dream of bridging his music to the African continent, with songs like “Africa Prey”, a tribute to the child soldiers of northern Africa and acoustic based, “Rock On” highlighting the plight of homeless children suffering from HIV and AIDS here in South Africa. Other tracks like “Mr. Hustla”, showcase Young Nations classic hip hop B-boy style, which has been featured on collaborations with overseas artists like Sean Price of Boot Camp Clique. The Young Nations album is produced primarily by Grammy Nominated super-producer Megahertz, who has produced hits for Puffy, Jay-Z, Nas, R. Kelly, Busta-Rymes, and most recently 50 Cent and G-Unit. The remainder of the tracks on the album are produced by Draztik, producer for such artists as Orakle, Snazz D, Cuba, Flabba, Imbube, Killarney Rich (California), SydMoney, Apollo and Nomadic, Prokid and Proverb. The album itself is a collection of Young Nations’ experiences growing up in the United States, Europe and South Africa and the reflections of his experiences from Soweto to South Central. The debut album, “Nations Uprising” is a culmination of all of Nations’ works and collaborations thus far. Young Nations has recently been appointed as one of UN-HABITAT’s Messengers of Truth. This is a global initiative by the United Nations whose main purpose is to bring together socially committed Hip-Hop artists, youth organisations, NGO’s, governments, the media and the private sector to help raise awareness of the Millenium Development Goals and to reach out to more...
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