28/09 – 02/10 :: Canal Walk X Week to rock CT
Get your fix from September 28 at the Canal Walk in Cape Town – Ready D is in the Hip-hopping house, their’s GRAFFITI lessons and a graffiti wall to attempt your learnings, in-line skating, BMX daredevils and loads more thrilling things. CLICK HERE to get it all. Canal Walk X Week brings together the exhilarating elements of urba…n street culture and non-stop action for five days with heart-racing, adrenaline-pumping and action-packed extreme sports! All activities will be staged in an awesome arena right here at Canal Walk, bringing together athletes, dancers and onlookers! Activities will feature indoor street course skateboarding, in-line skating, a 10m climbing wall, BMX and breakdancing b-boys who will perform a choreographed sequence to hip-hop soundtracks that will be played live by South Africa’s most renowned DJ and turntable showman, ReadyD! Spectacular mountain bike trial shows will be staged every day, where top local riders will amaze spectators as they leap from obstacle to obstacle, while keeping their balance! X Week will also be coupled with an exciting extreme expo to make X Week a thrilling experience! Come and feel the rush…not for the faint hearted!...
Bouncers the Remix – Supper Theatre in Cape Town
Yet again Dazzla keeps us up to date with theatre in Cape Town…here’s what he thought about the new show at On Broadway that takes us down another promising but dissapointing BIG NIGHT OUT: BOUNCERS As many of us who have been there know, the weekly weekend all-nighters once provided meaning and some purpose to our lives. All this is aptly captured in Bouncers, directed by Fre…d Abrahamse the latest dinner-theater show at On Broadway, Cape Town. Acclaimed actors Heinrich Reisenhofer, Adam Neil, Mark Elderkin and Andrý Weideman, (selected from about 50 who auditioned for the roles) are the tough-guy bouncers who tell us all we need to know about what goes on in a nightclub. Their insights are spot on funny and a painful reminder of the disillusionment that results for many. The bouncers at times play roles-within-roles illustrating the ritual-like stages of the big night out from the eager girls and lads dollying themselves up in giggly anticipation, to the club mayhem and the inevitable coming down. I loved the slow motion mime scenes, which captured brilliantly much of the strobe light chaos and disorientation that so often accompanies a big night out today. Cape Town theatre-goers are in for a treat when On Broadway opens its doors at 18:30 for it first dinner theatre performance of Bouncers on Saturday 20 August. This is the first full-length play to be staged in this already popular cabaret venue. Having enjoyed huge success when it was first performed at the old On Broadway, Bouncers is again produced for On Broadway by Fred Abrahamse and Charl-Johan Lingenfelder and directed by Fred Abrahamse. On Broadway, with its unique package of pre-show dinner, bar service throughout, and its location in the heart of the city’s restaurant and club area, is the perfect setting for this production which is described as an outrageous comedy – both a celebration and a warning of the nightmarish vision of the “Club World”. We’ve all been there, the preparation for the night out, the hopes of meeting someone, desperately trying to have a good time, the inevitable friends egging you on, the booze, the pumping music, the sex (or promise of it !) and then before we know it, it’s 4 am and you’re still alone and a lot worse for wear. The cold grey of morning creeps in, as we sit in some awful eatery (in name only), endeavouring to digest some excuse for food and lukewarm coffee; trying desperately to piece together the fragments of the last 6 to 8 hours and where we lost sight of what was going to be, a good night...
TOTAL MAIGI – ‘Music Is a Great Investment’
Formerly known as the ICMP, the International Classical Music Festival is now known as MAIGI – their slogan is Uniting the power of classical, indigenous & jazz They’re having their annual country-wide festival that will bring 5 musical experiences that fuse together the sounds of diverse genres and traditions. Art…ists that will be performing: South African diva Miriam Makeba, pennywhistle group Kwela Tebza, The International MIAGI Orchestra, Zanzibar Orchestra Baladna Taarab, conductor Dante Anzolini, Vevek, Ram (sitar), Haren Tana (tabla), Paulus van der Merwe (oboe), Andy Manndorff, (Jazz guitar), Leon Bosch (bass), Habib Hana (lute), Cape Malay Alabama Entertainers and many others. VENUES: JOHANNESBURG Mon 26 September: Gala Concert, Civic Theatre, 20h00 Miriam Makeba, Kwela Tebza (pennywhistle), MIAGI Orchestra, Dante Anzolini. Tickets: R150, R120, R100. Tues 27 September: Orchestral concert, Linder Auditorium, 20h00. Classics and Jazz. Vevek Ram (sitar), Haren Tana (tabla), Paulus van der Merwe (oboe), MIAGI Orchestra, Dante Anzolini (conductor). Tickets: R110, R85, R65 STELLENBOSCH (all events in partnership with the Stellenbosch Festival) Wed 28 September: Orchestral concert, Endler Hall, 20h00. Classics and Jazz. Vevek Ram (sitar), Haren Tana (tabla), Paulus van der Merwe (oboe), MIAGI Orchestra, Dante Anzolini (conductor). Tickets: R70, R50. Thurs 29 September: Cultures of the Oceans Concert, Endler Hall, 20h00. Baladna Taarab Orchestra (Zanzibar), Habib Hana (lute), The Alabama Entertainers (Cape Malay choir). Tickets: R70, R50. CAPE TOWN Thurs 29 September: Gala Concert, Cape Town City Hall, 20h00 Miriam Makeba, Kwela Tebza (pennywhistle), MIAGI Orchestra, Dante Anzolini. Tickets: R135, R110, R85. Fri 30 September: Cultures of the Oceans Concert, Cape Town City Hall, 20h00. Baladna Taarab Orchestra (Zanzibar), Habib Hana (lute), The Alabama Entertainers (Cape Malay choir). Tickets: R85, R60, R45. Sat Oct 1: Schubertiade, Baxter Theatre , 15h00 and 20h00. The Music of Franz Schubert, Cape Town Opera Chorus, SA soloists, Peter Valentovic (conductor). Tickets: R80, R70, R50. PRETORIA Tues 4 Oct: Cultures of the Oceans Concert, ZK Matthews Hall, Pretoria, 20h00. Baladna Taarab Orchestra only. Tickets: R85, R60, R45. DURBAN (Awesome Africa), Sat 1 Oct: Baladna Taarab Orchestra. Please see Awesome Africa Festival Details. Sun 2 Oct: Baladna Taarab Orchestra. Please see Awesome Africa Festival Details. Sun 2 Oct: Andy Mandorff. Please see Awesome Africa Festival Details. Tickets @...
BOOK! TRI continents FILM festival – Joburg this weekend!
UPDATE Film-maker REHAD DESAI gives us his picks for this weekend’s festival ANGOLA – SAUDADES FROM THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU Dir: Richard Pakleppa Angola 2005 65 min World Premiere Friday 16th Sept. 8pm Pakleppa brings us a story of the people, told directly from the streets. It captures a unique moment in Angola’s history, a country coming to terms with the realit…y of peace and democracy at a time in which all kinds of forces are emerging from the rubble and decay. Despite its abundant natural wealth and the flagrant displays of wealth by the political and military elite, this is a country where the person on the street encounters daily struggles to put a meal on the table. Conscious of this inequality and injustice, the films central character, MCK, a politicised street rapper, uses his songs as a protest against the corruption and cronyism that surrounds him. MCK is supported by a diverse and dynamic cast of characters, all struggling to make sense of their paradoxical environment.The film generates a kaleidoscopic structure that follows the rhythms, and irrepressible energy, of people determined to make a living, despite the fact that some are making a killing. REBEL MUSIC AMERICAS Dirs: Marie Boti and Malcolm Guy Canada 2004 79 min African Premiere Friday 16th Sept. 5.45pm From Tierra del Fuego to the Rio Grande the Americas are in turmoil, and in the midst of the social and political movements rocking the region, are some amazing rebel musicians. Theirs is the music of the other America, the America of the South – popular, dynamic, rebellious and often….”anti-American”. It’s the rhythms and voices of displaced communities in Columbia, of “los piqueteros” blocking access to a refinery in Buenos Aires, of indigenous Mexicans hunted down at the US border, of peasants staging vast land occupations in Brazil. Rebel Music Americas follows the adventures of four radical musicians, taking us into the heart of the political and social movements shaking contemporary Latin America. THE AGRONOMIST Dir: Jonathan Demme USA/Haiti/France 2004 91 min Saturday 17th Sept. 4.15 Academy Award winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme presents a heart-wrenching biography of a Haitian national hero – journalist and freedom fighter Jean Dominique. Demme first met and filmed Dominique in 1986. As owner and operator of Haiti’s first and only free radio station, Dominique was a thorn in the side of his country’s repressive governments. His outspoken opposition forced him into exile in the early 90’s in New York, where Demme continued to interview him over the years. Fighting tirelessly against Haiti’s injustice, oppression and poverty, Dominique’s shocking and still-unsolved assassination in April 2000 gave the director the...
Chickrock band MITSOO phunking it up
We like all girl bands, especially chiccas with attitude like these punkyrock chicks that all play an instrument or sing…You know ROCK and PUNK are midway through a massive trend revival – so GET AMONGST – Come on Townians and get to their launch – throw name and jump around in celebration of local attitude and flava! Prepare for a night of air brushed models, lurching zombies…, undead give-aways, some killer bands, tasteful gore and oestrogen rock as Cape Town’s premier all-girl band Mitsoo launch their first album ‘the misfortune of the unicycle bear’ (recorded and mastered by Simon Ratcliffe of Spindle Sect & Rudimentals fame). Mitsoo will be supported ontage by the able groove of Velve and Three Chord Theory. Artwork by local artists including illustrator Robert Dersley and photographers Gavin Smit and Shaun Staegemann will also be on display and Mitsoo’s big new music video ‘Suburbia’, will be shown for the first time. CLICK HERE FOR THEIR SITE. Friday 7 October 2005 at Mercury Live (43 devilliers street, zonnebloem). Doors open @ 9pm. Entrance is R30 or R70 and a copy of the new album. More on the band: All girl grit/rock/indie/punk band, Mitsoo is: Karen – guitar and vocals Michelle – guitar Nita – drums and back up vocals Tanya – bass Background: An advert in the local newspaper brought the founding members of Mitsoo in 2003. Two of those members: Karen and Nita remain and two new members, Michelle and Tanya joined the band at the beginning of this year. The bands first gig was at Lestat, a former alternative music venue in Observatory – Cape Town, where they played with renowned local metal band: Toyland. Mitsoo has gigged at Purple Turtle, Whammy bar, Gandalfs, Lemon Connection, Lanners Landing, Armchair Theatre, Acoustic Cafý, Wynberg Sports Club, Mercury lounge and Mercury Live, The Cause festival and just about every else in the vicinity of Cape Town. On 26 March 2004 Mitsoo released their three-track EP: Afterglow at Evol, in Gardens – Cape Town. The venue was raging with more than 200 fans, press and new admirers of the band. This year has seen Mitsoo record a music video “Suburbia” which will be launched together with the debut album” the misfortune of the unicycle bear” on the 7 Oct. Mitsoo also feature on two compilation cds due for release next month. The Dead Kennedy’s tribute album “give us coincidence or give us death” and also on Delinquents Disco – Volume One : Holding Cell. Mitsoo thrashed national radio waves last year, and the girls now plan to rocket themselves into South Africa’s major music festivals with the...
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