Well Done FRESHLY GROUND on winning MTV awards
OH Yes, they did it, they scooped Best African Act. It’s about bloody time. We all know that they deserve to win. Freshly Ground, we are 100% behind you. Alles van die beste. REPRESENT!!! SA superstars Freshlyground jet off to Europe this week to Copenhagen for the MTV Europe Music Awards – in which they are nominated for Best African Act against Nigeria’s P-Square, Tanzania’a Juma Nature, Kenya’s Nameless and Anselmo Ralph from Angola… . Here’s the latest news from the red carpet concerning the Awards, where Freshlyground will be rubbing shoulders with Justin Timberlake, Pharrell Williams, Rihanna, Snoop Dogg, The Killers, Keane, Muse, P Diddy, Nelly Furtado and Outlandish – to name but a few…. Winners will be announced live on MTV base (DStv Channel 88) and MTV (DStv Channel 85) live on Thursday 2 November between 22:00 – midnight. Keep your thumbs crossed for SA’s...
Catch Taxidermie tonight and tomorrow
TAXIDERMIE Contemporary dance Tuesday the 24th and Wednesday the 25th of October 2006. At Wits Theatre, 8pm Price R70.00, students R10.00 on presentation of student card. Limited seats available. The creation of ý Taxidermie ý in Maputo is the third step of a project of French contemporary dance company Projet in situ involving four cities: Mexico city, Montrýal, Maputo and M… arseilles (the 4 M). How does a city allow us to live, think and create? The 4 M project starts with this simple question. 4 M as in Mexico, Montreal, Maputo and Marseille: the four cities where Projet In Situ has carried out research (choreographic, visual, anthropologic) on the intimate, urban existence of local artists. Intimacy of the city, human messiness, recycling of gestures, trajectories of nervous systems, dead ends to change &.To set out on a journey to meet a city, to encounter its infinite quantity of gestures. The first stopover was in Mexico City in 2002, then Montreal in 2005,a third stopover in Maputo in 2006. In the city, in this public space par excellence, the everyday intimacies of each individual and the collective body rub against each together. This physical duality is at the heart of our choreographic research. How to perceive and forget an environment that is influencing our perceptions? If one is convinced that the senses have their own vast memory that allows for the re-emergence of memories, of emotions, of early gestures then a question emerges of ‘how to rediscover ones’ own ‘seeing’?’ To see what remains when you forget to look, what we might invent without a mirror, seeing without looking, touching without actually touching. Here we envisage the body circulating within city in its various states within its everyday journeys. The urban space is understood as a collection of personal routes to be taken to keep the city circulating, designing corridors of movement, one way streets, and bodies creating obstacles to their own momentum forwards. In the city of Maputo, French, Mozambican, Zimbabwean and South-African artists have been searching for traces of memory, forms of forgetfulness, revealing bodies impregnated with those urban, intimate and collective memory. In Maputo the city failures became like excavation sites. By confronting oneself to these spaces, one could design the structures; feel the shapes, the surfaces of spaces, buildings, sounds and bodies. A radicality, a physicality, an intimacy close to one could have with one’s skeleton has aroused out of those elements placed side by side, their reflects playing one with another. Choreography: Martin Chaput, Martial Chazallon Assisted by: Panaibra Gabriel Dancers: Domingos Biý, Panaibra Gabriel, Janete Mulapha Scenography: Berry Bickle Music: Dimitri Voudouris Light:...
60s week in Maftown – get your ticket!
Oh yes, when you hear about the 60’s party in Mafikeng, you know the year is almost a wrap. This year Represent is determined to go and hang out in the North West at thier 9th annual event – nine years – amazing hey! Bonus is they have now expanded the event from just a party into a 3 day event… OMG the babelaas. See you there! Nare Events and Marketing brings you once again the 9th annual S…ixties Costume Party, Maftown ‘s own all time rockers. From the 1st to the 3rd of December Maftown will explode once again. On the 1st December we will have a Pre Sixties “Foam” Party at Da Garage. On the 2nd December will be the main Sixties Costume Party at Monare Farm, 15 minute drive away from the North West Province in Mafikeng, in the middle of nowhere lies oasis of banyana, basimane le mmino. We promise you an unimaginable year to indulge yourself and your peers. 2006 is the year to make 60’s fashion statement retro. 2 dance floors, with the most rocking DJ’s will give you the fun you have never experienced before. Cover Charge: R 170 VIP gets you for the Pre Sixties as well as the main sixties party : R 50 gets you in for only Pre Sixties “Foam” Party : R 130 gets you in at the main Sixties Costume Party For more information contact the below people or visit our website. www.sixtiesparty.co.za Here’s more info: The Annual Sixties party (Mmabatho North- West) takes place annually during the first weekend of December. Sixties has been running for the past six years and continues to grow in stature with the addition of every annual chapter. It attracts young partygoers from all over the country (and some parts of the Southern African sub-continent – Botswana & Lesotho). This is made possible through viral marketing as a result of the wide network of connections the people who attend have in the popular culture social scene. So the event plays host to a unique melting pot of urban cultures with young people from a wide range of towns and cities like Mafikeng, Gaborone, Maseru, Jo’burg and everywhere else coming together for a massive celebration that goes on until the sun comes out, and if you have the stamina into the early afternoon. The event affords young people a rare opportunity to escape into another reality. Its location is on a private farm just outside Mafikeng, the North West Provincial capital. This location, away from the hustle and bustle of city life offers people from the major urban centers across the...
Deep Soul Sessions with Vinni
Deep Soul Sessions is a premium Deep House club night, started by international Deep House pioneer Vinny da Vinci after going all over the world looking for what he wants in a good night, being a good deep and soulful house music, a good sound system and beautiful people. Deep Soul Sessions has been pumping at legendary Joburg club 115 for over 3 years now and has just celebrated 1 year in Cape T…own in March this year. Join Vinny da Vinci, just back from the UK and his residency in Ibiza and Cape Town Nightlife for the launch of the Summer Survival Kit on 3 November 2006. DEEP SOUL SESSIONS Friday 3 November 2006 DJ’s VINNY DA VINCI, PETER ABRAHAMS, MICHAEL LESAR Club Tonic (96 Long Street) DOORS OPEN 10PM – LADIES FREE BEFORE 11 R40 before 11pm – R60...
Channel O Awards- see the winners here!
Congrats to all the winners of the Channel O Awards… and the winners are… The winners for the 2006 Chanel O Spirit of Africa Music Video Awards, brought to you by Amarula, were announced at a glittering ceremony held at Gallagher Estate on the weekend. Zola received the Special Recognition Award for his role in the upliftment of youth on the continent; most notably the work that he has do… ne as a UNICEF Goodwill ambassador in East Africa. Nigeria shone at the wards with Mode 9 (featuring Nnena) taking home three awards, followed by 2Face with two awards. The show was hosted by comedian David Kau, assisted by Channel O VJ’s. Top bands including Arthur, Freshlyground, HHP, Ntando, Mzekezeke, Longombas, Mista Doe and Gal Level treated the crowd to vibrant performances. The winners reflect the diversity of the Channel O audience and Yolisa Phahle, Channel O General Manager was happy about the final list of winners: “There really are no losers when it comes to the outstanding talent that has made these awards possible. To the winners of each category I say thank you for your music, it makes a difference to our lives. Music has that power. At the end of the day it’s the viewers that have had the final say,” she says. The Best Female award went to the Mozambican lass Lizha James, while the masked one from Nigeria – Lagbaja, took home the Best Male Video. On the home front, Brickz scooped the Best Kwaito category while Zamajobe walked away with the Best Urban Jazz award. The Best African DJ award was taken by DJ Fresh. The show will be screened on Channel O this Sunday, 22 October at 20:00. The Channel O Spirit of Africa Music Video Awards were brought to you by Amarula. The complete list of winners is: Best Male Video LAGBAJA NEVER FAR AWAY Best Female Video LIZHA JAMES FOR ALL YA Best Newcomer D’BANJ TONGOLO Best Duo or Group MALAIKA 2 BOB Best Urban Jazz Video ZAMA JOBE NDAWO YAMI Best Dance Video DJ CLEO GOODBYE Best African Pop 2FACE OLE Best African Southern MISTA DOE HOT TO DEATH Best African West 2FACE IDIBIA OLE Best African East JONNY RAGGA GIVE ME THE KEY Best African DJ DJ FRESH Best Hip Hop Video MODE 9 FT NNENA CRY Best Reggae Video LUCKY DUBE RESPECT Best R&B Video DARE ESCALADE Best Kwaito Video BRICKZ TJOVITJO Best Collabaration Video DANNY K & MANDOZA MUSIC Best Director MODE9 FT NNENA CRY Best Special Effects WEIRD MC IJOYA Video Of The Year MODE 9 CRY ========================================= Another first for the continent: Africa’s premier...
African Hip Hop Festival in London
There’s the first ever African Hip Hop Festival AFROLUTION happening in London and we wish we could be there… init? All the best boys – Bigs up to all of ya. Afrolution 8 October 2007 7pm Cargo: 83 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3AY Tel: 0207 739 3440 Liverpool Street or Old Street tube, buses 35 or 55 10 pounds… We’re proud to bring some of the hottest African Hip Hop artists on the scene to London. ‘The Afrolution African Hip Hop Festival’, is Europe’s first ever African Hip Hop festival. Our aim is to create a ‘home away from home’ for Hip Hop heads in the London diaspora. London is still one of the biggest destination for immigrants from Africa, and there is a very vibrant scene, but as yet no event specifically highlighting the power of African Hip Hop has ever been staged here. Some of the guys have tracks on Afrolution Vol 1 – check out the site to listen to their tunes and then get your asses down to the show and support the movement! So who’s on board? Migrant Souls – Arguably Africa’s most established and respected MC, Metaphysics from Zimbabwe is an accomplished Hip Hop lyricist, media personality and performer. He’s worked with some of the biggest names in the world (Busta Rhymes, Mariah Carey, Slum Village etc), is currently based in Germany and is the MC for the multi platinum selling German artist Xavier Naidoo. Nu-Reggae legend Laygwan Sharkie is the second member of the group and is also a vocalist with the highly successful German artist Patrice. Together their explosive Hip Hop show aims to set the venue on fire. Check out some of their tracks on our site. Wawesh – Robert Wawero Kiboy hails from the notorious Pumuwani Estate in Kenya. He raps in his native Swahili dialect and was responsible for the infectious 2005 single, ‘Mjanja’. This will be his first performance in the UK and will be highly anticipated by the London based Kenyan community. Kimba / Real Elements – Kimba Andersen is the co-founder of Real Elements. This versatile Hip Hop outfit from Malawi are at the cutting edge of African Hip Hop culture, bringing colour and much-needed conscious lyrics to the fore. Divided Kingdom Republic (DKR) – newcomers, Zimbabwean rappers Munyaradzi Nota and Kudzi Mambara are currently based in London and are poised to release a brand new album that looks set to catapult them to the forefront of global African Hip Hop. Galaxy High – Babou Nian is one of Gambia’s most accomplished MCs and has opened for luminaries like Redman, The Roots, Jeru the...
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