GOLDFISH in Japan and Dubai
You lucky fish. You know it’s Editorista’s dream to go to Tokyo…Guess she’ll have to keep living it vicariously through fabulous superstars like Goldfish. Pass the news on to all your friends in Dubai and Japan that the GOLDFISH boys are on their way and ready to entertain! MoshiMoshi! Cape Town based Jazzy House duo Goldfish are making steady in roads into the international … scene. With a visit to the UK and France under their belts earlier this year, they have now been invited to perform in Dubai and Japan. “Word is getting around out there obviously,” remarked David Poole with a grin, “And we are only too happy to oblige! This is what all bands dream of happening, so we are stoked to have the opportunity to play in foreign countries and spread the word about our music. Hopefully it going to lead to more of the same as well as bigger and better things!” The duo will be playing in Dubai in November, and Tokyo in December. This is all happening in the midst of the success of their debut album, “Caught In The Loop” and the pre-production work for the bands second album. “Its true that we are busy starting to get the second album together,” remarked Dom Peters, the other half of the duo, “But when opportunities like these come knocking, you lock the studio door behind you and you go and play! Playing overseas is a huge priority for us, as the 1st Album is starting to make real in-roads overseas now. We believe Caught in the Loop deserves our full attention before we release the next album, so the real work is only just beginning&the world is a big place – and we’ll show them a thing or two about how South African bands party!” Goldfish is a totally independent band that has released their music themselves, with a distribution deal in South Africa through Kurse Music and an international publishing and distribution deal through Black Mango Music in London. The successes they are achieving both at home and abroad are down to nothing less than the band’s own hard work, a total commitment to quality and massive self-belief. The Details of the Shows: Dubai: Date: 034 November Venue: Terrace Bar, Park Hyatt Hotel, Dubai Line-up: Goldfish performs 2 sundowner sets on 3rd & 4th November @ The Terrace Bar, Park Hyatt Hotel, Dubai& Cover: FREE Time: 17:00pm sundowner set Japan: Date: 5 December Chivas Regal event Tokyo (invite only) Date: 7 December Chivas Regal event Osaka (invite only) Date 8 December Venue: La Fabrique (www.lafabrique.jp or http://www.myspace.com/lafabriquetokyo http://www.myspace.com/goldfishlive http://www.goldfishlive.com/ Open to...
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:...
Are you a bedroom DJ?
If you’re still stuck in the bedroom producing beats and tracks that noone gets to enjoy, you need to get to Bedroom Beats, a website dedicated to showcasing bedroom dj’s in South Africa. Checking out the site – they’re looking a little lily if you know what we mean and the flyer could do with some slicker design – so come on Representers, go and showcase your soulful sounds and style. There’s… a party in two weeks where the dj’s get to put their tunes to the test. To find out more, see the site here. What IS Bedroom Beats? This site is for all those people who maybe have jobs, or are still going to school or varsity, but still make time to compose or record music on their home computers. We welcome all styles – the only prerequisite is that is has to be home produced – no professional studios allowed. Our philosophy is to create a showcase platform for South African bedroom producers. Not only will we host your music uploads and allow a community of other producers to rate your music, we also try to organise monthly events where producers can show off their music to a live...
Some Mothers Sons
When last did you visit the Market Theatre? Come come now, having a good time is not always about rock ‘n roll and pumping beats. If this is “not your scene”, I urge you to expand your horrizon and go check out this play by Mike van Graan and directed by Jay Pather at the Market Theatre. After a national tour that would have included five festivals and two theatres, as well as short seasons in Lo… ndon and The Hague, Some Mothers’ Sons by award-winning author, Mike van Graan (Green Man Flashing, Hostile Takeover, and Two to Tango) will be staged at the Market Theatre from 3 -29 October 2006. Some Mothers’ Sons is a play that confronts directly the moral and political challenges of violent crime afflicting contemporary South African society – was the Jury Runner-Up at the NLDTF/PANSA Festival of Reading of New Contemporary Writing (a national competition to encourage the development of new plays) held in November 2005. One of six finalists, Some Mothers’ Sons also won the Audience Award and earned Jerry Mofokeng the “Best Director” award. Story Line: The play features two characters, Vusi Mataboge and Braam Visser who meet in the mid-eighties when Vusi is being brutally assaulted in detention, and Braam is acting as his lawyer. They become close friends and eventually, partners in a leading human rights legal firm. Then, in 2004, Braam is a victim of a violent crime and he responds in a manner that leads to his arrest. The original roles are reversed. Braam is in custody, and Vusi is there to act as his lawyer. Two good men experience violence in an intensely personal way in very different circumstances twenty years apart. How do they react? And what are the consequences of their actions for those around them, and for themselves? “As one of the few practicing contemporary South African playwrights able to construct morally complex and dramatically layered scripts dealing with highly controversial socio-political topics, Mike van Graan’s latest play, Some Mothers’ Sons, is highly recommended.” – Brent Meersman, Mail and Guardian Some Mothers’ Sons features Wiseman Sithole and Gideon van Eeden. In the mould of Green Man Flashing, it is a play that will move audiences, but will also make them think about, and debate the issues raised in the play for some time afterwards. PRODUCTION INFORMATION: Author: Mike van Graan Director: Jay Pather Cast: Wiseman Sithole – playing Vusi Mataboge Gideon van Eeden – playing Braam Visser Season: 3 – 29 October Performance Times: Tues – Sat 20h15 and Sun 15h15 Venue: Laager Theatre Price: Tickets for all previews and Tuesday performances R30...
TURNTABELLES -Ladies on the decks!
The French Institute of South Africa (IFAS), Pro-Helvetia Arts Council, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Pretoria are proud to present the thrilling electronic music event TURNTAB’ELLES! Women are on top and behind the decks on the 8th of August at Capitol Music Cafe (JHB) from 9PM and on the 11th of August at RONGChrome (CPT) from 9PM. On the bill the major and unforgettable Elisa Do Brasil (France/Brasil), the upper skilled Manon and Dj Girl from Switzerland, the brilliant Letizia Renzini straight from Italy and last but not least homegrown incredible talents Bexs on Decks, Miss Red and SoulSista. Drum’n bass, house, electro, soul funk will blast the whole night long! You DO NOT WANNA MISS THIS! Contact: Peggy on (011) 836 0561 (JHB) or (021) 425 4701 (CPT) Damage: Capitol R70, Cape Town R50 and R100 For VIP...
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