Sipho Gumede stage @ Oppikoppi
It’s never to late to join in the fun, if you still don’t have plans this weekend, get in your cars and drive to the beautiful North West Province to the Oppikoppi festival and get down at the SIPHO GUMEDE stage this year. They have a jam-packed line up just waiting for you to forget all our your city ills, including of course our favourite DJ Kenzhero and the Party People interlude. Represent! Way back in 1997, when most of us OppiKoppi buffs were still laaities, the Allan brothers were cordially invited to play broken beats and Elvis tunes from the roof of the Gito Baloi stage; The following year, the boys invited even more wayward DJ friends and musicians and annexed an old ossewa to serve as a stage, on a hill far away from the madding crowd and rock-fuelled masses. Fast forward to the present and said stage, affectionately known as the 206 stage, has morphed into the “Sipho Gumede Mein Stage”, which has become a force of note(s) at the festival, and certainly a harbinger of breaking (!) and exciting acts every year. With each passing year, the stage and the lineup has grown and diversified, and so too the crowd, allowing us the headspace for oodles of experimentation and trialing. As has become expected of our motley crew, we have added some new dimensions to the stage we like to call home for one weekend a year: VJ Little Nicky joins us this year, as we have finally added a big screen to the area. The visual imagery is sure to add to the patina of this all ready swinging stage. A permanent bar next to the stage helps when you are dancing and don’t have the energy or inclination to negotiate the obstacle course up the hill and to the bar. Kwani Experience bring us their home-cooking skills once again with an all-weekend pap & vleis Cook-off. Remember to eat. hris will be serving vegetarian food alongside the kasi’s. Comedians Ntosh Madlingozi, Zee the Protégé and Trevor Gumbi join us in “The Dysfunctional Revolution” on Saturday afternoon. Tosh Madlingozi then goes on to Host the Party People lineup on Saturday night. Add to this the amalgamation of bands, dj’s, turntablists, sound and lighting crew, mc’s and tequila drinkers doing their best to include both musical genres known to man, 24 hours a day, and you undoubtedly find yourself with a recipe for 48 hours of total abandon and revelry. On Friday night the 8th, as is the custom, Blunted Stuntman hosts “Yo-Yo” with cutting edge breaks acts alongside live acts such as Tasha Baxter,...
Not in Our Lifetime Concert Give-away
Get your party gear on, take back the city and officially make your pledge to the “Not in Our Lifetime” pro-African initiative taking place in Newtown Park next . It’s all about bringing musicians together from across Africa to mobilise citizens to continue to make a difference in our communities and to encourage the positivity we all share about our glorious continent. It’s chipile at R50 but leave your shisanyama’s at home as there will be stalls providing everything you need… We have two double pairs of tickets to give away, simply email editor@represent.co.za with your name, ID number, contact number and email address, and answer the question: Name two of the presenters of the ‘Not in our lifetime Concert’ to be held in Newtown on 3 August. Send your entries before the 31st July and remember. Read all about it below… All in one day for “Not In Our Lifetime” concert – tickets now on sale! MTN SA is proud to announce that it is to sponsor the “Not in Our Lifetime” concert to be held at Newtown Park in Johannesburg on Sunday 3 August 2008. The concert is the second phase of an awareness, educational and fund-raising initiative that was launched on 9 July. ‘Not In Our Lifetime” , which is driven by music, is aimed at spreading a positive message about South Africa and the African Continent. MTN SA is the founding Corporate partner of the initiative. Says Pieter Verkade, Chief Marketing Officer for MTN SA: “MTN has come a long way since its inception and is today the biggest mobile telecoms provider on the African continent. We recently launched our 2010 FIFA World Cup™ campaign, One Spirit One Africa, so we are very happy to celebrate this great continent through one of its strongest roots and one of our passions, music.” The concert line up includes Lungelo, Teargas, MXO, Slikour, Necessary Noize (Kenya), Danny K, DJ Sbu, Kwela Tebza, Tuks, Tic Tac (Ghana), KB, Kalibrados (Angola), Pro Kid, HHP and DJ Cleo. MC’s for the event includes Thomas from Metro FM, Lee from Yfm and Shugasmakx. The concert is about bringing artists from across Africa together to share one stage and unite in pledging their support to changing the world around us. It will take place at Newtown Park (adjacent to The Bassline ) in Newtown. Tickets, priced at an affordable R50 each are only available through Computicket. All proceeds from ticket sales will go towards the “Not In Our Lifetime” initiative. Gates open early from 9am until 6pm for a full day line up of incredible artists who support the initiative. Refreshments and food...
Call for Musicians for the Lucky Fish Music Festival
Musicians and bands looking for a fresh platform to air your wares, make sure to stand up and be counted by submitting your profile to the newest addition to the SA Music festival scene, Lucky Fish, taking place the weekend of the 2/3/4/5 October at Route 28 Westonaria – just up the road from Jozi. Let’s hope the organisers create an edgy, offbeat contemporary festival that is truly reflective of the broad musical genres our vibrant and brand-savvy youth are into, attracting a wild and diverse crowd… So often festivals repeat the pigeon-holing that’s oh so 80’s (an exception here is Flux which we’re sad no longer happens)… Here’s hoping Lucky Fish doesn’t! Time will tell. The Lucky Fish Music Festival is a brand new music and lifestyle festival that has been specially designed to provide the most possible fun in four short days. It will feature great live bands on multiple stages with multiple music genres. It will also feature specially designed chill zones with top local deejays, flea-markets and arts and crafts, lots of extreme sports with games and competitions, beautiful camping, and the sexiest people in South Africa! Lucky Fish is fresh, it’s exciting, and it’s packed from start to finish with madness and fun. It’s the hottest new date on the calendar! You know that you want to be there at the birth of SA music history! After nine years as the Woodstock creative and production team, Authentic Ideas has finally launched its very own music and lifestyle festival. Festival director, Clint McKeon says, “The Lucky Fish Festival was conceptualized 3 years ago, but we chose not to go ahead with the project whilst we were still commissioned by Woodstock as their creative team, as we didn’t want to create any conflict. When we resigned at the end of last year (from Woodstock), and when we realized that Woodstock was to be held at the end of November eight weeks after our event; we then realized that we had the opportunity to launch Lucky Fish, it was just a matter of finding the right venue. Then the Route 28 Resort fell into our laps and we took it as a sign that the time was right.” Says director Nancy Hillary, “We feel that we are in a unique position after 15 years of working in the South African Live Music Industry, to be able to provide the right mix entertainment and to create a festival that’s exciting, clean, secure and unlike any other in the country. There are so many things we have wanted to do in the past but have never had the opportunity....
Kwani Experience Live in Jozi
Need we say more? Click on the flyer for all the details for this Friday 25 July at the Crazy 88 in Norwood…. And as someone once said to me “be prepared to dance.” Yip, listen, watch and...
340ml are Sorry for the delay.
340ml are sorry for the delay. Watch the promo video below and catch a preview of their new album due out in August on www.sorryforthedelay.com – SOUNDS LUKKA!!! Muito Bom sublime. 340ml also have an awesome Flickr site… And of course, we hope you’re planning to get to Bushfire in Swaziland where they’ll be performing tracks off the new album – don’t say we didn’t warn you. Watch the video below: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ0u4_ZgJWg[/youtube] Photo taken from the flickr...
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