Soul Superstar Joss Stone to Perform at Carnival City.
Hard to believe in a couple of weeks British Soul singer Joss Stone will be performing her smash hits at Carnival City. Read the full press release below, and get your tickets ready. Multi-platinum selling British soul singer Joss Stone will be performing for one night only at the Carnival City Big Top Arena on Wednesday, 2 April. With six albums and over 14-million in sales worldwide under her belt, Stone has made an impression on fans of soul music. With her latest release The Soul Sessions Volume 2, Joss shows why she is so highly acclaimed in her genre. Her new album has been described as “vocal poise, passion and power with some great songs and an artist at the peak of her powers”. Her childhood musical influences were Dusty Springfield and Aretha Franklin and she has emulated their soulful style of singing. Joss enjoyed early success when in 2001, at the age of 13, she won the BBC Television talent show Star for a Night and also won Steps to the Stars. In 2003 she signed a recording contract with S-Curve Records and released The Soul Sessions, her multi-platinum debut album which reached the Top Five in the UK Album charts and the Top 40 of the US Billboard 200 chart. To date Joss has won numerous awards including a Grammy and two Brit Awards. Her decade in showbiz has been characterised by her intuitive and freeform approach to music, and by hard-earned experience. In her short young life and already long career, she has performed onstage with the likes of James Brown, Gladys Knight, Solomon Burke, Blondie, Smokey Robinson and Melissa Etheridge amongst others, and has also enjoyed collaborations with Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart. The show begins at 8pm and tickets are available from Computicket between R300 and R680. DATE Wednesday 2 April 2014 TIME 20h00 VENUE Carnival City Big Top Arena TICKETS R300 to R680 each BOOKING Computicket...
Jerm joins eNCA.com as the editorial cartoonist!
Jeremy Nell, otherwise known to South Africans as Jerm, is joining eNCA.com as our official editorial cartoonist. His first cartoon will appear on eNCA.com from Tuesday, 08 October. Jerm began his cartoon career in 2005 after leaving his corporate job and he went on to win a number of awards. He’s also been recognised as one of the ‘Top 200 Young South Africans’ and one of the ‘Top 40 under 40’ media personalities during 2013. Jerm’s work has appeared in a number of newspapers, magazines and online publications. He now joins South Africa’s biggest television news network, eNCA. Says Timothy Spira, GM of eNCA Online: “Our association with Jerm slots nicely into this dynamic, providing visual content that will work across both TV and online. It is also a step forward in our ambition to bolster our opinion content, building on a strong base that already includes regular contributions from the likes of Jeremy Maggs and Fred Khumalo. I am tremendously excited to be working with Jerm. His work reflects the same ethos of unflinching examination of contemporary society that has become the hallmark of eNCA”, Says Jeremy Nell, Editorial Cartoonist: “While print media dwindles, I am chuffed to be at the forefront of South Africa’s growing digital cartooning landscape. And it’s even better that eNCA see the value in digital media. I am pretty excited to be working with eNCA”. Jerm’s cartoons will appear on Tuesdays to Fridays on eNCA.com. eNCA.com FACTS eNCA.com is now just six months old and we’re delighted with the performance of the site. In September eNCA.com passed the milestone of half-a-million unique browsers (UBs), with 538,000 total UBs and 395,000 domestic UBs, placing us ahead of news sites that have been around for many years. Our combination of original text and image content, combined with extensive video coverage, is clearly hitting the mark with the South African online news consumer. We’ve also benefitted tremendously from the interplay between TV and the website by providing additional context to TV stories that give viewers a reason to go online. We recently extended this even further with the launch of a new Video section containing all of our online videos in a format that is easy to navigate, and which provides users with access to all current affairs and news content that has run on eNCA’s TV...
Comedians for MASS HYSTERIA “hahaha”
Comedy festivals are known to have the best of laughter, and yes we agree. This one promises to be even better than all comedy festivals you’ve attended. We recommend it, from the line-up we suggest you carry your tissue box just in case you LOL so much you end up tearing all over your face. I’m sure you’re familiar with these names after the jump, prepare to be laughing till you get carried out with more laughter hahahaha. With police shooting innocent people, Presidents building funfairs for fat ladies, Rhinos lying dead on the road back from Mangaung and legless runners shooting people in the toilet – let’s face it, when you read the papers today, it’s hard to believe that the country isn’t being run by a bunch of comedians already. Isn’t it time you voted for a better class of leadership? From their phenomenal success in 2012, your comedy cabinet is back: with one or two changes (floor crossing is allowed in Parliament, you know…) Mass Hysteria 2013 – if you don’t laugh, you die. Following on from 2012, witness the triumphant return of one of the nation’s sexiest and most provocative stand-up shows ever, Mass Hysteria – Viva Haha, Viva! Come see the new national leaders of our country take to the stage and give you something to really cry about. With laughter, that is… Watch them effortlessly tear the government a new one, poke fun at themselves and come down hard on current events. Casper De Vries, Nik Rabinowitz, Joey Rasdien, Chester Missing, Ndumiso Lindi, John Vlismas, Tumi Morake, Mpho Popps Modikoane and Kurt Schoonraad together for the first time ever, are guaranteed to cause Mass Hysteria. Check Computicket listings to see which of these Ministers will be coming to your area. With a production by Whacked™ Special Project, this show promises to be the most beautifully produced stand-up show of the year, a cast of headliners in their own right joining forces to make you laugh so hard, you’ll forget where you are… Mass Hysteria – Funnier than Parliament. CPT: Grand West Arena: 16th & 17th August 2013 JHB: The Teatro, Montecasino: 28th – 31st August 2013 PE: The Convention Centre: 7th September 2013 Bookings Through Computicket. www.computicket.com SOCIAL MEDIA: PRODUCTION Mass Hysteria Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/MassHysteriaComedy Mass Hysteria Twitter: https://twitter.com/masshysteriaSA Suggested Hash tags: #FunnierThanParliament #ComedyParliament #ComedyMinisters Let’s go Represent there and come back with great pictures to show We Where...
I Create We Create.
It is not everyday in South Africa where you come across young people gathering to foster a new way of living and successfully giving it their all to achieve their goals. Recently we teamed up with the feisty and talented Thinz who attended the #ICWC2013 conference held in Newtown to bring us up to speed, in her own words.This is what she observed, a good article for creatives at large. The transformation debate in the South African creative industry is one that’s going to go on for a long, long time. What a pleasure it was then to see one (of many) individuals who’s decided to take it upon himself to contribute towards turning this situation around. Banele, a guy we consider to be the epitome of a hustler here at the Represent offices, literally had to pull rabbits out of hats to put together what we consider to be the most inspiring workshop we’ve had the pleasure of being invited to. Having identified a gap (the size of the rift valley) between creatives with skills to offer and creative agencies desperately in need of talent, he facilitated an event that brought the two parties under one roof. On a cold winter Saturday morning, in a venue so nondescript it has to be one of Joburgs best secrets, the 1st of many I Create We Create events got underway. Hosted by a guy who – in my opinion has to be the funniest comedian right now – Donovan Goliath, the room began to buzz with inspiring speaker after speaker as creatives from a wide range of disciplines – photography, graphic design and writing – absorbed inspiration for how to make it in the dog-eat-dog world of living your creative dreams in the city of gold. All the speakers had nothing but gems to contribute. Sarah Jane Boden of SoulProviders started the show by sharing her learnings from being a small and growing content business. Shy-guy (he said it) Green Robot CEO Kgomotso Mautloa told his story of a start- stop journey to the top. A story that inspired many young people who could identify with him because he’s young and, like many of us, was at some point overwhelmed with the feeling of being directionless in his life. Then there was copy guru Mbulelo Nhlapho who blew everybody away with his portfolio of creative work that has cleaned up at awards shows across the globe. We often never take the time to think that behind the great advertising messages and stories we see out there, sure there’s the brand they represent, but behind it there are actual people who graft for hours,...
Exhibition by Nicholas Hlobo
STEVENSON Johannesburg presents a solo exhibition by Nicholas Hlobo this Thursday 25th April from 6-8pm. For information visit: www.stevenson.co.za....
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