SA Rocks

Some of you might know that once upon a time I played music, in a band, on stage and even recorded an album. [see below for songs]

Now the reason I bring this is up is as follows; The lead singer of the band I was apart of, Bevan Lynch, has started his own band called Stereo in Flight. They are playing their very first gig in Durban.

Here are the details:

You can also head over to the Facebook event and get involved.

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Local SA band, Isochronous has just released a new music video. The video is directed by a good friend of mine, Fausto Becatti. Loving the Cinematography and the sound this band produces is surprising at first and then incredibly listenable. Great work to all involved.

If you want to know more about Fausto and his mad directing skills, drop me an e-mail and I’ll put you in touch!

Click here to go directly to the video if you can’t see the above video.

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Jack Parow really seems to have a knack for getting in the head of society (my society/generation at least) and exploiting what’s on their minds.

Here’s the new Parow song:

I particularly like the references to Teenage Ninja Turtles, Dinoryders and Freddy and Jason.

And now here are the lyrics:

I miss two tone clothes from Andre Carl
I miss fokken early monday morning skoolsaal
I miss the parties when my parents where gone
I miss the days when the booze was still strong

I miss those hip high fullsuite bikinis
I miss mickey mouse shirts and polkadot minis
I miss the original indiana jones merch
I miss the duck from fokken telefun quiz
I miss early morning kaalvoet rugby
I miss kfc when it was still called kentucky
I miss days when i thought movies were real
I miss my ouma sitting reading danielle steel
I miss the first childs play and jurassic park
I miss jake the snake, gold dust and owen heart
I miss it and freddy and jason volies
I miss sneaking down the to tv and watching late night movies

bad old pussycat
whole day long
by the power of greyskull
ghostbusters

I miss the students seats at newlands rugby park
I miss sleeping with the lights on because im scared at the dark
I miss leon schuster when he was still taking the piss
I miss screaming province with my hand in a fist
I miss doing cut and paste projects for school
I miss pollyotters and having braais by the pool
I miss Dinoryders, Bravestar and Bionic Six
I miss Cheers, Arende, Who’s the Boss and Wings
I miss puzzles with mom and playing with play dough
tell me “where in the world is carmen sandiego”
I miss giving girls lifts home on my poegie
I miss the days in Marc’s car of just smoking and cruising
I miss the A Team and Murder She Wrote
I miss the days when I was still kak scared to smoke
I miss the days when special effects were hand made
when Francios Pienaar still played rugby and didn’t eat Lays

There’s so much I miss from the old days
There’s so much that I learnt from the old ways
Another kid fokken raised by the 80′s
Kytie Kytie, jy was nie net n mytie
I was raise by girls in outfits and kop doeke
kaal bolyf, kla oortyd en kaal fokken voete
Dallas, Dynasty en Agter elke man
Kringe innie bos en Ballade vir n enkeling
Voortrekker camps and CSV kampe
Mufasa, Aladin, Bambi and Thumper
Klei lat, Swart Kat and self-built tree houses
no shoes, no worries, play holes in my trousers
there’s a lot of good things that happened back then
but I cant keep going on about way back when
so that’s enough of that, no way no how..
Cause I’ll miss all the shit that im doing right now

[via blacknotes]

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Local band in CT, recorded and shot with absolutely no budget whatsoever. Luke Viviers and Bheki Dladla lead vocals with Tony Shine and Just Nathan on the strings. Music Video directed by Porteus Xandau.

Not too shabby for a bunch of dudes with no cash, a camera and a song in mind. Very nice in fact, it can stay:

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I’m not sure how real this video (as in, is it a setup), but it absolutely rocks!

Thanks to @GrantNash for the heads up! Brilliant.

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The new Jack Parow video is absolutely freakin’ fantasties. I love it. I dig his cocky arrogant vibe, I dig Mr. van Coke rocking out hard. I think the quality of the music video production is brilliant and it could easily pop over on to MTV and no one would know the difference.

I especially love the very loose use of the curse words that rock through the song. These guys are fast becoming my new heroes on the music scene.

Do it, buy the album, watch the video, blow the lid off this song and give these guys the exposure they deserve.

Here it is:

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This video was shot be a very good friend of mine, Fausto.

The musician is a genius, so it seems. You decide:

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UPDATE:

Greg Fell from The African Attachment kindly mailed me to take responsibility for the incredible video above. So my suggestion is to get in touch with Greg and the team at The African Attachment if you have some money to spend and need some production work done. These guys have clearly earned their stripes.

With thanks to Bangers and Nash I discovered Ashtray Electric‘s new music video, “When sex becomes a sport”. It is nothing short of absolutely astounding. It compares to some of the best music videos I’ve seen emerge from anywhere in the world and would love to know who came up with the concept and shot it so I can award them with the credit they are due.

UPDATE:

Greg Fell from The African Attachment kindly mailed me to take responsibility for the incredible video above. So my suggestion is to get in touch with Greg and the team at The African Attachment if you have some money to spend and need some production work done. These guys have clearly earned their stripes.

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Fokof, fokof polisieman fokjou.

Now that is alot of swearing in Afrikaans, but these are the words that first opened my eyes to the incredibly cultish Afrikaans rock band, Fokofpolisiekar.

Watching the trailer above makes we want to fly to this bands next gig and throw my panties at them (I’d start wearing panties just so I could throw them!).

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This competition has been running for a week or two over at Afrigator and now SA Rocks is jumping on the band wagon. And why would we not jump on board to help you, our loyal readers, win a dinner with the incredible band, The Parlotones.

Competition rules are below:

Afrigator / Parlotones Hands on Wine dinner competition rules

These rules (“these rules”) govern entries into the Afrigator / Parlotones Hands on Wine dinner competition (“this competition”). If you enter the competition you agree to be bound by these rules. Should you elect not to be bound by these rules, your entry will not be considered as a valid entry into the competition.

This competition is being run by Afrigator Internet (Pty) Ltd in conjunction with Hands on Wine (Pty) Ltd, A company called it and The Parlotones band (“The Organisers”).

In order to enter this competition and be considered for the prize, you must:

own a blog that you regularly maintain (“your blog”);
ensure that your blog has been registered on Afrigator.com;
create a blog post (“your blog post”) on your blog, before the closing date, that mentions the Giant Mistake wine somewhere in the content of the post;
post a link back to the Giant Mistake wine website located at http://theparlotoneswine.com on your blog post.
By entering this competition you confirm that you are at least 18 years of age.

This competition ends at midnight on the 31st of October 2009. The winners of this competition (“prizewinner”) will be selected on or before 7 November 2009 and will be notified by the contact email address supplied when registering on Afrigator.com as well as on http://blog.afrigator.com. If the prizewinner fails to contact us the judges will be forced to allocate a new winner for the competition.

This competition is only open to residents of South Africa.

There are two prizes available for this competition.

Dinner with The Parlotones band at a venue in Johannesburg
Dinner with The Parlotones band at a venue in Cape Town
Two different entrants are entitled to winning a prize. One prizewinner residing in Johannesburg and one prizewinner residing in Cape Town will be selected to attend the prize in the city they reside in.

Transport to and from the venue does not form part of the prize and is for the prizewinners own account.

Accommodation in Cape Town or Johannesburg does not form part of the prize.

The outcome of the competition is subject to the decision of The Organisers of the competition, whose decision is final, and no negotiations and or correspondence will be entered into after the fact.

Participants enter the competition at their own risk and The Organisers bear no responsibility for any loss, damage or harm suffered as a result of participation in the competition.

If The Organisers are unable to deliver a prize to a winner or if a winner fails to claim the prize then the prize concerned shall be forfeited.

The Organisers reserve the right to redistribute all unclaimed prizes if not claimed after one week after being given away.

Prizes may not be exchanged for cash or any other prize, nor are they transferable to any person other than the prizewinner.

No employees and immediate family of The Organisers nor their PR or advertising agents are allowed to participate.

The Organisers reserve the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend, alter, amend or close the competition as necessary.

The participants entering or taking part in this competition authorise The Organisers to publish any or all the details of the participant and or to take pictures of the participant without any liability on the part of The Organisers and or remuneration due to the participant.

If you are the prizewinner of the competition, you will need to make yourself available to attend the dinner (“claim the prize”) on a date specified by The Organisers. Should you not be able to claim the prize on the date specified then The Organisers will be forced to allocate a new winner for the competition.

No personal information will be disclosed to third parties without the user’s permission.

In the case of any disputes regarding these rules the decision of The Organisers will be final and binding and no correspondence will be entered into.

The laws of the Republic of South Africa govern this competition. You consent to the jurisdiction of a Magistrates Court in the Republic of South Africa, which has jurisdiction in respect of any dispute arising out of any aspect of this competition.

The Organisers may amend these rules from time to time in writing without notice to you. It is your responsibility to check for updates and amendments to these rules. To the extent these rules constitute an agreement between you and The Organisers, you agree that these rules may only be amended, in writing, by The Organisers.

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