SA Rocks

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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So this incredibly funny video is doing the rounds in South Africa at the moment. I couldn’t help but post it.

The Graham Norton show is a talk show in the UK on BBC ONE. Graham recently featured Anna Paquin. She is an Oscar winner and star of True Blood series on HBO at the moment.

I was personally enthralled by True Blood (even before Anna gets her kit off in the show).

Apparently so were The Brothers Streep. In fact they are such big fans of Anna’s that they wrote a song about her. Graham Norton found this song and played it for Anna when he was interviewing her.

This is what came about. It is hilarious and the Cape Town band, The Brothers Streep were Skyped in the middle of the show to play their song. It is a 6 minute video so buffer and then play but it is well worth waiting for.

This video was created by the incredibly talented Mike Scott.

Another rocking production by Goldfish and colab with Mike. Fantastic work.

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When Aking launched on to the scene I started to wonder what I’d been missing with their other band, Fokofpolisikar. I was right, I’d been missing out.

Now I bring you the very first Afrikaans Rock/hiphop/rap colaboration. It comes to your from a rocking South African group called Kolproduk and and Straatligkinders. The track is called Desvalido. It’s getting major airplay on SA Radio nationwide. Rock on.

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Yes it is that lovely time of year again. When the grass turns to a deep shade of green, the sky rolls over to a luminous blue and the clouds move along just enough to provide with comfortable amounts of shade.

This all means that it’s the perfect time for Rocking The Daisies and Rocking The Gardens to descend upon us and blow our minds.

It’s Summertime, in a nutshell. I am normally a Wintertime person but who can deny that the cooler things definitely happen in Summer.

So let’s cut to the chase.

Rocking the Gardens

is taking place at Emmerentia Dam in JHB on October 3rd, 2009.

The lineup is as follows:

Black Hotels
Ashtray Electric
340ml
aKING
Tidal Waves
Freshly Ground
Bed on Bricks
Just Jinjer

Brilliant. Now on to

Rocking the Daisies

The Lineup is sick –

Sunday
10:00 The Little Kings
11:00 Simon van Gend
12:00 Son of a Thousand Blues
13:00 340ml
14:00 Bed on Bricks

There is a Red Bull Studio and a Lemon Tree Theatre this year and RTD is always eco-friendly and rocking conscious.

This year at RTD there will be some very kick-ass, old school with a nu-twist, Photo Booths present at the event. Sponsored by The Grid. Make sure to pop in to the booth, get your photo snapped with your insane mates and post them to your various profiles, albums, social networks or wherever.

As per usual there is nothing left unturned at The Daisies event, Join The Grid Group (www.thegrid.co.za/rtd/home on your phone browser), follow them on Twitter, hit the Facebook event and so be sure to get your rock out.

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One of SA’s hottest DJing talents (I mean musically hot as well as visually appealing) needs the help of the South African public.

Here it is laid out simply:

Get involved in the most important poll in dance music – DJmag’s Top 100 DJs poll. Forget poor imitations, this is THE only poll that matters to DJs and promoters worldwide because it’s voted solely by YOU – the foot soldiers on the dancefloor.

Over the following pages you will be asked to enter your details including your email address, the country you live in and your top 5 DJs of 2009. Please note that your IP address will be logged as part of the process. To complete your vote, you will need to validate it by clicking on a link in an email that will be sent to the email address you provide. Your vote will not count until you have validated it.
Rules

1. You must provide a VALID email address for your vote to count. We use your email to send you a message so that you can validate your vote.
2. To vote you must agree to our privacy policy.
3. Multiple votes are cheating and will automatically be discounted.
4. Voting closes on 23rd September.
5. One vote per person – email addresses and IP addresses will be logged.
6. ANY DJ offering incentives for votes will be disqualified.

So you simply need to go and vote, confirm your vote and tell your mates to vote. Get involved!

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At least it was declared a monument according to the organisers. But let’s be honest, who could possibly argue?

Klaus Bauer over at Zoopy did an absolutely sterling job of his coverage of Oppikoppi this year. If you can believe it, I actually watched a 6 minute video online, maybe we aren’t the 30second generation after all?

I love the fact that everyone shares a common understanding of why they attend the event and it is very simple: Music, boose, music and a couple of drinks. Simple, effective and jovial fun.

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Very strange that Jason Von Berg over at the times has produced a story about Mpho, the British (South African) artist. I saw her music video last week on MTV and wondered how a British sounding artist ended up with a name like Mpho. Now I know and if you watch the video below, so will you.

South African born singer songwriter Mpho is climbing her way up the UK charts with her debut single, Box n Locks. The star, who’s famous father is none other then Sipho ‘Hotstixx’ Mabuse, will follow up the single with a full length album called Pop Art in October. Jason Von Berg caught up with in London to find out more.

– source.

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