Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Charlie King's Acoustic Album launch

Had the great pleasure of playing in the hastily-assembled band for Charlie King's acoustic CD launch last night.

Charlie King
In the band: Myself on double bass (Marshall); Redeye Riaan and Arno van Zyl (out of Namibia, on guitar and banjo respectively), and the legendary Tim Parr (Ella Mental, et al, on guitar).

The evening was opened by Son of a Thousand playing a few acoustic songs - they are in the city for a few dates.

Redeye and Arno have a great vibe and method of play - and it was great thinking on Charlie's part to put this little combo together. Awesomely fun evening of cool blues-based tunes.

Follow Charlie on Facebook here.


Friday, October 14, 2011

Music Network at Assembly

Marshall got roped into presenting the show on Thursday October 15. And someone decided this was hilarious enough to publish.


Te event featured performances from Louise Day, Machineri, Taxi Violence, Goodluck and DJs Pascal and Pearce.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Today is World Sight Day

Cross section of a human eye, showing a detach..."World Sight Day is an annual day of awareness to focus global attention on blindness, visual impairment and rehabilitation of the visually impaired held on the second Thursday in October.

World Sight Day is observed around the world by all partners involved in preventing visual impairment or restoring sight. It is also the main advocacy event for the prevention of blindness and for "Vision 2020: The Right to Sight", a global effort to prevent blindness created by WHO and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness."

From: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/annual/world_sight_day/en/index.html
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Monday, October 10, 2011

Band of Skulls - Mulder & Skullies

_Band Of Skulls Live Concert @ Botanique Bruss...Image by Kmeron via Flickr"Band of Skulls, a Blues infused Rock n' Roll trio from Southampton, headlined Rocking the Daisies this past weekend. Since the release of their debut album Baby Darling Doll Face Honey the band has been touring across the world, supporting huge acts like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Jack White’s most recent project The Dead Weather. "

- Channel24's intern reporter Inge van Eetveldt attended the press con at Rocking the Daisies - read that report here.

Greg was there, too I think, representing the label.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

I don't think he likes us

Review of the show: Last Train to Nashville - A Tribute to Johnny Cash

“The show rocked, plain, prosaic and simple.

Johnny Cash
The same, sadly, cannot be said about the opening act, Long Time Citizen, who, with their attempt at coat-tail-riding by “Featuring Trinity of We Set Sail”, come off as rather limp. The frontman’s voice is dull and unpleasant, the lack of drums leaves the sound hollow and stage presence hovers in the vicinity of zero, despite the enigmatic bass-player. “This is a hillbilly song,” they proudly declare and launch into “Who Is Gonna Bang My Drum” – it might pass here, but in the real South they would be laughed off stage. They butcher “Ring of Fire”, make a mockery of the country-standard “Ghost Riders In The Sky” and I’m about to get sour at the whole tribute affair when Sixgun Gospel take the stage.”

- Max Barashenkov, Mahala.co.za

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Last Train to Nashville

Really gratifying to see the positive response to the Last Train to Nashville - A Tribute to Johnny Cash show last Saturday with Six Gun Gospel and Taxi Violence.

What  also felt really different about this show for me - and I'm grateful for this - was that all the stress actually went onto the shoulders of the production people, who really seemed to put in a lot of effort on all fronts. As far as I could tell, they erred on the side of over-planning, but that's never really a disaster.

The end result is a show that almost EVERYONE who attended raved about on Twittter and such. And it was also a show that the musicians enjoyed, mostly because for once, they needn't have worried about anything.

I have to also mention our guest Trynity (of We Set Sail) who really added a superb element to our part of the show. Her trumpet and percussion worked really well in the arrangements, and I have a feeling that the Citizens will be seeing more Trynity on their own stage in the future. Two good shows in two days. Winning. 
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