Tonight we were very proud, and excited if you had any idea of the frantic sms’s that were flying between all the girls from our office, to sit and watch an hour special on Mnet, of one of our favourite groups – 1st Project!
The girl’s were drooling, as with much of the female population of SA I am sure, over one of the hottest live shows you can imagine! Industrial drumming at its most frenetic, and energetic, and a stage presence that had their live audience eating out of their hands, these guys are very cool!
We have been raving about them to a number of our clients, and have had a few bookings, so it is all the better now that they have reached a wider audience.
Play it to break it!
That’s their motto. And they look like they want to break it!
It’s difficult to talk about the brutal, senseless, cruel and crazy murder of South African composer & entertainer, Taliep Peterson.
Angie had just emailed him on Friday discussing an enquiry a possible job gig, but so even though I wasn’t close to him, we did have dealings – and that makes it more difficult.
We’re disgusted. It’s a loss for South Africa, it’s a loss to the world – but it must be a terrible loss to his family.
Sometimes a little bit of pressure from the right people does have the desired results! Desmond Tutu recently made a video appeal to the world to get the Botswanan government to halt the eviction of the San Bushmen from their lands in the Kalahari.
This film was first released on 6/11/2006 by the Gana and Gwi Bushmen’s organisation, First People of the Kalahari, and I read ruled as illegal on Wednesday, by two of the three judges on the case. last night that the evictions were
Of course, we don’t know if it was his appeal that had an effect, or whether the case presented had the power to convince, but regardless, the ruling is a great victory for one of the most ancient of cultures.
The world is such a fast moving place and greed causes us to make decisions that we might regret one day, but are powerless to reverse.
We’ve been up the coast again - thats the reference to camping - no running around in ladies clothing or anything like that! We have got Mince for that, so there is no way I would even attempt to compete!
We spent a long weekend at the Palmiet campsite, in Kleinmond, Overstrand, and only returned later yesterday afternoon. And what a stunning site?!
The silly season hasn’t started yet, so we had most of the site to ourselves, with the kids having the freedom to cycle and run around freely, the beach almost deserted and the nights as quiet as one would hope to have when out in the bush.
Since Lenny stuck her finger through the screen of our laptop, I haven’t been able to connect while on the road, but that did make the break just that - a break.
So more posts will follow, including some exciting news of national and international stars that we will be working with in 2007!
In 2000 South African journalist Rian Malan wrote an article for Rolling Stone magazine about the origins of the mega-hit track The Lion Sleeps Tonight, and how Solomon Linda, who first sang the track at Gallo Studios in 1938, died a pauper without the recognition he deserved.
He likened the track to being as South African as Australia’s Waltzing Matilda is Australia, in that if it had been correctly credited, South African music would have been on the map a lot earlier. And Solomon would have ended up waltzing a lot more in his own life-time, if he had received even a fraction of the royalties earned on the track.
We book some of South Africa's funkiest musicians, bands and entertainers, and because we are so passionate about what we do, our business is our pleasure.
Tonight we were very proud, and excited if you had any idea of the frantic sms’s that were flying between all the girls from our office, to sit and watch an hour special on Mnet, of one of our favourite groups – 1st Project!
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