SA ROCK DIGEST ISSUE NUMBER 40
The South African Rock Music Digest
is a free, subscription e-mag, edited
by Brian Currin and Stephen "Sugar"
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Established January 1999
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INTRODUCTION
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This e-mag is a discussion forum for rock and pop music --
South African and International -- past, present and future.
All e-mail contributions to the SA Rock Digest need to be in plain text and with no attachments, please.
Also, e-mails in HTML format (Outlook users, please note), all in lowercase, or all in CAPITALS, tend to take quite a while to fix, so will often be ignored.
Contributions and comments:
http://www.rock.co.za/files/contactme.html
or email Brian Currin:
mailto:brian.currin@new.co.za
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THE BIG FOUR-OH!
The Digest has reached issue #40!
Issue #1 went out on the 27 January 1999 to only 15 people, so here is a short history for the those of you who weren't in at the beginning...
The Digest started as a moderated mailing list, a forum if you will, for fans of the legends of SA rock, to discuss and remember our old favourites.
Subscribers now include many music fans, as well as a number of musicians, radio stations, media and music industry people in South Africa and around the world.
The Digest now goes to almost 800 subscribers in 36 countries.
The SA Rock Digest back issue archive is on the net and keyword searchable at: http://www.crosswinds.net/~sarockdigest/
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NEWS
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LITTLE SISTER
http://www.rock.co.za/littlesister
The new Little Sister website was launched recently and has already had over 400 hits. Fans of good female vocal pop/rock (or melodic rock as I now believe this type of music is called) should visit this site. Listen to some MP3 excerpts, post a message on their message board (or read Debbi and Jenni Lonmon's messages to their visitors), read through their biography and join the Little Sister fan club.
Damian from Orchard Publishing wrote...
Looked at the Little Sister website.
Fantastic. Fast, clean and consistent.
regards
Damian
ORCHARD PUBLISHING
Publication production and management
books * magazines * periodicals * web sites
promotional & marketing publications
Tel/Fax (021) 788 7081
Cell 082 788 9000
24 Orchard Ave, Lakeside, 7945
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MUTANT HARMONY TRIO
Nebula News
There has been a very positive response to the recent 'Song For
Ancestors' album by the Mutant Harmony Trio. This Pretoria-based trio,
comprising Greg Georgiades, Marc Duby and Wynand van der Walt, will be
appearing on the SABCTV program Geraas on Tuesday, November 30, where
they will be showcasing the new video for 'Brazouki',the opening track
on the album.
The band are also considering an offer to tour Oman in January, as well
as the possibilty that 'Song For Ancestors' will be released in the
Middle East and Europe early in 2000. Greg Georgiades, who fronts both
the Mutant Harmony Trio and The Jazzhounds, has been one of the top jazz guitarists in Pretoria for many years. These two bands have made a
string of creditable appearances recently. The Mutant Harmony Trio
performed at the Standard Bank Jazz Festival in Bloemfontein, and will
be playing at the Crossroads Jazz Cafe in Pretoria during December.
These appearances will feature their new drummer, Rob Watson, who will
be replacing Wynand van der Walt when he leaves for an extended overseas trip.
The Jazzhounds appeared at the recent Aardklop Festival in
Potchefstroom, and will be performing at the upcoming Standard Bank Jazz Festival in Kimberly.
Georgiades has also been working with Asish Joshi, and a new album from
this duo, titled 'Samraad', is set for an early 2000 release. The duo
will be performing at the upcoming Festival Of Living Treasures to be
held in Shongwene on December 18. As with the Mutant's album, the
predominant instruments featured on this album will be the oud (fretless lute), bouzouki and nylon acoustic guitar.
Indie Music Explosion
http://www.indie.co.za
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NEW RELEASES
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Visit the Amuzine website for all the latest news on new CDs
http://rock.co.za
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WHATS ON
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The Festival Of Living Treasures
http://www.livingtreasures.co.za
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SUGARDRIVE
It is with pleasure that we announce that Sugardrive will be the official curtain raiser for the 5FM Alanis Morrisette on her South African tour on the 3rd, 5th and 7th of December.
The tour coincidences with the launch of Sugardrive's website, http://www.sugardrive.com and the release of their CD single "A Single and Some Remixes." The CD single features remixes of the 5FM #1 single "Disco Lazarus" and the current radio single "35 mil" as well as the incredible collaboration with the funk masters, Plum. Plum and Sugardrive spent the day at Downtown studios re-recording the Sugardrive song, "Navelgazer".
The onslaught of the Plum sharp-edged-rock-rap will shock and enthrall listeners and is a historical first as two SA rock bands record a collaboration for commercial release. The CD single will also feature an interactive section which will give fans a personal view into the professional lives of Sugardrive.
Sugardrive's website will feature a full e-commerce section, which will cancel all fans complaints of "I can't find your CD any where!!".
For more information...
mailto:sugardrive@authentic.co.za
mailto:nancy@authentic.co.za
Gallo Records: Caroline Hillary 011 788-0519
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SQUEAL: "CIVILIZED?" ON TOUR
December 3rd The Jam Cape Town CD Launch
December 4th Purple Turtle Cape Town
December 6th Backdoor George
December 7th Tin Roof Knysna
December 8th Ricks Jeffrey's Bay
December 9th Venue to be confirmed
December 10th Bedford Pub & Diner Port Shepstone
December 11th Venue to be confirmed Durban
Louise
(Squeal Publicity - Bite Me Music)
011 477 1734
mailto:bitememusic@icon.co.za
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THE DOGFLY TOUR
See the tour at a venue near you featuring Not My Dog and Fruit Fly Navigators.
Wednesday 1 December - The Underground (Bloemfontein)
Thursday 2 December - Buzz Bar (Pietermaritzburg)
Friday 3 December - The Winston
Saturday 4 December - Jamie's
Sunday 5 December - The Jam (St Michaels Hotel)
Fruit Fly Navigators
mailto:fruitflynavigators@hotmail.com
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REVIEWS
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INTO THE NIGHT WE SLIDE - RADIO RATS special CD re-issue
Kurt Shoemaker
We all relate new entertainments (books, movies, music) to similar items we already know, but I can't do that with this album. I cannot think of any performers or groups to compare the Radio Rats to, so I'm left with the conclusion that in rock this is original stuff. Additionally, while possessing a distinctive style, each song is different from the others. The album doesn't sound like the same song played over and over. Many bands confuse style with the repetition of a sound so their albums sound like twelve versions of one song -- but not so in this case. This is fun and original and rollicking rock that doesn't lend itself to analogy. Stand-out tunes for me: "ZX Dan", "Plague Cafe", "I'm In Love", "Rocking", "Mucking About In the Dungeon All Day", "Rocket Road" and "Padded Rooms"-- though I don't know why I mention these songs separately because I usually just put on the disc and let the music play through from the first track to the last.
http://rock.co.za/legends/
This and any other SA CD can be ordered online at One World, the best SA CD store on the pla-Net.
http://www.oneworld.co.za
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STING
Well I had seen Sting in concert on 3 previous occasions, 1986 in Sydney Australia and twice later in San Diego. I volunteer for a local youth charity and part of my mission is to aquire autographed items for their annual celebrity auction. It was with this in mind that I stood, armed with 2 new basses, by the backstage door at Sting's show in San Diego. I got there at 2pm. My goal being to get the guitars autographed and hopefully meet Sting in person. The charity I volunteer for is well known and the security and promoters were all really nice, but wouldn't let me or the guitars inside. So I waited along with about 10 other autograph seekers for "the man" to appear. Well after about 3 hours some black vans finally appeared. An entourage, including Sting's manager emerged. I approached him "Hey Billy" (I had never met the man but was given his name and description). He thought I was totally nuts but accepted a letter I had written and said Sting was not there yet but he would see what he could do. Well at around 7pm Sting's limo finally showed up. He emerged and gracefully began signing for all the fans. When he got to me he had a pen in his hand from one of the other autograph seekers and he said "who does this belong to" I replied "I'll take care of it" and proceeded to tell him that I was a huge fan and had a photo taken with me. It was surreal standing and chatting with my longtime hero in person. The basses were eventually signed backstage and I stayed for the show -- which was awesome.
Also last week I was up in LA (another long story) but met this ex- South African Dane Gillibrand. He is part of what appears to be an amazing charity organization. Check out this website. It's a very cool story.
http://www.blueslab.com/page3.htm
Craig Ballen
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JUST JINGER WOW FRENCH FAN
The new CD of Just Jinger is really cool! The 26th October I saw Just Jinger at the Walkabout inn, Shepherd's Bush, London.
Great gig: The atmosphere was great... They played very good and there was a great moment when it was the drums solo, magic!! I had spoken with Art and hisgroup, they are in good harmony. They are cool...
I think that I was the one French at the gig!! So Art dedicated my three albums and we taked pictures together.
You know, in my opinion Just Jinger is a great group like REM, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Eels, Cranberries, Offspring, Radiohead, Nada Surf, Verve, Smashing Pumkins, Everlast... even if it isn't the same kind of sound! But they are better than Blur, Oasis, and boys band like Backstreet Boys and the others...
They merit to be famous when I compare them with many.... groups.
What do you think about it ?
Cheers,
Baudouin Le Normand <baudouin.le.normand@libertysurf.fr>
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FORUM
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A FEW OF THE BEST SOUTH AFRICAN ROCK TRACKS I'VE HEARD THIS YEAR
Brian Currin
Then It Turns Around - Falling Mirror
from the unreleased album Hammerhead Hotel
Speedtrain - Frankie's Playground
from their debut album, Frankie's Playground,
released in May this year.
Sittin' - Toxic Shame
from their unreleased album Full Circle
Evil In Her Eyes - Off The Edge
from the album On The Run independently
released early in 1999
Fooling Around - Off The Edge
from their 1984 album, Off The Edge, independently
re-issued on CD in 1999
Street Of Love - Jack Hammer
from their 1994 album Ghosts On The Wind
Shot - Springbok Nude Girls
track from 'Surpass The Powers' released in July.
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USA FOR AFRICA
Don't know if I mentioned before that I played a couple of tracks of Big Sky on my "Women In Music" show on KRVM. OK, I know, Steve ain't no lady, but I get away with playing South African boys as a feature called "Leigh's Pics". They got a great response, and I will be giving the "Going Down With Mr Green" CD (the only one I have of his), more airtime in future. Unfortunately, I only have my copy so I can't leave it at the station for the other DJ's to play.
Rodriguez also got a good response, which I think I mentioned to you. Again, it would be nice to be able to play him on the other shows during the day, but that is for record companies and agents etc to decide. The people in this area really enjoy that genre.
It was my first anniversary of presenting the show on Tuesday, and I spent a lot of the time chatting about adjusting to America (it'll never happen!), and playing music that is special to me - so Johnny Clegg's "In My African Dream" got place of prominence! I have a friend from Seychelles helping out in studio, so we were really getting homesick and weepy on air. It was combined with a fund raiser (the station relies on public giving generously to stay on air), and the phone was ringing off the hook. Also played Little Sister and Qkumba Zoo. Guess I'm doing something right!
All for now!
Regards to all and will someone please wave at Table Mountain for me..
Leigh
mailto:leigh@hotmail.com
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KEVIN MASON
I used to play with The Gentle People, Lincoln and Bite in the 70's and 80's. At the moment I am F.O.H. sound engineer for Kingston Sound in Durban as well as running my own production company. Do you want any info and pics? Maybe I can help with info on my many muso mates in Durbs.....
Kevin
Big Bang Productions
mailto:bigbang@eastcoast.co.za
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MIRIAM STOCKLEY
Not sure whether this qualifies as 'rock' really, but are you aware
that Miriam Stockley (indeed of the Stockley Sisters) is making a good
career for herself here in the UK as a vocalist and songwriter.
She has recently released her first solo album (called 'Miriam' I
think; I haven't heard it); she has also had some success with
a group called 'Praise'; again I haven't heard their stuff). She
also appears on many other artists work.
You can check her out at:
http://www.miriam.co.uk/
I know a few people who have heard her music and say she is
spectacular; so perhaps I should find a copy of the new CD and listen
for myself.
I notice the CD is produced by Glenn Keilis (who also has some of the
song credits), who I remember as a keyboard player in a band called,
I think, Ovation, in the early 70's (in Jhb). I don't think they ever
made any records (just did weddings and barmitzvahs) but I could be
wrong.
Sheila Rock
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STUDY POPULAR MUSIC - AND GET A DEGREE!
For the first time in Africa, there is now a degree programme in
Popular Music Studies! Students at the School of Music at the
University of Natal, Durban, can enrol for undergraduate or
postgraduate degree programmes focussed on popular music. For
details (and an online application), visit the School's website -
http://www.und.ac.za/und/music
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MELODIC ROCK
I have tried everything to get more bands reviewed. One band I would really like to review is THE LOUD, but so far they never have been able to send me anything. I am going to check your website later, maybe you can help me getting more info on South African Rock. I would love to get to know more melodic rock bands in the style of OFF THE EDGE. It would be great to give them exposure and review their material. Let me know if you can help me with this.
Gabor Kleinbloesem
mailto:gabor.fabian@wxs.nl
Editor of Strutter'zine
http://www.angelfire.com/ma/strutteraor
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LUNAR WAVES
My name is Alfonso Algora and I write for a Spanish prog-rock magazine called "Lunar Waves" (very known in Europe). Well, I've just interviewed Rob Granville, a SA musician who plays in a project called Tale with other SA players such as Kevin Kruger. I asked him about a SA band called JESTER and he gave me your e-mail. I am very interested about that band, because the only CD I own is the one called "Through a Weirdo's Eye" and I haven't any more news about them. Could you give more information about Jester and/or the musicians of the band. Have they released more CD's?
Kind regards,
Alfonso Algora
mailto:algora@wanadoo.es
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THE DYNAMICS
Well, Life has a way of going round and round. I bumped Jimmy at the
Troupador in Kalk Bay on Friday night. Jimmy is together with Ex-Dynamics Bass player, Rob Whiting, who incidently, has just returned back from a two year stint in London where his band - NO I.D. - had residency in a couple of London Clubs. Rob came back with Girlfriend and NO I.D. Guitarist, Nadia - Ex-Ngoyi, to begin rehearsals locally again for a couple of exiting projects going forward in the New year. Needless to say, Jimmy, Rob, Nadia, Tony, Heather and another guy who`s name I can't remember, cooked the paint off the walls of the Troupador. The Band will will resident there till the New Year. So go check them Out! Good things happening there, I assure you!
Watch the space at AIR for a Review & Pics of Fridays gig at Troupador.
regards
Greg Alberts
Webmaster - African Invasion of Rock
http://www.air.org.za
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THE CZECH'S IN THE E-MAIL
You've almost compelled me to write something on the significance of Rodriguez' music to me! In fact, I think I will. I'm trying to teach myself HTML and have a fledgling site going. Take a look at: http://malfark.future.easyspace.com/
I go to EVERY concert out here in Prague - in fact, I chose the apartment I'm in because it's only 200 metres away from the Czech Republic's biggest and best venue. Next month - Nick Cave - for the second time. You name them and I've probably seen them! I've started writing up reviews of some of the shows I've been to over the years, and have been posting them to my website. I havn't added anything for a while - I was trying to go through alphabetically! Last concert was The Pretenders. I was front row in an audience of about 250. Chrissie Hynde kept on tossing plectrums at me, and I built up a nice little collection! I have stage "track listings" from, inter alia, The Pretenders and Offspring. I have programmes, T-shirts and tickets from just about everything... going all the way back to to The Everley Brothers' back in Pretoria in the late-60's! I'm a compulsive collector! I guess I'll still be working on concert reports long after I've retired - I see them faster than I can write them up!
Autographs - jeez! I have the B-52's, Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, all the Gereformeerde Blues Band (from the Voelvry Tour)... inc Andre le Toit (Koos Kombuis) and Bernoldus "James Phillips" Niemand, the Radio Rats from 1977/8... when I spent the night with them in a parking garage in Pretoria because we were all so motherless and couldn't afford to pay to get out of the garage!!... Ella Mental (I think), eVoid definitely (concert at the university of Pretoria). I've also been posting scans of autographs to my website, but I'm easily bored, and have not finished.
I have concert photos of Ella Mental and the GBB's. Peter Tosh in Swaziland, UB40 in Gaborone, the Amnesty concert in Harare. Mango Groove at the Free People's Concert. Asylum Kids at - believe it or not - "Verwordburgstadt" (aka Centurion Park). Via Afrika in Margate and possibly the Asylum Kids in Cape Town (Greenmarket Square). Black Sabbath at Sun City. Queen at the same venue. I'm sure that there's more.
Posters? SA bands from the 70's, 80's and 90's. Since moving out here 4 years ago I've acquired dozens from just about every concert I've been to. I've started having them framed, but have unfortunately run out of wall space!
For....security reasons....I won't mention anything about bootlegs!! ;-))
So many things and so little time! Unfortunately for me, most of the stuff is still in SA.
Hey... gotta work! Why do we have to do that???
Excuse my incoherent rambling, and I look forward to speaking with you again.
MAlfaRK PAUTZ
Prague, Czech Republic....where it's bloody cold at the moment!
{Editor: this type of e-mail was the original reason for starting the Digest, so the Forum section will always have pride-of-place here.}
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REQUESTS
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Wonder if you can assist me in obtaining/locating a copy of "Bush Rock" by Wildebeest. I know that Colin Pratley had intentions to re-release the album in conjunction with other role-players, back in the late 80's.
PS. Piet Botha and Johnathan Martin will be in J-Bay from the 20th of
December.
Regards,
Dave Degenaar
mailto:David.Degenaar@zaf.xerox.com
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ALTERNATIEWE AFRIKANSERS
Ek is 'n honneurs student in joernalistiek hier op Stellenbosch, en
doen 'n in-diepte projek oor die laaste 10 tot 20 jaar van Afrikaanse
musiek - meer spesifiek oor die sogenaamde "alternatiewe
Afrikansers." As jy enige insight oor die topic het, sal ek dit moerse waardeer indien jy dit met my kan deel.
Groete
De Jongh Borchardt
mailto:12417726@rgo.sun.ac.za
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SWEET SMOKE
My name is Nicole Dennis and I live in Durban - I wandered onto the Sweet Smoke site purely by accident the other day and am trying my level best to track down one of their CD's, as I've never heard of them before, but they look helluva interesting. I play piano and keyboards and am looking for a 2nd hand sax - really keen to start on that. If you have any idea where I can find the Sweet Smoke CD in Dbn, please let me know - I'm very keen to hear them.
Thanks so much
Nicole
mailto:ndennis@grintek.com
Sweet Smoke on the Net is at:
http://www.rock.co.za/files/sweetsmoke.html
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ON THE NET
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SALT OF THE SOUTH/SILENT NOISE/CHILDREN OF NANDI
http://www.lalela.ch
Themba Ndlovu is a musician from Zimbabwe living in Switzerland
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BERNARD BINNS
http://www.bernardbinns.co.za/
ex-Helicopter pilot releasing new solo album
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CAPITOL RADIO 604
http://www.humanoidsoftware.com/projects/capital_radio/
Tribute to this great radio station
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HIDDEN GEMS
Samurai - Dr Jive and The Blue Notes
I bought this seven single (remember those?) in 1982 and knew nothing about this song except that I loved its strange haunting sound and powerful Far-East imagery. Last week, reading through the Off The Edge biography on the net <http://listen.to/offtheedge>, I discovered that Dr Jive and The Blue Notes were a South African band!
Clive Ridgway from KFM in Cape Town takes up the story...
The band was formed and run by my older brother Greg who played
lead guitar and was the lead voice on the bands records. He was very
much the driving force behind the band and produced 'Samurai' which
was recorded at Spaced Out Sounds Studio with Kevin Shirley
behind the desk. My younger brother Tony was the drummer
and I sort of fitted in somewhere in the middle.
Under Greg's direction we played a progressive brand of pop that
reflected our broad musical influences. These included amongst
other styles, rock, blues, country, soul and funk. When Greg decided
to call it a day to focus on film and his other artistic interests,
Tony and I formed a country-rock called Rocking Horse.
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Crazy One - Ramases and Selket
This track was recorded in 1968 by that obscure artist, Ramases (with his wife), who is known in South Africa for his classic album, 'Space Hymns' (remember 'Life Child'?). On 'Space Hymns' is a track called 'Quasar One'. Well, this track is an earlier incarnation of that song. Full of Egyptian-type drumming and flutes this song fused Arabic themes with psychedelia long before Arabic/Western rock fusion efforts like Mike Batt's 'Schizophnia', Page and Plant's 'No Quarter' or Three Fish's 'The Quiet Table' albums.
New Musical Express, March 1975:
They managed to persuade CBS to let them make a single. It was to have been 'Quasar One'. In fact, someone at CBS got his wires crossed and misheard it as 'Crazy One', so they recorded it as 'Crazy One'.
-- Pete Erskine, NME, 15 March 1975 - info supplied by Felix Reut, November 1999
This track is available on the 'Best of Rubble Collection volume 3' CD from Voiceprint records.
http://www.voiceprint.co.uk/bamcaruso/bamvp1009.htm
For the only known website dedicated to Ramases visit:
http://rock.co.za/ramases
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LINKS AND ADVERTS
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ARCHIVES:
THE LEGENDS OF SOUTH AFRICAN ROCK
Where SA rock legends still live
http://rock.co.za/legends
SOUTH AFRICA'S ROCK FILES
The online archive for the History of South African Rock
http://rock.co.za/sarock/
MESSAGE BOARD:
TOO GOOD TO BE FORGOTTEN
Post your message on the SA Rock message board
http://www.insidetheweb.com/mbs.cgi/mb311757
NEWS:
AMUZINE
News, views, reviews and interviews
http://rock.co.za/
AFRICAN INVASION OF ROCK
News, reviews and opinions
http://www.air.org.za
ARTSMART
Arts news from Kwazulu-Natal
http://www.artsmart.co.za
G-STRING
Electronic Music Magazine
http://www.gstring.co.za
INTERTAINMENT
News, links, features, etc
http://www.intertainment.co.za
JOL
News, updated daily
http://www.jol.co.za
LOCAL BEAT
Entertainment news
http://entertainment.iafrica.com/localbeat/recommendedgigs
POWERZONE
News, classifieds and much more...
http://www.powerzone.co.za/
WALL OF SOUND
Up-to-date news on the International music scene
http://www.wallofsound.com
WHATS ON:
BARLEYCORN
Cape Town's Music Club
http://twisted.co.za/barleycorn/
THE GIG GUIDE
Whats on in Cape Town
http://www.gig-guide.co.za/
ZA@PLAY
What's on around South Africa
http://www.mg.co.za/mg/art/music/menu-music.htm
SHOPS:
ONE WORLD
Selling South African Music to the World
http://www.oneworld.co.za/
5% discount for Digest members!
OUTLAW RECORDS, CAPE TOWN
Branches at:
Cape Town Central (021) 4238145
Wynberg (021) 7972482
Claremont (021) 6717887
10% discount for Digest members!
VIBES MUSIC - N1 CITY, CAPE TOWN
Phone (021) 5953220
mailto:vibes@fast.co.za
RECORD COMPANIES, LABELS & STUDIOS:
BMG
Home of some great SA bands
http://www.bmg.co.za
FRESH MUSIC
Independent multi-faceted music group
http://www.fresh.co.za
GALLO MUSIC
Supporting South African Music
http://www.gallo.co.za/
INDIE MUSIC EXPLOSION
The Ultimate Independent Music Site in South Africa
http://www.indie.co.za/
MELT2000
Independent label
http://www.melt2000.com
MOUNTAIN RECORDS
Music from and about Africa
http://www.mountain-africa.com
RADIUM WRECKORDS
The home of the Radio Rats, The Glee Club, the Chauffeurs
and the Pop Guns
Radium Wreckords
Suite 207
Postnet
Private Bag X10
Flamwood
2572
Klerksdorp
mailto:jhandley@aghs.co.za
RIESTER INTERNATIONAL RECORDS
South African independent record company
http://www.riester-records.co.za/
STRANGER THAN FICTION PRODUCTIONS
http://www.strangerthanfiction.co.uk
STREET LEVEL RECORDS
Cape Town's Independent Record Label
http://www.streetlevel.co.za/
TEQUILA MUSIC
The Home of African Music
http://www.tequila.co.za
RESOURCES:
BACKSTAGE
The Musician's Resource
http://www.backstage.co.za/
PEDRO THE MUSIC MAN
Music teacher
http://users.iafrica.com/m/mu/musicman
SA MUSIC DATABASE
Over 100 links relating to South African music
http://members.xoom.com/samusicd/links.html
SHOW VILLAGE
sound - lights - dance
http://www.showvillage.co.za
MAGAZINES:
SCREEN AFRICA
broadcast • film • commercials • video • music • interactive
http://www.screenafrica.com
SLY
Online magazine
http://www.sly.co.za/
STAGE
SA Music magazine
http://www.stage.co.za
RADIO:
DINOSAUR DAYS
The radio show, the CD, the website
http://www.geocities.com/dinosaurdays/
CAPITOL 604
Remembering Capital 604 (1979 to 1996)
http://www.humanoidsoftware.com/projects/capital_radio/
BOOKS:
THE HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
Garth Chilvers and Tom Jasiukowicz (TOGA, 1994)
http://www.rock.co.za/files/book_order.html
KOOS se SONGS
Koos Kombuis
http://www.oneworld.co.za
CLASSIFIEDS:
MUSICADS
Free musical equipment classifieds ad website
http://www.twisted.co.za/musicads/
TRIVIA:
CLIMB UP ON MY MUSIC
A site dedicated to Rodriguez, the Sugar Man
http://www.rock.co.za/files/rodriguez.html
IMAGES OF ROCK
Your Ultimate Rock And Roll Experience
http://www.imagesofrock.com
SPACE HYMNS
The only known website for Ramases
http://rock.co.za/ramases
VAGABOND'S MUSIC TRIVIA
a rock music trivia site
http://rock.co.za/vagabond
VAGABOND'S WORLD
music links in an e-zine style
http://www.zinezone.com/users/vagabond
PIOTR'S GREEN PAGES
Discographies and lyrics for the legends of rock
http://www.zetosa.com.pl/piotrus/greenpages
FESTIVALS:
SPLASHY FEN
The festival, the CD, the book, the website
http://www.splashyfen.co.za
OPPIKOPPI
http://www.oppikoppi.co.za
MUSIC ON-LINE:
CDDB
CD Database Online
http://www7.cddb.com/
CDMAX
CD player for accessing the online CD database http://www.mindspring.com/~clark_tisdale/CDmax/
DIGITAL CUPBOARD
African music, MP3s and more...
http://www.digitalcupboard.co.za
MP3.COM
Listen to MP3s of South African artists
http://www.mp3.com/regions/africa/south_africa/
MP3 SOFTWARE
Links to download sites
http://www.rock.co.za/files/mp3software.html
MUZE
Online music database
http://www.muze.com
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