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[joedraper] Friday, May 01, 2009 7:23:00 PM

There is this one local band: Hog Hoggidy Hog (yeah stoopid name but..) I got to know them through having to do interviews and wright ups etc.. They got together and decided to just go to Europe and wing it. So they managed to get onto some bills and toured Europe. They didn't make much money at all. They managed to pay for their transport and accomidation but they also got recognition. They did small venues and some had an audience of ten people some had in the very high hudreds. They went out on their own and now they're pretty popular in Europe.

I had a great time and on evenings like this, I have hope for South African musicians who deserve to be out there where they belong!

Still.... Waiting for this big metal band that are on this world tour thing and are going to come here so that I can say I saw Priest in my homeland??? ROFl

No, I never give up!
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by spapad from Friday, May 01, 2009 7:04:14 PM)

spapad wrote:

That's just crazy, you would think that Promotors would be all for promoting their own country's offerings to the world. Imagine all the music that get's missed because the band cant get to cash to go to England. Seems very narrow minded on the music industriy's behalf not to promote from within, sort of speak.
You should write a review on the band anyway, and freelance it to a mag or another paper. Someone is bound to want to listen.

joedraper wrote:

The thing is that (unbelievably lol) South Africa does have a huge multiculture of muscality.. We have everything from traditional, tribal music to pop, to jazz to metal and some very formidable rock. I don't think that promoters do the talent here any justice at all. That is why we've seen so many of our local artists leave our shores to seek recognition elsewhere. For instance: Dave Mathews (ok not very metal but anyways) is a South African.Seether. Now they've done so much for this country and had to achieve their status in the USA because they just couldn't get the backing here. We've also got an aspiring artist who could rival any international act.. A guy called Arno Carstens. That guy should be right at the top period. And he had to sign a deal with a UK record label and move to the UK so that he could produce music.

Those kind of things make me sick. We have a lot of really bad artist but we also have an elitist list of pure excellence in their field and nobody here seems to want to do a thing about it. They'd rather import mediocre acts like Celine Dion and The Pussycat Dolls than give our real guys any light of day.. (hey.. could this be why the don't want me to review those concerts?? lol)

spapad wrote:

I've been drug to a few events in my life that I honestly didn't think I would enjoy and ended having a lovely time! You just never know till you go! Would have been nice to write and article on that, how you could say you were very pleasantly suprised.

joedraper wrote:

I tell you Spa.. this guy is to reggae/dub what Snoop is to hiphop lol.

These guys were just so natural. I'm still totally in awe of the evening I had. I'm a tad dissapointed that I wasn't asked to do a review on this band for the local that I write for because I really enjoyed something that I went out hell bent on believing that I would hate (if that makes any sense?) I always get asked to write reviews or articles on bands that the editor knows I like and know so this would have been so cool to have such an open review about a genre that I am totally not familiar with. Hell, I think I'll just write a review anyway and give it to the mag and see if they feel like using it. The bands were that good!

spapad wrote:

Good to see you had a good evening Joe.

joedraper wrote:

Ok.. I"m back and you know what??? This was so cool! LK J was so cool and so were Dennis Boval and his band thingy.. I have a newfound respect for reggae/dub now.
I don't know if anyone even knows this artist but he's so cool! He's like this distinguished old british dinosaur who is more of a poet than a reggae artist. His percussionist is so old, I think he could have been Linton's dad (Linton is in his 70's now so imagine how old the percussionist is) and the drummer is this little british kid who looks like he's had the crap beaten out of him at school but is a really steady great drummer (no, not as great as Travolous but then who is? lol)

Linton is so old that instead of a promper board, he'd take out a neatly folded white piece of paper with a set list and presumably a refresher on the lyrics he was supposed to be singing on it.

I was pretty apprehensive when I first went out,but I'm glad I did!

Ok.. Ready for Priest now..

		Ellieke wrote:

		Hey , I don't know the music but who knows it'll be fun. Doing things together is always fun, what men don't do for love ;) Have fun tonight , I'm sure it'll be a great evening

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