Remember singing along to Howard Roark’s “You Got The Moves”, seeing Eat This, Horse play Evol on the regular, and wondering if the New Loud Rockets were from S.A.?

5. Unit-R

Sounded like: A cool Michael Stipe fronting an electro outfit.

Would it surprise you to discover that… Both Matthew de Nobrega (aka Trance producer Artifakt) and his brother, one Justin de Nobrega (aka DJ Hi-Tek of Die Antwoord), were both in this band?

DISCOGRAPHY:
Two by Four (EP) – 2006

Phosphenes (Album) – 2008

4. The Beams

Sounded like: Equal doses The Cure and The Smiths.

Would it surprise you to discover that… Erstwhile frontman Paul Maree is Helen Zille’s son?

DISCOGRAPHY:

The Beams EP (2007)

3. Eat This, Horse

Sounded like: Jim Morrison backed by The Arctic Monkeys.

Would it surprise you to discover that… Half the band now forms part of Pitchforkdarlings, John Wizards?

DISCOGRAPHY: Uncertain

2. Howard Roark

Realm: Facebook / The Assembly

Sounded like: They were wearing skinny jeans and had hair in their eyes (foot-tapping pre-hipster rock).

Would it surprise you to discover that… Howard Roark had more than one song? Ooh la la la!

DISCOGRAPHY:
Introducing Howard Roark (2007)

1. New Loud Rockets

Sounded like: They’d been listening to British Indie bands on repeat.

Would it surprise you to discover that… One of the boys that sang about seeing you bleeding in a “cab”, NLR drummer Philip Erasmus, went on to play in Afrikaans electro-pop supergroup Die Heuwels Fantasties?

DISCOGRAPHY:

Let’s Play House (2007)