Festival Archives - Rolling Stone South Africa

Sound Checking In With Bruce Springsteen At Bellville Velodrome 0
- Artists, Events, Festival, Music, News
- January 28, 2014
Video: ‘I got a nice letter from some South African musicians – it was sort of the tipping point’ We’re hanging at the media marquee tent minutes before Bruce Springsteen and The E-Street’s sound check at the Bellville Velodrome. The Boss doesn’t do the usual press con shtick. Instead, his people have invited a select
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Q&A: Billy Lunn From The Subways 0
- Events, Festival, Opinion
- November 20, 2013
Stand a chance to win tickets to see the show in Johannesburg or in Cape Town The Fun Lovin’ Criminals (Fast And Frank DJ set) and The Subways are set to perform in Johannesburg and Cape Town at the CuervoLution party this weekend. [Scroll down for ticket and venue details.] To mark UK rockers The Subways’ performances, Rolling
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The March of the Madiba-Dancing Chickens 0
- Events, Festival, Music, News, Opinion
- November 19, 2013
Watching everyone and their dog “do the Madiba-dance” feels a bit like being on some pretty powerful hallucinogenic mango – flavoured Kool-Aid. At the public toilets at De Waal Park, there is a handwritten sign begging “Please!!! No drugs in the toilets.” It is unclear whether this is an appeal to our better collective judgment,
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Arno Carstens To Headline Heather Waters Benefit-Gala 0
- Artists, Events, Festival, Music, News
- August 20, 2013
British-born folk songstress and humanitarian diagnosed with acute peripheral neuropathy Arno Carstens recently pulled in to join the Heather Waters Benefit-Gala line-up together with the Delta-Four band, saxophonists Gerald and Mari and Heather Waters herself. The event is scheduled to take place at Hudson’s on Vredenheim Wine Estate, near Spier on the 30th of August. The benefit concert
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Rolling Stone SA’s Podcast – Ep 10. ANDRA at STRAB 2013 0
- Events, Festival, Music, News
- June 3, 2013
The RS podcast travelled all the way to Ponta Malongane in Mozambique to capture this exclusive interview and two beautiful acoustic performances by the Namibian-born songstress, ANDRA. She received a lot of critical acclaim back in 2007 for her debut album Secrets and Skeletons… Notes from a Desert Café. Amongst her busy tour-schedules in South-Africa, she’s
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Lil’ Kim Set To Perform in SA in September 0
- Artists, Events, News
- May 29, 2012
Hunnypot Entertainment has the singer lined up for South African audiences Lil’ Kim will be playing in South Africa in September. The singer will perform at Durban’s Wave House on September 7th and Cape Town’s Trinity on September 8th (A third provisional performance could not yet be confirmed for Johannesburg). Speaking on behalf of the
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