Coldplay. South African Tour. 2011

South Africa seems to be a venue of choice for the hottest music talent around and it is now officially official, Coldplay will be gracing our shores in October courtesy of 94.5 Kfm and M-Net.

Coldplay is undoubtedly one of the world’s best selling acts, with over 50 million album sales worldwide. They have won numerous awards through their career including six Brit Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, seven Grammy Awards and they have headlined major festivals including Coachella, Glastonbury and Isle of Wight Festival.

They will visit for two concerts, one in Joburg and one in Cape Town. They will play in Joburg on 8th October at the FNB stadium and Cape Town Stadium on 5 October.  Tickets prices vary from R270 – R635. All tickets will be available at Computicket from 9am on Thursday.

How excited are you? I simply cannot wait!

Update:  According to Twitter Golden Circle tickets for Cape Town were sold out in 53 minutes.

Further Update: It’s just gone 11:05am and Computicket have just released more Golden Circle tickets for Cape Town.

Commercial Music is Dead. Haezer discussion.

“Is it commercial when people buy it?  or is it commercial when it’s shitty music made for MASS appeal?” –  Haezer.

Haezer took to Facebook to discuss music. He says “Here’s just a little scribble to think about, since I’ve started making music under Haezer think I’ve sold like 100 tracks.  I have 79 000 hits on Youtube for my song Dominator, but hardly sold any of the remixes or original(of dominator that is) on Beatport.

Now, this is the interesting part, the general feeling I get from fans is this.”Dude, we’re not gonna pay for your tracks, because we’ll pay to see you live” and I get that. My argument is this.  How will you ever see artists if promoters don’t want to book them?  I know I’ve had quite a few tours around Europe and Australia.  But that was crazy hard work from my manager’s side and the faith of promoters that I will put up a good show. But generally, artists get booked according to their releases.  If you’re in the Beatport top 10 then promoters will look you up and book you.  I’m not saying all promoters.  But it definitely doesn’t hurt…”

He says “So, my question is.  Is that statement still viable?  Is it really okay to never buy an artist’s work? The other answer I get is…well dude, you’re the anti-commercial guy…you can’t expect people to buy your music. .”

He goes on to say “I thought of this today, because my new E.P is out on Beatport and I was wondering if it’ll ever make it in the top 10…there’s already a link where you can download the original in 320kbps.  It’s on Fix Up if you were wondering… http://fixup.se/ again. that was posted without my consent…” He adds “None of this is offense or hardcore statements…I’m just throwing around some questions and am very curious to see what peeps have to say…Lemme know.  let the opinions be spread.”

Frankmusik. Far East Movement. Do It in the AM.

My favourite electropop musician is back. Frankmusik has teamed up with Far East Movement and ‘Do it in the AM’ and I love it to bits.

The music video has just been released and it’s one big party. Looks like we missed out on some fun.

Introducing Drew Tabor.

I have some of the best news to tell all you pop cynics out there. It’s news to everyone in fact. It is now officially acceptable to like Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Nicky Minaj and Lady Gaga. Oh and Rebecca Black, thrown in for good measure. That is if you didn’t have a secret stash of their songs iPod already.

So why have I made it official you ask? Well, my dears, I was recently pointed in the direction of Drew Tabor, ‘just a ginger with a dream’ or just a special and enormously talented singer. Take your pick. She takes hideous your not so favourite songs and transforms them into mystical, stirring acoustic renditions. One cannot stop listening. Simply magical. Wouldn’t you agree?

Oh and Lady Gaga has given Drew her stamp of approval, from the looks of it she is going to go far.

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yours in musical madness

Trinity Orchestra meets Daft Punk.

Earlier this year the Trinity Orchestra, the only fully student run orchestra in Ireland, played Daft Punk’s album “Discovery” for all to hear. This happens to the first ever live full orchestral performance of Daft Punk’s music and it is one great performance.. This video shows the medley they played as an encore.

You like? I sure do.

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yours in musical madness

As If. Sky Ferreira.

My favourite “art-glam-trash-pop teen” Sky Ferreira is back. If you don’t know of Sky take every preconceived notion you’ve had of a teen pop star and turn it on its head, then you might just have yourself Sky Ferreira, one of the most talented 17 year old’s out there.

Her EP ‘As If’ came out on in late March and boy oh boy, is it a treat. Sky has released official lyrics videos for three of her standout tracks and in a world saturated with identical acts, she is new, bold and refreshingly herself.  As per usual.

Enjoy!

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yours in musical madness

D is For Delightful. Free tickets to Cyberpunkers.

The “Cyberpunkers” project is the child, born in 2006, of the passion for Cyberpunk culture of two young Italian DJ’s. Think electronic music, fashion, design and photography. In a nutshell, a transposition of the Cyberpunk world in modern clubbing . Cyberpunkers shared the stage of the biggest electronic European festivals with such worldwide stars. Now it is time for their “Fuck the System” World Tour in South Africa.

Known for blazing dancefloors across the globe, The ‘Punkers blew up Discotheque last year for one of the most insane nights ever. Now they are back. On Friday 6 May, The Assembly plays  host to  The Cyberpunkers along with Kennedy, Audiophile021, Bruce WIllis?? Battle Beyond the Stars, Dank, George Daniel and many more.

As for the Pretoria party at Capitol Theater on the 7th of May, Double Adapter, Liver, Kennedy and Destrukto will take to the main stage ensuring quality entertainment. For all the and coming DJ’s, Young Blood is a new DJ movement founded by GRIET; a dance floor that only showcases new up and coming Dj’s with potential, Gettafix, Doobie, Vinny Vegas, MakAttack VS The Tourist and Minx will be showcasing their skills.

I have a set of double tickets to give away for the Cape Town and Pretoria legs of the tour. All you have to do is tell me or tweet me why you’d like to go. It’s that simple really.

You excited? You should be. It’s going a set of crazy parties!

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yours in musical madness

Kate Walsh. The Baker.

Meet Kate Walsh. The Brighton based singer-songwriter who has been likened to Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush and Laura Marling  has a new album ‘The Real Thing’ is released in November, and every 21st of the month until then Kate is releasing a new video.

She has recently released her new video for ‘The Baker’.  She said of the video. “Was really lovely recording the video for ‘The Baker’ with Jo on Friday. We were blessed with the sunshine, only thing was our chairs kept falling through the holes between the stones on the beach so there were a few giggles, as always!”

‘The Baker’ is the second in the series of nine videos, you can view the first one her.

I love her and so will you. Enjoy!

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yours in musical madness