Music Exchange EPK Video

Deep Fried stand-up comedy

From Deep Fried Man

Well hello there.
It has been a while, my lovely little mailing list. Welcome to new members!
Much has happened in Deep Fried Man-land since last we spoke.

Last Saturday night was Vinny and Dirty Gav from punk band Vendetta Cartel’s birthday party at Cool Runnings Victory Park. I had a great time playing there alongside the birthday boys and Rambling Bones.

And, the Cool Runnings gods liked me so much that I will be back there tomorrow night for a comedy session alongside Chris Forrest and Warren Robertson.
This is the future for Deep Fried Man. People laugh at me when I play, and it’s about time that I pretend that I am trying to make them laugh on purpose. So, I will be doing more comedy shows and less music gigs for the time being,
So, if you’re keen, come through.
Cool Runnings Victory Park, corner Rustenberg and 2nd Street, Victory Park Shopping Centre.
Tomorrow night (Tuesday 9 Feb), from 8pm.
Entrance is free!
The gig is brought to you by Rockford Media: http://www.facebook.com/RockfordMedia

Meanwhile, Andre Scheepers’ super-radio friendly version of It’s Complicated has earned the illustrious positition of no. 4 on Stellenbosch’s MFM charts.
And the video ZSkilz and I made has been doing the rounds, even attracting the attention of 5FM’s Leigh-Ann Mol, who posted it up on Facebook and tweeted about it on Twitter.
Thanks Leigh-Ann, and if 5FM wanna reconsider their decision not to playlist the track let me know…

Meanwhile, ZSkilz and I have updated our old track Lank Hardcore for 2010. Stay tuned for the video…
You can listen to it on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/deeplyfried and, for a limited time only, you can reply to this mail asking for a free mp3. Because here at Deep Fried Man-corp we care about you!

Love and, like, bunnies and marshmallows and stuff.
Deep Fried Man
Singer, songwriter, insurance salesman, wannabe comedian, illegitimate son of Jacob Zuma.
www.facebook.com/deeplyfried
www.myspace.com/deepfriedman
www.twitter.com/DeepFriedMan

Music Exchange tickets available at Webtickets

Tickets are available through webtickets.co.za for R1,250 for two days and R750 for the optional third day of workshops. Delegates who attended Music Exchange 2009 will be given a special price of R1,000 for the two days.

Michael Currin: Band and events photographer | Bio

Michael Currin: Marketing student at UCT with a passion for photography and music

Michael Currin: Band and events photographer | Bio.

Floydian Slips is back!

(copied from Facebook event created by Alan Day)

Floydian Slips is back!

SA’s favourite Pink Floyd tribute band bigger and better than ever!

Popular Pink Floyd tribute band Floydian Slips is back with a new run at the Kalk Bay Theatre, featuring brand new material and two new members! The band will be performing the classic Dark Side of the Moon album, along with music spanning Pink Floyd’s entire career, including their hit albums Ummagumma, Wish you were Here, The Wall and The Division Bell, from 10 – 20 February.

Floydian Slips’ tribute shows originally consisted of a two-man act, but now it has filled out to include a full band. Both founding members, Alan Day (guitar, synths and vocals) and Sven Golden (piano, synths and vocals) are back in action, and they are joined by Paul Tizzard (drums and percussion) and Jeanne van der Merwe (bass guitar, synths and vocals).

Floydian Slips made its début at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown in 2002, and played to good reviews at, among other venues, the Barnyard Theatre in Plettenberg Bay, The Dorp Street Theatre in Stellenbosch and the Independent Armchair Theatre in Observatory. The show started as an intimate, acoustic act and gradually came to include more and more electronic effects and synthesizers in an attempt to stay true to the original music.

Says Alan: “As a two-piece band, we had always enjoyed an intimate connection with our audience and more than on person had said that the stuff we didn’t play they could hear in their heads. However, after 8 years I felt that it was time to try something new and more exciting. Being able to do material that was inaccessible as a duo was our first goal. Being able to improve the sound of our existing repertoire was the second.

“We knew from a very early experience with trying to do Floyd as a full band that the most important requirement for personnel was a love of Pink Floyd’s music rather than the usual ‘how much will I get paid?’ attitude. So that’s what we looked for. After phoning around a bit we were lucky enough to find Paul and Jeanne.

“We don’t want to be too big right now, as we love the report that comes with a smaller audience; people actually chat with us and ask questions during the show. The music, well, people want more than ‘Brick in the Wall’; they want that original Floyd magic and we aim to give it to them.”

For more information: www.floydianslips.co.za
To book tickets for the show: 073 220 5430 or http://kbt.co.za

Praise for Floydian Slips:

“It’s quite a challenge to pull off a tribute to one of the epic bands of the last century as a two man outfit, but Floydian Slips goes some way to reincarnate these heroes. The best aspect to this show is most definitely Alan Day and Sven Golden’s
reproduction of the vocal harmonies that once made Pink Floyd so memorable.”
Jane Mayne
Cape Times, 2006

About the artists:

Guitarist Alan Day has a background in electronics, sound engineering and video. Before Floydian Slips he vaguely recalls playing in the band “Falling Mirror” and “Graham Weir’s Elastic Band” both of which were somewhat theatrical. Alan sometimes builds guitars and has the audacity to use them in the shows.

Composer Sven Golden is a popular solo jazz pianist and has played in various Mike McCullagh tribute shows, as well as Theatresports and with Graham Weir’s Elastic Band. He is the only member of Floydian Slips to have seen Pink Floyd perform live in the USA while he was studying music at Cal Arts in 1988.

Paul Tizzard has drummed professionally since 1992 and has played with the acclaimed guitarist John Mair in Crosstown Traffic, The Usual, Flat Stanley and is currently a member of Dave Ferguson’s The Lonesharks. He has been linked to several piano tuning episodes.

Bass player Jeanne van der Merwe has performed with Cape Town cover bands Seven and Sudan and more recently, the original rock band “The Cliffhangers”. Jeanne has the unenviable challenge of having to play like Guy Pratt while sounding like Roger Waters!

Note to editors:
“Floydian Slips” is a Cape Town based band and should not be confused with an American Pink Floyd Tribute band called “The Floydian Slips” or the UK Pink Floyd Tribute band Floydian Slip.

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Wrestlerish get signed to Rhythm Records

From Musical Mover

“When I listen to Wrestlerish I think of driving in the passenger seat and losing out under streetlights and I think of bicycles and glitter and I think of girls and the way hearts used to break so well in the old days. A quarterlife crisis is a ridiculous thing to have, but he’s making the soundtrack to mine.” – Hunter Kennedy

Wrestlerish are a four piece that “blend rock, country and folk like these genres should have always been one…”

Rhythm Records have just signed the band and their debut will be released in March 2010. For a sneak preview of their brilliance, download their first single “Bad News” for free at here. As I said earlier this year they are a band that is going to go far. Mark my words.

Enjoy their video for “Bad News” below.

xx

yours in musical madness

Twintig jaar later – en Valiant rock steeds volstoom in 2010

Valiant Swart

Valiant Swart vier vanjaar ‘n besonderse mylpaal: twintig jaar op die verhoog! Hy het in 1990 sy eerste ‘Valiant Swart Band’ op die been gebring, en vanuit die studentekroegies van daardie beginjare gevorder tot nasionale sterstatus. Vandag is Valiant ‘n huishoudelike naam en gevestig as een van die voorste liedjieskrywers en verhoogkunstenaars in Suid-Afrika, met veertien albums en ‘n paar TV-trefferreekse op sy kerfstok.

Vir Valiant het 2010 afgeskop met die opname van nog ‘n splinternuwe album, ‘n besige optredeskedule, ‘n nuwe TV-reeks en nesskop in ‘n nuwe tuisdorp.

Na die ‘Eindelose Reis’ wat hy en sy gesin verlede jaar deur die SA platteland onderneem het, het Valiant nou sy wortels neergelê in die Strandveldse dorpie Stanford, halfpad tussen Hermanus en Gansbaai. Van hier beplan hy om sy verhoogoptredes voort te sit, sy tydskrifrubrieke te skryf, en werk te voltooi aan twee groot skryfprojekte waarmee hy hom die afgelope twee jaar besig hou.

Na die sukses van hul multi-bekroonde album ‘Vuur en Vlam’ (2007), het Valiant onlangs saam met sy musiekgenoot Ollie Viljoen die opnamesessies van hul nuwe album voltooi. Die album bestaan uit ‘n hele paar nuwe komposisies, asook ‘n paar ou nommers uit die Afrikaanse liedjieskat. Die beoogde loodsdatum is vroeg in April by die KKNK. (Volledige persverklaring op pad.)

In tandem met die album, verskyn Valiant en Ollie binnekort saam met hul verhoogmaat Pietman Geldenhuys as ateljeeorkes in ‘n nuwe kykNet geselsprogram. Hierdie reeks van dertien episodes word eersdaags verfilm en beloof om topklas vermaak aan kykers te verskaf. Behalwe vir ‘n uitsoek-groep ateljeegaste, bied die musikale driemanskap in elke episode kraakvars treffers van hul nuwe album aan.

Soos sy aanhangers sou kon verwag, het Valiant se 2009-reis op die agterpaaie heelwat inspirasie vir nuwe liedjies opgelewer. Hierdie liedjies is reeds besig om hulself tuis te maak in sy verhoog-repertoire. Sommige ou gunstelinge is ook herontdek, afgestof en ‘n nuwe baadjie gegee.

Nes in die verlede, sal Valiant se vertonings een van drie formate beslaan: eerstens is daar sy gewilde solo-optredes, intiem en sielvol, met bittersoet kitaar en stories vol deernis en humor. Tweedens is daar sy ewe populêre optredes saam met Ollie en Pietman (‘Die Mystic Trio’), waar die driestuks gehore trakteer op liedjies en staaltjies uit die Valiant-en-Ollie stal. In die derde plek is daar die gesogte (en skaars) optredes van Valiant met sy rock band. Getroue aanhangers, oud en jonk, maak altyd seker dat hulle nie hierdie vertonings misloop nie, vir ‘n goeie rede: hierdie manne rock nog steeds soos niemand anders in Afrikaans (en Engels) hulle dit kan nadoen nie. Gaan luister maar self.

Of jy nou ‘n volgeling van Valiant se tydskrifrubrieke is, of ‘n aanhanger van sy musiek en sy verskynings op TV: maak vanjaar seker jy is in die gehoor as hy op of naby jou dorp optree – en vier twee dekades se vermaak met een van SA se gunstelinge!

Vir onderhoude, foto’s of medianavrae, kontak:

Riana Wiechers
RHYTHM PROMO
riana@rhythmrecords.co.za

072 341 6439

http://rhythmmusicstore.com

South African Indie Volume One

SA music conference returns with digital theme for 2010

SA MUSIC CONFERENCE RETURNS WITH A DIGITAL THEME FOR 2010

Cape Town

3 February 2010: Music Exchange, South Africa’s first independent music conference returns for round two in March 2010. The conference which has made huge waves in the South African music industry will be held on March 22 and 23 at Crystal Towers Hotel & Spa in Cape Town. In line with the ever-changing landscape of the music industry globally, a strong digital theme will be an integral part of the keynote talks and panel discussions that are scheduled for this year’s event.

The highlight this year is the keynote address by Charles Goldstuck. The CEO of Touchtunes and former COO of Sony Music will be flying out from New York City for a day to share his knowledge of the evolving music arena from a global point of view. Other speakers and panellists include Jake Larson, the Head of Music for MEA for Nokia Music, Peter Lacey, Managing Director of Musketeer Records, Yoel Kennan founder of Keevision and South African music legend Sipho ‘Hotstix” Mabuse, who is on board as a partner in the Music Exchange entity.

“South Africa has some of the best talent in the world but we have to up our game with strong business acumen from everyone involved in putting a record out there,” said Martin Myers, founder of Music Exchange. “The aim of the conference is to empower people in the industry with the tools and knowledge to assist in making a success of their creative efforts and our long-term vision is to put South African music on the global map.”

Topics of discussion this year include an overview of the changing revenue landscape and a specific look at needle-time; the physical side of digital that will focus on all the different media available and how one should approach a web marketing strategy; and an intimate look at how some of South Africa’s most successful bands interact with their fan bases through traditional and digital methods.

Workshops

There is an optional third day to the conference where delegates will be able to attend half-day workshops. These will cover more in-depth topics on the contract by top industry lawyer Nick Matzuckis and the digital arena by digital marketing expert Brian Currin.

Demos encouraged

This year delegates are encouraged to bring demo copies of their work to hand out to the bouquet of industry movers and shakers who will make themselves available to offer strategic insights and advice. There will be a showcase evening on the second night and delegates are requested to submit their demos for consideration and 5 performing artists will be given the opportunity to perform in front of some of the biggest names in the music industry in South Africa.

Music Exchange is the brainchild of Martin Myers, a long standing music industry publicist and Peter Lacey, the Managing Director of Musketeer Records. The inaugural conference was held in March 2009 and was sold out within days of it being announced.

Peter Lacey, Musketeer Records and Martin Myers, founder of Music Exchange.

For more information contact

Martin Myers

Founder, Music Exchange martin@martinmyers.co.za 083 448 4475

About Music Exchange

Music Exchange is South Africa’s first independent music conference and is the brainchild of industry professionals Martin Myers, a long standing industry publicist, and Peter Lacey, MD of Musketeer Records with the creative input of communications specialists Total Media, the innovators behind successful sister conference Fashion Exchange +27. The 2 day conference is jam-packed with keynote talks and panel discussions and delegates will have access to over 20 big shots in the South African and international music arena. From contract discussions to the age of digital delivery and beyond, the conference aims to give budding musicians, singers, songwriters, promoters etc. an insight into the workings of the business as well as the opportunity to ask hard hitting questions of those professionals who “know it all”! For more information click to www.musicexchange.co.za.

Tickets

Tickets are available through www.webtickets.co.za for R1,250 for two days and R750 for the optional third day of workshops. Delegates who attended Music Exchange 2009 will be given a special price of R1,000 for the two days.