This October Chris Danger Thundervolt teams up with Canadian Felipe The Bass Invader for a South African national Dingwall Bass Tour, playing music made on bass guitars. Both Chris and Felipe are Dingwall artists and will be promoting these beautiful instruments as well as the other products they are sponsored by including Darkglass Electronics (Chris),…
Hailed as South Africa’s first hard rock supergroup The Devil’s Party Band is a band like no other. Consisting of Anthonie van der Walt (ex. Thysis and JackHammer), Chris van der Walt (Vulvodynia), Werner Bosman (Led Zeppelin Tribute Band), and Jason Oosthuisen (Van Coke Cartel, Oooth), who have all made massive strides in both the…
Breakout Events is pleased to present ROARFest 2019 taking place at Carfax in Newtown on the 30th November. This is the first of what is set to become an annual event focusing on all things retro, original, alternative and rock related. The festival will include beer gardens, food trucks and an alt. market. The line-up…
Nobody Knows What We’re Doing Neither Do We, the new album from South African experimental psychedelic funk rock band No Requests releases today. Formed by Chris van der Walt (Vulvodynia), Clint Falconer (Dan Patlansky) and Gareth Bunge (The Black Cat Bones) who have been all been a constant force in the SA music scene for…
(Photo Credit – Eetu Keränen) Today sees the release of Astral Death Cult, the second full-length album from DÖ, a riff-praising, cosmos-worshipping trio from Helsinki, Finland. This vicious death cult lead by Big Dog (guitar), Joe E. Deliverance (drums) and Deaf Hank (vox & bass) feeds on dark astral energy and compresses it into what…
Manchester based music collective Oystercatcher have announced dates for their first South African tour. At its core are vocals and bass duo Caitlin Laing and Tom Chapman, but their philosophy is to make each live performance unique by constantly varying line-ups and arrangements. With a strong emphasis on songwriting as a duo this is always…
South African experimental psychedelic funk rock band No Requests have unveiled the video for the new single Choir on Fire. The track is taken from their new album Nobody Knows What We’re Doing Neither Do We which is set for release on the 27th September. Formed by Chris van der Walt (Vulvodynia), Clint Falconer (Dan…
(Photographer – Kevin RC Wilson) Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal is an award-winning vocalist, songwriter, producer, and world-renowned guitar virtuoso, with over 25 years of releasing music, playing international festivals and headlining tours, and gracing magazine covers as a solo artist. He has just announced dates and details for his first ever South African tour where he…
(Photo Credit – Eetu Keränen) DÖ, the Helsinki based döömers are set to release their new album Astral Death Cult at the end of September. Esteemed UK site Outlaws of the Sun have already called it “contender for record of the year. It is that good” in their recent review which you can read here…
Sit The Folk Down, the Cape Town based promoters and event managers are happy to announce that they will be launching their new STFD Studios on the 1st September 2019. Jon Shaban and Kevin Ramage, owners and founders of Sit The Folk Down, have been longtime champions of the DIY ethic and this new venture…