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/ 29 November 2002
Riaan Wolmarans reviews Gareth Gates, Will Young, Heinz Winckler and Nick Carter.
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/ 22 November 2002
The Nescafé Ministry of Sound Global Tour hits Gauteng on December 7, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
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/ 15 November 2002
Three music superstars are arriving in South Africa to perform alongside local stars on stages in the big cities, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
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/ 14 October 2002
Seeing Jamiroquai perform live was, at times, like sitting next to a stoned friend: mostly lots of fun, but sometimes you just have to tune him out while he drones on about some trivial matter, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
We have a pop idol in the form of squeaky-clean Heinz Winckler, we almost have a new Big Brother celebrity millionaire and soon South Africa will have brand-new kwaito stars and a DJto support.
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/ 20 September 2002
<b>CD Review</b>: Télépopmusik: <i>Genetic World</i>
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/ 2 September 2002
Riaan Wolmarans reviews the new Red Hot Chili Peppers album, <i>By the Way</i>.
South African Music Week roars on to stages around the country from August 24 to 31, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
The Redd’s Diva Explosion, taking place indoors at the Johannesburg Stadium, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
<b>CD Review</b>: Battery 9: <i>Sondebok</i>
Despite the overload of slow songs, the die-hard Ronan Keating fans in the audience had a good time, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
Riaan Wolmarans reviews Josh Groban’s self titled debut.
With the help of a recently launched Internet site, one can now compile and order a CD with tracks from one’s favourite up-and-coming local acts at a very reasonable price. The site, to be found at www.thenextbigthing.co.za, provides a handy outlet for bands and musicians to make a profit from single tracks instead of recording or selling a complete CD. This is different to sites like www.oneworld.co.za, which sells complete local CDs only.
Everybody wants to be famous, but sadly, few will be. It’s far easier to just support those lucky souls who have made it to the big time, and these are some of the people taking part in the National School of the Arts’s (NSA) Festival of Fame, featuring the "truly famous, newly famous and about to be famous".
Step aside, Idols diva Heinz Winckler — the search is on for a South African dance diva in the run-up to the Redd’s Diva Explosion, taking place on August 8 at the Johannesburg Stadium with fashion, dancers and performances by international divas Adeva, Kym Mazelle, CandyJ and DarrenSaul.
Imagine Ian Roberts, dressed in a futuristic, body-hugging suit with utility pockets, clambering into a sleek-looking spacecraft while dodging laser beams fired by his enemies (played by Anna-Mart van der Merwe and SelloMaake ka Ncube, made up as scary aliens fromMars). He barely escapes from the Johannesburg spaceport and dashes off into space — but he has been infected by a lethal virus, and soon his flesh starts crawling and melting horribly …
Four Ounce Freedom: <i>Hypnotism</i>
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/ 5 November 2001
Even if this is all Kaolin Thomson is (you might remember her from the band Naked), then it’s still more than many musicians can hope to be. <i>On All I Am</i> (Sheer) she flaunts her music skills to great effect.
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/ 19 October 2001
Some of the world’s top young DJs are in town for Yfm and 5fm birthday bashs, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
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/ 28 September 2001
Though it may not have much in common with its famous namesake (extreme sports, punk rock, house and hip-hop have, after all, little to do with hippies in the mud) Woodstock, again taking place at the Heidelberg Kloof Aventura holiday resort outside Johannesburg, is an exciting music festival with a jam-packed programme, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
<B>Stereophonics: Just Enough Education to Perform</b>
Six stages operated most of the day and night to accommodate bands and musicians from many genres — rock, pop, hip-hop, jazz, folk, blues, punk, breakbeat, jungle and drum’n’bass, to name a few, writes Riaan Wolmarans.