Episode 7: Piet Botha

(Piet Botha se handtekening op die omslag van Jack Hammer se album, Highway 13)

Hierdie week op Totally South African was dit Mandela Dag 2010 en om dit te vir het ons die legendariese Suid Afrikaanse musikant Piet Botha in die atlejee gehad. Piet het met ons sy ervarings van die afgelope 40 jaar in die musiekindustrie kom deel en saam met Donovan Bourne drie akoestiese liedjies kom opvoer (insluitend "Gravedigger", "Suisie September" en "River"). Gaan gerus na http://www.pietbotha.com/ vir meer inligting.

(links na regs: Donovan, Dawie (aanbieder), Piet)

Dawie joined PJ in studio and played an exclusive demo called "Mzabalazo" from a South African group that is doing AMAZING overseas, BLK JKS.

Staying Totally South African, Capturing The Cover focused on Seether's version of The Beatles' "Across The Universe".

There were a LOT of prizes and give-aways. As always a Marshall Music discount voucher, Jack Hammer CDs, and gig ticket give-aways to HalfjaarKalenderdag 2010.

Brand new music by Black Era featuring Bouwer Bosch, and the Local Is Lekker Classic Track was Bright Blue's "Weeping".

The show was dedicated to Nelson Mandela and the South African musicians making us proud to be South African!!

Episode 4: John Ellis

This week John Ellis came into our studio to talk Dawie about his music career, from his High School band, to his Tree 63 days, till now! John has also just launched his brand new album, so check out the links below if you want to find out more. He performed two acoustic songs, "Own Way Home" (from his solo album, Come Out Fighting) and "Alright" (a popular Tree 63 song).

(left to right: J.D. [production], John Ellis, Dawie [presenter], Jono [Red Flag PR])

On Capturing the Cover, we looked at the song The Living Daylights. Originally by a-Ha, but covered by the South African hard rock band, The Narrow!

Bouwer Bosch (van Straatligkinders / Dans Dans Lisa) het kom gesels oor hoe musikante kan uitbrei in die musiekindustrie. Hy het ons vertel van sy NGO/NPO Liefde Wen en ook van sy liefde vir musiek-videos! Gaan kyk bietjie sy cool musiek-videos wat hy self geskiet, verfilm, ge-edit en vrygestel het.

In studio P.J. gave away a Marshall Music gift voucher and also A LOT of Southern Pulse Winter tour tickets...

Brand new music by Jack Parow was played and our Local Is Lekker Classic Track was by Sugardrive!

Enjoy your week music lovers!!!

Check out the links:

John Ellis: http://www.johnellis.co.za/

Bouwer Bosch: http://www.youtube.com/user/bouwerbosch

This week on Totally SA (27/06/2010)

This week the frontman for Tree 63, John Ellis is on the show talking about his new solo album and about his musical journey. The Living Daylights is our song on Capturing The Cover and our Industry Expert is Straatligkinders / Dans Dans Lisa frontman Bouwer Bosch who talks about how a musician can branch out to different field in the music industry.

Marshall Music is giving away discount vouchers and we have gig-tickets for a couple of the Southern Pulse Winter Tour shows...at Hotbox, Pretoria (29 June 2010) and at Tings an' Times (01 July 2010) feauting bands like Zebra & Giraffe, Ashtray Electric, Taxi Violence, Rambling Bones, Wrestlerish, and many more!

Tune in Sunday (27/06/2010) on TuksFM 107.2 at 20h00 for some good times for your cold winter ears!!

BAFANA made us proud!! Great job guys!!

Episode 2: Tidal Waves

(Tidal Waves' signatures inside the booklet of their album, Manifesto)

Our featured band that came in for an interview with Dawie this week was...Tidal Waves. Fresh from the International African Festival in Germany and Strab Festival in Mozambique, the band came and spoke about their love for music and how Tidal Waves has grown over the past 11 years of being in the music industry. They also performed two acoustic versions of songs from their latest album, Manifesto ("What You Got" and "Lufuno").

(left to right: Zakes, Sam, Dawie [presenter], Jaco, Charlie)

Our Industry Expert this week was Arno Carstens who told us about his experiences as a South African musician travelling and performing across the world. Arno is currently on tour promoting his new album, Wonderful Wild and is performing at big overseas festivals like Latitude, Hensley and Isle Of Wight in the upcoming months.

Garth from Marshall Music told us about their current special on Vater drumsticks and how Takamine guitars are now endorsing Steve Hofmeyr!

Our first feature for Caturing The Cover focused on the song Cocaine reworked by the South African rock group Van Coke Kartel.

The show also featured music by: Taxi Violence and Springbok Nude Girls.

Enjoy the soccer!! BAFANA!!!

This week on Totally SA (13/06/2010)

This week our featured band being interviewed is...Tidal Waves! Tune in to also hear them perform two acoustic versions of songs from their latest album, Manifesto. We catch up with Arno Carstens who is our Industry Expert this week and find out how his South African leg of his current tour has been. This week we also have our first Capturing The Cover feature with the song Cocaine...

Tune in Sunday (13/06/2010) at 20h00, and remember to send your requests for the Totally South African Total Radio Takeover at 21h00 on the text/sms line 34996...