This coming Friday 19th September Kwani Experience and DJ Bob are at the House of Nsako in Brixton.

Come early, doors open at 8pm.

On Sunday 21 catch Steady Rock and tidal Waves at Tings & Times in Pretorias for another Levi’s Vintage Sunday session. Doors open at 7pm, no couvert charge!

Bonjour brethren.

Summer is here, and the gigs are piling up.

This Friday DJ Bob plays alongside Some Guy and Kush Khoza at the Crazy 88 in Norwood. Expect a selection of Afrobeat, Reggae and Latin Funk celebrating the Ethiopian New Year. Couvert charge is R50 from 9pm.

This Saturday 13th Kwani Experience perform an unplugged set featuring Pops Mohammed at the “Speak the mind” poetry session at Bassline. The gig is part of the Arts Alive Festival, see the flyer below.

Also on Saturday, DJ Bob plays at the brand new Go Go Bar in Newtown. Louis Mhlanga and band perform a live set. This intimate new venue is on the corner of Henry Nxumalo and Bree Street and promises to be a funky new jol for a discerning audience. ( That means you.)

On Sunday afternoon DJ Bob plays a super laid back jazzy lounge set at Soulsa in Melville, from 1 until 5pm. Booking is advised, and as always your host Conway is on hand serving the best food south of the equator. Phone Soulsa on 011 482 5572.

Then on Sunday evening the 2nd installment of Levi’s Vintage Sundays takes place at Tings & Times in Pretoria, featuring 340ML and FIFI. There is no couvert charge and the gig starts at 8.30. Phone Tings on 012 430 3176 and book a table.

Eish

DJ Bob

079 633 7097

Kwani Experience have successfully returned in six pieces from their tour of Holland and Bosnia.

The Herbaliser’s new album “Same as it never was” is well worth a listen.

This Wednesday 3rd DJ Kenzhero presents Party People in Pretoria at Tings & Times. BA4ZA perform live on stage and DJ Bob and Kenny bring you their THINK FUNK set. Doors open 8pm. R30.

On Friday 5th join Kwani Experience and The Shadow Club alongside DJ’s Kenzhero and Richard da III at The Crazy 88 in Norwood.
R60. Doors open 8pm.

On Sunday 7th, Levi’s Vintage Sundays kicks off at Tings & Times for the month of September. Catch Kwani and Nthabi in this first installment. Doors open at 7pm. No couvert charge.

See the flyers below.

DJ BOB PLAYS THE OPENING SET THIS SATURDAY AT PARTY PEOPLE AT ROCKA. 340ML ARE THE LIVE ACT, DJ KENZHERO PERFORMS AFTER THE BAND. SEE YOU THEN!

THE SIPHO GUMEDE STAGE AT OPPIKOPPI 2008.

Way back in 1997, when most of us OppiKoppi buffs were still laaities, the Allan brothers were cordially invited to play broken beats and Elvis tunes from the roof of the Gito Baloi stage; The following year, the boys invited even more wayward DJ friends and musicians and annexed an old ossewa to serve as a stage, on a hill far away from the madding crowd and rock-fuelled masses.

Fast forward to the present and said stage, affectionately known as the 206 stage, has morphed into the “Sipho Gumede Mein Stage”, which has become a force of note(s) at the festival, and certainly a harbinger of breaking (!) and exciting acts every year.

With each passing year, the stage and the lineup has grown and diversified, and so too the crowd, allowing us the headspace for oodles of experimentation and trialing.

As has become expected of our motley crew, we have added some new dimensions to the stage we like to call home for one weekend a year:

VJ Little Nicky joins us this year, as we have finally added a big screen to the area.

The visual imagery is sure to add to the patina of this all ready swinging stage.

A permanent bar next to the stage helps when you are dancing and don’t have the energy or inclination (!) to negotiate the obstacle course up the hill and to the bar.

Kwani Experience bring us their home-cooking skills once again with an all-weekend pap & vleis Cook-off. Remember to eat.

Chris will be serving vegetarian food alongside the kasi’s.

Comedians Ntosh Madlingozi, Zee the Protégé and Trevor Gumbi join us in “The Dysfunctional Revolution” on Saturday afternoon.

Ntosh Madlingozi then goes on to Host the Party People lineup on Saturday night.

Add to this the amalgamation of bands, dj’s, turntablists, sound and lighting crew, mc’s and tequila drinkers doing their best to include both musical genres known to man, 24 hours a day, and you undoubtedly find yourself with a recipe for 48 hours of total abandon and revelry.

On Friday night the 8^th, as is the custom, Blunted Stuntman hosts “Yo-Yo” with cutting edge breaks acts alongside live acts such as Tasha Baxter, Lonesome Dave Ferguson featuring lap-steel guitarist Saucetone, Nisker:one featuring Natalia, Mix & Blend, and more. The full lineup is pasted below. Please note DJ Bob’s times.

Another first is DJ Kenzhero’s Party People lineup on Saturday night to celebrate Women’s Day. Please clock the info below:

This year Party People branches out to yet another destination with Dj Kenzhero pointing his vinyls in the Northam direction. Saturday the 9^th of August 2008 Dj Kenzhero presents Party People at Oppikoppi featuring: Bahamadia (USA), Blaq Pearl (Cape-Town), Fifi (Pretoria), Nthabi (JHB), Bianca Williams (JHB), Goldigga (JHB). With Bahamadia being the queen of Hip-Hop since pa fell off the chair; Blaq Pearl mixing her different genres of music together with ease; Fifi and that unforgettable voice of hers; Nthabi with lyrics worth taking a second listen to; Bianca Williams giving Nthabi some well needed competition with her rhythmic floes and Dj Goldigga to fill your ears with that cherry on top selection of music, its bound to be a line up you have to check out. And with three more stages playing through the entire weekend it’s a ticket worth spending on. Oppikoppi will be hosting performers by the likes of Tasha Baxter, The Chemical Brother in laws, Roots Riders (Holland), Obita, Kwani Experience, 340ML and Dj Bob on one stage alone, its only a good guess that the other two stages are hosting a line up just as mouth watering.

For more info on Party People at Oppikoppi and Links to our guests websites check out www.myspace.com/partypeoplesa

Visit www.oppikoppi.co.za to check what’s up on the other 3 stages.

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