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- The Mail & Guardian's top 20 SA Albums of the Decade
- Ok so its time to get this blog up and running in 2010. Sorry again folks for the lack of posting, it felt like I hit a wall near the end of last year and my blog, well it just went to shit. So starting today I am going to first upload some music writing Read More...
- Nul - Drie
- Although protest music has a strong heritage in South Africa, there are very few bands writing contemporary protest songs. Sure, there’s Fokofpolisiekar and their lesser talented Belville spawn with their songs of the Afrikaans new rebellion, but, let’s Read More...
- Various Artists - Bellville Rock City
- In the late eighties a young upstart label by the name of Sub Pop managed to convince the music press that it was the hotbed of everything that was exciting and relevant in the rock world. It did this by marketing a lifestyle aka Grunge. Fast-forward Read More...
- The Future has arrived!
- One of my favourite moments in Julian Temple’s 2006 documentary Glastonbury, which traces the festival’s thirty-something year history, is a scene where a bunch of guys had set up a sign that said, “sign up here to complain that festival is not as good Read More...
- Searching for a new sound: The Foto na Dans interview
- After blowing Oppikoppi 2008 away with their killer live set, we met up with singer Le Roi Nel, drummer Dirkie Uys and keyboardist and trumpeter Alex Fourie from Foto na Dans to chat to them about their new EP titled Pantomine op herwinbare klanke (Pantomime Read More...
- Foto na Dans - Pantomime op herwinbare klanke
- From the lilting opening notes and the choir of angels, that are reminiscent of Vespertine era Bjork, it is clear that Foto na Dans have reinvented themselves. Yes the influence of Muse, which was so dominant on their early recordings, is there, but it Read More...
- Fokof spin-offs
- So Fokofpolisiekar are now defunct, unless there is a big money offer on the table to play some festival or high-profile gig. Regardless of how you view the band’s legacy, there is no denying the impact they have had on rock music and youth culture in Read More...
- Van Coke Kartel @ Back 2 Basix
- Van Coke Kartel played at Back 2 Basix last night for their album launch. It was their first Johannesburg gig and it was punk-rock mayhem! I am busy drafting a piece on the two Fokof side projects at the moment, so that's all I have to say, you'll have Read More...
- Fokof Spin-offs : Van Coke Kartel and A King get busy
- From one Cartel to another. While South Africa’s bread cartels are running for cover, a Kartel of another type is about to unleash itself upon South Africa. I am talking about the Van Coke Kartel , obviously! The new band formed by ex-fokof members Francois Read More...
- Open to Misinterpretation: Fokofpolisiekar in Pictures
- Photographer Liam Lynch has spent years hounding South Africa’s radical rockers. Now his images are on exhibition. When photographing a animal like Fokofpolisiekar it is easy to go straight for the obvious sex, drugs and rock’n’roll myth, but photographer Read More...
- Afrikaans music gets interesting
- A new crop of musicians is stepping up from the swamp of commercial mediocrity. The rise of the De la Rey phenomenon has thrust Afrikaans music back into the spotlight, but the discussion seems to centre on Chris Chameleon’s release of English and Afrikaans Read More...
- Dancing to a different drum
: Foto Na Dans
- Isolation.tv thanks Yolandi Groenewald for allowing us to publish her interview with Foto Na Dans There must be something in the Cape suburban water that makes it produce excellent Afrikaans rock acts. Following hot on the heels of cult band Fokofpolisiekar, Read More...
- Jozi gives Francois Van Coke some love
- On Thursday night the enigmatic front man of Fokofpolisiekar, Francois Van Coke hit Johannesburg for his first solo tour since the band announced their temporary hiatus. He had already played Tings ‘n Times and Café Barcelona in Pretoria and now it was Read More...
- This Just in: FOKOFPOLISIEKAR 2007 Update
- Since the release of their second full length album Swanesang (Swansong) in 2006, fans have begun to wonder whether this meant the beginning of the end of Fokofpolisiekar. The good news is that the band is definitely not planning on breaking up, although Read More...
Bands can send music for review or online posting to: Isolation C/O of Lloyd, PO Box 91667, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, 2006
