Africa U Nite feat. The Plastics, Juke Royal
Starts at:
2012-02-16 20:00:00 +0200
Section:
Downstairs
Bands playing:
Plastics, The,Juke Royal
It's time to come together and celebrate African music.
It's Africa U Nite
this week - featuring The Plastics, Juke Royal and Ordnungsamt (GER)
THE PLASTICS:
In sound, The Plastics pay homage to retro-rock and classic pop imagery. The Plastics are a live performance orientated band and have already performed with the majority of South Africa’s most sought after musical acts. In their first year on the local music scene, The Plastics claimed 1st prize at The Redbull Radar competition at Rocking the Daisies in 2008 and were finalists in ‘The Road to V-Fest’ competition for the best unsigned band in SA.
More About The Band
The Plastics started in late 2007 when the Righini brothers decided to expand their old punk band HOAX, and reform it with a fresh take on music. Having been constricted for too long by boundaries and bursting with new ideas that wouldn’t fit into any mould, they set about creating The Plastics. Soon after they started this endeavour, classically trained guitarist Karl Rohloff joined the band on bass and Arjuna Kohlstock on lead guitar to create the retro blend of bluesy indie, disco-punk sound that is known as The Plastics today.
They released their first self-titled EP, The Plastics, in 2007 and a second EP, called Kiss The Plastics, in 2008 by way of mass production and distributed a 1000 copies of each release for free. Their newest release SHARK (July 2010) is out now.
More About The Band
The Plastics started in late 2007 when the Righini brothers decided to expand their old punk band HOAX, and reform it with a fresh take on music. Having been constricted for too long by boundaries and bursting with new ideas that wouldn’t fit into any mould, they set about creating The Plastics. Soon after they started this endeavour, classically trained guitarist Karl Rohloff joined the band on bass and Arjuna Kohlstock on lead guitar to create the retro blend of bluesy indie, disco-punk sound that is known as The Plastics today.
They released their first self-titled EP, The Plastics, in 2007 and a second EP, called Kiss The Plastics, in 2008 by way of mass production and distributed a 1000 copies of each release for free. Their newest release SHARK (July 2010) is out now.
JUKE ROYAL:
Back in the early 2000's ,Rob, Dayne and Luke began playing music together on the weekends, making use of sloppy Blink 182 riffs to pass the time.
Being huge fans of their local underground music scene in Cape Town, South Africa, with such bands as Hog Hoggidy Hog, 7th Son, Bed on Bricks and the Rudimentals, they eventually started a rock reggae band which lasted for over 7 years, earning them valuable experience as musicians through many memorable performances, as well as though recording a full length album together.
Throughout this time, however, they all had huge admiration for such international bands such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Incubus, Muse, Blink 182 and many more, but the idea of creating such iconic rock music was too overwhelming at the time, and rock reggae was attracting the local crowds.
By 2010 their days of upstrokes and brass-lines began to grow tiresome, but after acquiring
a solid, rock/blues trained, guitarist, Jonno, a new flavour, reminiscent of all the great rock bands they had always loved, began to culminate between them in their basement.
Since then, a warm home- brewed blend of alternative rock began to grow and develop amongst them, creating exciting music to break free of the local music scene and out in to international waters. An edgy yet professional sound.
“We’ve decided to take our music more seriously, not only as musicians but as performers too. This project is bursting in the heart of each of us and we hope it comes across in our music.” – Rob Smith
Back in the early 2000's ,Rob, Dayne and Luke began playing music together on the weekends, making use of sloppy Blink 182 riffs to pass the time.
Being huge fans of their local underground music scene in Cape Town, South Africa, with such bands as Hog Hoggidy Hog, 7th Son, Bed on Bricks and the Rudimentals, they eventually started a rock reggae band which lasted for over 7 years, earning them valuable experience as musicians through many memorable performances, as well as though recording a full length album together.
Throughout this time, however, they all had huge admiration for such international bands such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Incubus, Muse, Blink 182 and many more, but the idea of creating such iconic rock music was too overwhelming at the time, and rock reggae was attracting the local crowds.
By 2010 their days of upstrokes and brass-lines began to grow tiresome, but after acquiring
a solid, rock/blues trained, guitarist, Jonno, a new flavour, reminiscent of all the great rock bands they had always loved, began to culminate between them in their basement.
Since then, a warm home- brewed blend of alternative rock began to grow and develop amongst them, creating exciting music to break free of the local music scene and out in to international waters. An edgy yet professional sound.
“We’ve decided to take our music more seriously, not only as musicians but as performers too. This project is bursting in the heart of each of us and we hope it comes across in our music.” – Rob Smith
ORDNUNGSAMT:
With their ultra-sexy, über-charming chaos-grooves Berlin mann-frau duo ORDNUNGSAMT (speak „Ord-noongs-umt“) put one or two spokes in the wheel of the notoriously square musical mainstream. ORDNUNGSAMT play „mini-rock, kraut-funk, blues um Punk“. 100% drums, 100% guitar & 82% German.
In their new album MONDO MARGINALO ORDNUNGSAMT integrate observations of seemingly dispensible & marginal, if not for a pop band outright unforeseen topics and turn them into the central point of their work. Even though the whole MONDO MARGINALO universe comes across mostly happy, „positive“ and like mentioned before, very groovy, the elsewhere and in countless songs much celebrated common love appears not here, not now. Nichts. At most the crash and hangover after the fact. It’s instead taking a stab at students, harte jungs (tuff guys), schwere mädchen (heavy girls) etc. And there still are those romantic-dreamy („Psychette“) or other edgy-dodgy („Unfunk“) rocky instrumental titles, which makes the whole album flow extremely well. One could even imagine, in contrast to most lyrics’ slightly worldly-wise messages, to spend a gemütliche night with a loved one on the sofa listening to it.