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Editorial Assistant: Aisha Sieed Imran Khan Actual: 12 Main Rd. The Next 48hOURS will not be held Three Anchor Bay responsible for the views and opinions Senior Designer: Dane Torode Tel: 021 8024848 National Sales: Godfrey Lancellas [email protected] expressed by writers and contributors. All rights reserved. 2 The Next 48hOURS www.48hours.co.za 25 June - 01 July 2015 The Next 48hOURS • What’s Hot Afrikaans music kingpins blazing the trail PETER TROMP chatted to Afrikaans 9 and 10 there was a big Christian What were your biggest musical Since then you’ve carved out quite dyn”, where all the best people live. music kingpins JACK PAROW and punk scene in Bellville, with bands influences starting out, and how a niche, or a brand, or whatever FRANCOIS CAN COKE about all like Prayer and 7th Breed that played has that changed to where you are you want to call it, for yourself. Since we’re on the topic, why did things music and the fabled Northern in Bellville often. now? What would you say makes the Jack you decide to identify so strongly Suburbs (of Cape Town) that inspires So, we went to shows all the time. We grew up on rock, grunge and Parow machine so unique? with the suburb of Parow, and what so much of their compositions and We started Christian punk bands, punk, so that was our influences I think it’s just an attitude of not try- makes the place special, in your mystique. that became secular bands and we starting out. I guess we still appre- ing to sound like anything or be like eyes? The duo will be performing their ac- eventually started Fokofpolisiekar. ciate the same kind of music, but anyone and not really giving a f**k The whole of the Northern Suburbs claimed Jack Parow & Francois van We also knew that a couple of the everyone in Fokofpolisiekar and Van what anyone thinks. I make music; was in my blood, and that is why I Coke Acoustic Show at Park Acous- guys from Springbok Nude Girls were Coke Kartel likes different things I love to make music; I don’t make love it, because I am it. It’s my roots tics in Pretoria on Sunday, June 28. from Bellville and that made it feel from pop to metal. music to make hits; I make mu- and its part of my being. The people The support line-up on the day in- possible to be in a band and be from sic that hopefully become hits. So I are real, with no pretentiousness - cludes fellow Capetonians Diamond Bellville. At the moment there ac- What would you say are your chief think that is what makes it unique, just real people - and that’s the best Thug & Changeling and local Preto- tually aren’t a lot of live venues in lyrical concerns? And what usually and because I make music without thing about it. You either like me or ria heroes The December Streets. Bellville and we don’t play here that causes you to sit up and take notice being influenced by anyone else, it you don’t, and that’s your problem, often. Bellville was quite a boring when paying attention to the lyrics becomes something different than not mine FRANCOIS CAN COKE place growing up and when I was a of other artists? anything else and thus it’s unique. kid always looked at Cape Town as I really appreciate emotion and per- Who would you say are your musi- Your rock journey started in Bell- this mythical place that I needed to sonal lyrics, like the kind of songs Now, I’ve heard rumours that you’re cal heroes? ville in Cape Town, a place not tra- go to, but these days I live in Bellville that Phil Lynott could write. Then not actually from Parow. Can we I have so many, so it’s difficult to ditionally thought of as a serious again. I also like John Lennon, Bob Dylan squelch these rumours once and name a few, so let’s say from David mecca of rock. What can you tell us and Rage Against the Machine for for all? Kramer to WuTang Clan and Bob Dy- about how music is appreciated in What did you guys initially think you the their commentary. (laughs) I was born in Parow, lived lan to Valiant Swart. that suburb? could bring to the SA rock scene there a bit (my great granddad was Growing up in Bellville you get en- that wasn’t there at the time? Finally, and you must have known I actually the mayor of Parow and my How do you generally cope with the couraged to play rugby, not to play Obviously we grew up on American was going to get to this: what are grandmother was Miss Parow and we rigours of touring? rock music. Grunge came around and and British music, so we just wanted you top five albums of all time? have the actual spade at my house I still don’t know. Ask me in a few that was about the time I got into to play the style that we like, but try This is a very tough one to answer. that broke the first ground for the years. Maybe I will be better at it. music. From that moment on I want- and do it on an international stand- AC/DC – ‘Back in Black’; Nirvana – current sewage system in Parow) ed to play music and I am sure a lot ard and sing in Afrikaans. We didn’t ‘Nevermind’; Queens Of The Stone then we moved to Bellville for a bit * Gates open at 10am and Parow and of my friends felt the same. We start- realise how many kids felt like us, but Age – ‘Songs For The Deaf’; Foo and then we moved to Durbanville. Van Coke are scheduled to perform ed our own high school bands after our close friends were immediately Fighters – ‘Wasting light’; and Rage My mom still lives in Durbanville. So at 2pm. that, after which a couple of things into it. Against The Machine – ‘Rage Against I was born in Parow and raised by the For general and booking informa- happened. When I was about Std. 8, The Machine’. Northern Suburbs of Cape Town...a tion, visit www.parkacoustics.co.za. life spent behind the “boerewors gor- JACK PAROW You shot to local stardom with ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ now on at Pieter Toerien’s Theatre at Montecasino ‘Cooler As Ekke’ more than five years ago. How has life changed for you since that moment? It’s been a crazy ride and it just gets more and more hectic by the day. I think one of the main things is just having to look at my music as a business as well. That has been the most difficult part, because I love the creative part of it, and I’m really bad at the other part. But if you don’t look after both it can bite you in the bum...hard. ‘Cooler As Ekke’ felt as if it came out of nowhere. Was that really the case? How long were you plugging away before that song exploded? Jeez, very long. I started writing in 1998 and plugged pretty much since then. ‘Cooler As Ekke’ blew up in 2009, I think. So that’s a good 11 years of hard plugging and pushing before anything came from it. Francois van Coke Jack Parow It’s FEEDING time! Now on stage! Wed - Fri @ 8pm Sat @ 4pm & 8pm Sun @ 2pm @Monte_Theatre Box Office: (011) 511 1818 25 June - 01 July 2015 www.48hours.co.za The Next 48hOURS 3 The Next 48hOURS • Theatre Buzz Yvonne Chaka Chaka with JYO in ‘A Night with the Stars’ Chaka, who has achieved so much in her musical career, but has not forgotten her roots and where she started. What a role model for our stu- dents and an honour for them to be able to learn from her,” says Susan Rendall, Chief Executive Officer of Johannesburg Youth Orchestra. “There’s so much we can learn from young blood if only we were to nurture their talents and not cal- culate wisdom using their age,” says Ian Von Memerty and Vivienne Lawrence Chaka Chaka. “I am thrilled to be sharing the stage with this young Yvonne Chaka Chaka talent, as we celebrate Youth Month. I have no doubt the orchestra and The hottest little ticket in Jozi performers will blow our minds as they perform their interpretation of SHOW: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS the nerdy Seymour Krelborn whose too got lost at times and this review- hits made in the 1980s, performed CAST: ALAN COMMITTIE, MICHAEL affection for the voracious man- er wonders whether one could again The incomparable Princess of Africa, by youngsters born in the 1980s and RICHARD, CANDICE VAN LITSENBORGH, eating plant in the skid row florist blame the sound balance here? Yvonne Chaka Chaka, will be star- 90s.” ZAK HENDRIKZ, LELORAMASIMONG, in which he works sets off a chain of Still, there is plenty to savour.