They might have sold more records than any other South African music act, but they’re almost totally invisible in the world of big-city English people. Rian Malan introduces Klipwerf, the multi-platinum-album band that keeps Boers happy at dancehalls in the Afrikaans...
I have been in recovery since the big party on 24th September. Well actually, it’s more like I retreated from the world in monastic meditation after a sort-of-like momentous religious experience. The truth is that Shifty September and the few months leading up to it...
An exciting line-up of multiple artists celebrating the diversity of the Shifty catalogue over 30 years. A few surprises are guaranteed. THE LINEUP... Matthew van der Want Urban Creep vd Want/Letcher Simba Morri Robin Auld The Kerels National Wake Gereformeerde Blues...
Shifty Records, the Alliance Française of Johannesburg & the South African History Archive (SAHA) are pleased to present: SHIFTY SEPTEMBER: Celebrating 30 years of seditious sounds A Heritage Month tribute to the Shifty Records music label, combining exhibitions,...
South African postal service honours South African music legends in a series of stamps, “Music can change the world because it can change people,” said well-know Irish singer-songwriter and musician, Bono. This is especially true in Africa, where music is an integral...
20 years after their performance at the first Oppikoppi Festival welcomes Urban Creep back to her stage for a legendary performance. Oppikoppi turns 20 years old this year and is on the 7 - 9 August in Northam.
The first time I saw Gary Herselman, he was going under the name Piet Pers and was thrashing the bass on a wild night that some old-timers at Durban's Central Methodist Church probably still talk about over cups of tea. It was 1989, and a motley audience of lefties...
Ralph Rabie, better known as Johannes Kerkorrel, was my generation’s Joe Strummer. Like the Clash’s front man he provided the soundtrack to our late 1980s rebellion against the teacher, the dominee, the sergeant, the system. His provocative songs embodied the middle...