Comments on: Raka ‘n Rollas

By: georgeharrison

georgeharrison — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:46:29 +0000

Thanks for the photos Chantel… lovely.

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By: Chantel Whitfield

Chantel Whitfield — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:28:29 +0000

I stumbled across this today – rather late than never – I have a number of pis up on my FB profile of the PBG; BCB; Mandi; Basson etc. you might want to have a look at – I’ll be taking them off in the near future – since the bands have already accessed them. You will have to do the ‘friend’ thing – but once you have accessed them, you’re welcome to remove your link to me… I don’t get offended easily

I was severely over-aged at the fest, but had a ripping time anyway!

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By: Stephan

Stephan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:50:00 +0000

Okay, so gesê, @Andy, jammer oor daai comment van Tidal Waves en Bob Marley, maar jy verstaan nou natuurlik my punt, the mind hears what it wants to hear, en dat ekt al daai songs geskryf voor ek daai bands leer ken het, en ek luister na hulle nou eers. Uhm, ek moet wel teen die genoemde stelling gaan van aking en New Holland en Thieve wat dieselfde klink, want daardie bands is original in hul eie reg en ek is vir kreatiewe denke en vir good music, maar ja. Maar dankie vir die comments van my stem en vir my songs, dit beteken vir my en die band baie, want ons werk flippin hard, en probeer soveel as moontlik by plekke jam en kry nou nogal goeie gigs. My punt is wel dat “Nothing is original. Take what you want.” Want daar is dalk ander bands iewers in die wêreld (Wat ons nie eers van weet nie) wat New Holland, aKing, Fokof, DHF en al daai bands net na ‘nog ‘n band’ laat lyk. En wat ek nou gesê het is glad nie teen enigiemand nie (so ook wat ek voorheen gesê het) dis net my opinie, en soos ek almal se opinies respekteer (BTW, thanks for the clarification Jess, I appreciate it.) vra ek dat u my opinie ook respekteer. Music is king, it’s not a competition of who is better or who is more original, because tastes differ and some people are narrow minded, sometimes blinded by majority thus creating commercialism, but commercial is expression, underground is expression, music is expression, and if we’ve lost the abitlity to express ourselves without caring what people think about it, we’ve lost our ability to live.

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By: benito musclelini

benito musclelini — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:47:41 +0000

Jess, it’s cos they all have the same record collections (or MP3 files) that have been circulating amongst a fairly close-knit crowd in that fair suburb. Sounds like aKing have checked out a fair amount of Big Country and Doobie Bros.

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By: Eloise

Eloise — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:41:06 +0000

Jess, so intellectual! Stephan: love jou stem en songs. Wat ek try sè is dat julle jonk genoeg en talentvol genoeg is om weg te beweeg van d assosiasie met belville bands, sou julle band n meer stand-alone en individual sound wil he. Bygesê, dit help nie jy probeer anders klink, just for the sake of being different. En ek is n groot fan van al daai belville bands. Maar as jy bietjie explore en experiment kan jy dalk vind dat julle oor n paar jaar n nuwe sound define vir d paarl scene of whatever. Ek dink jyt iets special in jou keel en ons gaan met anticipation uitkyk vir wat julle doen! All the best!

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By: jezebel

jezebel — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:22:11 +0000

@ Stephan. as an aside, I agree with Andy’s clarification on Tidal Waves and Bob Marley., and perhaps this point of departure is the essence of your and my disagreement.

The sounds like reference was mine, and I must apologise for sloppy semantics. What i meant by “influenced by” was a more generic “has elements of”, or perhaps more accurately, “subconsciously influenced by” . I didn’t mean to assume that you’ve consciously listened to those bands and tried to emulate their music or that you didn’t write those melodies before the bands mentioned (hell, i’ve heard the same from Hunter when i’ve asked him much the same about melodic similarities between HIS bands).

But it does bring up a mystifying question that i am hard-pressed to answer (and maybe Mahala’s readers and other musicians have some suggestions?) – how come Belville bands share certain melodic forms and ascensions? While each act has their own quintessential sound, I can often trace what i’ve come to think of as the brethren’s melodic bloodtype in Fokof, aKING, Heuwels, Youth, Theive, and VCK. Some bands share members, so understandably they would also share compositional inclinations. But i wish i could figure out the root (route?) of this shared spirit en masse.

And while it’s entirely unfair, one must admit that even if your sound is your own (or you think it is), we are all
a) undeniably influenced by our social, cultural and geographical environment and influences, and will interpret anything creative through this and we all
b) tend to notice that something sounds like something else if it DOES. Even if we enjoy it and see prospect and value in it, as I do in yours.

All I’m saying is, listen carefully to your own sound, and keep exploring creatively. Your ‘voice’ is in your music, both literally and figuratively.

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By: Jess

Jess — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:43:13 +0000

We don’t want war – we want warm shoes!

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By: leo

leo — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:52:27 +0000

new shoes!

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By: death to interior decorators

death to interior decorators — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:14:21 +0000

@whateverdouche. Your one-word grunts convey nothing but indifference and disregard. That makes you mediocrity’s bedfellow. A good reason why we should all feel better about hating you.

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By: whateverdude

whateverdude — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:10:31 +0000

whatever

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