This December, a brand spanking new summer festival is hitting South Africa! Bursting onto the scene with a diverse and eclectic line-up, this new grassroots touring festival will take place at some of the best venues in SA.
The festival tour will kick off on the 11 December, at Emmarentia Dam, Johannesburg Botanic Gardens in Johannesburg. The second leg of the tour is taking place on the 15 December at Wave House, Durban. On the 18 December, the tour will end off at the Backsberg Wine Estate in Stellenbosch.
Omusic will be joining forces with joining forces with the National Tonight (published in The Star, The Pretoria News, The Daily News and The Cape Argus) and Hilltop Live to host the Sonic Summer Festival Tour featuring cutting edge music from some of the biggest names out there. The 2010 festival line up sees the likes of Die Antwoord, Locnville, Jax Panik and Goldfish highlighting the tour.
Be sure not to miss one of the hottest summer festival tours providing the best entertainment in local live music.
Die Antwoord
The futuristic rap-rave crew Die Antwoord, who represent a fresh new style called ZEF. Die Antwoord crew is made up of zef rap master NINJA, fre$ futuristik rich bitch ¥O-LANDI VI$$ER and the mysterious beat monster DJ HI-TEK.
Locnville
Locnville are an electro-hop music duo, established by twin brothers Andrew and Brian Chaplin in 2009. The duo are singer-songwriters, song producers and musicians, in addition to being guitarists, drummers and business entrepreneurs.
Locnville were nominated in the category for “Best Newcomer” for Sun in My Pocket at the 2010 MK Awards and won the award during the ceremony held at the Teatro at Monte Casino in Johannesburg on 28 February 2010. Their second single 6 Second Poison hit the airwaves right after their debut album was released, surpassing the record set by Sun In My Pocket’ and reaching an even broader audience by becoming a club hit.
Jax Panik
Jax Panik is, Jacobus Johannes van Heerden, from Belville in Cape Town. Jax Panik has been billed as SA’s first online musician, releasing his music in the online space only. His music is a sexy mix of pop, rock, and electro, with catchy hooks, emo lyrics, sing-along choruses, and loads of dance appeal.
Goldfish
Two boys from Cape Town whose genre-defying mix of jazzy house beats and searing live performances has seen them launch head first into the worldwide Dance Music consciousness. Goldfish consists of the two multi-instrumentalists, David Poole and Dominic Peters who continue to attract large audiences to their special brand of catchy electronic music using exciting new techniques to create live dance remixes.
Sponsors: O Music, Hilltop Live, National Tonight (published in The Star, The Pretoria News, The Daily News and The Cape Argus, Old Mutual.
Ticket: www.ticketbreak.co.za or selected Musica Stores
For more information, visit: www.sonicsummer.co.za or www.Omusic.com