VENDETTA CARTEL & PISTOL WHIP 45 , live @ Belavista

Belavista Lounge hosts a special night of hardcore punk this Saturday evening, 5 June, as The Vendetta Cartel and Pistolwhip 45 take the stage. The lead singer of The Vendetta Cartel, Vinnie Reyes, will be filmed by a Chilean television crew as part of a documentary on Chilean World Cup defender, Mark Gonzalez, who happens to be the cousin of the Vendetta Cartel’s frontman. Mark Gonzalez was born in Durban and his father, also a former Chilean international, played for Durban Bush Bucks before moving his family back to Chile. Gonzalez currently plays football for CSKA Moscow and has previously played at Liverpool and Real Betis. He will be in South Africa during Chile’s World Cup campaign and as part of the experience Chilean TV are filming a documentary about him, which will include the night at Belavista Lounge. Vinnie Reyes is one of the foremost exponents of the punk rock scene in South Africa and as the cousin of the Chilean football star has received a certain amount of interest from the filmmakers. To be part of the action and maybe meet a few famous people or get yourself into a Chilean documentary, get down to Belavista Lounge on Saturday 5 June. Doors open at 7pm and tickets cost R30 at the door.

” ALL CLEAR ” Live @ Belavista

ALL CLEAR launches its debut album NO VIP’S at 10pm on 4 June at the Belavista Lounge, Ellis Park. The album contains 13 tracks covering a range of styles and rhythms – rock, reggae, funk fusion and some jazzy ballads. The lyrics, as the title track indicates, carry some weight, commenting as they do on the criminally superficial mass culture we live in. ‘The song ‘Still No Hour of Liberation’ is a rock/reggae exploration of the crisis facing Africa, while ‘Manacled’ examines the desperate life of a young delinquent, while ‘Do We Need Another Lesson’ details the abyss of corruption and hypocrisy that is drowning the emerging global human society and IntenCity pounds out the nocturnal fear that afflicts our cities. At the same time there are lyrical songs like ‘Hazy Heat’, ‘Dineo’ and ‘Midnight’ that express humour and tenderness. ‘Poetry meets Rock’ is probably the best way to describe a band that urges the listener to not only dance but think!!! Definitely a new and original sound for Mzansi.

The band is made up of Allan Kolski Horwitz (songwriter and vocalist), Alex Dimie Samuel (keyboard), Augustus Brown (guitar), Walter Dikgale (keyboard), Gideon Isele (bass) and Daniel Isele (drums). Entrance R40.00

above us only sky, sat 15 may

ABOVE US, ONLY SKY…
- – Art, music, performance and flight – -

As children we dream of flying; only in those dreams are we truly free.
As we grow up and learn the true the price of freedom we forget to dream. We forget how to fly.

But maybe we can remember for a while, while standing sky-high on the Belavista roof and looking out over the breathtaking urban landscape below as artists, musicians and various creative spirits gather to share pieces of dreams of their own.

Join us on the 15th of May from 5pm – to watch the sunset – until late.

Entrance is R40, or R30 if you bring us an origami crane.
Expect: unusual live music, DJ’s to set the mood and much art in all forms.

Full line-up and details of exhibitors and other participants to be posted soon.

Come with mind and heart, open.
Come in freedom.
Fly.

”You may say that I’m a dreamer… But I’m not the only one!”

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Musicians joining us on the night:
- Eyes like mirrors + a special surprise
- Rael and The Dirty Shadows
- Fret
- Asqus
- Sloppy Folk
- Warren Mc Gregor

dj’s:
*Darla Dark
*Nathan Scott Phillips

also:
fire performance by Visceral Flame.
fire sculptures
lots and lots of art.

On the art side:
**Snap Snap
Snap Snap is a collaborative exhibit featuring poetry juxtaposed over portrait and landscape images by photographer Jacqui Van Staden and poet David Chislett to create a new, narrated point of view.

**some of the other names are – aragorn 23, helena wagener, anastasya, tracy edser, david lewis, nicole demon, and more more more more moooooore.

**Last but by no means least – my favorite MC – Deep Fried Man

see you all under the sky

“with love from the east (rand) “

Come journey this Friday to the Grootman Rap sound of Future History.
A sound that enjoys the childhood swing of hip hop and rap in time
with the smooth and well placed nots of Jazz at it’s best. Grounded
by the Malcolm Jiyane Trio …this ten piece band featuring a horn
section will turn up the heat next to The Brother Moves On. The
Brother Moves On celebrates the use of this trio this weekend and take
us into Afrique Jazz choral music that features a sound that can only
have come from this soil. These two bands feature a son of the soil
in the form of Michel Aubertin. Born in St Lucia, this New York
artist offers us an intro into what happens when you take the
decisions to leave make music and fly high.

entrance R40.00

Come enjoy the party make the circle bigger as these 14 musicians give
us a Happy Brown Babies collaboration.

www.myspace.com/thebrothermoveson.
www.facebook.com/thebrothermoveson or just search for thebrother.
www.myspace.com/Michel Aubertin.

MAYDAY! Emergency convention of the Underwater Sea- Captains Assembly

Not since the sinking of the Titanic has there been a better reason to gather for the purpose of consuming (alcoholic) beverages and celebrating the cause of Free and Original Live Music…

So join us once again as we set sail once again through the uncharted waters of the High (sic.) Seas and open horizons you can reliably associate with the concept of the GREEN AFRICA PARTY!

A splendid emergency gathering of the Underwater Sea-Captains Assembly will bring you some great entertainment, and, dare we say it, the odd delectable surprise too!

Nat the Light Wizzard will bring in the emergency fX lighting rig…

Hazzard Goat
Ivan 4 Now
Kartoon Chaos
a mad record breaking attempt at a GUITAR MASSIVE
Kim Catholic ( Minus the Inquisition!)
U.F.O.
a belly dance show

and STILL many more acts to be confirmed!

MR CAT & THE JACKAL live @ Belavista

Cape town based Mr Cat & The Jackal, on countrywide tour, ecclectic and original acoustic music, dont miss this one ..
Fri. 23rd April , 8.30 pm, entrance R40.00

ECLECTIC REVOLUTION

Rise up against what you are offered on a Sunday, Join Wasted Youth and Ultra Mel for a Sunday of great beats on an awesome rooftop setting… As the sun sets, and night takes hold, enjoy one the most spectacular views from Joburg CBD to Hillbrow.

Open minded music, 80s to Indie, Electro to Dubstep, Deep House to Drum n Bass whatever fills the mood…

Lets start a new Sunday Revolution, join us at Eclectic Revolution, every Sunday from the 18th of April…

NO COVER CHARGE, so drink more! There aint much of summer left…