RAMBLING BONES

If you were early enough to be watching TV on sunday morning (24 Jan 2010) you would have caught an interview and 3 live performances from Rambling Bones on SABC2 Weekend Live between 7.30 and 8.30am! He played ‘Watching & Waiting’, the brand new single ‘Sorry’ and the ever popular ‘Baby Shoes’ featuring the lovely Angela de Klerk (of Japan & I infamy

It may sound like make believe, but there was once a time when popular music was not strictly all about love, sex, break-ups, good times, getting down in ‘the club’ and baby, baby, baby. Seriously, not that long ago musicians would write songs about almost anything that interested them. They sang truth to power. They voiced the outrage of their generation. They stuck it to the man. There was folk music, freedom music, fighting tunes. Music was conscious. Musicians wrote songs about murder, religion, war, poverty and most importantly they tackled the major social issues of the times. But now we’re stuck on the baby-baby loop. And it makes us sick.

We at Mahala have not forgotten that once upon a time music was a weapon. That’s why in collaboration with Rambling Jay Bones we’ll be producing a series of fresh, new, totally unhinged musical masterpieces every month. Music that tackles the ugly themes of the underbelly. Corruption, greed, dishonesty, road rage, felching. For you, to download here, for mahala! Go to http://www.mahala.co.za/culture/citizen-bones/

The brand new video for the second single off ‘Watching & Waiting’ by our good friend Daniel Albertse (with Special thanks to Eban Olivier for the final touches). The video was filmed at House of Nsako.

Check out the shows page. Two awesome shows, one in Cape Town and one in Johannesburg. Ramble on!

We’re shooting the video for the second single off the Rambling Bones album ‘Watching & Waiting’… ‘Baby Shoes’ is the duet featuring Rambling Bones and Angela de Klerk from Japan and I.

It’s a live video (though there is still a plot and we’d like you to be part of it. The evenings entertainment will also feature a young accapella outfit called The Soil as well as a set by Andy Lund & The Mission Men (Cape Town). We hope to see you there! Cover is R40.

House of Nsako, 101 High Street, Brixton 2092

Take the Smit Str offramp from the N1 south. Turn right at the T-junction. Drive past the Garden City Hospital and the Brixton Fire Department. Just past the Pick and Pay Centre look out for ABSA on the left and the house is on the right. Secure Parking on Street. Call 072 2232 648 for more information.