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Last Updated 2010-02-08
The South African Music Industry community, is slowly waking up to the powers of internet marketing and starting to utilise the services that Twitter has to offer.
By Following¹ these musicians on Twitter, you can read about their upcoming gigs and last minute cancellations or venue changes, band website updates, their new blog posts, new music releases, studio sessions, new music they are working on, concerts and touring, get their links to free downloads and to the minute news updates.
I can’t think of a simpler way for bands to keep in touch with their fan-base. . .
List of South African music-related Tweeple² on Twitter thus far (including artists and bands that have relocated elsewhere):
- The Rudimentals: Afro-Ska Reggae Band (Cape Town)
- GoldFish: Electronic Duo
- 7th Son: Rock Reggae Band (Cape Town)
- Jack Hammer: Rock Band
- Ben Sharpa: Hip Hop artist
- Aking: Rock Band
- The Dirty Skirts: Indie Rock Band
- Dla member of Driemanskap: Hip Hop artist
- Van Coke Kartel: Afrikaans Rock Band
- Dominic Peters: Member of GoldFish Electronic
- Jax Panik: Electronic
- Terror MC: Hip Hop artist
- Jaak Jacobs: Afrikaans Hip Hop artist
- FreshlyGround: African/Jazz/Pop Band (Cape Town)
- Zebra and Giraffe: Electro Rock Band
- The Parlotones: Indie Rock Band based in Johannesburg
- The Wartermark High: Acoustic Band
- Chris Chameleon: ex Boo! lead singer (monki punk) gone solo
- Louise Carver: Classical Pianist
- Koos Kombuis: Afrikaans writer, columnist, musician, artist, satirist.
- DJ Eazy: Hip Hop DJ
- Tony Grant: (from Jack Hammer)
- Saudiq Kahn Flamenco: Guitarist
- Julia Jakobsen: Front woman of “Jules & the Fools”
- Cat String Theory: Rock Band
- Contro ‘Versey: MC /Hip Hop *relocated
- Karma-Ann Swanepoel: ex ‘Henry Ate’ lead singer (folk pop) now solo *relocated
- Farrell Adams: vocalist of the band ‘Nine’
- Danny K: Pop artist
- Niskerone: Drum & Bass DJ (Cape Town)
- Honey B: DJ + African Dope Records
- DJ Fresh: Electro DJ
- Gareth Cliff: DJ on 5FM Radio
- Rud-A-Dub: Reggae, Dancehall, Hip Hop
- Wouter Kellerman: Flautist (Flute player)
- Hipe: Producer – beats / hip hop
- Anton Goosen: Afrikaans musician
- Bobby van Jaarsveld: Afrikaans singer
- amaAmbush: Cape Town based Marimba Band
- Eitaniel: Johannesburg based Marimba Band
- Letitia Lindeque: South African Pop musician
- Crossing Point: Hardcore band (Durban)
- Starrzan: leads and vocals from the band ‘X-Structure’
- Ashtray Electric: Rock band
- Die Heuwels: Afrikaans electronic band (Cape Town)
- Xander Ferreira: from the afro-electro band called Gazelle
- Karen Zoid: Rock artist with vocal and guitar talent
- dappermuis: Kyle Williams of AmaAmbush
- fokofpolisiekar: Afrikaans Punk Rock band (Cape Town)
- TidalWavesTunes: Reggae Band based in Johannesburg
- dkjdrums: Devin Jones, drummer for the band 7th Son
- Miggs Auer Bass player for the band 7th Son
- HOT WATER: Band genre includes upbeat jives, blues & Folk ballads (Cape Town)
- DEREK The Bandit: Electronic Dance Music, Trance, House, Chillout
- blackstoneradio: band playing a mixture of 90s stoner rock & old-school, classic rock (Cape Town)
- Just Jinjer: (previously Just Jinger) Contemporary Rock band (2009, back in RSA)
- CaptainStu: ska band from Cape Town
- jacSharp: Electro Afro Pop Band
- EJvonLYRIK:
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- Pioneer Unit: Independent Hip Hop Music Recording Label
- Damian Stephens: Owner of Pioneer Unit
- Rocking the Daisies: Rocking the Daisies Music Festival – Annual Outdoor event
- SAMA: South African Music Awards
- Overtone SA: Entertainment made easy
- Listen Up SA: South African Electronic Music Collective
- KMD: Music Distribution
- Music Exchange: SA’s First Independent Music Conference
- RAMfest: Music Festival
- Music Business Academy: Music Business School based in JHB
- SAMusic: SAMusic.co.za est. in 1997
- The Assembly: Night club in Cape Town
- RhythmOnline: Online Music Store
- Bushmen Records: pioneering netlabel focusing on showcasing underground SA artists
- African Cream Music: an independent record label based in Johannesburg. Est 2001
- Oppikoppi Festival: Outdoor live music festival held in the bushveld
- MK.tv: Afrikaans television show on MNET
- One F Music: independent company in Johannesburg that specialises in the production of left-of-centre music.
- MTV Base Africa: a 24 hour music and general entertainment television channel
- Living It Live Music: Music Management Company primarily aiming at the South African muso’s playing in the UK.
- One Small Seed: culture magazine
- Levi’s® Vintage Sundays: Promotes live & original music by hosting annual gigs for eight months of the year
- Ultra Sound: Ultra Event Technical Solutions
- Balkanology: a Cape Town based collective presenting the madness of Balkan & Gypsy music to Africa
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Thanks for your comment. VJ’s you mean? Yeah i agree that those are lacking and so if you know of any more, feel free to submit their names too.
What about Digital Artists? Visual Artists?
I am From Jeffreys Bay.
Digital Freelance Artist and you can follow me:
Twitter – http://twitter.com/An1ken
Cheers
Jacques van Heerden
Letitia Lindeque
http://www.twitter.com/letitialindeque
South African Pop musician
Wouter Kellerman
http://twitter.com/wouterkellerman
South Africa’s premier flautist
Hallo we are also on twitter, http://twitter.com/mbac_sa . Thank you for showing these artists, it is a great contribution to the industry.
Hey there. thanks for adding the links to @overtonesa .. for those of you who dont know Overtone you should check it out.. we basically help promote and book artists all over Southern Africa. Every time one of our members posts on Overtone.co.za their post also goes out on our Twitter pages .. it provides the music industry with constant updates from our bands.
thanks again for the cool post.
@samro thanks for linking & for the compliment – appreciated.
@anib thanks – this post was rewritten a few times and every time I get more links to add to the post. I should rewrite this post including all the collected links.. I guess?
To view this post redone by others (that was kind enough to link back to me), see the list below. It includes the comments from users who have added on more links to more artists. As follows:
http://samroblog.co.za/general-news/twitter-help-for-musicians-and-bands/
http://matty.co.za/2009/04/south-african-music-on-twitter/
http://www.10and5.com/2009/04/sa-bands-on-twitter/
some more South African artists to follow on twitter: http://twitter.com/louisecarver http://twitter.com/karma http://twitter.com/chrischameleon http://twitter.com/FRESHLYGROUNDsa
Cool post and links – thanks so much.
Linked here http://samroblog.co.za/general-news/twitter-help-for-musicians-and-bands/