Music Musts: Supporting cancer patients through music
By Jonathan Duguid Everyone’s been affected by cancer in one way or another. I lost my uncle (and role model) to the dreadful disease when I was just 11 years old. That was my first personal...
View ArticleMusic Musts: Feel the gees
By Jonathan Duguid There’s no denying that football fever is here with the FIFA World Cup currently underway in Brazil. I must admit, although at times I may look like an old footie geyser (mainly the...
View ArticleMusic Musts!: Where are the storytellers?
By Jonathan Duguid A great part of music, especially South African music, over the 1970s and 80s, and even early 90s, was that a lot of it told us a story. Somehow, when the international sanctions on...
View ArticleMusic Musts: Dispelling the week’s rumours
By Jonathan Duguid I’m always amazed at how quickly rumours spread, especially rumours to do with the entertainment industry. This past week has been particularly filled with quite a lot of music...
View ArticleMusic Musts: My school daze
By Jonathan Duguid It’s currently school holidays, and this past week I found myself slipping into a bit of a daze, thinking back on my days at school. Isn’t it just ironic, that when we’re at school,...
View ArticleMusic Musts: 67 Minutes for Madiba
By Jonathan Duguid This Friday, July 18, marks the birthday of the father of our nation, the late Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, or to us, as South Africans, who knew him best, uTata Madiba – a man who...
View ArticleMusic Musts: Thinking outside the box
By Jonathan Duguid I have recently gotten quite into one of the newer social networks, called Vine. It is an application for your smartphone that allows you to post videos of up to 6 seconds each. Most...
View ArticleMusic Musts: SA – the new music video hub
South Africa has in recent years become quite the hub for filming. From ‘Deep Blue Sea’ and ‘Lord of War’, to ‘Blue Crush 2’, ‘Invictus’ and ‘The Giver’ (to name but a few), all have featured filming...
View ArticleMusic Musts: RIP Robin Williams – “The Voice” of a generation
By Jonathan Duguid He was an incredibly gifted performer, one of the best in the world, with the ability to touch the heart of all who ever saw him, whether he was acting in a film, or performing...
View ArticleMusic Musts: Everyone loves a duet
By Jonathan Duguid There is something quite special about two artists coming together to collaborate on a song. I can’t quite pinpoint why that is, though. Perhaps it’s the fact that two great minds...
View ArticleMusic Exchange: Putting out the fire with gasoline
Those six words seem to have stuck in my head the entire week, with the untimely passing of ‘The Thin White Duke’, best known as the late, great, David Bowie. Maybe it has to do with my rebellious...
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