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S04E18 – The Sex Tape

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Leon and Brett produce a bit of a carry-on in the Tune Me What studio as they bring another hour of great South African music. This week, it’s all about sex, with a dozen songs or so to get your mojo working.

In this episode we feature:

  • Pressure Cookies
  • MarcAlex
  • Koos Kombuis
  • Spoek Mathambo
  • Brenda Fassie
  • Mig21
  • King Ink
  • Naked
  • Troye Sivan
  • Nakhane Toure
  • Yvonne Chaka Chaka

Fun fact: Did you know that archetypal Cockney funnyman Sid James (featured above in this week’s show graphic) was actually South African? Yup! The late Sid James  was born Solomon Joel Cohen in Hillbrow on 8 May 1913.

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

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S04E17 – The Flip-Flop Show

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What if the world hadn’t bothered with Radiohead’s tired and dull new album and had discovered the brilliant Nakhane Toure’s “Brave Confusion” instead? It could still happen of course! And it should! In this boundary-breaking episode, Leon and Brett nod in the direction of famous international bands and then flip them for a South African band or artist you’ll love if you like that. South Africa is a vast reserve of new music waiting to be discovered. We’re sinking a shaft right here so get prospecting!

In this episode we feature:

  • Matthew Mole
  • Locnville
  • Black Coffee
  • Shortstraw
  • Lithium
  • Petite Cheval
  • John Wizards
  • The Anti Retro Vinyls
  • Dan Patlansky
  • Kongos
  • Lucky Dube
  • Nakhane Toure

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

If you’d like to advertise on the show, drop us a line at adverts@tunemewhat.com

S04E16 – Getting Over Sugarman

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Did the Oscar-winning documentary “Searching For Sugarman” make things up and distort facts to the point where international audiences got a false impressing of the South African music scene? Did they make Rodriguez an undeserving hero at the cost of local South African musicians? With their special guest, music sociologist Michael Drewett, Brett & Leon reveal the scandalous truth about Malik Bendjelloul’s ‘fake-umentary’.

In this episode we feature:

  • Roger Lucey
  • National Wake
  • David Kramer
  • Edi Niederlander
  • Kalahari Surfers
  • Juluka
  • James Phillips
  • Mzwakhe Mbuli
  • Jennifer Ferguson
  • Bright Blue
  • Just Jinger

Check out Michael Drewett’s other project about censorship and South African music, Cutting Grooves.

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

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In this episode we used some free sound effects from http://www.freesfx.co.uk

S04E15 – Postcards From Hermanus

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During the mid-season break, Brett visited Hermanus in the Western Cape so he and Leon exchanged the ‘musical postcards’ which make up this week’s show. Brett never spotted any whales – even though it was in the middle of “Kalfiefees” – but he did find one of the best independent record shops in South Africa in the middle of Hermanus while searching for the new Matthew van der Want album… and other rarities!

So enjoy the zany exchanges as your two hosts celebrate more South African music!

In this episode, we feature:

  • Robin Auld
  • Abdullah Ibrahim
  • Koos Kombuis
  • Valiant Swart
  • David Kramer
  • Toya Delazy
  • Refentse
  • Sipho Gumede
  • Namaqa
  • Fetish
  • Matthew van der Want

Also, be sure to check out Funky Vibes CD shop if you’re even in Hermanus – they are one of the best stockists of South African music Tune Me What? has ever found – and the staff are super friendly and helpful.

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

If you’d like to advertise on the show, drop us a line at adverts@tunemewhat.com

In this episode we used some free sound effects from http://www.freesfx.co.uk

S04E14 – With Lyrics by Ingrid Jonker…

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Tune Me What? takes a look at an incredible album featuring 36 different South African artists who have turned the poems of the late Ingrid Jonker into songs. We play a few selections from the album in-between our usual banter and even manage to slip in some facts and information. So, after the show, keep an eye out for “Die Kind Is Nog Jonger”, a double-CD introducing one of South Africa’s most famous poets to a new generation.

In this episode we feature:

  • Nelson Mandela
  • Stefan Strydom and Gert Vlok Nel
  • Robbi Robb and Amritakripa
  • Falling Mirror
  • Ivan Kadey
  • The CapTn feat Julie Hartley
  • The McClones
  • Terminatryx
  • Inge Beckmann
  • The Sighs of Monsters
  • Radio Rats
  • Kalahari Surfers
  • Michael Flek

If you enjoyed this taste of the album, why not buy it online from CD Baby or iTunes, or find it on CD in-store (in South Africa).

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

If you’d like to advertise on the show, drop us a line at adverts@tunemewhat.com

S04E13 – Rock The Vote!

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Well, August 3rd is a public holiday in South Africa because it is municipal election day, so we decided to compile a show of political-themed songs for you to listen to while you wait in line to exercise your democratic right to vote.

In this episode, we feature:

  • 2016 Municipal Election Song
  • Vusi Mahlasela
  • The Malopoets
  • Koos Kombuis
  • Kalahari Surfers
  • David Kramer
  • Polstar
  • Pops Mohammed
  • Anton Goosen
  • Johnny Clegg & Savuka

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

If you’d like to advertise on the show, drop us a line at adverts@tunemewhat.com

S04E12 – Play CD Pokemon Go!

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With the Pokemon Go craze in full swing, Leon and Brett decide there’s an even greater challenge: finding some of South Africa’s most elusive CDs! Let us know if you’ve spotted any of these and money may change hands! This show features some genuine rarities – even though some were big hits. They also uncover a recording from Barney “The Skin” Simon’s show on 5FM from more than 20 years ago! Happy hunting!

This episode features:

  • Gecko Moon
  • The Led
  • Occam’s Razor
  • B-World
  • Izintombi Zesi Manje Manje
  • MarcAlex
  • Karoo
  • Zim Ncqawana
  • Juluka
  • Lithium

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

If you’d like to advertise on the show, drop us a line at adverts@tunemewhat.com

In this episode we used some free sound effects from http://www.freesfx.co.uk

S04E11 – The ‘Modern’ Show

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Leon and Brett have been feeling their age lately, so decided to do a show of new – and newish – music rather than the classics or anything from their favourite era, the 1980-90s. So, putting the hip back into hip-replacement and the hop back into “oh my back hurts’, get down and enjoy the next 60 minutes of some thoroughly modern South African music!

In this episode, we feature:

  • Matthew Mole
  • Locnville
  • Ringo Madlingozi
  • Lira
  • DJ Cleo
  • Freshly Ground
  • HHP, Teargas and Liquideep
  • Malaika
  • Mandoza
  • Francois van Coke & Karen Zoid
  • Black Coffee (with Nakhane Toure)

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

If you’d like to advertise on the show, drop us a line at adverts@tunemewhat.com

S04E10 – Common Censorship Show

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The recent row over the disgraceful culture of censorship gripping the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) got Leon and Brett thinking about how so very little has changed at the corporation since the dark days of apartheid. It seems the power of a state-controlled media conglomerate has corrupted the present new as much as the old. But as always, South Africans aren’t ready to take this kak lying down and the fight has been taken to the very car park of the institution. Here are some tunes banned in the the past to keep you toyi-toying in the present…. right up to Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s door.

This episode features:

  • Johannes Kerkorel en die Gereformeerde Blues Band
  • Roger Lucey
  • Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse
  • Mzwake Mbule
  • Brenda Fassie
  • Miriam Makeba
  • Jennifer Ferguson
  • Anton Goosen
  • David Kramer
  • Prophets Of Da City
  • Stimela

And here’s that POC video we mentioned in the show:

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

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S04E09 – Fantasy Concert #1

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Leon and Brett create a fantasy festival of music featuring choice live cuts by ten great South African performers mixed into a virtual concert.

This episode features:

  • Ella Mental
  • Vusi Mahlasela & Louis Mhlanga
  • Jeremy Loops (feat.Motheo Moleko)
  • Hugh Masekela
  • Lucky Dube
  • Trevor Rabin
  • Ringo (feat. Busi Mhlongo)
  • Jennifer Ferguson
  • Urban Creep
  • Johnny Clegg & Savuka

We really appreciate your feedback. We’re always open to suggestions and even requests! If you’re a South African musician living or touring internationally, do let us know about your concerts, album releases or tours – we’d love to give you a punt on the show.

Our email address is yesno@tunemewhat.com But most importantly, if you enjoy the show, tell your friends about Tune Me What?! You can find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TuneMeWhat

If you’d like to advertise on the show, drop us a line at adverts@tunemewhat.com

In this episode we used some free sound effects from http://www.freesfx.co.uk