Topman CTRL interviews New Young Pony Club

Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by vincenthofmann in Band Interviews, Blogs, Music, featured, music-reviews, news

Topman CTRL recently talked to to Andy and Tahita of New Young Pony Club and Moral Fibre tagged along to listen.

Q: What new bands have you been listening to?

A: Well the new bands that I’ve been getting into are Is Tropical, Plugs, The Invisible and Les Corps Mince De Francoise.
T: My favorite one is [...]

Locnville. double trouble or twice as nice?

Posted on 27. Jan, 2010 by GabiGoldberg in Band Interviews, Music, featured

“I started making music because I’m fascinated at how powerful it can be…”- Andrew Chaplin.
Locnville is New York born and South African raised twins Andrew and Brian Chaplin. As their surname suggests the two are in fact related to the late and great Charlie Chaplin and with a connection like that one wonders if that [...]

An interview with Hot Water

Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by GabiGoldberg in Band Interviews, Music

South African singer, song-writer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, facilitator and band leader, Donovan Copley, has a talent not only for creating uplifting and authentic South African music…he has the knack for bringing together a consistently evolving group of musicians from very diverse backgrounds with an ever-fresh musical result that leaves audiences feeling inspired and proud [...]

An interview with Dan Patlansky

Posted on 03. Nov, 2009 by GabiGoldberg in Band Interviews, Music

It has been said “What Dan Patlansky can do with a six-string Fender Stratocaster at the age of 27, most critically acclaimed guitarists will never quite achieve in a lifetime.” How true the statement is, Dan’s playing is simply blues at its best.
It’s Rocking The Daisies and I hurry up to the Media office to [...]

An interview with Baby Scream

Posted on 21. Oct, 2009 by GabiGoldberg in Band Interviews, Music, featured

Baby Scream!, currently based in Argentina, was formed in 2001 by Juan Mazzola. The name Baby Scream “was a mixture of things but basically it represents (in my head) a baby’s fear while being born. The scream and all the crying you know, I associate this to the fear of being alive. In a [...]

An Interview with Jack Parow

Posted on 15. Oct, 2009 by GabiGoldberg in Band Interviews, Blogs, Music, featured

Jack Parow truly is original, he is in fact the “original donker dodgy afrikaans rapper”. The rest are just “fokken copies.”
He never really thought about a stage name as such, the name Jack Parow came about as he was  “drunk, and then Pirates of the Caribbean was on tv and I tuned, fuck [...]

Interview with Lee and Lags of Gallows

Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by vincenthofmann in Band Interviews, Music, featured

Topman CTRL recently got in touch - Topman CTRL is a new concept in UK music, which invites a different act each month to take charge – giving you complete access to their musical world through a dedicated blog. Very nice!
This month Topman CTRL feature the Gallows! You’ll remember we featured Gallows‘ Grey Britian, well we’re [...]

An Interview with Vaqueros Paganos

Posted on 02. Oct, 2009 by GabiGoldberg in Band Interviews

“I think we had no choice [but to make music] otherwise we would be in a mental hospital.”
Meet Vaqueros Paganos. Formed in 2007 in Buenos Aires as a duet compromising Diego Pagani and Clara V whohad been friends since they first met in 2005 at an Elliott Smith tribute concert.  The duet subsequently [...]

An interview with Taxi Violence

Posted on 22. Sep, 2009 by GabiGoldberg in Band Interviews, Music, featured

It’s midway through June and I’m off to meet with Rian and Louis to discuss the new Taxi Violence album, The Turn that was, at the time currently in the works. We (Louise, their publicist and I) meet up with the Louis and are shortly joined by Rian at High 5 and then move next [...]

An interview with The Shotguns

Posted on 18. Sep, 2009 by GabiGoldberg in Band Interviews, Music, featured

“The Shotguns. The name is in honour of my [Warren's] flesh and blood and that’s where these songs come from…my own flesh and blood-it’s marrow music-it’s got a heartbeat to it that’s going to be around for a while. I had the unexpected arrival of my first born son earlier this year – so it [...]