Johnny Neon have just put up a stack of tracks from their album on free download. Pretty sweet. They are a huge two piece act out of Joburg/Pretoria (same place really). It would be super if they came back to Cape Town for a show. They haven't done it in an age! The last time they were here as a pair was for Sovereign Academy (if memory serves) and before that in February this year. Ben Rausch (Sassquatch) the keytar player in the band has been down a couple of times to dj, which has been freakishly fine! They have a video called Heart Attack.
Here are a couple of my favourite tracks from the list for free download.
SovereignAcademy is a massive party that travels around South Africa featuring loads of exciting outfits with similar musical interests. Sovereign was launched in December 2005 and has since grown from strength to strength. Creators, Ben Rausch and Matt Suttner had a dream to expose Pretoria to the “disco punk” that Joburg kids had been grooving to for 2 years. Luckily (for Cape Town) this dream was realised quickly and has exploded to all parts of South Africa. Since its inception Academy has attracted acts like Kidofdoom, King of Town, Jonny Neon and many others who fit the bill.
Cape Town’s The Final Field Trip marks the last party on the road for the Academy year before heading back to the Highveld for The Academy Graduation Party later this year.
Come the 30th April, The Final Field Trip will hit Assembly with violent insolence! Kidofdoom are deemed to be one of the very first dance-rock acts in South Africa and have played at almost every Sovereign get together since the beginning. They played not too long ago at Evol and awesomed the jol!
Perhaps, to Cape Town, one of the most exciting acts in this very distinguished line up is the ever impressive Jonny Neon who played to a very receptive Assembly crowd in February.
The only purely electro act of the night Jonny Neon is a two piece art punk synth pop act who work exclusively with analogue synths and loads of never ending visuals. They have just shot and released their first music video.
Other exciting acts for the Final Field Trip include King of Town (said to be the “godfather” of the dance-punk scene in SA) andSassquatch. (Aka Ben Rausch and co-founder of Sovereign, Sassquatch presents half of Jonny Neon and an exciting DJ mixing music and visuals like no one’s business. In celebration of The Final Field Trip, Sassquatch has put together an ecstatic mix well worth downloading.)Data Takashiand Casioheart are two other well known acts promising to rip up the Assembly floor boards.
If this sounds like your kinda jol, hop along to the Facebook invitation for more info!
Jonny Neon are two lads from Johannesburg who have a passion for some intense Electro. I had the privilege of seeing them live on stage on Friday at yet another packed out Assembly.
The only thing was though, is that they should not have had to play first. The Dirty Skirts were set to play second, but in fairness to the guests, they should have opened for the travelers. It would have been only right for Jonny Neon to play to an already warmed up crowd rather than have the responsibility of setting the mood just right for the Skirts. They were really good anyways and deserved all the praise they received. Ben, (one of the band members) did an electro dj set afterwards, which was stupendous! And although I was there to just take pics, I couldn't help but get my groove on as he played contagious sing alongs like "Whoo Yeah alright" by The Rapture.
It was also the last time The Skirts will be playing in a Cape Town club until June. I don't know about you, but I have had an overdose of the lads in the last month and will gladly take leave of them until June.
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Johnny Neon have just put up a stack of tracks from their album on free download. Pretty sweet. They are a huge two piece act out of Joburg/Pretoria (same place really). It would be super if they came back to Cape Town for a show. They haven't done it in an age! The last time they were here as a pair was for Sovereign Academy (if memory serves) and before that in February this year. Ben Rausch (Sassquatch) the keytar player in the band has been down a couple of times to dj, which has been freakishly fine! They have a video called Heart Attack.
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