Going Behind The ‘Boerewors’ Curtain
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on December 12, 2008
‘Cool” isn’t the first word that springs to mind when thinking about Bellville, the middle-class boerewors-gordyn suburb cushioned by Brackenfell and Durbanville in Cape Town.
It is debatable whether the Springbok Nude Girls made it cool to be from Bellville. However, a new posse of offspring now runs the hood and produces some of the best music to come out of SA.
The doccie shows a group of friends, mostly students of the D F Malan School, who pushed the boundaries of where SA rock could go to.
While bands like KOBUS!, the Nude Girls, 7th Breed and New World Inside were already around, it took Fokofpolisiekar to really boost the confidence and set the tone for what could follow with the likes of aKing, Ashtray Electric, Foto Na Dans, Thieve, Van Coke Kartel, New Holland, Die Heuwels Fantasties and Jax Panik. What emerged was a thriving music scene, not limited to Afrikaans.
The makers travelled with the bands to festivals like Rocking the Daisies and Aardklop, with additional sourced live footage shown throughout the doccie. With a focus on the music scene, a kind of brotherhood is revealed after several interviews with Francois van Coke, Laudo Liebenberg, Wynand Myburgh, Hunter Kennedy and Jax Panik.
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