EFC AFRICA 23 - DK EXPRESSIONS

EFC AFRICA 23 - DK EXPRESSIONS

3 WEEKS TO EFC AFRICA 23

An epic fight card awaits

fans on September 12

22 August -3 WEEKS TO EFC AFRICA 23

Johannesburg, South Africa – The entire EFC AFRICA 23 fight card has been finalised, and promises incredible MMA action from tail to top.

Apart from the two title fights scheduled, where Andrew van Zyl defends his heavyweight crown for the first time against kickboxing colossus Sors ‘Guru’ Grobbelaar, and Michiel Opperman his welterweight title against former British and Commonwealth Muay Thai champion Dino ‘The Lion’ Bagattin, 11 other scintillating bouts play out on the night.

Fan favorite Boyd Allen finally gets his three rounds against Durban bad boy Wesley Hawkey. Allen has been asking for a tougher opponent and Hawkey offers just that. This bout has been postponed twice, both athletes are rearing to have a go at each other, and has massive fight of the night potential - if not fight of the year.

Martin ‘The Punisher’ Van Staden goes head to head with Nigerian born, Ireland based Henry ‘Herculeez’ Fadipe in a matchup that has already erupted on social media. Postponed from EFC AFRICA 22 due to Fadipe not receiving his VISA in time, Van Staden has accused him of ‘hiding’ and incompetence, while Fadipe has responded that all he wants now is the moment where he stands over Van Staden’s unconscious form.

Wilhelm ‘Tiny’ Strauss and Congolese black belt Judoka Vandam Mbuyi complete the main card with a heavyweight clash certain to crunch. Strauss is fresh from an epic, three round fight of the night war at EFC AFRICA 21 and will want a repeat performance, Vandam is a veteran of that same event. There he out boxed Egyptian Mohamed Karim over three rounds and afterward stated that all he wants is more.

 

The evening’s prelim card, only available for viewing live at the venue, in full HD at selected Nu Metro cinemas throughout South Africa and via live streaming on efcafrica.tv, seethes with the best African talent.

Cheboub and Akleker face off in a highly skilled encounter. Both are known for unorthodox and specialized technique, both are seeing this as the ultimate opportunity to truly test their skills against an opponent as dedicated to the craft of MMA as the other.

Johan van Staden, renowned for his gritty striking and unbelievable toughness takes on the next prodigy to appear out of Cape Town, Sibusiso Mdoku. This man put on a near fight of the night performance against Cheboub last time around, this time he will stop at nothing for the win.

Roelof Scheepers, the monster that destroyed in his debut at EFC AFRICA 22 with a first round annihilation of Egyptian wrestler Koko Hammer, returns for an encounter at a whole new level with Brendon Groenewald. Groenewald submitted heavyweight title challenger Sors Grobbelaar at EFC AFRICA 16, offering a wealth of dangerous experience to challenge the newcomer.

Francois Groenewald and Craig Ninow, both massive talents determined to avenge recent losses, do battle at featherweight and K1 world champion Dricus du Plessis returns for what he terms ‘the chance to lay on a real beating’ against massively rated Takedown Academy debutant Bruno Mukhulu.

In addition both Botha brothers - identical twins and All Africa wrestling champions - go to war at feather and bantamweight with Peter Nyide and Baldwin Mdlalose respectively. Mdlalose is one of only two entering the Hexagon for the first time. Nelson Feiteria is the other, an athlete already trailing a huge reputation, who goes up against Nigerian boxing champion Kanyeba Anicet.

EFC AFRICA 23 presents six full hours of non-stop MMA action from the greatest on the continent. Get your tickets now.

EFC AFRICA 23, presented by MusclePharm, takes place at the Carnival City Big Top Arena on 12 September 2013. Tickets on sale now at www.computicket.com.  Tickets for the live broadcast to Nu Metro Cinemas available soon at www.numetro.com.

Broadcast information and full fight card available at efcafrica.com

About EFC AFRICA™ – The Extreme Fighting Championship™

Headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, EFC AFRICA™ now produces 10 live Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) events annually, all hosted on the African continent. With over 100 athletes exclusively contracted to the organization from across Africa (Angola, DRC, Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa and more), EFC AFRICA is the continents leading MMA organization and showcases the greatest warriors on the continent.

EFC AFRICA™ events are broadcast to over 110 countries across the globe on 9 television networks in multiple languages. The live broadcast is available to over 130 million homes across Africa on SUPERSPORT, the continent’s largest sport network, as well as in the USA, Canada and the Caribbean on FIGHT NOW! TV, America's only 24-hour combat sports and entertainment channel. Live broadcasts of every event are available across Romania on free to air broadcaster Transilvania L!VE. Delayed live events are broadcast throughout Malaysia on MAX MAN TV.

The best bouts from every EFC AFRICA™ event fill up action-packed television episodes broadcast to 50 million homes in the USA on the CSI SPORTS network, throughout Europe and the Middle East on EXTREME SPORTS CHANNEL and across Canada on FIGHT NETWORK as well as in Africa on FOX FX and SUPERSPORT.

SWING CITY AND SWING MUSIC HIT CARNIVAL CITY

SWING CITY AND SWING MUSIC HIT CARNIVAL CITY

SWING CITY AND SWING MUSIC

HIT CARNIVAL CITY

Swing City.

        SWING CITY with Nathan Ro, Graeme Watkins and Loyiso Bala

Date                Friday 6 September 2013

Time                20h00

Venue              Carnival City Mardi Gras Theatre - Brakpan

Tickets             R100 from the door

The three talented and ultra-cool entertainers from the show Swing City will transport you to the era of swing music and big bands when they perform at the Carnival City Mardi Gras Theatre in Brakpan on Friday 6 September.

Individually Nathan Ro, Graeme Watkins and Loyiso Bala enjoy successful careers in the entertainment industry. Drawn together by their love of swing music, Frank Sinatra and Robbie Williams, they decided to join forces to start a swing band and the result is Swing City.

Nathan’s music career took off when he was runner-up in Project Fame and he subsequently formed well known band Lonehill Estate.  The band went on to record three albums, garner a SAMA nomination, achieve three No 1 hits on 5fm and perform internationally in Los Angeles and Montreux. Isidingo fans will also need no introduction to Nathan, who has performed on the successful soap drama for two years.

By contrast, Graeme is a Theatre and Performance graduate from UCT who chose to follow a career in music, forming a swing trio entitled Its a Swing Thing. He was a runner up in Idols and then formed the successful band The Graeme Watkins Project which has since received two SAMA nominations so far.

Popular Loyiso Bala, the third Ace in the pack needs little or no introduction. Part of the family group The Bala Brothers, Loyiso has enjoyed an equally successful solo career, including the most played song of 2009, I Want You.

Swing City features the three vocalists backed by a live jazz band. This sexy combo delivers a celebration of all things jazz, swing and blues, but adding their own modern day twist.

Swing fans can expect to hear classics such as Mack the Knife, Mr Bojangles, I’ve Got You Under My Skin, Come Fly With Me, Fever, For Once In My Life, Me and My Shadow  and many more of your favourites.

The show starts at 20h00 and tickets are available from the door at R100 each.

ILAN SMITH MAGIC -IT’S TIME TO START BELIEVING

 IT’S TIME TO START BELIEVING

Be amazed and amused by Ilan Smith’s magic         

 Ilan Smith – it’s time to start believing 

DATE               Saturday 7 September 2013

TIME                20h00

VENUE             Carnival City Mardi Gras Theatre - Brakpan

COST               R100 each

TICKETS           Available at the door 

Magician and illusionist Ilan Smith is a master of intrigue and wonder and a comedian to boot as he plans to prove to his audience at the Carnival City Mardi Gras Theatre in Brakpan when he performs there on Saturday 7 September.

Ilan is no stranger to the stage and has been performing to Gauteng audiences since he was 16. Today he belongs to both the prestigious International Brotherhood of Magicians and the South African Inner Circle of Magic.

Using a combination of smoke and mirrors, bamboozling illusions and sleight of hand all blended with a great sense of humour, Ilan provides an evening’s entertainment that will appeal to everybody.

The show starts at 20h00 and tickets are available at the door from R100 each.

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DELICIOUS FESTIVAL

DELICIOUS FESTIVAL

1 international headline act. 7 Top Local Artists, 8 dj's, 3 celebrity chefs, 150 Food Artisan Stalls, 2 nights.

#DeliciousLife, #DStvMusic, #DStvFood, #FeastWithCheckers, #DKEXP, 

http://dkexpressions.co.za/delicious/

BONNIE TYLER LIVE IN SOUTH AFRICA

Bonnie Tyler to rock Gauteng this August and Cape Town

and Bloemfontein  in  September 2013!!

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Bonnie Tyler fans can expect a Total Eclipse of the Heart when the electrifying Welsh songbird performs at Emperors Palace on the 29^th and 30th August 2013 at 20:00, 1st September 2013 at 18:00 and at the Cape Town Convention Center on 6^th and 7^th September 2013 at 20:00

Bonnie Tyler, the husky-voiced pop-rock diva behind hits such as Lost in France, It’s a Heartache and Holding out for a Hero last performed in the country  20 years ago. Having released a succession of irresistible classic songs in the 1970s and 1980s, she continues to occupy a special place in the hearts of many South Africans.

Tickets for these  concerts are   available at Computicket .

Bonnie Tyler was born Gaynor Hopkins in South Wales, and grew up surrounded by a large family. She was exposed to Motown music at an early age, and was particularly struck by the raw vocal power of two singers who would later have a huge influence on her singing style, Janis Joplin and Tina Turner.

 She entered a talent contest at the age of 17 (coming second to a professional singer and winning the princely sum of £1) and went on to join the group Bobby Wayne and the Dixies for two years before forming her own band, Imagination, becoming a regular performer on the Welsh pub and club circuit.

“I decided I would change my name for the stage,” she says. “I put together a list of surnames and Christian names from a newspaper. I thought Bonnie Tyler sounded better than Hopkins. Now I like Gaynor and wish that I hadn’t changed my name.”

After a few years she was spotted signed to a record deal, but it was only after she had surgery to remove throat nodules in 1976 that her voice developed its trademark huskiness, earning her the moniker “the female Rod Stewart”. Her breakthrough hit in the UK and Europe, Lost in France, was followed by the mega-success of It’s a Heartache, which climbed into the top five in the USA as well.

Bonnie Tyler

 It was  in the early 1980s, when Tyler seized back control of her career, that she made a fateful choice that would propel her to superstardom: partnering with Bat Out of Hell producer and songwriter Jim Steinman. Steinman instantly recognised the value of Tyler’s raw, passionate, powerful vocal style, and harnessed it to perfection on the album Faster Than the Speed of Light.

It would prove to be creative alchemy: within four weeks of the release of Total Eclipse of the Heart, the epic single had knocked Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean off the top of the UK charts.

It went on to sell over five million records and earned Tyler two Grammy nominations. The album shot straight into the UK album charts at number one, making Tyler the first female artist ever to achieve this feat, and went on to achieve platinum status in several countries, including South Africa.

Subsequent albums yielded standout songs such as the duets with Shakin’ Stevens (A Rockin’ Good Way) and Todd Rundgren (Loving You’s a Dirty Job, But Somebody’s Got to Do It). She has continued to enjoy success, particularly in Europe, where she has embarked on successful collaborations and duets, exploring other genres such as soft-pop and folk and making regular television appearances on charity drives and reality shows.

Tyler has been working on a new album, titled Rocks and Honey, which is enjoying chart success in Britain and Europe Featuring this year’s Eurovision hit song “Believe in me”

Don’t miss the opportunity to experience one of the most  legendary and powerful voices in pop-rock music .

 Book your seats at Computicket but don’t delay – they’re likely to be snapped up Faster Than the Speed of Light!

Bonnie-Tyler

Rockstarter Winners Announced

 PRESS RELEASE

 

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Kraken and Rolling Stone Rockstarter Winners Announced

With two such legendary bands, backed by the finest black spiced rum, who was left to tell the tale…

 [Photographs courtesy of Willim Welsyn]

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Kraken Black Spiced Rum is proud to announce that both 'Ballistic Blues' and 'Cortina Whiplash' have been crowned Rolling Stone Rockstarter Winners for 2013.

During the Final Round at Mercury Live the judges were equally impressed with both bands and they subsequently decided that the award must be shared.

The competition saw a total of 56 entries, which were finally whittled down to the two bands that stood out at their respective gigs in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

"Rockstarter? Well, South Africa has a bucket load of real bands, making real music. There were more than 50 bands that rocked out in the competition. Ultimately the judges couldn't separate young blues rock prodigies Ballistic Blues and feminist punk rockers Cortina Whiplash in the final. Here's to both bands kicking out the jams in the coming years!" said Rolling Stone South Africa’s Editor, Myles Keylock. 

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Both bands will receive an album recording, perform at multiple events, be featured in Rolling Stone Magazine S.A. and become Kraken Black Spiced Rum rock ambassadors for the next 6 months.

Kraken Black Spiced Rum is title sponsor of the Rolling Stone Rockstarter competition, proving to be the perfect partner with it’s edge-of-the-world, man-eating, shipwrecking brand story.

To be kept up to date with everything Rockstarter and Kraken-related follow @TheKrakenRumSA.

 Release the Kraken!

JONATHAN BUTLER LIVE IN SA

Jonathan Butler to tour South Africa with new album

Jonathan Butler will be in South Africa to launch the Jonathan Butler Foundation this September. Grammy nominated, South African born, world famous singer-songwriter guitarist, whose music covers R&B, jazz fusion and gospel, Jonathan Butler will give three concerts for his fans in Pretoria, Cape Town and Johannesburg at the end of September 2013.

The Jonathan Butler Grace and Mercy Tour will feature well-known tracks as well as songs from the new album. Tickets are on sale through Computicket from 07 August 2013 - www.computicket.com

Notes to Editors

1.      Venues have been chosen to ensure that Jonathan’s core fans are offered affordable ticket options

2.      The Eersterust, Pretoria concert takes place at the Eersterust Civic Centre on SA Heritage Day, 24 September 2013; Concert starts at 18H30. Support band: Freeborn and local artists  

3.      The Cape Town concert takes place at Athlone Stadium on Friday 27th September 2013; Concert starts at 19H30. Support bands: Wayne Bosch and Freeborn

4.      The Rhema Auditorium, Randburg concert in Gauteng takes place on Saturday 28th September. Concert starts at 19h00. Support band: Freeborn

5.      Tickets range in price from R100.00 to R500.00 per person

6.      Hospitality packages are available on request – please contact kb@networxpr.co.za

7.      Gates open 3 hours before the stated concert times

 

About the Jonathan Butler Foundation 

After his involvement with a number of independent initiatives, Jonathan Butler has launched a foundation that will cement his musical and personal legend in South Africa. The main aim of the Jonathan Butler Foundation (JBF) is to be a self-funded organisation providing positive intervention to promote access to music and arts education for children. Underlying this, the JBF focuses on helping to prevent kids falling into a life of substance abuse. It will do so through the use of a series of digitally mastered interactive presentations and programmes that it will be run through schools and community centres. The first of these programmes will take place in Eldorado Park in Gauteng in partnership with the Gauteng Provincial government.

The Foundation’s approach to substance abuse is based on its slogan: “Purpose kills Addiction – Live your dream!” The foundation uses a strengths-based approach in order to maximize the potential of young people.

The JBF also provides bursaries and scholarships to partner education institutions for those stellar students on the programme who demonstrate exceptional talent and a willingness to succeed while upholding the ideals and philosophy of the JBF.

The JBF will officially launch on 24 September 2013, SA Heritage Day, as it is Jonathan’s desire to create a new heritage for South Africa’s youth – one that is born out of music and a heritage they can claim as their own.

As a result of Jonathan Butler’s involvement with the Tshwane School of Music, of which he is Patron, the JB Foundation was formed. One of the Tshwane School of Music successes is the group, Freeborn, whose band members are under 13 years. The band has already performed at previous Jonathan Butler concerts and at Freedom Day celebrations.