As corporate functions would have it; Telkom more or less decided what songs Mean Mr Mustard should play - the result being a glorified cover band! For years, South African music lovers have wondered why South African music is not really appreciated - and the answer is simple - because the really good bands are playing cover versions of imported music in their really important money earning gigs - the corporate functions. I would have understood if they played covers of South African songs; but when the covered bands like Busted it really left a bad after taste. In the approximately 2 hours that we did stay for; they played only 3 of their own songs! What was the point?
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Hear hear!
I must say MMM didnt leave much of an impression on me. I was really looking forward to hearing some good south african music in the drakensburg. there are a million bands (well nearly) which would have given a more african home grown feel to the whole affair. I guess when the opening evening starts with "Space...Space...Africans... Wozani!... AfricanSpaceafricaWozani"
you can be sure they are confused about the identity of the whole thing.
That opening function was crap - I don't know what they were thinking. In fact both functions were dumb and stupid ... and to boot the food was not as great as last year either.
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