![]() ![]() For those who’d never been exposed to the South African rappers before, their appearance on David Letterman may have been slightly terrifying, a sentiment shared by some South Africans who are uneasy with the trio representing their nation abroad. The performance on the Late Show with David Letterman was described by the Huffington Post as milder than usual for the group: ‘ Die Antwoord took their consciously unnerving act to a mainstream audience Monday night - the late-night television crowd. Whilst in the USA for the show, Die Antwoord were featured on billboards in New York for designer Alexander Wang’s ‘guerilla-style Spring 2012 collection’, report Times LIVE and Channel24, as well as in a video for the designer, based on their song ‘Fatty Boom Boom’. Singer Katy Perry raved when she first heard them. ![]() The band had a ‘million-dollar deal’ with Interscope Records, reports the New York Times, and the ‘nastier lyrics’ on the new album were not acceptable to the record company. The group has formed its own record company Zef Recordz, after a dispute with its American record company Interscope Records, producing for pop stars such as Lady Gaga, Eminem, and Snoop Dogg. The traffic to Die Antwoord’s website, with millions of hits due to the music video, caused a near crash of local server Hetzner, and Die Antwoord had to move its hosting to an American website as a result, records Wikipedia. Just over a year ago they won the Myspace ‘ Best Music Video of 2010′ award for ‘ Enter the Ninja’, their first music video they self-produced. ![]() Interesting is that Letterman, who introduced the group as coming from Cape Town, did not interview them after their performance.ĭie Antwoord is not unknown to international audiences, having performed throughout the USA in 2010, as well as in many European countries, the United Kingdom, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia. Compared to their own official video of this song, featuring rats crawling over Vi$$er, the studio performance was mild. ![]() On the eve of the release of their album ‘ Ten$ion’ a week ago, husband and wife team Yo-Landi Vi$$er and Ninja (Watkin Tudor Jones), with DJ Hi-Tek, performed ‘I Fink U Freeky’, with a mix of English and Afrikaans lyrics, being a rap song that contains mainly the lyrics “I fink you are freeky and I like you a lot”! For the studio performance Vi$$er was dressed in an outfit which may have been by designer Alexander Wang, with dark black lines painted under her eyes, and wearing black contact lenses. It is an unbelievable accolade to a band that already has a strong local and international following, and may have the power of Coldplay’s ‘Paradise’in marketing Cape Town and South Africa. Soon the YouTube video of their performance was doing the rounds. On the day after Madonna’s Superbowl performance last week, American talkshow host David Letterman denigrated her and instead praised the Cape Town zef rap band Die Antwoord, which he had invited to perform in his Late Show with David Letterman, Twitter was abuzz with disbelief. Die Antwoord’s ‘I Fink u Freeky’ could be another hit for Cape Town tourism! Feb 14, 2012 Published by Chris von Ulmenstein, in accommodation, Chris von Ulmenstein, Film news, Food news, Hayden Quinn: South Africa, Restaurant news, Whale Cottage Portfolio. The market seemed a jolly space, with fresh vegetables, herbs, meat, flowers, cheeses, and more. Dutch cheesemaker MJ Mook of Just Cheese introduced Hayden to and allowed him to taste her special cheeses. They met at the Karkloof Market, which is just outside Howick, and here Jackie introduced Hayden to farmer Rob Symons of Broadleaze Organics, offering unusual herbs such as Vietnamese coriander. Chef Jackie was identified as a WWF-SASSI Trailblazer Chef. Once refreshed, he met Chef Jackie Cameron, then Executive Chef of Eat Out Top 10 restaurant at Hartford House, but who has left to establish her Jackie Cameron School of Food and Wine, which opens in Hilton in January. The episode started off with Hayden having a cooling swim near the Howick Falls, which have a 105 meter drop. It was ironic that episode 11 of ‘ Hayden Quinn: South Africa‘ last night focused on the Natal Midlands, and that a large part of the half-hour episode focused on farmer Kevin Lang’s Fairfield Dairy Ayrshire farm, given our Blogpost yesterday about the new defensive Woolworths ‘ Good Food News’ supplement in the Sunday Times. ![]()
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