"Electric Dreams is an adventure away from the guitar and washboard setup that ATWN is known for." It's a, mostly, electric punk rock record... even though it's listed on anarcho-punk.net under Non-punk Anarchist Music...
1. The Price Of Bread / Politics Of The Apocalypse 00:53
2. Xenophobic Dystopia 02:11
3. I Benefited From Apartheid 01:12
4. insert 02:01
5. Occupy Cape Town 02:25
6. Noisy Song 04:13
Monday Morning Justice or MMJ started as a solo folk punk project in Middelburg, Mpumalanga... A very conservative, religious and racist town to be playing fast atheistic folk music with political undertones. Now with a full band backing up a snot filled collection of very intricate punk rock songs, with heartfelt lyrics. This is a must listen to album.
"But can you find a better friend
than one who helps you jump the fence,
looks out when you slash their tires,
burns a flag when you're cold and tired
A brother, a sister, an open hand
mother can you understand we live a life we've never owned
So whisper softly sabotage
and wither slowly this visage.
Now we know the blood of kings
is spilled as easy as those who sin
Shape this country into land
and share it with your fellow man,
there are greater uses for this fire
but none as great as to burn their empire!
Salute!
The fathers who brought us to a land where
the children scream: "Why?!!!"
As I awake with a skull in my hand
Betray all that history has written
Now that their aren't any statues left,
to obscure the view I hope we see thee embers
of our burnt brothers who cross borders
Now that there aren't any lights on nowa' days
I hope we notice their...
I hope we notice their...
I hope we notice their hue"
Folk, Blues, Ska, Punk out of Middelburg, Mpumalanga.
'Matt Vend and The Tender 10, is the solo project of South African born
singer/journalist/songwriter/traveller and nomad Matt “Beard” Wilson who
has been playing music in bands since 1999, from the “tender” age of
14. His projects include the long running Sibling Rivalry, which managed
to gain a loyal and cult like following throughout South Africa and
even parts of Thailand being one of the most influential
punk bands to come out of Durban in the last decade. The short lived
but extremely well received Tubby Wilsons which delved into both Matt
and fellow writer and musician Yusuf Laher’s affection for nostalgic pop
and punk music and Durban’s first folk inspired punk/rock ‘n roll band
Car Boot Vendors which is still very much alive yet just on hiatus
whilst Matt is doing some travelling and work on his solo record.
He is no stranger to the studio and has recorded collectively over 50
songs with the various projects he has been involved with, including
guest appearances with Fruits and Veggies (Durban afro/reggae misfits),
Misled (Joburg’s finest new school hardcore/punk band) and Blaq Hitler
(Durban MC and hip hop producer). He is now finally delving into
the production side of making music, recording and producing his first
solo offering which will be out early 2012. He has been doing a few
shows in and out of Bangkok over the last few months and will be
embarking on an adventure through Vietnam early 2012, busking and
playing shows from Hanoi to Saigon. Although recording is a big part of
this musician’s repertoire live is where he shines, with literally
hundreds of shows under his belt across South Africa and Thailand
appearing on every stage imaginable from street corners and dingy bars
to major festivals.'
Debut full length record : Matt Vend and the Tender Ten - Tavern Talk
(This is a kick ass Durban Folk Punk Record! )
Jon Shaban plays guitar and saxophone for Cape Town band, Captain Stu.
He also has a project named "Jon Shaban and the Suave Koalas"
These are two songs from that group and three cover songs that We Did
This Records (Shaun) recorded bootleg style after missing most of the
show, at The Brass Bell in kalk bay, due to arriving late.
released 22 September 2012
Art by Shaun - "I wanted to draw a koala bear but i ended up drawing a dinosaur...
Shit happens"
Jon Shaban & All These Wasted Nuts playing Open Mic At Armchair In OBS, Cape Town
(November 2012)
Jon Shaban playes folk music that i would place next to bands like Andrew Jackson Jihad. Warm and heartful with an edge.
All These Wasted Nuts is Shaun from previous bands such as ContraMundi
and Sloppy Folk. He playes sometimes fast, sometimes slow, sometimes
loud, sometimes soft, sometimes complete and sometimes incomplete solo
folk songs.
I guess you would call this a Folk-Punk or Anti-Folk record
Sloppy Folk started as a collaboration between Shaun Richards and Michael Way in the dirty streets of Jozi. Both being without bands or cash, but having some songs they had written on Acoustic guitar. Thus "THE SLOPPY FOLK" was born.
associated bands:
Michael Way (also plays for "The Virulence", "A.W.O.L" - RIP, "solitary confinement" - RIP, "The Beat-Alls" - RIP) Shaun Richards (also plays for "ContraMundi" - RIP) Chris Linde (also plays for "The Vendetta Cartel", "A.W.O.L" - RIP, "The Beat-Alls" - RIP) Storm Thomas (also plays for "The Carniwhores", "The Death Valley Blues Band", "SUBMACHINE")
Track list:
1. Fixed Dice
2. You'r Gonna Be Fine
3. We Want A Revolution
"Zam Boney" is Gianluca Tadiello. The guitarist from "The Slashdogs", Vocalist/Guitarist/Song writer of "The Carniwhores" and this is his folk pop acoustic project. It's honest, heart full, sad... yet beautiful and uplifting. A shade of which we have yet to see from this BAD ASS ghoul of a guitarist. An amazing debut release. Something I'm going to be playing on repeat for a good while.
Zam is a good kid. DOWNLOAD HIS SHIT!
Some Notes On The Songs:
"You'll be okay is about selling your soul to the consumer dream, and in the process losing everything you truly care for (family, friends, dreams and aspirations). losing yourself.
False alarms is about finding love in such a world and being told not choosing that idea means your life will suck, but saying you have a choice and with love you can make it through cause its all that matters.
Jenny Jean is about a close friend of mine who committed suicide cause her BF beat her, the drugs fucked her up, her other friends fucked her over and her parents disowned her.
Ballad Of a Simple Man is about doing drugs when you're younger and how they eventually lead you to ruin, but how that's the only choice many people have after the world tells them they're not worth anything.
And Mother is about dealing as a family with cancer and how at those times you feel alone (everyone dies alone) and religion and science can't save you. All you have left is the now." - Zam
This Ep was recorded on an ipone using the standard voice recorder and no apps. There was no post production/mastering or auto tune. Completely live recordings.
An international punk comp! This was put together by Get Better Records as a benefit for Anthony Poynter, Who has been diagnosed with a late stage of cancer. Please Donate and download and re-post!!
Track List:
1. SPRAYNARD - Spooky, Scary 02:01 2. YOUNG MOUNTAIN - I Am A Statue (of America) 02:14 3. LESS THAN JAKE - Conviction (acoustic) 02:25 4. DEATHRATS - Crutch 01:05 5. THE PIST - Your America (live) 02:36 6. RUBRICS - The Music is My Life 02:02 7. BUTTON UP! - Grilled Cheese and Hummus 02:50 8. THE PHARMACY - Coldest Morning Light 02:11 9. THE WILD - Street Names 03:27 10. HOLD TIGHT! - Virginia Is Beautiful, Wish You Were Here 01:25 11. CEASEFIRE - For Mitch 03:32 12. JONESIN' - Just So You Know 02:17 13. PUBERTY WOUNDS - Edward Hyde 01:48 14. RUN, FOREVER - Young Pioneers 02:36 15. IRON CHIC - Langoliers 02:40 16. THE MENZINGERS - Kentucky Gentlemen (Bonus Track) 02:51 17. MISCHIEF BREW - The Midnight Special 2002 (Country Mile Version) 03:41 18. SPOONBOY - My Antonia 02:30 19. WOLFS - Cold Wet Lawns 01:58 20. RYAN HARVEY - Eucalyptus 02:17 21. SISTER KISSER - White Collar, Blue Collar, Who Gives A Shit 03:57 22. CANDY HEARTS - It Figures 02:48 23. WATERCOLOR PAINTINGS - Your Hands 02:12 24. SAND WITCHES - Skate or Cry 02:24 25. GRAVEN HAND - Prison Break 01:55 26. LIVING RHEUM - September 03:35 27. LAURA STEVENSON AND THE CANS - Montauk Monster 04:00 28. ZEBU - Bloody Lips 00:57 29. SKOLLIE! (durban, south africa) - Get Me Out Of Here 02:17 30. SLEEPING SPIDERS - Low Voltage Lightning 02:30 31. CHICKEN LITTLE - Old and Tired 02:24 32. Y LIME? - Skateboarding 02:00 33. TIMESHARES - Little Full, Lotta Sap
Monday Morning Justice is Conley Annondale (CW Christ)'s solo folk punk project.
"With his profound love for Punk Rawk, campfire tales and folklore he constructed these passions into something more audible than his constant whining and fittingly named it Monday Morning Justice still being a stalwart in comparison to his heroes, the noble squire has taken upon himself to fulfill this musical journey of propagating love and chaos" - facebook
This is a Split Album between South African Folk Punk band Sloppy Folk and American Folk Punk artist Dan Shedd or "Sheep And Other Anomalies". This Split also features Tyler Bisson (TRAGWAG or That Really Awesome Guy With A Guitar) covering the song "Tyler's Favourite Song" which Dan wrote and named after him because it was the song that Tyler liked the most. There is also a Sloppy Folk version of this song on here and a Sheep And Other Anomalies version of Frustration by Sloppy Folk. The recordings are all DIY and Lo-Fi and the record features many new songs and allot of covers of groups like Bad Religion, NOFX, Bright Eyes, Matt Wixson, Daniel Johnston, Blink 182, The Cure, Kimya Dawson, South Africa's Hog Hoggidy Hog, and a collaborative cover of the Old Crow Medicine Show by The Car Boot Vendors & Sloppy Folk recorded live when they were crashing at the commune in Fellside.
One of my personal favourites is the Sheep And Other Anomalies song titled "I Was A Teenage Anarchist Too... Asshole" which is a response to a song written by Against Me!' front man Tom Gabel.
"All these wasted nuts is a side project of Shaun Richards, one of South Africa's most well known folk artists. Having come from bands including contramundi and sloppy folk "All These Wasted Nuts" offers a refreshing new take on folk in South Africa. Mixing punk and anarchaic ideas with personal experiences, "Same Chords. New Songs - Novella" is a 16 minute escape from the world. Easily my most played folk album at the moment, i look forward to hearing more from them!" - Andrew MacPherson
p.s Andrew is being nice because they are friends so don't believe the lies!!! :p
"Traditional Irish music as well as deep rooted South African folk have a lot in common in terms of music styles. A couple of guys, some from Irish/Scottish heritage and others from their deep rooted Afrikaans heritage decided to do away with their noisy punk rock riffs and look a little deeper into their roots."
- The Sunday Punchers
There is a little track on here named "Whale Fishers" that is the shit! So pick this up. The song from this video that they recently finished putting together is also on the sampler! They are making a video for another song named "Exile Of A Broken Man" and a full length album should be out shortly.
"Acoustic-O-Punk Compilation Volume I (2009)" is a DIY Folk Punk Mix put together by Skye Evans, and features some really awesome and hard to find folk punk from around the world!
Disc One
1. 37 Cents - Adolescent Hobo's Anthem
2. Mutiny Amongst Friends - Atlas Ain't Got Shit
3. Acoustic Front of Resistance - Folx Punx
4. Cody Vann - Mescaline Swings
5. Last To Leave - I Love Food
6. Luke Romano - Cracks In The Concrete
7. The Thieves - Acoustic Aspirin
8. Al Baker - If I Was Frank Turner...
9. The Anorexic Olsen Twin - I'd Rather Be Playing Piano
10. Bear Hugs - Raise Your Right Hand
11. Scissor Dicks - Media Bear Pig
12. Black Death All Stars - Lights In The City
13. Bones In The Museum - Ask Us To Stay and We'll Leave
14. The Buzzkillers - 4 Wheels Out West
15. Marty Cain - Nothing Good Ever Lasts
16. Can't Sing For Shit - Rant Song
17. Christian Beale - Slow & Steady
18. Cody Sasher - Stolen World
19. A.W. Feldt - Glass Song
20. ContraMundi - Eat Vegetables All The Time! (South Africa)
Disc Two
1. Never Say Surrender - Alcohol and Apathy
2. Slug's Revenge - Media Song
3. Tommy Frain - PTSD
4. Factory Farm Melodies - Athiest Song
5. Amber Scala - Ten Pieces
6. Fairy Boy - I Want Kids.
7. Avian Orphans - Everyone Finds God (After The Next Beer)
8. HAHA Evolution - TVs, Banks, and Bosses
9. The Gardener - Anti-GMO Song
10. Jesse Tatto - Spanish
11. Water Tower Bucket Boys - You Smell Weird
12. Jessie Williams - Early To Rise, Late To Rest
13. Andrzej Stepien - Robin Hood
14. Jonas Selander - Let's Be Friends!!
15. Kids of Cons - Not Another Existential Reference
16. Just Another Warning - Supermarket Sweep
17. Justin Muncil - Dominic
18. Kickingbird - Living Spontanious
19. Mike XVX - She's A Lady
20. Star Commander - Stop Complaining, Start Moving
This is a Folk Punk comp CD from a DIY Punk distro out of Gothenburg, Sweden. that Cape Town's ContraMundi got onto. I love all the bands on here so I'm posting it up even though its not local. So DEAL WITH IT! ^_^
Here are the tracks:
01 The Anorexic Olsen Twin - I miss my friends
02 Jessie Williams - Remains (with Joey Gutter)
03 JV Mongrel - Freedom ain't
04 Roscoe Vacant - Four more years
05 A proletarian manifesto - The teeth of the machine
06 Boxcar Rollie - I hate driving cars but I love wondering if we're gonna break down
07 Richard Allison (Haha! Evolution) - TV, banks and bosses (with Dave Henderson and Jonas Selander)
08 Spoonboy (from The Max Levine Ensemble) - Stab yer dad
09 ContraMundi - Jimmy
10 Jake and The Infernal Machine - Eat from the trash
11 Nurse Duke & The Syphilitics - Be but a man
12 Thomas Gun - One more scene
13 Me Against All! - Beginning at the end
14 Asking For It - Home sweet homeless
15 Ill Logic - Revolutionary ska
16 EnoughAlready - Revolution and Frisbee
17 Jonas Selander - All for one, one for money!
18 Clara Hendricks - Hair song (live)
19 Fernando Cruz Pacheco - Timeless nights to an end
The cover is a picture painted by Jonas Selander and designed with text and form by the great Roscoe Vacant! The back cover is also a drawing made by Jonas Selander and is supposed to be folded behind the front!
WILD BUNNYNIGHTS:
A D.I.Y. record distro BOUND FOR GLORY! STRAIGHT OUTTA DYSTOPIA! Founded May 2009
You can download all of our albums for free from our web-archive at www.mediafire.com/WildBunnyNights
CDs in our catalogue available for free download:
- 40oz OF SPITE - Drink It Down EP
- A PROLETARIAN MANIFESTO - Winter demo 2008
- ACIDIC TREE - Demo tape 2010
- THE ANOREXIC OLSEN TWIN - The Anorexic Olsen Twin
- THE ANOREXIC OLSEN TWIN - The Anorexic Olsen Twin EP
- ASKING FOR IT! - Happy birthday Hitler!
- ASKING FOR IT! - Live and let d.i.y. EP
- BOXCAR ROLLIE - Seek and shine
- CLOGGED PIPES - Clogged Pipes EP
- CONTRAMUNDI - CONTRAMUNDI (South Africa)
- DAVE HUGHES AND THE RENEGADE FOLK PUNK BAND - Sinners and saints EP
- DAVE HUGHES AND ROSCOE VACANT - Split
- DUCK DOLLS - Blame it on the rich
- ENOUGHALREADY - The good, the bad and the ugly
- EVAN GREER - Never surrender
- FERNANDO CRUZ PACHECO - Trash can revolution
- JAKE AND THE INFERNAL MACHINE - Down from the hills
- JAKE AND THE INFERNAL MACHINE + CLARA HENDRICKS - Live in 2007
- JAKE AND THE INFERNAL MACHINE - Walking we build the road
- JESSIE WILLIAMS - Dystopia
- JESSIE WILLIAMS - Murky water
- JESSIE WILLIAMS - On this piece of honest land
- JESSIE WILLIAMS - Parachute to HELL
- JESSIE WILLIAMS AND THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION - Split across The Atlantic
- JIM SPUTNIG - Personal political
- JONAS SELANDER - May wild thunder strike us down
- JV MONGREL - From the mountains into the sea
- JV MONGREL vs ILL LOGIC - Split
- KILGORE TROUT - Goodbye cruel world
- KILGORE TROUT - Nine exit strategies
- LUKE ROMANO - As the cracks in the concrete widen..
- MEGA GAMES - Let in these hands to hold
- NURSE DUKE & THE SYPHILITICS - Terminate hate EP
- PEACE PUNX COMPILATIONS - Vol.1 Acoustic Anarcho
- RICHARD, DAVE AND JONAS - The good mistake EP
- ROSCOE VACANT - Necessity revisited
- ROSCOE VACANT - Nothing's going to change
- SLOPPY FOLK - Experience SA folk punk (South Africa)
- SPOONBOY - European tour demo 2009
- TARP LIFE! - Copyright this
- THOMAS GUN - Broke
- THOMAS GUN - The soapbox EP
- TRAGICAL HISTORY TOUR - A little death
- TRASHEDY - My shitty demos 1999-2009
- VRADIAZEI - Ep
SEND US YOUR MUSIC!!
If you're eager to change the world through your rad tunes and want them available in our archive, send mp3s, cover arts and lyrics to: WildBunnyNights@hotmail.com
Car Boot Vendors are a Folk/Punk band from Durban Stone City
"From a very young age I remember the early morning Sunday car boot market, just opposite the race course in Greyville Durban. My parents, never really gave me
pocket money, instead they would say, “why don’t you go and sell some stuff at the car book market for some extra money”. Even though I’ve always considered myself middle class it’s these early working class principles that shaped who I am today.
When I was 14 I got my first 6 string and I’ve been messing around on it since then, every so often going back to the market to make a few extra bucks.
The market to me represents not everything but a lot about Durban. You can buy t-shirts for R2, kitchen appliances for a spare penny and even computer software! It’s vibrant, packed and colourful, it’s dingy and chaotic, it’s fierce yet o so friendly.
So when my brother bought me a new acoustic for my 24th birthday I picked it up straight away and started writing songs, songs that I had never had the chance to write until now. Names popped in and out of my head on what the project could be called, being stuck in a big house in Bangkok Thailand gave me all the time I needed and before long I had around 9 songs which are slowly being worked into our set.
When I arrived back from my travels overseas the first thing my parents said to me is “why don’t you go back to the car boot market to make some extra money” and it clicked that in some strange way that little old market at the bottom of the hill represented everything about the music I was currently making. I might be a middle class kid, but I’m a working class musician. Catch The Car Boot Vendors in a park, parking lot, open mic session or pub near you soon."
- The Vendor(Matt 'The Beard' Wilson)
Gay Ray - Snare/Tambourine
Ross Roten - Guitar/Vocals
Guest Vendors:
Purity Mkhize - Vocals
Badger Mcfur - Organs
Paul "Skeg" Jones - Bass
Bobby Son - Bass
Band Interests:
Smoking, drinking, partying, hanging out at The Pub, hanging out in car parks outside nightclubs, getting into trouble for wanting to play shows in public spaces and on peoples car roofs. Trying not to get arrested. Busking, sharing meals, sharing booze, sharing spliff, sharing everything. Being broke, being a qualified 24 year old still living with your parents. You know... the usual
Known as Jay Bones in the South African Ska/Punk band Fuzigish, Rambling Bones is his acoustic alter-ego. Now with His Bloody Agents they dish out some mean Folk Punk.
LIVE WITH RUSTY FROM THE WENDYHOUSE VOL.1 (2010)
Tracks:
1. All Comes Down To This (demo)
2. Those Grey Men (live)
3. Crystal Ball (demo)
4. As Wicked (rancid cover)
5. Come Home (live)
6. The Desperations Gone (nofx cover)
7. Comrades With Fast Cars
8. Run For Cover (demo)
ContraMundi was a wannabe melodic punk band with screaming in all the wrong places. The band was based in Cape Town and only ever played shows in the area. Their style had some elements of Folk, Ska, Metal, and old school Anarcho Punk but mostly fits in (i think) with the kind of melodic male/female vocaled Pop Punk bands you would find on Plan-it-X Records.
Although unnamed at the time, ContaMundi was originally ‘started’ by Shaun Richards (Rhythm Guitar,Vocals) and Jean-Paul Fickk (Lead Guitar), who jammed songs they had written, occasionally with the help of Jeremy Norman (Drums,Vocals). The band officially formed in 2007, with the addition of Hannah Molyneux (Bassist,Vocals)
Lyrics involved: Animal Rights, being residentially challenged, being picked on, feeling alone, Eskom(the largest producer of electricity in Africa and the monopoly holder in South Africa)...apples ...and the fuck heads at CapeNature.(nature conservation ass holes who for ages have been on a kill everything not indigenous to cape town mission even though everything they have targeted has been there for hundreds of years and has become a crucial part of the ecosystem, or is an endangered species!? EG. Cape Town's Table Mountain was also home to descendents of ancient Himalayan mountain goats, called Tahrs, which are nearly extinct in their native Himalayas. But the agency that oversees Table Mountain's wildlife eliminated the area's population of tahrs. They have also done really stupid shit like putting poisons into the river systems to kill non-indigenous fish... disregarding the fact that indigenous fish/frogs are in the rivers and that the people from the neighbouring squatter camps also use the water...)
This songs lyrics are direct quotes taken from prints of peoples responses in the cape times newspaper to articles printed about CapeNatures activities: ContraMundi - Feed Back
Skollie! (from Durban, South Africa) is Jonathan Mackie's solo acoustic/folk punk project.
Think Peter Pan ingesting a concoction of the DIY Music of bands like the Ghost Mice and Andrew Jackson Jihad and creating honest, from the heart, youthful music that takes you on his personal adventures. So far he has 2 demo albums self recorded and released. His music is free to download so give it a listen.
Jonathan also plays bass guitar in the band 'Car Boot Vendors' who are shocking South Africa with their energetic, up beat acoustic punk and wild stage performances.
Tracks:
1 - Get Me Out Of Here
2 -You Can Hold My Hand
3 - Champ (Gypsy Pirate Punx From Another Dimension)
4 - Arthritis And Gout
5 - Blood On The Street
6 - Motala
7 - Flesh And Bone
8 - Happy Death Day To You
9 - Song For The Dead
Secret song - Sink Florida Sink (Against Me! cover song)
