Bands: Bittereinder

As I promised, here are some snaps of "Bittereinder" doing their thing at "Die Skim Grot".

Here's a short excerpt from their Facebook page: It seems that the unpredictable city of Pretoria is responsible for much greater controversy and magic realism in recent years than many citizens of the world might have guessed. Take Bittereinder for instance. Three relatively good-looking young Pretorian men who have unimaginably overcome their respective quarter-life crises to produce a series of works that verges on the magnificent and borders on being inexcusably ridiculous. Read more on their Facebook page.

Now as many of you may or may not know, I'm not a huge fan of the Afrikaans music scene and much less of rap music. Don't get me wrong, I love my language I just don't like hearing it in my music, BUT I have to admit I was quite pleasantly surprised by Bittereinder. They mixed two things I don't really like (Rap and singing in Afrikaans) and on a number of occasions it got my foot tapping and head bobbing during their set.

It's honest and well thought out music that anyone can appreciate. In a market so over saturated with Afrikaans bands trying to sound like one another this is a welcome change and very refreshing.

Here's a short piece from "Penworstel" - "en in my hart is hy ‘n held, op sy eie manier ‘n pad gekies van weerstand sonder geweld en ek het rede om trots te wees, verstaan my nou mooi

maar as ek partykeer na my mense kyk wil ek dit alles net weggooi" and "en ek weet ek is dieselfde ‘n skynheilige stem wat saamswem in die modder, maar goeie donner ek sien nie meer een positiewe gedagte hier onder nie".

Met sulke woorde, hoe kan ek nie my voet stamp en kop skud saam met die musiek nie.
Welgedaan ouens!

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