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Zefling report: South Africas Big 5 hits Durban

22.06.2010

Things can get pretty insane when Die Antwoord, Locnville and Goldfish ride 5FM's Big 5 wave into Durban to make love to a sea of 15-year-old girls in stockings, boots and fake leather jackets and guys sporting thick neck chains and Volcom shirts.

The place still felt like an underage nightclub. It was like watching 5FM live. I wondered how Die Antwoord would fit in. They may have slipped into it but Die Antwoord is not a mainstream band (for kids). In fact, they're the most unlikely duo of misfits to ever infiltrate mainstream pop culture.

Suddenly, they were on. It was like watching two superstars explode all over the stage. There were about 30 people at the last Durban Antwoord show at the Zulu Jazz Lounge. Back then, Ninja and Yolandi walked in the front door, unannounced and hassle free. Not this time. Before the show, they’d shut down the backstage area and taken over. And nobody even questioned it.

Die Antwoord's worldwide fame seems to have added even more fuel to their ever-burning tik pipes. Showing off a massive new SOS back piece, Waddy has truly become Ninja. The transformation is complete. They were always good, but now Ninja and Yolandi Vi$$er seem untouchable. Larger than life. Almost vindicated by their international success and notoriety. The line between satire and real life has been blurred beyond recognition.

Die Antwoord were insane. Oozing confidence, Ninja stalked the stage like a madman. And backed up by his now even more obnoxious (yet just as loveable) pocket-sized sidekick Yolandi, Die Antwoord "fokked that fokken Durban jol in the face." The sound was fat all night, but Die Antwoord was off the chart. "The bass is rumbling my tentacles," said City Bowl Mizer guitarist Kurt Peinke.

If the Film and Publication Board was about, they’d have stamped Die Antwoord with a big fat R18 seal of approval. They were gloriously inappropriate. Their performance has become an intense, rehearsed stage show, with costume changes, roleplay and synchronised arse flashing. Ninja even changed into his Pink Floyd boxers for "Beat Boy" and launched into a massive stage dive the Italian football team would have been proud of. 

"Put your motherfucking beautiful hands in the air," said Roger Goode – who's a lot shorter in person – as he got on stage. But that was enough underage clubbing for me. Tonight, Die Antwoord was my reason for being here. And on that high, I decided to call it a night. Thank you Haunted House Productions. But Wavehouse was still packed. The exit looked like a grade eight after-party, with unimpressed-looking parents streaming in to pick up their drunk-but-trying-to-hide-it teenage daughters. My, how times have changed....Not!

By Yusuf Laher

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Im gonna see them in Germany, YESSSSSssss!!!!
H. H @ 22.06.2010 @ 13:12
Who the fuck is Roger Goode???
hi§ @ 22.06.2010 @ 15:06