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Vodacom in the City is Looking for SA’s Hottest Band to Join Their Outstanding International Lineup!

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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Dream of performing in front of thousands of fans with the likes of The Kooks, Milky Chance and The Cat Empire? For the third year in a row <span class="il">Vodacom</span> is making this dream a reality for one of SA’s most talented acts. <span class="il">Vodacom</span> Open the <span class="il">City</span> (#VOTC2015) is back and with previous winners being Al Bairre and P.H.fat the chosen band has some pretty big shoes to fill.</span><span style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Jozi’s much loved festival music festival, <span class="il">Vodacom</span> in the <span class="il">City</span> will take place in the heart of the <span class="il">city</span>’s spectacular Emmarentia Dam. On <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_919236189" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4 October</span></span> the winning <span class="il">Vodacom</span> Open The <span class="il">City</span> band will perform shoulder to shoulder with these international heavyweights, in front of an estimated 12 000 music-lovers. What’s more they will get rewarded R30,000 for the pleasure.</span><span style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">“I would absolutely recommend entering <span class="il">Vodacom</span> Open the <span class="il">City</span>, especially if you’re starting up and you’re looking to take it seriously. It will give you a lot of insights, it’s not run of the mill,”</span></i></b><span style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">VOTC is looking for entrants from all music genres whether you rock out, have an indie edge or kill a new age sound don’t be afraid to enter here: </span><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.vitc.co.za/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.vitc.co.za</a></span><span style="color: black;">. You just need to fill out a simple form, with links to your music, and a band logo and photo must be uploaded. A panel of industry professionals will whittle down the entries to a shortlist of five final bands. <span class="il">Vodacom</span> will produce videos for these bands and the fans will then get the opportunity to vote for their favourite act. The five finalists will also perform at a fringe event on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_919236190" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">20 September</span></span>.</span><span style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">If you fit the following criteria, enter before <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_919236191" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">midnight</span></span> on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_919236192" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">16 August 2015</span></span>.</span><span style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">·      Your band must have a minimum of two years live performance experience;</span><span style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">·      Your band must have played to an audience of at least 2000 attendees;</span><span style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">·      You must have a minimum of 45 (forty five) minutes of original material;</span><span style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">·      You must have been play-listed on a commercial or campus radio station;</span><span style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">·      You must be available to perform on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_919236193" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">20 September and 4 October 2015</span></span> in Johannesburg, (Cape Town finalists will be flown up).</span><span style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: black;">*See T&C’s on the link above for all details.</span></i><span style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">The five finalists will be announced on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_919236194" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">31 August 2015</span></span>. </span><span style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Open the <span class="il">City</span> is brought to you by <span class="il">Vodacom</span>.  Stay close to <span class="il">Vodacom</span> In The <span class="il">City</span> on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for news on the nominee announcements.</span><span style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">Stay tuned to 5FM for regular updates, interviews and more information on #VOTC2015!</span><span style="color: black;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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Vodacom in the City is Looking for SA’s Hottest Band to Join Their Outstanding International Lineup!

VODACOM IS LOOKING FOR SA'S HOTTEST BAND TO OPEN FOR INTERNATIONAL ACTS THE KOOKS, MILKY CHANCE & THE CAT EMPIRE! Dream of ...

By ThinkInElectronic / Friday, September 12, 2014 / No comments /

Opening The City With The Plastics

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<span style="color: #f1c232;">The Plastics began in 2008 as an evolution of punk band, Hoax. It’s now its own thing. Completely.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">The band has been likened to a lot of things, worked with a lot of people and made a lot of friends.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Words to describe their music, experiences and work ethic include “innovative”, “Earl Grey”, “guerrilla”, “disco SOMETHING”, “retro rock” and “melody”, amongst others. That’s not a joke.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">Along with a cult following that tends to turn their sentences into acronyms and get the dance floor riled up, The Plastics set out to take over the world, or at least play some pretty damn good gigs along the way.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;">The band likes to do things differently. They’ve had friends in gorilla suits running down streets.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>Hello, Guys thanks for taking time out
to do this interview with us. It’s such a huge pleasure: )</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>How
are you doing today and how have you guys been celebrating spring fever?</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Emerging from hibernation by soaking up the sun but, at the same
time, preparing to hibernate in the studio working on our upcoming album.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;">1.<span style="line-height: normal;">     
</span></span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">To
start of can you tell us a little about who each of you are on a non-musical
front?</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We’ve got two brothers in the band – Sash being the older one and a
sound engineer/producer and is a big dreamer. 
Scal is the more practical one and also has his own studio, composing
songs both for Plastics, his own solo vibes and for no-one, just for the sake
of writing.  Emile grew up in Durban and  recently moved from Cape Town and shares a
love of Liverpool FC with Karl and also writes his own solo music.  <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">How
did The Plastics come to be? How did all of you meet and what’s the story
behind the name?</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sash and Scal, being bro’s, met at Scal’s
birth.  Karl met through a mutual friend
(who was actually the original Plastics guitarist) at UCT.  Much bonding happened over much partying and
mutual music appreciation.  Emile joined
in 2013 and moved down from Durban to join us (all very romantic).  The name references the movie Mean Girls.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We just started playing, simple as that.  It’s easy to get gigs and be involved in the
music scene at first.  It’s taking that
next step to becoming a touring band that’s a bit more challenging.  We’re just in love with playing music so have
consistently written songs and progressed our sound to this point.  It certainly helped us at first giving all
our music away for free.  It was try
before you buy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Do
any of you have any musical training if so tell us more?</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Karl has had the most extensive, having studied
classical guitar in school.  The others
have all taken lessons at various points but a lot of the training has been “on
the job,” based upon figuring things out as we’ve gone along.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">What’s
the typical process for making a track, who does what and where do you guys
draw inspiration from?</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We’ve learned to work in a few different
ways.  Often it’s Scal bringing in the
bones of a song and then we all put the meat on and form the features and add
the extra pieces of beauty that makes up a fully-fledged song.  We freestyle jam quite a lot and sometimes
something memorable emerges and gets used either as a part in a song or becomes
the seed for a new one.  We’re all adept
at writing on our computers as well so a lot of the new stuff has been created
layer-by-layer in the box.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">How
would describe your sound?</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s evolved from album to album. 
Shark was us playing the songs all live with very few overdubs.  Raw, rough and ready.  Some of the songs had a punky kind of edge to
an indie sound with some dollops of 60’s and 70’s colour.  On Pyramid the sound was a bit more refined
and we did a bit more preproduction to round the songs out.  I would describe it as indie retro rock.  The new album is us developing our sound into
a few new areas – there’s some dreamy and psychedelic sounds in there and Emile
has brought in a pretty, washy, melodic sound to the mix.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">7.<span style="line-height: normal;">     
</span></span></span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">This
year you’re playing could be opening up the city at Vodacom in the City, what
would it mean to The Plastics if you win?</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It would
be amazing if we got to play this show! 
Being the only local band, playing to a big crowd of Joburgers we dig so
much!  And the chance to play on the same
stage and meet MGMT would be dreamball! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">What
was your reaction when you heard you made it to the top 4?</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We were all really happy but also motivated straight away to do
everything we could to win the spot.  <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></b></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>What
is the one thing about In the City that stands out for you?</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Being from Cape Town, we’ve never been so I can only comment on the
photos I saw from last year.  The
enthusiasm and joy in the crowd excites us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Do
you have a crazy In the City story to share?</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the
Open the City gig, all the finalist bands had quite the party.  We ended up at a kwaito party and Karl almost
missed the flight home!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Which
local acts do you guys look up to and why?</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Taxi
Violence have always stuck true to their nature and managed to get where they
are all by themselves.  Great guys as well!  Johnny Clegg is an obvious one as well, being
a cultural icon in promoting unity within the country.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span></b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Which
international artists are you most looking forward to sharing the stage with at
this year’s event if you win?</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">MGMT are one of our favourite bands so definitely them!  We filmed a cover of their song
“Congratulations” recently:</span></span></div>
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</span></span></b></span><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>Sell
yourselves in a creative way and tell fans why they should vote for you?</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For
every 5 votes for us, we’re donating R5 to DARG, a fantastic place of sanctuary
for so many animals, in Hout Bay.  They
let us film some scenes for our <i>Occasional
Lies </i>video in their cattery so we have some good history together and want
to repay the karma.  So, if you need even
more of a reason to vote for us, do it for the cats and dogs without a
home!  Post the screenshot of your 5
smses on our Facebook page</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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