Who remembers?

[Readsalot]

First movie I ever saw at a theater (if it counts) might have been this one. I vaguely recall being small at a drive-in and somewhat confused about why my parents were so excited to watch the "seekoei" movie.

 

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[Readsalot]

Does anybody recall watching this as a kid? 

 

[Fruity]

Loved it. Not the Mama!!

[forkie]

Does anybody recall watching this as a kid? 

 

grapjas didi

[J∆kk∆ls]

The first movie that I can remember seeing at the Drive-in was the Jungle Book! 

[J∆kk∆ls]

Had this cassette in my back pocket when I jumped into the ocean with all my clothes on (trying to impress the ladies). The copper plate under the tape was a little rusted but it still played. 

 

Gone are the days when you didn't think to check yourself for electronics before getting wet! 

 

[Jehosefat]

First one I remember was Jurassic Park. I think I was about 8 and I convinced my dad to take me because I was super in to dinosaurs. I had nightmares for weeks afterwards though.

[CAAD4]

It may have been Pete's Dragon, I think...

 

In the early Eighties, we lived in Kempton Park and there was a cinema above what I think was then called 'Big D' and possibly became a Checkers Hyper. I used to walk there on my own on Saturday mornings and go watch movies. I remember, for example, seeing Jaws 3 (In 3D!!!) there with those crappy cardboard 3D glasses. Terrible movie, loved the gory 3D effects at the time. I would have been 9 or 10 I think.

 

*EDIT* no cellphones, often my folks were still asleep or out, I would walk to the cinema and come back hours later, my parents not knowing where I was... Imagine a pre-teen doing that today?

 

*EDIT TIMES TWICE*I just saw that the billdoard in the photo is for Pete's Dragon. No F'n way.

Remember Diggers Grill on the left of the escalator? You could have a lekka steak for R9.95...

 

We still ride past that Big D Centre on our club ride from the Vale every Saturday.

[Patchelicious]

Had this cassette in my back pocket when I jumped into the ocean with all my clothes on (trying to impress the ladies). The copper plate under the tape was a little rusted but it still played. 

 

Gone are the days when you didn't think to check yourself for electronics before getting wet! 

 

PJ.jpg

WHAT an album!

[Shebeen]

if you are really into SA music nostalgia, then this is a winner:

 

http://tunemewhat.com/introducing-tune-me-what/

 

two music NUTS who do a podcast from their sides of the world.

it does get painful at times, but as a kid born in the 80s i have learnt so much about earlier works that I was not aware about.

 

They did an EXCELLENT pod on the Searching for sugarman Rodrigues movie and the inaccuracies that were in it, this is what got them onto my radar 

http://tunemewhat.com/2016/09/21/south-african-podcast-stirs-rodriguez-controversy/

 

 

http://tunemewhat.com/2016/09/16/s04e16-getting-over-sugarman/

Did the Oscar-winning documentary “Searching For Sugarman” make things up and distort facts to the point where international audiences got a false impressing of the South African music scene? Did they make Rodriguez an undeserving hero at the cost of local South African musicians? With their special guest, music sociologist Michael Drewett, Brett & Leon reveal the scandalous truth about Malik Bendjelloul’s ‘fake-umentary’.

 

 

The award winning documentary Searching For Sugarman really drove a point home. As a South Africans living in London and California respectively It was quite an experience for us to watch our new friends in the United Kingdom and the United States gushing over the ‘unique’ story of a singer who was ‘huge in South Africa – a rock icon” but virtually unknown anywhere else. While we were thrilled that the world finally discovered how brilliant Rodriguez was – something we had known all our lives – we also knew that this seemingly remarkable story was far from unique: It was the story of thousands of South African musicians and bands – legends in their own country, but unknown to our new friends and neighbours.

We knew we just had to do something to remedy the situation, and since the technology of the 21st century allowed – indeed, encouraged – it, we did the obvious thing: we resurrected our ‘radio show partnership’ from 25 years ago.

It all started in 1986. We were both first year Politics students at Rhodes University. We met when the local record library closed down and sold off all its stock. We were the ones carrying out albums by the armful while others made sedate purchases. Brett had a turntable in his dorm room and Leon had just landed a gig presenting a show on Campus Radio. Forces were joined, as they say. That’s us in the photo above presenting our show “The Hallucinogenic Wasteland” on Rhodes Music Radio in the late 1980s.

Two or three years later, when the Voëlvry Tour hit town we knew we had to start a band. We did. Our musical dreams were global but the reality was we were constrained by a time and a place. We learned firsthand how hard it is to break out.

It’s hard to say why even today most South African music is still a well-kept secret and why so few SA bands gain international attention. We have many theories why this is the case, but the one thing it certainly is not is a lack of quality, creativity and talent. We’re sure you’ll agree with us when you join us in listening to the great many records that have come out of our home country.

The sheer diversity is staggering: from joyous pop to deeply moving documents of the country’s bloody history, from rock, rave and disco to some serious jazz, from the a musical melting pot in eleven official languages and as many cultures to the urban noise of the city and the harmonies of rural homes, the beat goes on and the South African song is endless.

So, almost 25 years later, we’re back, dusting off the vinyl and spinning up the decks. It’s going to be one hell of a journey!

Whether you’re a South African at home or living abroad and want to enjoy a mixture of nostalgia and news, or even if you have no connection with the country but want to explore some new musical styles and sounds, we hope you will be intrigued and entertained by Tune Me What?!

Leon Lazarus & Brett Lock

 

plus they used to play together, this was a kiff song of theirs

[Baldrick]

1967 Jungle Book

[Stoffel76]

"An American Tale" (I think) at the then newish Tygervalley Centre.  What I remember more was that there was also a James Bond (it must have been The Living Daylights) showing and I wanted to go see that but my mom said No!!

[Kranswurm]

I was four or five and my parents sneaked me into the evening show

It was at the Alhambra in Cape Town

 

 

[Sidersky]

I'm listening to the soundtrack to this at the moment... Another SA muso who was integral to my musical diet in the late Eighties early Nineties.

The movie is also worth seeing.

 

James was way ahead of his time.

 

 

[Hairy]

I remember watching "the fly" at the drive in, and I think my first movie house was Lassie

[SwissVan]

My first movie was in the school hall, end of the term and they put a movie on the last day. I remember because the grade ones (me) and two’s had to sit on the floor in the front while the others got to sit on those foldable steel seats with red upholstery....some western no idea what it was