DESCRIPTION:
High-Energy Hip-Hip crew
CREW MEMBERS:
Max Normal (vocals)
Yolandi Visser (visuals/vocals)
Jakob Basson (keys)
Justin DeNobrega (beats/keys)
SYNOPSIS:
Through the eyes of the public, MaxNormal and associates are God-sent beings, blessed with the knowledge to make things better and educate our children with their uplifting, high-energy music. But behind the scenes each member of the crew has problems of their own.
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5FM, in association with Jose Cuervo Tequila, is exposing the hottest new local & international bands on a stage near you this August. A fusion of cutting-edge local & international music superstars, not to mention art stars, will set the stage for the nationwide Ampli5 tour - one of the most amplifying platforms the music [...]

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Waddy Jones is a musician-artist who is the front man for the band Max Normal.TV. Primarily known as a musician, Waddy has exhibited his Japanese comics inspired paintings and furry animals with great success in Cape Town. Oppikoppi chose Waddy’s dassie as its unlikely mascot for the 2007 festival. We have invited Waddy to produce his dassies in the David Krut Projects space from 1 – 8 August as a pre-festival performance.

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The countdown begins! Cannonball Press will be arriving at OR Tambo International in less than four weeks.
In the run up to the Oppikoppi festival Cannonball will take over the gallery and printworkshop space, producing woodblock prints with a host of emerging and established South African artists and building an installation in the gallery. Waddy Jones [...]

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David Krut Projects Johannesburg and Oppikoppi is proud to announce the participation of New York-based Cannonball Press in the festival in August. Martin Mazorra and Mike Houston who started this woodblock collaborative, have been publishing high-quality, limited-edition, black and white relief cuts and screen prints for seven years.

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