New album and tour from The Black Cat Bones

"Beatipillar" was recorded at Wolmer Records between October and November 2012, and can be best described as "riff-based new-school blues-rock, thick, and oozing with hooks, searing solos and choral-like vocal harmonies that's complemented by tight, melodic rhythm work with loads of groove and forward-driving motion".

Vocalist and front man Kobus de Kock Jnr said: "Early 2012 I had discovered a book by writer Dee Brown entitled Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian history of the American West. This book, a heart-wrenching account of wanton murder, massacre and exile left a lasting impression on me. I soon found myself drawing up comparisons between the Native Americans and the Bushmen, which would eventually become the bulk of the "Beatipiller" lyrics.

Inspired by American Indians

With the exception of That Look On Her Face (a love song about a girl choosing the open road over and above her lover) and Old Man (M) Alone (Lyrics by A Kriel - a sequel to Up On A Mountain from the album "The Long Drive"), all the other songs deal with the themes of exile, discrimination and the pathetically misguided idea that one could own, move, relocate or control a culture or a people that have inhabited a country hundreds of years before your arrival. We, of course, know that today there are little to no Indians left on their natural hunting grounds and this same fate has befallen the Bushmen of South West Africa."

Tour dates

• Friday, 17 May: The Library at Brazen Head.
  
• Saturday, 18 May: Lady Luck, 3pm, Springs.
  
• Saturday, 18 May: Arcade Empire.www.facebook.com/events/163389610488490
  
• Sunday, 19 May: Wolmer Acoustic Sundays, Wolmer Bush Lounge.
  
• Wednesday, 22 to 26 May: STRAB (Mozambique) www.facebook.com/events/484452568285661
  
• 30 May to 1 June: KZN Gigs - To be announced soon