British rock band Livingston to tour SA
British rock band Livingston will be touring South Africa in August, beginning with Oppikoppi, The Fantastic Mr Vos Vos and show dates for Cape Town, Joburg, the Eastern Cape and Durban, which will be announced soon. The band will also spend time on a farm in Newcastle to write and record their next album.
Having formed in the multicultural hub of London, Livingston searched high and low to find their collective musical feet. With singer and guitarist/keyboardist Chris van Niekerk from South Africa, guitarist/percussionist Jakob Nebel from Germany and bassist Phil Magee from the UK, it seemed almost impossible that their paths would cross. However fate took hold when Beukes was reunited with Van Niekerk in London. The band has since also set up roots in Berlin and currently operates between the UK and Germany.
Finding their feet with 2008's debut 'Sign Language' and 2012's 'Fire To Fire', the band achieved numerous successes including Top 20in the German Sales Charts and Number 1 Amazon and iTunes Rock Charts. Their single Broken went to Top 20 and their second single, Go, was the official song for German national broadcaster ZDF during the Winter Olympics of 2010.
Retreating to a hunter's cabin in the woods just outside Berlin, the band wrote, produced, recorded and mixed 'Animal' entirely on their own. The result 'Animal' is Livingston at their purest.
