Rock on the Lawns adds aKing to the lineup

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Danette Breitenbach

The outdoor music festival Rock on the Lawns will see Cape Town based alternative rock and pop band, aKing, join a variety of South Africa's top bands and artists at Carnival City on 18 March 2017. The lineup includes Prime Circle and Springbok Nude Girls as well as the legendary international band, the Pixies.

aKing has become renowned across the country for their energetic live sets and thought provoking lyrics having released four studio albums and performed at all the major music festivals, from the Oppikoppi Music Festival and KKNK National Arts Festival to the Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts and the Coke Zero Fest 2009 where the band shared the stage with international acts Oasis, Snow Patrol, Bullet for my Valentine and Panic at the Disco. The band’s fourth studio album, Morning after(2014) won the Award for Best Rock Album at the 2015 SAMA Awards. Morning After was written over the course of 18 months in the living rooms and bedrooms of the band members and is entirely self produced.

Rock on the Lawns adds aKing to the lineup

aKing - comprising Laudo Liebenberg (lead vocals and guitar), Andrew Davenport (rhythm guitar and backing vocals), Hennie van Halen (bass guitar) and Jaco ‘Snakehead’ Venter (drums) – will perform songs from their Morning After album as well as earlier hits at Rock on the Lawns.

Find out more about the event’s lineup here.

How to book
Tickets are on sale at computicket.com and range in price from R495 per person.

Rock on the Lawns is brought to Gauteng by AMP Events, in collaboration with Carnival City.

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