Lifestyle South Africa weekly newsletter - 19 Nov 2013

Red hot musical mania

We're all about the music this week; from international announcements, to interviews with "red hot bands", to exciting lineups and music firsts. We've got all your audio action here!

Top trending story is the announcement of legendary hip hop artist Eminem to tour SA in February and March next year, he literally joins Santana (who was announced to be touring early last week) as both will be playing the same date in Cape Town, though, for obvious reasons, different venues. An Eminem/Santana mash-up? Maybe not.

In other music news, we get chatting to Ronnie Winter from American band Red Jump Suit Apparatus about their upcoming SA debut at Synergy Live, and Dylan Jones from local band Red Huxley about their recently launched debut album.

Keeping on musical trend, our competitions this week see you stand the chance to win two tickets to the first Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concert of the season featuring Prime Circle, and for Red Huxley's album launch at Tanz Live in Joburg or !Arcade Empire in Pretoria!

Ruth Cooper, Lifestyle Co-editor & Production Manager (@Biz_Lounge)

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Weekly top stories

Red Huxley's road to Rancho

[Ruth Cooper] How about a little local rock n' roll fairy tale? Once upon a time, a small somewhat obscure band managed to win backstage passes to an event that featured one of their favourite international bands. Cue an encounter and handover of EP to a member of said band and the offer to come to record a debut album in his studio. Read more >>

Eminem to debut in SA

Eminem is bringing his Rapture 2014 tour to SA with two South African concerts: Cape Town Stadium on Wednesday, 26 February and Joburg's Ellis Park Stadium on Saturday, 1 March, 2014. Over the coming weeks, Eminem will reveal the full line-up of Rapture 2014 in South Africa.

Lights, camera, action!

Eugene Yiga

AFDA, the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance, is set to present its annual showcase of graduate student short films and tele-novella productions. We spoke to Garth Holmes, chairman and co-founder of AFDA, to find out more.

Santana to tour SA

Big Concerts is pleased to confirm that Santana will be performing 3 concerts in South Africa on Tuesday 25th February 2014 and Wednesday 26th February 2014 at the Grand Arena, GrandWest Cape Town and Saturday 1st March 2014 at FNB Stadium, Johannesburg.