Jonas is widely regarded as one of the top comedians in South Africa at the moment and he will be doing a 45 minute show from 7:30 - 8:15 on Friday night for the club.  

Entrance is free and the drinks are cheap so we look forward to seeing all of you down there.

The bar opens from 4pm and we suggest people get down early to secure tables as we expect there to be standing room only!

Nice addition to the Highveld team, think he is seriously under rated and think Highveld have done well to secure his services.

I’m so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
‘Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won’t leave me alone

These wounds won’t seem to heal
This pain is just too real

There’s just too much that time cannot erase….

The problem
I’ve taken over doing some of the marketing function for Pirates Club in Greenside. The club has lost a lot of its social appeal as a destination and I guess we’ve been charged with trying to turn this around.

From a practicality perspective its a great venue (admittedly its a bit run down) but no more so than many of the other sports and recreational clubs in the Province.

We’ve got cheap drinks, we’ve got food and we’ve got a bit of music going, but the problem is that we can’t seem to attract fresh faces in.

My question
The question I am trying to answer is how the hell do you get people to start attending your venue?!! I’m open to all ideas.

Some of the suggestions that have come in, include:

- A higher profile band than the usual one man band we’ve got going
- Dotting the room with some attractive promoter type gals (yeah!)
- Comedians

Bear in mind we do have some budgetary constraints so we have to be a little bit choosy about how we spend it.

I can’t even define the clientele… We’ve got some older members who are the stalwarts, we’ve got some youngsters who spend a few bucks and then we have the guys that pass through after a sports game…

I want to define whats “cool” and how to lift the profile of the place without blowing $$$$ but I feel like I’m grasping at straws…

Any takers?

 Pirates Sports Club in Greenside will be holding their usual Friday afternoon / evening get together.

From 4 - 7pm there will be a variety of drinks specials. We’re inviting everyone in the area to pull into Pirates and support us.

There will be food, drinks and a very popular 1 Man Band to party the night up from around 7ish.

Supporting the club will be an excellent way to support the Greenside community so we look forward to seeing you all there.

Braeside Rd, Greenside, Gauteng

When I heard of Feedback from Cape Town, I honestly thought in my arrogance that no one could compare with Seether at this point. However I have been a fan of Rock music since the tender age of 8, when my father caught me listening to KISS, and thus I must admit that this band left me pleasantly surprised.

Reminiscent of early LIVE, sumptuously infused with Creed overtones, Feedback’s lead singer has a signature sound which instantly transported me to the first time I heard Lightening Crashes by Live. I became an instant fan.

Moreover, in contacting this band to find out how the rest of the country can get hold of one of their CD’s, my opinion of Feedback escalated out of the stratosphere. Finally a South African Rock band boldly exposing their caring hearts. For every single CD sold by Feedback, two extremely worthy causes get a donation. The Animal Anti Cruelty League and Save the Dolphins, are listed as the two causes that Feedback are giving back to at the end of their fiscal year.

Thus if you are a fan of rock music and would like to support a worthy cause and a worthy band, please log on to www.feedbackband.co.za to order a copy of their CD now!

The best news is that our readers will get the CD at the lower than retail price, at only R70 until the end of November this year. Although Feedback are already looking forward to the trauma caused by fireworks around the country during the months of October and November. Help them to make a worthwhile donation to the SPCA by paying the normal retail price of R100 per CD. Feedback have made a pledge to give the extra R30 to SPCA’s around the country, to help support and feed the traumatized animals of our fireworks displays.

So show that YOU have a heart, by supporting local music that GIVES BACK. When you compare this bands intentions, instantly their competition doesn’t even compare. They are helping to make our world a better place, and in the process, you get to do your Christmas and Holiday shopping early.

Empower FEEDBACK to Feed Back.

to listen to the music first go to
http://www.myspace.com/feedbacksa

The fact of the matter is that Chilli M has been working the Essential Rush non-stop since April 2006. During this time, he has turned the Essential Rush into Yfm’s biggest show with more than 600 000 listeners tuning in every week. Chilli needed a break. He has taken leave until the end of August. He came back from his leave briefly to join the rest of the team for our annual lekgotla in Pilanesberg, and is now down in the Western Cape for the next few weeks.

The press have asked us whether Chilli is in rehab. Let’s be perfectly clear about the laws of the country. As employers, we have no right to go into any personal details around any of our employees whether or not it is true. So even if it was true that Chilli is in rehab, and I am not saying he is, we as Yfm would not be able to comment on this. 

What we can say categorically as Yfm is that we have a zero tolerance policy toward any illegal practice, including substance abuse, and that all deejays have this in their contracts. If Chilli had been before a disciplinary process and found guilty, he would have been fired. None of this has happened.

The problem is that when the press ask us the question, whether we say yes or no or no comment, they will print it anyway. We must ask whose interests are being served by these rumours and whether such stories help us build a better nation.

Kanthan Pillay
Chief Executive

 Koula, Kate Kearney, Nicole Fox and (I think) Cindy Grotta have all done the FHM thing with great success.

Erica Elle at 5FM is a pretty new “face” to radio?

Bailey Schneider?

I dunno I think there is something quite spunky about Koula. Voice does it for me and not too damn shabby to admire… said in the nicest possible way… Any takers / comments?

If you would like to participate, the details are as below.

We do have some hole sponsorship opportunities available from R750 a hole should your clients wish to get some extra exposure.

All funds raised go to Pirates Hockey Club.

Event Details Date: 28 August

Time: 11 am start Venue: Parkview Golf Course

R2000 per 4-ball if you pay on the day or R1600 per 4 ball if you pay up front – includes dinner

Pirates Hockey can do an invoice for you

Tournament format - Stableford 4 ball alliance - 2 scores to count

Enquiries – Marc Ashton (082-561-1585) or marc@rival.co.za

About Pirates Hockey Club

 Pirates Hockey Club in Greenside is one of the leading hockey setups in Gauteng. Currently the side has 2 international representatives at the Beijing Olympic Games. The club offers hockey to around 100 adult hockey players and another 100 junior and mini players. Pirates Sports Club in Greenside provides facilities for the likes of Roosevelt, King David and Greenside to have access to fields and a hockey astro turf that they do not get at their schools.

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HOWEVER

I have a pondering - Who is St. Jimmy?

Been listening to the Boulevard of Broken Dreams and St Jimmy in particular and I’m trying to work out the meaning of the song (ja ja very philosophical I know….).

Here are the lyrics to the song:

St. Jimmy’s coming down across the alleyway
Up on the boulevard like a zip gun on parade
Light of a silluoette
He’s insubordinate
Coming at you on the count of 1,2, 1,2,3,4!My name is Jimmy and you better not wear it out
Suicide commando that your momma talked about
King of the forty theives
And I’m here to represent
That needle in the vein of the establishment

I Googled it (I mean I used Google) to look into it and read up some of the history behind it.

According to Song Facts here’s what they say:

This is about a run-of-the-mill punk kid that the main character of the record, Jesus Of Suburbia, creates in his mind to make himself less vulnerable toward the world. Jesus Of Suburbia creates the St. Jimmy character in his mind to make himself less vulnerable toward the world. St. Jimmy is JOS’s “rage” counterpart. When Jesus loses Whatsername, his tough side dies (”Jimmy died today, he blew his brains out into the bay”), and he reverts back to the vulnerable Jesus Of Suburbia.