Vredefest is brought to you South African music television channel MK and the Vrede Foundation. The Vrede Foundation aims to generate awareness amongst Young South Africans (15-29) regarding Cancer. The foundation also aims to raise funds and provide financial aid for Young South Africans with ...
At the end of 2005 I attended the New Year's Eve party in Hatfield in Pretoria. Fokofpolisiekar was the last band that played on the 31st of December 2005 on one of the stages and welcomed the year 2006 along with TUKS FM DJ Barney Simon and a bottle of champagne of stage. I snapped ...
In 2005 I attended Oppikoppi Wired. The same festival where I took the 2005 Oppikoppi Crowd at Fokofpolisiekar photo. That particular Fokofpolisiekar gig was quite a memorable one for me. The atmosphere was chilled out, not something one usually expects at a Fokofpolisiekar gig. I ...
In 2005 I attended Oppikoppi Wired. After spending the one morning wandering around we finally arrived at one stage where Fokofpolisiekar were promoting their Monoloog in Stereo album and doing an accoustic gig. My one friend and I were enjoying the tunes. She asked me to turn around and look at the crowd behind us. ...
This is probably the song that got me addicted to the Afrikaans punk rock of South African rockers from Bellville, Fokofpolisiekar, back in 2004. The song was released on their first studio album Lugsteuring. "Tevrede" can be roughly translated to "Satisfied". For those of you ...
This is probably one of my favorite Afrikaans songs ever. Lots of people (outside South Africa) reading this post probably won't understand, since it's in Afrikaans. Fokofpolisiekar are a Afrikaans punk outfit formed in the Western Cape, South Africa. I could describe their music as groundbreaking ...
